Idle Creek Farms — Attraction in Lampasas

I wanted to love this place but I feel like I was catfished. All the photos online made it look amazing and I drove 45 minutes to get here. The photos you see online are heavily edited. First off we showed up and BAM the fact we had to pay almost 100 just to get into this “farm” was insane. Beware everything is an added fee on top of fee barely anything included. No pumpkin field in site to go pick your own pumpkin but lots of boxes of pumpkins that look like they came from the grocery store and they are going to charge the heck out of you for it. The tractor train for kids was running unattended and then vanished and never came back. The “petting zoo” had cows and a donkey? But the donkey was no where to be seen and no one was there attending it. The goat area had young people “attending it” and they were doing nothing about people’s kids borderline abusing the goats I watched multiple kids cornering and shoving dead hay into their mouths and no one advocating for them. I almost passed away when I went to get tickets for my kids face painting and it cost $60 yes SIXTY dollars for 4 kids and they can only choice from a few designs they can’t even request one…

Only thing my kids did enjoy was the corn pit...

Please avoid this place, especially if you have high school aged children. For the price there is virtually nothing for high school aged children to do. In fact, they have VERY limited activities to begin with, especially for the price being charged! Our high school senior who is tall, but not large in stature, was not allowed to ride either one of 2 horses, even though that is offered as an activity, because "we are only taking smaller children to not wear out our horses". We walked the entire place in about 10 minutes and we counted 98% of the activities geared for small children. Very POOR effort on making this experience for all ages of children. Clearly it is "thrown together" with scraps of things! Great job on the deceiving website and marketing information. You sure got us! We'll be sure to pass the word for others to be aware,...

Love this place!! My 5 year old asks to go here daily. His favorite are the jump pad, barrel train, corn pit and the giant hay slides.

There is so much to do and they have a really neat variety of pumpkins. Many I’ve never seen or heard of.

The one white donkey is super sweet.

There have been some different food trucks each time we’ve been there. Our favorite is the BBQ truck. Their Mac n cheese and brisket is something you’ll have dreams about!

They also have funnel cake - classic funnel cake!

There is a marketplace with cute hair clips, earrings, t-shirts and baked goods.

We really have had such fun each time there. I’m so thankful this pumpkin patch is here. It’s so close and we can spend more time there as we don’t have...