The most complete fall festival in the western Panhandle and one of the few Florida farms with 2026 dates already published — worth the drive if you stay half a day, and the $1.50 gap between its two ticket tiers makes the cheaper one a trap rather than a saving.
'Half Cob' $17.00 + tax (corn maze and hayride only, gate purchase only); 'Whole Cob' $18.50 + tax (all attractions); Flashlight Maze $18.50 + tax; season pass $45.00 + tax; military and groups of 20+ $16.50 + tax. Ages 3+ pay; under 3 free. Pumpkins sold separately.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $68.00 in admission alone at the posted starting rate, before pumpkins, food, parking or any add-on listed above. Most families end up well north of that once they are through the gate.
Sweet Season Farms is one of the few Florida patches that had a full 2026 season posted when we last checked — September 26 through November 8 — which by itself puts it ahead of most of the Panhandle. That is a longer window than the four-weekend scramble typical of Florida farms, but the weekends-only schedule claws most of it back. Fourteen operating days is the real number.
The pricing is unusually simple and unusually badly designed. Half Cob at $17.00 buys the corn maze and the hayride, and nothing else. Whole Cob at $18.50 buys the whole property. The gap is $1.50. There is no scenario with children involved where surrendering the cow train, jumping pillow, corn cannon, playground and farm games is worth a dollar fifty, and Half Cob can only be bought at the gate anyway. Treat $18.50 as the actual price of admission and budget from there.
For a family of four aged 3 and up, that is $74.00 before tax. Pumpkins are sold separately on top. If your entire plan is to buy a pumpkin and take a photo, this farm is the expensive way to do it.
Worth setting expectations on: Florida’s climate does not support a commercial fall pumpkin crop, so at essentially every patch in the state — including this one — the pumpkins were trucked in and arranged rather than grown where they sit. That is not a knock on the farm. It is simply what a Florida “pumpkin patch” is, and if your mental picture is a New England field with vines, adjust it now rather than in the car park. The corn maze is the genuinely agricultural part of the visit.
Late September and early October in Santa Rosa County are still summer by any honest measure, and the afternoon thunderstorm pattern holds well into October. A corn maze in 92-degree afternoon sun with a five-year-old is a different activity from the same maze at 9:30am. The 9am Saturday opening exists for a reason; use it. Sunday’s 11am start is the weaker option on both heat and daylight.
If it has rained in the days before your visit, assume the parking area is soft. Panhandle farm lots are typically graded field rather than asphalt, and there is no published information suggesting otherwise here.
Families in the Pensacola, Milton and Navarre triangle with primary-school-age kids get the most out of it, particularly if they go more than once — the $45.00 season pass is genuinely good value at three visits and removes the sting of a washed-out Saturday. Groups of twenty or more drop to $16.50 a head, which makes it a sensible target for a scout troop or a church group booking as one.
Adults without children have one reason to come, and it is the Friday Flashlight Maze. Confirm the date first.
The Flashlight Maze date conflict is worth dwelling on because of what it implies. When two pages on a farm’s own website disagree about when an event runs, it usually means one of them has not been updated since last season — a very common failure across Florida patch websites, and the reason we flag published dates as provisional rather than fact. Apply the same scepticism to the September 26 opening if you are planning a first-weekend visit; opening dates slip with the weather, and a Panhandle corn maze depends on a crop that has to be ready.
Nothing published tells us what happens if a Saturday is rained out. That is the strongest practical argument for the season pass beyond the raw arithmetic: at three visits it is already cheaper, and it makes a washed-out morning an inconvenience rather than $74 gone.
Saturday morning at the 9am opening. The farm is closed Monday through Thursday, so the whole season is squeezed into weekends between September 26 and November 8, 2026 — that is roughly seven weekends of demand with nowhere else for it to go. Sunday is the softer day but opens two hours later at 11am, which shortens the visit and pushes you into the hottest part of a late-September afternoon. If your kids are old enough for it, the Friday-night Flashlight Maze is the one genuinely different experience here.
Three to four hours to use what the Whole Cob ticket covers. With a corn maze, hayride, cow train, jumping pillow, corn cannon, playground and farm games, an hour-long stop leaves most of the ticket unspent.
A seven-weekend season with no weekday operation concentrates everyone into fourteen days. Saturdays carry the bulk of it. Expect the corn cannon and cow train to be where the queues form.
Not documented by the farm. Most Panhandle farm parking is an unpaved field, and Santa Rosa County gets heavy afternoon rain into October — assume mud is possible and wear shoes you do not mind, rather than assuming a paved lot.
You only want a pumpkin. Admission is charged separately from the pumpkins, so a family of four pays roughly $74 before tax and before a single pumpkin goes in the car. Free-entry patches elsewhere in Santa Rosa County do the pumpkin-and-photo job for nothing. Also skip weekdays entirely — the farm is not open.
Half Cob is $17.00 plus tax and covers the corn maze and hayride only, and it can only be bought at the gate. Whole Cob is $18.50 plus tax and covers all attractions. The $1.50 difference makes Half Cob hard to recommend for anyone bringing children.
No. It runs Saturdays and Sundays only, plus Friday evenings for the Flashlight Maze. Plan around a weekend or you will drive to a closed gate.
Unclear, and this is the detail most likely to catch you out. The farm's own homepage and pricing page listed different Friday dates when we checked in August 2026 — one gave October 23 and 30, the other October 17 and 24. Call 850-686-9917 before making the drive.
September 26 – November 8, 2026. Weekends (Sat-Sun); closed weekdays; plus Friday flashlight nights. Hours: Sat 9am-5pm, Sun 11am-5pm; Friday Flashlight Maze 6pm-10pm.
Admission starts at $17 per person. 'Half Cob' $17.00 + tax (corn maze and hayride only, gate purchase only); 'Whole Cob' $18.50 + tax (all attractions); Flashlight Maze $18.50 + tax; season pass $45.00 + tax; military and groups of 20+ $16.50 + tax. Ages 3+ pay; under 3 free. Pumpkins sold separately.
2260 Horn Road, Milton, FL 32570, in Santa Rosa County. It is one of 14 patches we track in Panhandle.
We track 14 patches in Panhandle, 9 of which are free to walk into. At $17 a head this one sits above the regional median of $12.
Its season runs about 44 days against a regional average of 41, so it is broadly in line with the rest of the region.
What sets it apart locally: it has a corn or crop maze, hayrides, rides and play structures, which most Panhandle patches on our list do not.
There are 2 other patches we track in Santa Rosa County. All Panhandle patches →
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
sweetseasonfarms.com
Checked August 2026.