The best straight value in Loudoun County — $12 to $15 a head with a pumpkin and a bunch of sunflowers included — but there is no online ticketing, no dogs whatsoever, and the last tickets sell at 4:00pm.
$15 per person, with $3 off per person on weekdays (so $12 Monday-Friday). Children under 2 are free but do not receive a pumpkin. Every paid ticket includes one pumpkin and sunflowers. There are no online sales - pay on arrival, credit preferred.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $48.00 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.
Almost every farm in Northern Virginia prices the same way: a gate fee that buys you access, then pumpkins by weight at the exit. Temple Hall does not. A $15 ticket — $12 on a weekday — includes a pumpkin and a bunch of sunflowers per paying person. That single decision reshapes the value proposition, because it converts the most variable part of a farm visit’s cost into a fixed one.
Two adults and two children on a weekday: $48, and everyone goes home with a pumpkin and flowers. On a weekend: $60. Compare that to a Loudoun neighbour charging around $14 a head online plus $0.59 a pound for carving pumpkins: four tickets is $56, four pumpkins might be $15 to $25 more, and sunflowers are extra again. Temple Hall is not just competitive, it is cheaper for a household that was always going to buy pumpkins — which is most households at a pumpkin patch.
The catch is that it is cheaper because it is smaller in ambition. This is a working NOVA Parks farm, not a festival operation with a 12-acre corn maze and a haunted trail. What you get is livestock — cows, goats, alpacas, sheep, pigs, chickens — plus wagon rides, cattle roping, jumping pillows, hill slides, yard games, a corn box, playhouses and a scavenger hunt. It is a good day for a six-year-old and a slightly thin one for a thirteen-year-old.
First: no online tickets. None. You pay at the gate, card preferred, and the last tickets go at 4:00pm despite a 5:00pm close. That hour gap is real — arrive at 4:15pm on a Saturday and you are looking at a farm you cannot enter. It also means you cannot pre-commit against weather, which cuts both ways: no sunk cost if it rains, no guarantee of entry if the lot fills.
Second: no dogs, no pets, at all. The reason is sound — the animals roam free — but it is stricter than several nearby Loudoun farms, and a family that has driven out with a dog in the back has a problem with no solution.
Weekdays save $3 a person and deliver a quieter farm. They also remove the pumpkin cannons, the food truck and the Barnhouse Brewery tastings. For a household with young children and no interest in cannons, the weekday is straightforwardly better. For a group that wanted lunch on site and a beer while the kids run, the weekend is the only version that works, because a weekday visit here has no food service in it and you will need to plan lunch elsewhere.
The five-week season, September 26 to November 1, sits squarely in the region’s busiest outdoor month, and this stretch of Loudoun draws weekend traffic for wineries and leaf-looking as well as farms. Morning arrivals do better on every axis: parking, ticket queue, wagon queue, and the temperature in the animal barns. Late-season mornings up here are properly cold even when the afternoon reaches the sixties, and a 5:00pm November 1 close is not far off dusk.
Legacy Farms, a nonprofit supporting neurodivergent employment, runs programmes on the property. It does not change what your ticket buys, but it is a reasonable thing to know about where the money goes.
September 26 through November 1, 2026, daily, 9:00am to 5:00pm, with the last tickets sold at 4:00pm. Weekdays are $3 cheaper per person but strip out the pumpkin cannons, the food truck and the Barnhouse Brewery tastings, which are weekend-only. Mid-October weekend mornings are the sweet spot if you want the full programme without the afternoon crush; a weekday morning is the cheapest and calmest version of the same farm.
Two and a half to three hours. Picking pumpkins and sunflowers, a wagon ride, the animal barns and the play areas fill an easy half-day without dragging.
A NOVA Parks farm inside the Washington commuter belt with a five-week season. October weekends carry the load, and because tickets are only sold on site, the queue is at the gate rather than in an inbox. Arriving near opening on a Saturday is worth more here than at farms with timed online entry.
Not published. Expect farm field parking on grass at a working livestock property, soft after rain.
Not published. Wagon rides involve a step up, and pick-your-own fields, hill slides and animal areas mean uneven ground. Call 703-779-9372 ahead if this matters.
You were bringing the dog. Pets are strictly banned because the farm's animals roam free, and Loudoun visitors used to dog-friendly farms get caught by this. Skip it too if you need to buy online — there is no online sale at all, so a sold-out or rained-out day cannot be locked in ahead.
$15 per person, with $3 off per person on weekdays, so $12 Monday to Friday. Children under 2 are free, though they do not receive a pumpkin. Every paid ticket includes one pumpkin and a bunch of sunflowers.
No. There are no online sales at all — you pay on arrival, and credit is the preferred method. The last tickets are sold at 4:00pm even though the farm stays open until 5:00pm.
No. Pets are strictly prohibited because the farm's animals roam free. This is stricter than several other Loudoun farms and is the most common surprise for visitors.
Pumpkin cannons, the food truck and Barnhouse Brewery tastings run on Saturdays and Sundays only. The pick-your-own fields, wagon rides, animals and play areas run daily.
September 26 – November 1, 2026. Daily. Hours: 9:00am-5:00pm, with the last tickets sold at 4:00pm.
Admission starts at $12 per person. $15 per person, with $3 off per person on weekdays (so $12 Monday-Friday). Children under 2 are free but do not receive a pumpkin. Every paid ticket includes one pumpkin and sunflowers. There are no online sales - pay on arrival, credit preferred.
15855 Limestone School Road, Leesburg, VA 20176, in Loudoun County. It is one of 5 patches we track in Northern Virginia.
We track 5 patches in Northern Virginia. At $12 a head this one sits right on the regional median of $12, undercutting 1 of the 4 paid patches we track here.
Its season runs about 37 days against a regional average of 40, so it is broadly in line with the rest of the region.
There are 2 other patches we track in Loudoun County. All Northern Virginia patches →
novaparks.com
Checked August 2026.