A small amusement park wearing a pumpkin farm's clothes - roller coasters, a ferris wheel and free fireworks on Friday and Saturday evenings - but the farm publishes no gate price at all, so you cannot cost the day before you commit to a 60-mile drive east of Dallas.
The farm does not publish a gate price on its own website - tickets are sold through a flash sale and a season-pass page. Children under 2 are free. Several attractions are token-based on top of admission: $5 per token or a $20 Attraction Passport. Parking is free.
Set the expectation first: this is the most amusement-park-like fall property in the North Texas set. Thirty-plus rides and attractions, three named roller coasters, a ferris wheel, giant slides, a funhouse, a train. The pumpkin patch and corn maze are on the list, but they are two items among many rather than the reason the place exists. If your mental image of a pumpkin farm is a field and a wagon, adjust it before you get in the car.
That framing decides whether the trip works. A property built on rides only pays off if you stay long enough to use them, which means four or five hours rather than the ninety minutes a small patch takes. A family that arrives at 4pm, does two rides and leaves has paid theme-park money for a photograph.
We could not find a gate price. The farm’s own site does not print one; it routes visitors to a flash sale page and a season-pass page instead, and the regional guide we cross-checked against lists admission as to-be-announced for 2026. That is a real problem for a venue 60 miles east of Dallas, because the decision to drive an hour each way depends on a number nobody is showing you.
The practical response is to open the ticketing flow before you leave the house and read the figure there. It takes five minutes and it converts the only genuine unknown into a known.
What we do know about money is the add-on structure, and it is worth planning around. Several attractions - paintball, pony rides, face painting among them - sit outside admission and run on $5 tokens, with a $20 Attraction Passport as the bundle. Four tokens is the break-even. If your children will realistically do two things, buy two tokens; if they will do six, the passport is already saving you money. That decision is easier made in the car than at a booth with children waiting.
Parking is free, which is a meaningful offset at a venue of this size and one of the few costs you can cross off in advance.
Spooktacular Nights run Friday and Saturday evenings from September 19 to November 1: evening activities in the 9pm to 10pm window and a fireworks show at around 9pm, included with regular fall admission. Free fireworks are unusual enough to plan around on their own.
They also solve the other Texas problem. Through late September and the first half of October, an East Texas afternoon on an open rides field is hot, and a family that arrives at noon will be worn out by the time the good part of the day starts. Arriving late afternoon and staying through the fireworks gets you the cooling hours and the show for the same ticket.
The trade is crowding. A fireworks night keeps the daytime crowd on site rather than turning it over, so the queues you meet at 7pm are the accumulated day. Sunday is the quieter alternative if crowd tolerance matters more to you than the pyrotechnics.
Nothing on the farm’s site says whether the pumpkins are grown at Canton. Across most of Texas outside the West Texas growing region, patches truck pumpkins in and sell the day around them, and there is no evidence here to place this one on either side of that line. It matters less than usual, since almost nobody is choosing this property for the pumpkins.
The hours are also softer than they look. The farm does not publish a day-by-day grid; the roughly 10am to 7pm pattern, extending to about 10pm on Spooktacular Nights, comes from a regional guide rather than the farm. Confirm your intended day’s hours on the site before setting out, particularly for a Sunday in November when the season is winding down.
The fall season runs September 19 through November 8, 2026, on Friday evenings, Saturdays and Sundays. Spooktacular Nights - evening activities from about 9pm to 10pm with a fireworks show around 9pm - run Friday and Saturday evenings from September 19 through November 1, and they are included with fall admission rather than sold separately. That makes a Friday or Saturday evening the best-value slot on the calendar and, in September and early October, the coolest. Sunday is the choice if you want the rides without the evening crowd.
Four to five hours to justify the ticket. With more than thirty rides and attractions, a two-hour visit leaves most of what you paid for untouched. If you are staying for the fireworks, budget from mid-afternoon through about 9:30pm.
Eight weekends of operating days for a property with thirty-plus attractions on a major interstate. October Saturdays are the peak, and the fireworks night compounds it by keeping the afternoon crowd on site into the evening. Fridays are evening-only and Sundays are the calmest of the three.
Free, which the farm states plainly and which matters more than it sounds - it takes a real cost off the day at a venue where everything else is uncertain. The surface is not described.
Not addressed. A ride-heavy property usually means height restrictions and boarding steps rather than smooth access, and nothing in the published material clarifies which attractions accommodate mobility limits. Call 903-567-2255 ahead if that is a factor.
You want a quiet harvest farm. This is a rides operation with a pumpkin patch inside it, and October Saturdays will bring theme-park crowds and theme-park queues. Skip it too if you need to know the price before you leave - that number is not published on the farm's own site.
Canton's First Monday Trade Days is the obvious pairing and the reason many Dallas families are out this way at all. The farm sits directly on Interstate 20, so folding it into a trade-days weekend costs almost no extra driving.
The farm does not publish a gate price on its own website. Tickets are sold through a flash sale page and a season-pass page, and a 2026 Dallas-Fort Worth guide we cross-checked lists admission as to-be-announced. Check the ticketing page before you drive; a 60-mile trip is too far to make on an unknown number.
No. Spooktacular Nights, including the roughly 9pm fireworks, are included with fall admission on Friday and Saturday evenings from September 19 through November 1, 2026.
Several attractions run on a token system at $5 per token, with a $20 Attraction Passport if you expect to use a few. Paintball, pony rides and face painting are among the things listed outside general admission.
Partly. There are train rides, a pumpkin patch and gentler attractions, but the property's identity is coasters, a ferris wheel and a funhouse aimed at older children. A toddler will use a fraction of what you pay for.
September 19 – November 8, 2026. Weekends (Friday evenings, Saturdays and Sundays) from September 19 through November 8, 2026. Hours: Varies by day; generally 10am-7pm, extending to about 10pm on Spooktacular Nights (Friday and Saturday evenings September 19 - November 1, with evening activities 9-10pm and fireworks around 9pm).
Admission pricing was not published when we last checked. The farm does not publish a gate price on its own website - tickets are sold through a flash sale and a season-pass page. Children under 2 are free. Several attractions are token-based on top of admission: $5 per token or a $20 Attraction Passport. Parking is free.
15410 Interstate 20, Canton, TX 75103, in Van Zandt County. It is one of 6 patches we track in Dallas-Fort Worth.
We track 6 patches in Dallas-Fort Worth. The farm has not published a gate price, so it cannot be compared on cost — call before you budget.
Its season runs about 51 days against a regional average of 46, so it is broadly in line with the rest of the region.
What sets it apart locally: it has an after-dark attraction, which most Dallas-Fort Worth patches on our list do not.
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
yesterlandfarm.com
Checked August 2026.