Gilcrease Orchard is gearing up to launch ticket sales for its annual Fall Harvest, with admission passes for the Northwest Las Vegas farm's pumpkin patch, corn maze, and wagon rides set to go on sale Wednesday. The event runs four days a week, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays, from September 26 through October 31, and orchard officials are advising visitors to buy tickets in advance since weekend slots tend to sell out quickly.
Fall Harvest admission tickets can be purchased online through the Gilcrease Orchard website, according to FOX5 Vegas. Pricing for the 2026 event runs $4 plus transaction fees for Tuesday and Thursday visits and $6 plus fees for Saturdays and Sundays, with children ages 5 and under admitted free, according to Everyday.Vegas. Operating hours shift depending on the day, stretching from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. on weekdays and 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. on weekends, per the same listing, with the shorter weekday window tied to the farm's early harvesting routines and the desert heat that builds by late morning.
What's Waiting in the Pumpkin Patch and Corn Maze
Beyond the signature pumpkin patch, the Fall Harvest includes a hay maze, a corn maze, wagon rides, live music, and seasonal food options, per FOX5's report on the event lineup. The pumpkin patch itself covers roughly 12 acres of the orchard's 60-acre footprint in Northwest Las Vegas, according to a Facebook video highlighting the farm, making it one of the largest remaining contiguous stretches of agricultural land in the Las Vegas Valley.
Food-wise, expect the orchard's signature apple cider and apple cider mini donuts to be in heavy rotation. Gilcrease harvests more than 80 tons of apples annually to produce its preservative-free cider, according to Nevada Moms, which notes that cider and donuts are consistently among the highest-demand concessions during October. That same outlet points out that Gilcrease is one of the few spots in the Las Vegas metro area offering an actual pick-from-the-vine pumpkin experience, setting it apart from commercial pop-up lots elsewhere in the valley and regional trips like the Moapa Valley Corn Maze, where pumpkins are typically pre-cut and laid out on grass or pavement.
A Century of Farming on the Same Land
The orchard's roots go back to 1920, when the Gilcrease family acquired the property as a 900-acre ranch, before brothers Ted and Bill Gilcrease converted the acreage into a fruit orchard in the 1970s, testing multiple apple varieties to find crops that could survive Southern Nevada's climate, according to the Nevada Farm Bureau. Today the farm is owned and managed by the Gilcrease Orchard Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit formed in 1997 to preserve urban agriculture and outdoor education in Las Vegas, per ProPublica nonprofit filings, and the foundation was established in part to protect the remaining acreage from suburban residential development.
Ticket revenue helps fund more than just the fall festival. The orchard runs staff-led educational field trips for Clark County School District students during spring and fall harvest windows, charging $5 per student with bus reimbursement grants available, according to the Gilcrease Orchard Foundation's own field trip materials. Those trips run on weekdays when the farm is otherwise closed to the public.
How Fall Harvest Fits the Farm's Yearly Calendar
Outside of ticketed events like Fall Harvest and the late-summer Sunflower Days, Gilcrease charges no admission during its spring and summer U-pick seasons, instead asking visitors to pay only by weight for produce like peaches, cucumbers, and squash, per a blog post from real estate agent Cody Moore. In the weeks leading up to Fall Harvest, the farm hosted Sunflower Days, charging $4 to $6 for timed morning entries and $2 per cut sunflower stem, according to a listing on Ticket Tailor, which described the event as a bridge between summer fruit harvesting and the October festivities.
With weekend Fall Harvest tickets known to sell out quickly, orchard officials are once again urging visitors to lock in admission online before showing up at the gate.
