The Pumpkin Farm

Wish I could write a review about our visit but after my husband actually got an approved day off to specifically keep up a 21 year family tradition, our 2^nd oldest coming home from college just to keep tradition, loading up our family into 2 cars, hiring a professional photographer, checking their website one last time for any changes & directions, and making the drive, we arrived to a closed pumpkin patch and a quite a few cars also trying to get in. Not so much upset about losing out on the money we paid the photographer, but more upset that our 6^th and final child will be the only one who didn’t get his first pumpkin patch pictures taken on halloween just like his siblings. Please maintain your website up to date.

Greedy is a good word to describe this business, my wife has been coming here for a long time, and now they have started to charge 5 dollars for parking, oh and here is the kicker, if you walk in they assume that you parked on the public road and charge you a 5 dollar parking fee anyways… On this sign it states that it is illegal to park on the road, please show me what penal code says that vehicles are not allowed to park on a public thoroughfare unless noted by no parking signs!!! Yeah that greed right there is the reason we wont return again. It used to be a fun tradition every year but not worth it when you know your pocketbook is being plundered by parking fees and high priced pumpkins. SHAME ON YOU PEOPLE!!!

I guess it is that time where my girls have officially out grown pumpkin patches. It seems that they are catering more to the younger kids with smaller hay stacks, lame corn mazes and an abundance of playground size slides. This was our first time at the pumpkin farm, typically every year we go to Fog Willow in Willston but decided to change it up. The farm itself is cute, pay $ 5 for parking and what could amount to $ 40 if you want to go on all the small rides. We opted for 8 total tickets which cost $ 20 to go on two rides for the 4 of us. The corn maze is not a maze at all it’s a bunch of corn stationed around a walking path. I was surprised how the website advertised an amazing corn maze but then you see it and feel cheated. The haunted barn definitely had some potential my 8 year old was scared but still enjoyed the event. The costumes, characters and props are all hand made which makes the experience more authentic. I know it was for little kids but if they had someone jumping out or more of the props moving I might have been scared.
We won’t return anytime soon but it was a good family outing for about two hours.

Simple barnyard fall fun for the family. Hay ride, haunted house, farm animals, slides and, of course, pumpkins. Great place for a fall birthday party.

Love, love this adorable family owned farm! A real farm experience for kids, animals, yummy food trucks, cool haunted barn, awesome staff. Definitely spending some time here this October! So refreshing /​reasonable prices, there is no parking fee etc 1^st couple of weekends, no entrance fee, just activity passes depending what u want to do.

It is really nice, living in Citrus Heights, to have a farm like this right down the street. It is a favorite place to go for pumpkins, as well as the fun attractions during the month of October. The hayride, giant slide, corn maze, and petting zoo were all much enjoyed. I thought everything was reasonably priced. The haunted house has just the right amount of «cheesy» scariness to it. I enjoyed buying locally grown honey, along with my pumpkins.

I’m just going to start off with my point. WHERE IS THE MONEY GOING? Here is a business that charges ridiculous amounts of money for its attractions, yet refuses to keep them in an acceptable state. Good luck getting in and out of their parking lot without needing an alignment and maybe even a new tire or two.
There are theoretically two sets of bathrooms, but one is out of order– both men’s and women’s. The whole little building is just out of order, and has a sign directing you to go to the other bathroom, which is a good quarter of a mile away. So, I can walk a quarter of a mile when I’m dying, and so can my kid who is almost seven, but you know who can’t? Two and three-​year-​old children who are potty-​training. And guess who likes to come to the pumpkin patch more than anyone else? So, yeah, there’s that.
Attractions are $ 2 a pop, or you can buy a pass for $ 10 that allows the kid to do six things, which are: slide, haunted house, bounce house, train ride, hay ride, and corn maze. The adult $ 8 ticket is the same minus the slide and bounce house.
The bounce house is nothing special. It is literally a little tiny bounce house of maybe ten by ten feet with no roof.
The hay ride is okay. You ride around the farm for two minutes. For a dollar a minute, I’d rather be getting a fancy massage, but that’s just me. The train ride is the same thing, except that instead of being on trucks full of hay, you are on a wooden train which is so shoddy that you can literally feel the wood shifting around under your bottom when you roll over rocks. I mean, it seriously feels like the whole thing is just going to fall apart.
The haunted barn was actually pretty decent. I do not want to meet the person who came up with the idea of putting bloody Barbie dolls in rat cages.
The corn maze was a path through some corn. I mean, just a path from one end to the other. Is is supposed to actually be a maze? The lookout tower and slides were at least halfway sturdy.
Pumpkins are like twenty bucks each. Bathrooms are disgusting and kind of horrendous. There is literally one attendant selling tickets to a long line of people. You get to wait in line for at least ten minutes to literally hand someone your money.
Let’s not forget the petting zoo, where every single sanitizer dispenser was empty. This was extra fun since the soap dispensers in the bathrooms were also empty. So now we have moved on to the level of straight-​up health hazards. Anyone wanna touch a dirty sheep and then pick out a pumpkin to eat?
I get that the pumpkin patch is for the kids. I totally get that. But when you’re charging an arm and a leg for nothing, you at least need to put enough money back into your business to earn an ounce of respect from the people with the money (hi, that’s me), and you did not. I’m not coming back here. There has to be a pumpkin patch that is actually decent somewhere out there.

