Critz Farms and Critz Farms Brewing & Cider Co.
3232 Rippleton Rd, 13035
Critz Farms and Critz Farms Brewing & Cider Co. is ranked #1 on this list, located at 3232 Rippleton Rd, Cazenovia, NY, 13035. It carries a 4.5-out-of-5 rating on Google from 390 reviews, which puts it among the more established pumpkin patches in our data.
Beyond the pumpkin field itself, it's tagged for cider and donuts and fall festival, so there's usually more to a visit than just picking a pumpkin and heading home.
Google hasn't surfaced a set of recurring review themes for Critz Farms and Critz Farms Brewing & Cider Co. yet, so there isn't a themed summary of what visitors say to pass along here — the star rating and review count above remain the clearest public signal until more detail comes in.
Critz Farms and Critz Farms Brewing & Cider Co. is one of the farms we track with a fall festival, which typically means a festival weekend is the farm operating at full capacity: every attraction open, food vendors on site, live music, and frequently craft or produce markets. it is the best day to visit if you want the complete experience…
Based on its public listing, Critz Farms and Critz Farms Brewing & Cider Co. is typically open Monday 12-6PM, Tuesday 12-6PM, Wednesday 12-6PM, Thursday 12-9PM, Friday 12-9PM, Saturday 12-9PM, Sunday 12-6PM. Pumpkin patch hours shift often during the season — expect longer hours the two or three weekends around mid-October and shorter, sometimes weekend-only hours toward either end of the season — so treat this as a strong starting point rather than a guarantee.
Admission pricing isn't listed for Critz Farms and Critz Farms Brewing & Cider Co. either — pumpkin patches generally charge one of three ways (free entry with pumpkins priced individually or by weight, a flat gate admission bundling attractions, or a per-attraction wristband system), so it's worth asking which applies here before you go.
Payment methods aren't listed, and a meaningful share of family-run patches are cash-only for field admission and wagon rides even when the farm store takes cards — bringing some cash as backup avoids an awkward trip back to the car at the gate.
Like most working farms, the exact open and close dates for Critz Farms and Critz Farms Brewing & Cider Co. can shift year to year with weather and how the pumpkin crop comes in, even though the general window is fairly predictable.
If you're planning a special trip, a weekday morning is consistently the quietest time to go, with shorter waits for wagon rides and easier parking than a weekend afternoon.
Wear shoes you don't mind getting muddy — pumpkin fields are working farmland rather than paved lots, and they get soft fast after rain — and call ahead if it's rained heavily in the last day or two, since field access and hayrides are usually the first things a farm closes when the ground is saturated.
Layers help too: fall mornings can start cold and warm up quickly once the sun is over an open field.
Critz Farms and Critz Farms Brewing & Cider Co. sits, near Cazenovia, NY, with parking typically in a grass field rather than a paved lot — allow a few extra minutes on busy weekends for staff or volunteers to direct traffic, and if you're navigating by GPS rather than the link on this page, search the farm name directly rather than just the street address, since rural addresses sometimes route to the wrong gate.
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