Cox Farms is counting down the days until the upcoming Fall Festival and Fields of Fear seasons! The DC area’s most famous fall festival will kick off with Preview Weekend September 17-18, and then the festival will be open daily September 24-October 31 and November 4-8. Cox Farms is putting the finishing touches on their newest attraction, Treetops, which will debut at Preview Weekend.
Treetop is Cox Farms’ take on a tree house: a series of connected, raised platforms to explore, with giant bark-covered utility pole “trunks” as their bases. Treetops visitors can take in the 360-degree views of the festival grounds from above, and enjoy interactive features including flag-raising and noise-making. Treetops also features two slides, one fully covered tube slide and one open slide.
In addition to the new TreeTops, the Fall Festival features everyone’s favorite attractions, including hayrides, giant slides, rope swings, the Cornundrum Cornfield adventure, the Imaginature Trail, and all sorts of farm animals and their babies. Friendly goats welcome you to their redesigned Billy Goat Village, where you can visit and feed them. Each slide is themed differently, so you’ll fly out of castles, barns, and volcanos, exploring everything from dinosaur digs to mining towns to giant beanstalks.
To support local public servants, Cox Farms offers a $5 discount on up to four Fall Festival tickets to public servants during two Public Servants Weekends, on Opening Weekend (September 24-25) and Pumpkin Madness Weekend (November 5-6) this year. Government employees, educators, first responders, law enforcement, nurses and members of the military can save $5 by presenting a valid badge or identification.
Back by popular demand this year are two Fall Festival weekday “value visit” options introduced in 2015. There will be seven “Discount Weekdays” during the 2016 season (September 26, 27, 28, 29 and October 3, 4, and 5), during which admission will be just $6 all day! On October weekdays (not including Indigenous Peoples Day, Monday 10/10) after 4 PM, $5 “Last Call” tickets make those after-school visits a bargain.
As Pokemon Go players have discovered, Cox Farms is home to dozens of Pokestops and several gyms. On Wednesday afternoons in October, we’ll be luring at least a dozen Pokestops around the festival grounds and along the hayride route. Visitors can take advantage of our discounted “Last Call” tickets starting at 4 PM to “catch ‘em all” while also enjoying hayrides, slides, and all the fun of the Fall Festival, hatching eggs along the way!
Cox Farms Members and Fear Fanatics receive additional discounts and offers. Sign-up is available through the website as is additional information about perks of the program, including great deals on admission for Preview Weekend and Pumpkin Madness Weekend, as well as an exclusive offer for Fields of Fear’s Opening Weekend.
When night falls on the farm, it’s time for Fields of Fear! Friday and Saturday nights September 23-November 5, plus “Bonus Night” Sunday, October 9. The friendly Imaginature Trail takes a dark turn for Fields of Fear, transforming into The Forest: Back 40. The Forest has doubled in length for 2016, and now consists of half a mile of fear. The Forest joins two other haunted attractions at Fields of Fear, the Dark Side Hayride and the Cornightmare. The Firegrounds feature several bonfires, a six-lane slide, music, entertainment, tasty treats, and Fear Games, including the dark maze, Nyctophobia (hint: the name means “Fear of the dark”).
For Cox Farms, hosting friends and families in Northern Virginia every fall is more than a tradition - it’s a passion. We truly do wait all year, and now it’s almost here! Cox Farms has something for everyone and guarantees you a truly wonderful day this fall.
Cox Farms: 2016 Fall Festival Hours and Schedule:
- Preview Weekend: September 17-18, 2016
- Daily: September 24– October 31, 2016 and November 4-8, 2016
- Pumpkin Madness: November 5 – 6, 2016
- Hours: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM (closing at 5:00 PM in November); last admission one hour before closing.
Fields of Fear Schedule
- Friday and Saturday Nights: September 23 – November 5, 2016
- Bonus Night: Sunday, October 09, 2016
- Hours: 7:30 PM – 11:00 PM; last admission at 10:00 PM (some attractions may sell out earlier)