We absolutely LOVE The Pumpkin Farm. The owners are wonderful, the pumpkin patch is fun, and it’s truly one of our favorite Fall family outings.

It got 2 stars because parking was easy and the farm was cute. It lost stars because they charge for EVERYTHING there. They had a bounce house, which costs $ 2 per kid to get in, charges for the hayride and even the sides they have there. Sure $ 2 May not seem bad, but it adds up fast to do anything there. The pumpkins also were pricey and not that great of a selection. Several pumpkins were broken or rotting.

I would give zero stars buts that’s not an option. I had only been there once before about 7 years ago for a preschool field trip. Today we went to support a local business! Not worth my or my kids life! There were almost no pumpkins to choose from. $ 1 for small $ 10 for large??? I paid just because I wanted to get the kids a few pumpkins (they are older now). At the check out the blond behind the register grabbed my credit card, nothing to say. When I said thank you she said «ya». I looked at her and said «what?» Needless to say we did complain to management and an older gentleman was very upset with the situation. Never again! Back to Bishops we go next year.

A cute little farm! But beware, they are really after the money.
One would think that a cute little pumpkin farm would exist to please children. But it’s difficult to do that when they charge you to literally take a breath of air.
The pumpkins are pretty over priced, and do not have a set price. The price is really what ever the cashier wants to charge you.
The bathrooms are pretty gross. Not sure about the food though.
I gave this place a decent rating because it is a nice outing did the family, just be aware of the money traps!

Terrible terrible terrible. This is the 2^nd year in a row that I’ve taken my son. Last year the staff was a little more friendly, but I paid $ 8 dollars for adult and kid prices, and $ 12 dollars for a small pumpkin, which I thought was very over priced. This year was worse. The prices were still outrageous, but what made it worse was the blonde haired lady that worked at the cash register was more interested in her phone than helping the paying customers. After five minutes of standing in front of her saying excuse me, she finally acknowledged me with a bad attitude on how I was an inconvenience to her precious time on her phone. She never once smiled, and didn’t have an ounce of friendliness in her cold body. The customer service was non existing. This place is very very dirty. The hay ride and train ride is nothing but a couple of very unstable wood boxes driven around by a tractor. The corn maze is not a maze at all. Even my boys were disappointed. Never again will I take my children here, or pay this much for terrible service.

For the location and price, it was good. It’s not Bishops and is tiny in size by comparison, but we had a good time with the kids for their first time at a pumpkin patch and me not being able to do too much after recovering from surgery. The corn maze was a little bit of a disappointment cause it was more like a path and less of a maze, but my daughter still had fun. The price was reasonable for the attractions and the pumpkins. We only spent thirteen dollars on a small and medium pumpkin, which was less than i spent at the grocery store last year. It’s not an all day thing like going to Bishops, but being that it’s closer with the same attractions but on a smaller scale, outs perfect for younger kids and those on a budget.

I didn’t want to go back to TPF this year because it’s always been way overpriced for what they offer. My husband has good memories from there as a kid so he pushed the idea of surprising the kids today after our lunch. The prices seemed better… I think they may have lowered them. We spent $ 32 for 2 adult passes and 2 kid (4 attraction) passes. $ 16 for a medium pumpkin, 2 small pumpkins and small squash. The staff at the attractions were nice but the staff at the ticket booth were so unfriendly that we almost left right after we got there. I heard the women say her name was Patti… very rude person. Oh and it was the first weeekend in October so parking was free but it was miserably hot outside!

