A 15-acre corn maze that is the genuine reason to drive to Lodi, with a ticket ladder that punishes anyone who pays at the gate — $20 on the door against $14.99 online is $20 wasted on a family of four.
Online admission is $14.99 in September and November and $16.99 for any day of the season; a pre-season flash sale August 14-24 was $12.99. Gate admission is $20, so buying online saves real money. Groups of 20 or more get $1 off per ticket. Pumpkins are priced separately at $3-$15 and are not included in admission.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $59.96 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.
Treinen is a maze farm. Everything else on the property is real and worth doing, but the 15-acre corn maze is the product, it is cut to a different design every year, and the farm is regularly named among the best in the country. Judge the ticket against that and it makes sense. Judge it as a pumpkin-buying trip and it does not.
There are four prices in our record for the same admission. A pre-season flash sale ran at $12.99 from August 14 to 24. Online tickets are $14.99 for September and November dates. Online tickets for any day of the season are $16.99. At the gate it is $20.
For two adults and two children, that is $51.96, $59.96, $67.96 or $80 for the identical visit. The spread between the best and worst versions of the same day is $28. The farm advertises roughly 15 percent off for booking ahead, and the arithmetic bears that out.
There is no cleverness required here. Buy online, before you leave, and pick a September or November date if the calendar allows. That single decision is worth more than every other saving on this page combined.
Our record does not include a child or under-2 rate. That is a gap worth closing before you budget for a family with a toddler — check the booking flow, because a farm that prices everything else this clearly probably prices that too, we simply did not capture it.
Last maze entry is two hours before closing. This is the operational detail most likely to wreck an evening.
Friday and Saturday, the farm is open until 10pm. The maze stops admitting at 8pm. If you have driven up from Madison after work, hit traffic on the leaf-peeping corridors, and roll into the car park at 8:15 on an October Friday, you have paid for a night maze you cannot enter. Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday close at 7pm, which puts last maze entry at 5pm — earlier than most people would guess for a farm advertising a 7pm close.
Build the arrival time around the maze entry deadline, not the closing time.
Friday and Saturday running to 10pm makes Treinen one of the few farms in the Madison orbit where you can do a serious maze in the dark. Fifteen acres is disorienting in daylight; by torchlight it is a different activity entirely, and for teenagers it is a far better use of an October evening than a haunted attraction.
The Wisconsin caveat is temperature. A corn field in Columbia County at 9pm in late October is cold in a way that standing in a car park at 6pm does not predict, especially once you stop walking to argue about which path you already took. Proper layers, gloves, and a torch with charge left in it. A phone light lasts about as long as your patience.
More than fifty pumpkin varieties, priced $3 to $15 and not included in admission. Gem mining, duck races, adventure playgrounds and climbing walls, a hayfort, a natural playground, the Enchanted Woods, farm animals.
The two that get overlooked are the hiking trails through woods and prairie and the oak savanna restoration area. Most fall farms are a field and some inflatables. This one has actual landscape you can walk, which is a reason to stay four hours rather than two and which quietly improves the value of the ticket.
Running through November 8 puts Treinen well past where most Wisconsin farms stop. That tail is useful. By early November the October crowds are gone, the ticket is back down to $14.99, and the farm is far quieter. What you are gambling on is the corn — frost brings mazes down in this state, sometimes before Halloween — and the weather, which by then is properly cold and the ground properly wet. If you go late, go dressed for it and check that the maze is still standing.
The main season runs September 19 through November 8, 2026, with a preview weekend September 5 to 7 and Labor Day. The farm is open Wednesday to Sunday: Wednesday and Thursday 10am to 7pm, Friday and Saturday 10am to 10pm, Sunday 10am to 7pm. September and November tickets are $14.99 online against $16.99 for any day, so a late-September Wednesday is both the cheapest and the quietest way in. For the night maze, Friday or Saturday — but last maze entry is two hours before close, so you must be through the gate by 8pm.
Three to four hours. A 15-acre maze alone can absorb ninety minutes, and the property also carries adventure playgrounds, gem mining, duck races, a hayfort, the Enchanted Woods and hiking trails through woods and prairie.
Seven weeks, five days a week, and a season that runs a week into November — that is a long run by Wisconsin standards and it spreads demand better than a weekends-only farm. October Saturdays are still the peak. Wednesdays and Thursdays are the quiet days, and they also close earlier at 7pm, so plan for a 5pm maze entry at the latest.
Not published in our record. Treinen sits on State Road 60 in Columbia County, so field or gravel parking is the reasonable assumption, and this is a farm that stays open into November when Wisconsin ground is at its softest. Boots.
Not published. A 15-acre maze, hiking trails through woods and prairie and climbing walls are not level-ground activities. The farm animals, duck races and gem mining are the parts likeliest to suit a visitor with limited mobility, but the ticket is priced around the maze, so weigh that before buying four.
You have very small children and nothing else planned. A 15-acre maze with a nationally competitive design is not a toddler activity, and while there are adventure playgrounds and a natural playground on site, you are paying a maze-driven ticket price for them. Skip Monday and Tuesday entirely, when the farm is closed, and skip a late Friday arrival — the gates are open until 10pm but the maze stops admitting at 8pm.
Lodi is north of Madison in Columbia County, far enough that Treinen is a destination rather than a stop. If you are making the drive from Madison, the Dane County orchards — Eplegaarden in Fitchburg and Door Creek in Cottage Grove — are on the wrong side of the city to pair on the same day. Treat Treinen as its own outing and use the season's November tail, which runs later than most Wisconsin farms, to fit it in after the rest of the fall calendar has emptied out.
Online admission is $14.99 for September and November dates and $16.99 for any day of the season. Gate admission is $20. A pre-season flash sale ran at $12.99 from August 14 to 24. Groups of 20 or more get $1 off per ticket. Pumpkins are separate at $3 to $15.
Two hours before closing. On Friday and Saturday, when the farm closes at 10pm, that means 8pm. On Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday, when it closes at 7pm, it means 5pm. Arriving at 9pm on a Friday is too late for the maze.
Yes, on Friday and Saturday, when the farm runs to 10pm. That makes Treinen one of the few farms near Madison where an after-dark maze is possible. Bring your own light and dress for standing still in a cold field.
No. Treinen is open Wednesday through Sunday during the main season, which runs September 19 to November 8, 2026, plus a preview weekend on September 5 to 7 and Labor Day.
September 19 – November 8, 2026. Wednesday through Sunday during the main season, plus a preview weekend September 5-7 and Labor Day. Hours: Wednesday & Thursday 10:00am-7:00pm; Friday & Saturday 10:00am-10:00pm; Sunday 10:00am-7:00pm; last maze entry two hours before close.
Admission starts at $14.99 per person. Online admission is $14.99 in September and November and $16.99 for any day of the season; a pre-season flash sale August 14-24 was $12.99. Gate admission is $20, so buying online saves real money. Groups of 20 or more get $1 off per ticket. Pumpkins are priced separately at $3-$15 and are not included in admission.
W12420 State Road 60, Lodi, WI 53555, in Columbia County. It is one of 4 patches we track in Madison Region.
We track 4 patches in Madison Region, 2 of which are free to walk into. At $14.99 a head this one sits right on the regional median of $14.99.
Its season runs about 51 days against a regional average of 51, so it is broadly in line with the rest of the region.
What sets it apart locally: it has a corn or crop maze, which most Madison Region patches on our list do not.
There are 3 other patches we track in Columbia County. All Madison Region patches →
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Checked August 2026.