Southwest Wisconsin pumpkin patches

What to expect in Southwest Wisconsin

2 of the 18 Wisconsin patches we track are in Southwest Wisconsin, spread across Dane County, Grant County. 2 of them run a corn or crop maze, and 2 have farm animals your kids can get close to. 1 have their 2026 dates confirmed on the farm's own site.

Admission runs from $8 a head at Sutter's Ridge Farm up to $14.99 at Vesperman Farms — a real spread, and one worth checking against how long you actually plan to stay. A paid festival only pays for itself if you use it for half a day.

This is real pumpkin country. Farms here grow their own crop and cut mazes into their own corn, which also means the season ends when the weather says so: a hard frost takes the maze down, and some farms keep the patch open a week or two after it. Two practical consequences. Daylight collapses through October, so a farm that closes "at dark" gives you over an hour less on Halloween weekend than it did in late September. And field parking after autumn rain is the single most common complaint at farms in this part of the country — boots, not trainers.