Panhandle families don’t have to drive five hours east for a hayrack ride. Fanny’s Fruit Farm is a fully functioning farm complete with goats, lambs, chickens, and ducks — and it runs on two seasons. Late summer brings U-pick strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, and apples; come fall the 3-acre pumpkin patch takes over.
One admission covers a long list: hayrack rides, hay bale and corn mazes, the Lazer Mazer (a game of laser tag played through a hay bale maze), a barrel train for kids, goat feeding, glitter tattoos, a haunted barn on select evenings, and the antique tractor barn. There’s also the Carriage House eatery and a coffee shop that runs year-round — one of the few pumpkin stops in western Nebraska where you can start the morning with a hot cup before boarding the wagon. Pumpkin season runs weekends only, October 3-31.