Free to walk in, but the hayride is the only way to reach the corn maze and pumpkin patch, so a family that came for the pumpkins is buying wagon tickets whether they planned to or not — book online and save $2 a head.
The festival itself is free to attend; a hayride ticket is required to reach the corn maze and pumpkin patch, at $12 per person online or $14 per person on the day at the red hut hayride booth, children 2 and under free. Pumpkins are not included in the ticket price. Individual rides are priced separately: train ride $4 (card only), bounce house $3 (card only), EuroBungee jump $8, and Leaps n Bounds, Jump n Slide and the obstacle course $2 each per ride.
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.
Free to walk in. Your spend here is whatever you choose — pumpkins, food, and any paid activities. That makes it a low-risk stop if you are not sure how long the kids will last.
Free admission is doing a lot of work in this farm’s listing, and it is worth understanding exactly what it buys you. You can park, walk in, browse the market and the bakery, wander the garden centre and take in the festival atmosphere without paying anything. That is a real offer and it makes Trax an unusually low-risk stop with a toddler who might last twenty minutes.
What free admission does not buy you is the corn maze or the pumpkin patch. Both are out beyond the wagon route, and the hayride is the way there. Twelve dollars a head online, fourteen at the red hut booth on the day, with under-2s free. So for the family that came here to pick a pumpkin — which, on a pumpkin patch directory, is most of you — the effective admission is twelve dollars, and the honest way to think about this farm is as a twelve-dollar gate with a free browsing option attached.
Start with the hayride: forty-eight dollars for four, booked online. Fifty-six if you leave it to the booth, which is eight dollars thrown away for no reason at all. Pumpkins are billed separately, so add fifteen to twenty-five for a couple of good ones.
Then the rides, which are where this gets expensive. Everything is priced per ride: eight dollars for the EuroBungee, four for the train, three for the bounce house, and two each for Leaps n Bounds, Jump n Slide and the obstacle course. Two children doing one of each is around thirty-four dollars, and children do not do one of each — they do the bouncy thing four times. Forty dollars is a fair planning figure and it can go higher without anyone behaving unreasonably.
That puts a normal family Saturday somewhere between a hundred and a hundred and twenty dollars before lunch. Which is roughly what a single-ticket festival farm would charge, arrived at by a different route. The advantage of Trax’s structure is that you can genuinely opt out of most of it; the disadvantage is that opting out has to happen in front of the children, at the ride, with a queue behind you.
Small point, real consequence: the train at four dollars and the bounce house at three are card-only, while the eight-dollar EuroBungee and the two-dollar attractions take either. There is no combination of cash that covers the whole farm. Carry a card and you are fine.
The farm’s fall festival page still describes a September 20 to October 26 season. In 2026, September 20 is a Sunday, not the Saturday that a weekends-only schedule starting on the 20th would imply — which is a fairly reliable sign that the copy has not been updated since 2025. The separate events page returns nothing upcoming at all.
We have therefore left the dates blank rather than repeat them. The shape is probably similar — a late-September start and a close in the last week of October is the standard Pittsburgh-area pattern — but if you are driving in for a specific weekend, particularly the first or the last of the season, confirm it directly on 412-835-3246. This is the kind of gap where guessing costs somebody a wasted Saturday.
Twelve miles south of Pittsburgh on Route 88 is an excellent thing on the drive out and a difficult thing at eleven o’clock on an October Saturday morning, when a large chunk of the South Hills has had the same idea. A seven-hour operating day concentrates that further. Ten o’clock opening, straight to the ticket booth or straight onto the wagon with tickets already on your phone, is the version of this day that works.
Weekends, 10am to 5pm, with the farm store staying open to 7pm on those days. The 2026 calendar is the problem: the farm's fall festival page still carries a September 20 to October 26 season, which is the 2025 schedule — September 20 falls on a Sunday in 2026, not the Saturday that pattern implies — and its events page returns no upcoming events at all. So the dates are not confirmed for this year. Assuming a similar shape, the second and third weekends of October will be the peak and the last weekend of September the quietest. A seven-hour Saturday is a short operating day for a farm this close to a city, so arriving at opening is worth real time saved.
Three to four hours if you are doing the hayride, the maze and the patch, plus a pass through the market and bakery. Two hours is enough if you only want the free side of the festival and a pumpkin from the store.
Twelve miles from Pittsburgh, weekends only, seven hours a day. That is a recipe for a full car park by late morning on an October Saturday. The first hour after opening and the last ninety minutes are the two windows that reliably feel different, and the store's later 7pm close means you can shop after the festival crowd has thinned.
Not published. Assume a large but unpaved overflow area on peak Saturdays, and expect a longer walk in from wherever you end up parking than you would like.
You have three or four children and a firm budget. The small rides are priced individually, per ride, at $2 to $8 a go, and that structure empties a wallet faster than a single wristband ever does. Skip it too if you need weekday access — the festival is weekends only — or if you need certainty on dates, which the farm has not published for 2026.
Finleyville sits on Route 88 in Washington County, within easy reach of the other farms in Pittsburgh's southern belt. Trax works well as the second stop on a day that starts somewhere smaller, since the market and bakery stay open to 7pm on festival weekends and give you somewhere to end up.
The fall festival itself is free to attend. What costs money is the hayride, at $12 per person online or $14 at the booth on the day, and the hayride is the only way to reach the corn maze and the pumpkin patch. Children 2 and under are free.
Hayride tickets for four come to $48 booked online or $56 at the gate. Add pumpkins, which are charged separately, and a realistic $30 to $40 on the individual rides, and an ordinary Saturday lands around $100 to $120 before food.
Bring a card. The train ride and the bounce house are card-only. The EuroBungee and the $2 attractions take either, so a card covers everything and cash does not.
Not confirmed. The farm's page still displays a September 20 to October 26 season, which matches the 2025 calendar rather than 2026, and its events listing shows nothing upcoming. Check the farm's own channels or phone 412-835-3246 before travelling.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Saturdays and Sundays (per the farm's most recently published Fall Festival schedule). Check with the farm before driving out.
Admission is free. The festival itself is free to attend; a hayride ticket is required to reach the corn maze and pumpkin patch, at $12 per person online or $14 per person on the day at the red hut hayride booth, children 2 and under free. Pumpkins are not included in the ticket price. Individual rides are priced separately: train ride $4 (card only), bounce house $3 (card only), EuroBungee jump $8, and Leaps n Bounds, Jump n Slide and the obstacle course $2 each per ride.
528 Trax Road, Finleyville, PA 15332, in Washington County. It is one of 7 patches we track in Pittsburgh Region.
We track 7 patches in Pittsburgh Region, 1 of which are free to walk into. At $12 a head this one sits below the regional median of $18, undercutting 1 of the 2 paid patches we track here. Entry here costs nothing, which puts it in the minority even in a region with several free options.
What sets it apart locally: it has rides and play structures, which most Pittsburgh Region patches on our list do not.
One caveat worth repeating: this farm had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 2 of the 7 patches we track in Pittsburgh Region had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
There are 16 other patches we track in Washington County. All Pittsburgh Region patches →
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
traxfarms.com
Checked August 2026.