A working dairy with a fall festival bolted onto an already busy year-round attraction — strong on ice cream, mini golf and the maze, but adults pay more than children here and the pumpkin field shuts a week before the festival does.
'Moo-it-All' wristband $27.50 ages 12 and over, $20.50 ages 11 and under, covering multiple activities. Pick-your-own pumpkins $8 per pumpkin when purchased with a wristband. Prices for the haunted wagon ride and the maze on its own are not published.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $82.00 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.
Young’s is a dairy that runs a fall festival, not a pumpkin farm that also sells ice cream, and the order matters. This is an established Greene County destination with mini golf, a full food operation and a year-round visitor flow. The autumn programme is layered on top of a place that is already busy.
That is largely good news. It means real food rather than a snack shack, indoor space when the weather turns, and something to do if the outdoor plan collapses. It also means the weekend crowd is not just the pumpkin crowd, and that Yellow Springs in October — a scenic corridor in peak leaf season — has traffic of its own.
The page publishes several date windows and they do not line up:
The festival itself runs September 19 to November 1. Cowvin’s Corny Maze and Playland run 11am to 6pm and have been open since August 1, through to November 1. Pick-your-own pumpkins run September 19 to October 25. The haunted wagon rides run Friday and Saturday evenings, September 25 to October 31, 7:30pm to 10pm.
The one that catches people is the pumpkin field. It closes six days before the festival ends. Book the last weekend of the season expecting to pick a pumpkin and you will find the maze open, the ice cream open and the field closed.
The Moo-it-All wristband is $27.50 for ages 12 and over and $20.50 for 11 and under. Note the direction of that: adults are the expensive tier, which is the reverse of the usual farm-festival structure where children’s tickets cost more attention than money.
Two adults and two children under 12 is $96 in wristbands. Add pick-your-own pumpkins at $8 each with a wristband and four pumpkins takes the day past $128 before anyone has eaten. That is at the higher end of what a fall outing costs in Ohio, and it is worth being clear-eyed about it.
The counterweight is that the wristband is optional. Nothing stops you visiting for ice cream, looking at the animals and going home. If the activities are not the draw, do not buy the bundle.
The haunted wagon rides and scary stories run late on Friday and Saturday nights, and they are a separate proposition from the daytime festival — the farm does not publish a price for them, which is a real gap for anyone planning around them.
The seasonal caution is the same as at any night attraction here. A 10pm finish on October 31 in Ohio is cold, and a wagon ride is the coldest kind of outdoor activity because nobody is moving. Dress for the last hour rather than the first, and settle the question of whether your children want to be frightened before you are in the queue.
The festival runs September 19 to November 1, 2026, with the maze and Playland open 11am to 6pm daily. The date that matters most is October 25: that is the last day for pick-your-own pumpkins, six days before the festival ends. If a pumpkin is the point of the trip, do not book the final weekend. Haunted wagon rides run Friday and Saturday evenings, 7:30pm to 10pm, from September 25 to October 31 — a completely separate visit from the daytime one, and a cold one by late October. Weekday daytimes are the quiet option; this is a well-known Greene County destination and its weekends are busy year-round, not just in autumn.
Three to four hours if you have bought a wristband, which is what it takes to get value out of the maze, Playland, mini golf and the animals. An hour if you are here for ice cream and a look at the cows, which is a perfectly reasonable way to visit.
Young's is a regional destination outside the fall season as well as in it, so weekends carry two overlapping crowds. Yellow Springs sits in a scenic corridor that draws leaf-season traffic through October, which does not help the drive in.
Not published. Expect a busy lot at a high-traffic destination rather than a quiet farm field, and expect the October weekend arrival to be the slow part of the day.
You want a cheap pumpkin. Between a $27.50 adult wristband and $8 per pumpkin, a family of four leaves having spent well over $100 for four pumpkins and an afternoon. Skip the evening wagon rides entirely if you have young children — the farm describes them as haunted, with scary stories alongside.
$27.50 for ages 12 and over and $20.50 for ages 11 and under. It is described as a Moo-it-All wristband covering multiple activities. Prices for the maze alone and for the haunted wagon ride were not published on the page we read.
October 25, 2026 — a week before the festival itself finishes on November 1. This is the single most useful date on the page.
The farm bills them as haunted and lists scary stories alongside. They run Friday and Saturday, 7:30pm to 10pm, from September 25 to October 31. Treat them as an older-children and adults attraction and judge from there.
September 19 – November 1, 2026. Daily. Hours: Cowvin's Corny Maze & Playland 11am-6pm; pick-your-own pumpkins 11am-6pm; haunted wagon rides Fri-Sat 7:30pm-10pm.
Admission starts at $20.5 per person. 'Moo-it-All' wristband $27.50 ages 12 and over, $20.50 ages 11 and under, covering multiple activities. Pick-your-own pumpkins $8 per pumpkin when purchased with a wristband. Prices for the haunted wagon ride and the maze on its own are not published.
6880 Springfield-Xenia Rd, Yellow Springs, OH 45387, in Greene County. It is one of 9 patches we track in Southwest Ohio.
We track 9 patches in Southwest Ohio, 2 of which are free to walk into. At $20.5 a head this one sits above the regional median of $12.
Its season runs about 44 days against a regional average of 38, 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 Southwest Ohio patches on our list do not.
There are 3 other patches we track in Greene County. All Southwest Ohio patches →
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
youngsdairy.com
Checked August 2026.