One of the few Florida patches where a single ticket genuinely covers everything except the pumpkin, which makes $16.99 a head good value if you stay four hours and poor value if you do not.
General admission $16.99 ages 3+ (under 2 free), plus taxes and fees; military/senior 65+ $14.99; group rate $15.00/person with 20+ tickets. Admission includes all attractions except u-pick flowers, pumpkins, food and country store items.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $67.96 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.
Sykes Family Farms does something most Florida fall farms do not: it bundles. The $16.99 ticket covers every attraction on the property — the nine-acre corn maze, hay rides, axe throwing, bounce pads, tube slides, duck races, pumpkin painting, face painting — and carves out only the things you physically take home, which are u-pick pumpkins, u-pick flowers, food and the country store. That is worth stating plainly because the dominant Florida model is the opposite: a moderate gate price followed by a long menu of $7-and-up extras that quietly doubles the day.
The practical consequence is that the calculation here is about time, not money. If your family goes through the gate and leaves after ninety minutes with a photo, you have paid a bundled price for an unbundled visit. Four hours is the number that makes the ticket make sense, and the maze is designed to help you get there — nine acres is large enough to be a genuine hour rather than a fifteen-minute walk-through.
Friday runs 6-10pm and Saturday goes to 10pm, and this changes the visit more than any attraction on the list. Almost every Florida patch is a daylight proposition, which in late September and October means doing your family outing in the mid-eighties with an afternoon storm risk. Sykes gives you a version of the same farm with the sun off it. A corn maze after dark is also simply better, and the evening slots draw a different crowd — teenagers and adults rather than strollers.
The trade-off is mosquitoes and light. Dusk in a North Florida field is peak bug hour; bring spray rather than buying it. And if you plan to do the maze in the dark, a charged phone is not optional.
Every day carries a last entry one hour before close. On Friday and Saturday that is 9pm and it barely matters. On Sunday the farm closes at 5pm and the gate shuts at 4pm, which turns a lazy Sunday-afternoon plan into a hard deadline. If you were treating Sunday as the flexible day, it is actually the tightest one on the schedule.
Two adults and two children over 3 is $67.96 before taxes and fees. Add lunch from the food vendors and a pumpkin each from the u-pick field and $100 is a realistic all-in figure, possibly more if the country store gets you. That is still competitive for what is included — the same money at a Central Florida festival farm buys admission and nothing else — but it is not a $68 day, and the taxes-and-fees line on the farm’s own pricing means even the headline figure understates the gate.
The discounts are unusually usable. Military and seniors save $2 a head, under-2s are free, and 20 or more people pay a flat $15 each, which two families travelling together can hit without much effort.
Sykes advertises u-pick pumpkins, and it is worth understanding what that phrase means in this state. Florida’s climate does not support a commercial fall pumpkin crop, so pumpkins at Florida patches are trucked in and arranged — including, generally, in the fields set out for picking. That is standard practice statewide rather than a knock on this farm, but if you are picturing a New England vine field, adjust before you arrive rather than after. Flowers, unlike pumpkins, do grow here in the fall, so the u-pick flower field is the more literal of the two.
The Friday 6-10pm session is the smartest slot on the calendar. It is the only time you can visit this farm without North Florida sun on you, the corn maze after dark is a different and better experience, and Friday evening draws less traffic than either weekend day. If you need daylight — small children, photos, u-pick flowers — take the Saturday or Sunday 10am opening rather than arriving at noon. Sunday is the short day, closing at 5pm with last entry at 4pm, so it is the wrong choice for a long visit.
Four hours to break even on the ticket. With a nine-acre corn maze, hay rides, axe throwing, bounce pads, tube slides, duck races and two kinds of painting all included in admission, a two-hour visit means paying full price for half the farm. The maze alone can absorb an hour.
A four-weekend season across Friday, Saturday and Sunday means twelve or thirteen open days for the whole of St. Johns County. Saturday is the long day and will be the busiest; Friday evening is the quietest of the three. Last entry is an hour before close on every day, which quietly shortens the window if you were planning a late arrival.
The farm has not published parking details. As a general rule, working farms in this part of Florida park visitors on grass or packed dirt, and October afternoon storms turn that to mud — assume an unpaved field and wear shoes you do not mind ruining. This matters more here than at most patches because the evening sessions mean you may be walking back to the car in the dark.
Nothing published on surfaces or restrooms. Given the attraction mix — corn maze, bounce pads, tube slides, a hay ride — expect uneven ground throughout and plan for a stroller with large wheels rather than an umbrella model. Call ahead if anyone in your group needs an accessible restroom, since farms this size commonly run portable units.
You want a quick pumpkin-and-photo stop. There is no cheap walk-in tier, so a family of four is roughly $68 before tax and fees for a farm whose value is entirely in staying put and using it. Also skip the Friday session if your children fade early — it does not start until 6pm.
Elkton is about 20 minutes west of St. Augustine, which makes the historic district the obvious other half of the day — particularly if you take the Friday evening farm session and spend the daylight hours in town rather than the other way round.
All the attractions — the nine-acre corn maze, hay rides, axe throwing, bounce pads, tube slides, duck races, pumpkin painting and face painting. It does not include u-pick pumpkins, u-pick flowers, food or country store purchases, and the $16.99 is quoted before taxes and fees.
Military and seniors 65 and over pay $14.99, groups of 20 or more pay $15.00 each, and children under 2 are free. There is no online-versus-gate price difference published.
Yes, and the schedule supports it better than most Florida patches. Friday evenings run 6-10pm and Saturday to 10pm, with axe throwing and a nine-acre maze as the draws.
Earlier than you think on Sunday, which closes at 5pm with last entry at 4pm. On Friday and Saturday the last entry is 9pm.
October 3 – November 1, 2026. Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays. Hours: Fri 6-10pm (last entry 9pm); Sat 10am-10pm (last entry 9pm); Sun 10am-5pm (last entry 4pm).
Admission starts at $16.99 per person. General admission $16.99 ages 3+ (under 2 free), plus taxes and fees; military/senior 65+ $14.99; group rate $15.00/person with 20+ tickets. Admission includes all attractions except u-pick flowers, pumpkins, food and country store items.
5995 Brough Rd, Elkton, FL 32033, in St. Johns County. It is one of 15 patches we track in North Florida.
We track 15 patches in North Florida, 2 of which are free to walk into. At $16.99 a head this one sits above the regional median of $15.
Its season runs about 30 days against a regional average of 31, so it is broadly in line with the rest of the region.
What sets it apart locally: it has rides and play structures, u-pick fields, which most North Florida patches on our list do not.
There is 1 other patch we track in St. Johns County. All North Florida patches →
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