$17 plus tax covers nineteen activities including a seven-acre maze, which is decent value for a long visit — but the farm's published season dates carry no year and do not line up with its own weekends-only schedule.
$17 plus tax general admission; $15 plus tax for groups of 10 or more; children 3 and under free; $12 plus tax in November. Individual season pass $34 plus tax, family-of-four season pass $136 plus tax. Pumpkins and merchandise are not included in admission.
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.
The pitch here is a single flat price against a long list. $17 plus tax buys nineteen included activities: a seven-acre corn maze, hayrides, a hay pyramid, duck racing, barnyard animals, a climbing wall, ninja warp walls, a mega slide, a gaga ball pit and disc golf among them. Pumpkin picking is available but the pumpkins themselves are not in the ticket.
That last point is the one to fix in your head before you arrive, because it inverts the usual assumption. At a farm like this you are buying an afternoon of activities and then, separately, buying a pumpkin. If the pumpkin was the reason for the trip, this is an expensive way to get one and Orange County has free-entry orchards that will sell you the same squash.
The farm’s admission page gave a window of September 11 to November 14, with no year printed anywhere against it. In 2026, September 11 is a Friday — and this farm opens at weekends. Either there is a Friday opening the schedule does not mention, or those dates are left over from a previous season and were never refreshed. Neither possibility is a reason not to go, but both are a reason to phone before you drive.
The group rate is straightforward: ten or more people pay $15 plus tax instead of $17. Two families going together clear that threshold easily and the saving is real.
The season passes need more care. The family-of-four pass at $136 plus tax is precisely the cost of two family visits at the gate. It is not a discount on two visits; it is break-even on two and a saving only from the third. For a local family with a six- or eight-weekend window that is achievable. For anyone driving in for one Saturday it is a trap.
The November price of $12 plus tax is the most interesting line on the sheet and the one that needs the most scrutiny. In the Hudson Valley, November is after the frost has finished the corn and after the field has been picked over. Farms usually cut the maze down around then, and what is left is the play equipment on cold ground. That may still be a fine $12 morning for children who came for the slide — just do not expect the October version of the farm at a discount. Ask what is still open when you book.
Weekends only. The admission page showed a September 11 to November 14 window with no year attached, and September 11 is a Friday in 2026, which does not sit cleanly with weekend opening — so those dates may be carried over from a previous season. If the November dates do run, they are $12 plus tax rather than $17, though by then the pumpkins and the standing corn are largely gone. Arrive near opening: the ticket assumes a long stay and the queues for the mega slide and climbing wall build through the middle of the day.
Three to four hours. With nineteen activities included in one price, anything shorter is money left on the table.
A weekends-only season concentrates everything into roughly a dozen operating days, and in Orange County the two weekends before Halloween are the reliable peak. November dates, if they run, will be the quietest of the season by a wide margin.
Not published. Assume a field lot off River Road, and assume it holds water — Orange County bottomland does not drain quickly in late October.
You want a quick pumpkin. Pumpkins are explicitly not included in admission, so a pumpkin-and-photo visit means paying $17 a head for the privilege of then buying the pumpkin. Skip it too if only weekdays work for you — this farm does not open midweek.
Wright Family Farm in Warwick is the obvious comparison in Orange County — a similar weekends-only model at $15 with a five-acre maze rather than seven. Compare rather than combine; either one is a half-day on its own.
$17 plus tax general admission, $15 plus tax for groups of ten or more, free for children 3 and under, and $12 plus tax in November. Season passes are $34 plus tax individually or $136 plus tax for a family of four. Pumpkins and merchandise are extra.
The admission page showed September 11 to November 14 but printed no year against those dates, and September 11 falls on a Friday in 2026 while the farm opens weekends only. We have left the season dates blank rather than repeat something that may be from a previous year. Call 845-457-1830 to confirm.
No. Admission covers the activities; pumpkins and merchandise are charged separately.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Weekends. Check with the farm before driving out.
Admission starts at $17 per person. $17 plus tax general admission; $15 plus tax for groups of 10 or more; children 3 and under free; $12 plus tax in November. Individual season pass $34 plus tax, family-of-four season pass $136 plus tax. Pumpkins and merchandise are not included in admission.
531 River Road, Montgomery, NY 12549, in Orange County. It is one of 10 patches we track in Hudson Valley.
We track 10 patches in Hudson Valley, 2 of which are free to walk into. At $17 a head this one sits above the regional median of $16.95.
One caveat worth repeating: this farm had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 2 of the 10 patches we track in Hudson Valley had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
There are 10 other patches we track in Orange County. All Hudson Valley patches →
twinpondsonthefarm.com
Checked August 2026.