Anderson Farms — Attraction in Four Corners States

Amazing place! I've been going here every year forever. It has changed a lot. I used to take my Son during the week and for the cost of one adult pass we could spend the whole day walking around. Kid barrel rides, feeding the goats and the corn maze was all we needed for an amazing day. Now it is $16ea to get in. The weekends have such large crowds! Then the bank starts draining. $5 to shoot cardboard targets, $25 Zombie paintball, $1.50ea for a rubber duck for duck races, pumpkins, eating and drinking, face painting, horse rides, gourd launch, shops ... This easily turned into an expensive day. And by the time we made it to the goats which have always been our main attraction, none of them wanted to eat. I wish I could go back to weekday visits with my free kid to feed hungry goats. For a family with older kids, be prepared for an expensive outing.

Everything is gravel. Nothing is paved aside from the store and a small patio area right outside of it. Pushing a stroller is doable but I found pushing a wheelchair nearly impossible. I would say this is not handicap friendly.

There are restrooms but changing babies or special needs will have to be done elsewhere.

This has become an attraction on the same level as Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Water World and Elitches and similar price points. The farm is having growing pains. Somewhere between popular farm and Colorado attraction is where it sits now. For a $200 day I'd expect changing tables and wheelchair accessibility. But a big part of me wishes it were the same farm it was a decade ago. We've gone from weekly visits to annual visits.

This is a 5 star farm but cost and restrooms and accessibility have to be taken into consideration at this point.

PS I miss the buffalo...

So we there unprepared for this experience, first time there. The place was quite crowded though the lines for rides and games were quite short. The regular corn mazes were nice except for the unaccompanied minors that were pulling up corn stalks and making their own paths, one kid found out 80#s doesn't move 220#s when you are aren't looking where you running thru the corn rows (sorry not sorry you bounced off of me and onto you backside). Don't forget to grab a map for scavenger hunt locations, we had to walk back to entrance to get one. The paintball shooting areas were fun (extra cost). There is a a big jump house (covered barn) for little kids (48" or less if I recall), it was jammed packed. There is also a petting zoo and the standard but always a kid favorite barrel train. There are picnic areas with camp fires you can reserve, and appears you could bring in food and drink for (no alcohol though). There are plenty of food trucks and a cafeteria (in the big red barn) if you don't bring food for the camp fire areas, but expect to pay inflated prices for the food trucks, did not see the cafeteria food prices. We did the terror in the corn and it was amazing, so many jump scares, and takes about 45 minutes to get through it. There is a reason this haunted attraction has been one of the best in the nation for years. We were there about 6 hours and still didn't do everything that was offered.

We did do the pumpkin cannon, the tractor pulled "hay ride", or the pumpkin patch, escape room.

Leaving is kind of a nightmare heading south looked like I-25 in rush hour, with to many people trying to turn east on HWY 52, so we went north on the dirt road to 16 1/2 and found our way out...

This is a lovely place however did not get a punkpin due to mishap. We got discounted tickets for Monday on 10/02/2023.

PROS- there is plenty of parking. Weather was good. Lots of great photo props. Seems pretty spacey. Lots of kid attractions and the corn maze is well designed.

CONS- service was tad disappointing. Lots of vendors closed. We came for a pumpkin but the last wagon ride to to pumpkin field was at 5:30. We arrived at 5:31 and were told to leave. They said they made announcements over speakers but we were in the maze and there are no speakers in the maze. Plus we we got to the farm at 4:15, no one bothered to mention the wagon rides end at 5:30.

After the disappointment we checked the info on the website , which by our mistake the info is there regarding the wagon rides, however it is in small print and is easily misable. We were then headed to the pre picked pumpkin area before 6( when the farm closes) but that was also gated off and un able to pick out a pumpkin. We paid for entry but half of everything was closed and the main attraction was a let down considering we came for one pumpkin. I recommend coming earlier or after Oct 5th considering it's not completely open apparently. My feedback to the farm is to please announce to folks entering near the closing time that there is limited timd on certain things. Not to mention we called at 3 to ask before purching tickets online and nothing was noted to us that not everything was open. At the end of the day we misread the fine print which can easily be missed by anyone when the print is small. Happy fall...