I was thoroughly disappointed in our trip to «The pumpkin farm». The first thing that greeted us was a $ 5 parking charge, why charge us $ when we are already spending $ at your establishment? There weren’t even parking attendants. Secondly: the animals looked sad and an «Animal Zoo» it was not, more like fifty goats, 2 pigs, & a few chickens. Overall impression was that the place was shoddy, unsafe, strewn with litter, unorganized, and overpriced. Still supported them by purchasing a «train» ride and a few pumpkins as they are a local business… but won’t be back.

If you have little kids (of elementary school age), this is a great place. I went with a field trip of Kindergarten kids and they all had a blast. The hay ride had a tour guide who pointed out different ways farming took place in history.
The tractor for the hay ride makes its way around a small corn field until you’re dead center to all the attractions. The slide looks like a guard tower and the kids seemed to love the trip down to terra firma from this contraption.
There was a petting zoo, and a few of the animal attractions warned about nipping pets. A haunted barn was filled with pretty cheesy animated mannequins and such. While I laughed, many a 5 year old was scared out of their minds.
I’m not sure how it would work if you went individually, but our group paid 6 bucks for all of this and we all got a pumpkin to take home. Not bad.
If you live in this area and you don’t feel like travelling, I’m sure it would do the job. If you’re looking for rides galore and excitement and thrills this might not be your place. Like I said, it’s a very good attraction for little kids.
It was my first visit ever to a pumpkin patch, so I have no comparison. I’ll no doubt be checking another one out before Halloween. Maybe I will update my review then.

This is my favorite Halloween treat. I have taken the grandkids to other places, but they love this one. Parking was free on a Saturday in October. There was so much to do, we arrived early and stayed until mid afternoon. My grandsons wore their Mario Bros hats and each received a discount on their tickets.
The food was very reasonably priced, with fresh made french fries and hamburgers. The pumpkins are more expensive than you find in the grocery store.
This is a real farm, with pumpkins growing in the fields and cornstalks, flowers and vegetables. The display of scarecrows is designed to be a historical tour of farming in California with real farm equipment.
The train ride, pulled by a farm tractor wearing a train costume was really fun, and we enjoyed the hay ride, the haunted house, the corn maze, the Hayland playground, the jumping castles, and all the other attractions. It is designed for young children, the teens will not find it as much fun.
The only thing missing was a pony ride, which we had seen at other pumpkin patches.

I used to visit this pumpkin farm yearly as a child. I have a lot of great memories there. I had not been in a few years, and decided to take the kids in hopes of avoiding a large crowd at the patch we usually go to. We went on a beautiful day, and I was surprised to find the patch pretty empty. Because they were parking cars in a back lot, the patch didn’t appear to be open from the street.
We did not pay for parking, however, every activity comes with a charge. Even the hayride came with a charge per person. My oldest wanted to go in the bounce house, ride the go karts, feed the animals, etc. We decided not to, because of the cost. In fact, we got a couple pumpkins and left. Everyone working there is friendly, but it just isn’t what it used to be.
No more scarecrow contest, no more hayride to take you back to the good pickings (unless you pay), no more free activities. I am sure it is due to the economy, but things were a little sad. I might visit again to get pumpkins only, but as a family outing, it was not worth the cost.

As a Teacher I absolutely LOVE this local pumpkin farm. I have been bringing my classes here for 33 years and I have loved seeing the changes each year! It is well laid out and flows smoothly from the hayrides to the small animals… following along to the corn maze the lookout tower slides and haunted house! Turn the kids loose to find their perfect pumpkin and the day is complete. I have made it a family tradition as well as with my school classes.
The best pumpkin farm, friendly wonderful people! I will go back every year even after I retire… it’s local, easy to get to, and I love the people there!

It’s been a tradition to come here with family every year, pet the animals, take pictures of the scarecrows, and pick out pumpkins. I don’t recall prices ever being this ridiculous. $ 20 for a large pumpkin, $ 16 for a medium… even last minute on Halloween day? Are you kidding me? Does it come with a free lunch? I’ve already paid $ 4 to park in your dirt lot. I was shocked that the bottled water was still a buck.
We were all extremely put off by this. Left the wagon loaded with pumpkins in the corner and my family bought pumpkins for like, $ 2 at FoodMaxx instead down the street.
Sorry Pumpkin Farm, but even with all the fun things you have for families here, I’m going elsewhere. Your prices can suck it!