Nickajack Farms

Visited for the fall festival last weekend, and had a great time with the family. My little one really enjoyed the corn pit and the petting zoo. Parking is easy, and they give you a small map of the farm when you pay to show you where each activity is located. There are a few pricing tiers depending on how much you want to do, but we found the smallest package ($ 8) to be more than enough fun for a couple hours. I didn’t immediately realize it when we got there, but you can visit the farm and enjoy some of the activities without paying an admission fee.

Nickajack Farms offers plenty of activities for kids and adults. You’ll find wagon trains, a mini old west town, pumpkins (lots of them) a straw maze for kids and a corn maze for adults. They also have pumpkin bowling, hay rides, a petting zoo and a discovery barn.
The corn maze was a lot of fun and very well thought out. Each intersection had a corresponding question provided to you on a sheet of paper. Signs were posted at the intersection with two answers. Get it right, you go the right way. Get it wrong you hit a dead end. (Don’t worry, answers are provided.)
The discovery barn provides kids a great learning opportunity. Around the sides of the barn were all kinds of information on agriculture and kid-​friendly learning stations. A couple of craft tables filled the center where kids can make a bee, trace pumpkins and create a Jack-​O-​Lantern mask. There was also coloring stations, a «corn picking» field, information on wool shearing, an sandbox with corn instead of sand, and lots more.
Plan on 3 – 4 hours to do everything and then you’ll be able to take your time without having to rush to get to the next thing with the kids.