A one-day festival on Saturday September 26, 2026 — pleasant and reasonably priced at $15 online, but there is no second chance if it rains, and $15 buys the gate, not the pumpkin.
$15.00 per person online, $18.00 at the gate; children under 3 free. Tickets do not include u-pick pumpkins, vegetables or flowers, which are sold separately.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $60.00 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 most important thing about Wesley Wells Farms is structural rather than editorial: this is not a pumpkin patch season, it is a festival day. One Saturday, September 26, 2026, from 9am to 4pm. Everything else about planning the visit follows from that.
It means there is no quiet weekday option and no second weekend to fall back on. Whatever the weather does that morning, that is your visit. The record does not show a published rain date, so if you are driving any distance, check the farm’s page the night before and again that morning rather than assuming a postponement will be announced somewhere you will see it.
September 26 is early for a fall event in Florida, and early means hot. St. Johns County that week is realistically high-eighties with the humidity to match, and afternoon storms are still routine. The festival’s attractions — a craft market, food trucks, a kid zone built around a tractor tire playground, a sand hill, a gaga ball pit — are all outdoors and mostly unshaded.
The answer is the 9am opening. The first two hours are the comfortable ones, the parking is easiest, the market stalls are fullest and the u-pick fields have not been picked over. By one o’clock you are queueing in the sun for a food truck. Nothing about this farm punishes an early arrival and everything rewards it.
Admission is $15 online, $18 at the gate, free under 3. That $3 gap is per person, so booking ahead saves a family of four $12 for about ninety seconds of effort — take it.
What the ticket does not cover is the u-pick. Pumpkins, vegetables and flowers are all sold separately, which means the ticket is your entry fee and not your total. A family of four booked online is $60 through the gate; add a pumpkin each and lunch from the trucks and $110 to $130 is a realistic day. That is not unreasonable for a festival, but it is roughly double the headline number, and the headline number is what people budget for.
The craft market is worth a word here too. A handmade market attached to a family event is designed to separate you from money in a good-natured way, and the vendors are independent — which is also why cash is worth bringing, since small vendors are less consistently card-ready than the farm gate.
The kid zone list — tractor tire playground, sand hill, gaga ball pit, farm animals, photo ops — points at a clear audience: families with children roughly 2 to 10. There is no corn maze, no hayride and no large-farm infrastructure, so older kids will exhaust it faster than the drive justifies. For the target age band, two to three hours is a good outing at a fair price.
The u-pick vegetables and flowers deserve more attention than they usually get. Florida cannot grow a commercial fall pumpkin crop, so pumpkins here — as at every patch in the state — are trucked in and arranged rather than grown on site. Vegetables and cut flowers are a different story, and picking those is the part of this festival that is genuinely agricultural rather than staged.
There is exactly one date: Saturday September 26, 2026, 9am to 4pm. Within that window, go at 9am. Late September in St. Johns County is still summer — high eighties, high humidity, and a real afternoon storm risk — and a farm festival with a craft market and a kid zone offers little shade by lunchtime. The 9am to 11am block is the whole of the comfortable part of this day, and it is also when the u-pick fields and the craft market stalls are fullest.
Two to three hours. Between the market, the food trucks, the kid zone and picking your own pumpkins and flowers, that is enough to see everything without standing around, and it lands you back at the car before the heat peaks.
A single-day event in a metro area with limited fall farm options concentrates demand into seven hours. Expect the middle of the day to be the crush and the 9am opening to be genuinely calm. Buying online rather than at the gate also spares you the ticket line.
Not published. This is a working farm on a rural road, so assume grass or dirt parking rather than a paved lot, and expect it to be tight around midday when a whole day's attendance is on site at once. Arriving at opening helps with the parking as much as with the heat.
You need flexibility. This is one day, not a season, and the record shows no published rain date — if the weather turns or someone gets sick that Saturday, there is no second weekend to move to. Also skip it if you are looking for corn mazes, hayrides or big-farm attractions; none are on the list.
You are on the western edge of St. Augustine, so the historic district is the natural second half of the day — although after a September morning in an open field, most families will want air conditioning before sightseeing.
One day only: Saturday September 26, 2026, from 9am to 4pm.
$15.00 per person bought online, $18.00 at the gate, with children under 3 free. That covers entry to the festival — u-pick pumpkins, vegetables and flowers are charged separately.
Use 2680 Ada Arnold Rd, St. Augustine. At least one regional parenting site lists a different address on Joe Ashton Road; three sources corroborate Ada Arnold. Check the farm's own site before you set off, since a wrong turn on a rural road costs you the cool part of the morning.
September 26 – September 26, 2026. Pumpkin Festival is a one-day event, Saturday Sept 26, 2026. Hours: 9am-4pm on festival day.
Admission starts at $15 per person. $15.00 per person online, $18.00 at the gate; children under 3 free. Tickets do not include u-pick pumpkins, vegetables or flowers, which are sold separately.
2680 Ada Arnold Rd, St. Augustine, FL 32092, in St. Johns County. It is one of 15 patches we track in North Florida.
We track 15 patches in North Florida, 2 of which are free to walk into. At $15 a head this one sits right on the regional median of $15, undercutting 1 of the 5 paid patches we track here.
Its season runs about 1 days against a regional average of 31, so it is a shorter window than most of its neighbours — miss it and the nearest alternatives will still be open.
What sets it apart locally: it has u-pick fields, a market, bakery or taproom, which most North Florida patches on our list do not.
There is 1 other patch we track in St. Johns County. All North Florida patches →
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
wesleywellsfarm.com · visitstaugustine.com · jacksonvillemom.com
Checked August 2026.