Skinny Bones Pumpkin Patch

I might be biased because we truly just had a blissful weekday visit on our first-ever venture to Skinny Bones, but I wanted to share! We came at open, 9AM on a Thursday, left around 1PM because of storms, and then circled back around 3PM because I'd lost my credit card during our visit I was SO grateful they were understanding and accommodating - they allowed us to re enter and play for a couple more hours of fun! (To be clear, they DO offer this for everyone! I asked when we initially left due to the weather, and they said as long as we kept our wristband, they'd let us come back in) A much more generous and reasonable policy than many other entertainment facilities I've been to.+For my age group (3+5 y/o) this patch is the PERFECT size. In my 4-hour window in the morning, we didn't quite get to tackle every activity, but with the extra couple of hours in the evening we checked everything off our list!+ Because it's smaller in size, the cost ($14 per person on a weekday) felt more appropriate than a certain other patch's entrance fees. Grateful for that!+The grounds are well maintained and well thought out - sweet little touches and photo ops sprinkled throughout+they include everything with your entry fee - even one free ball shot and endless trips on the cute daisy train and hayrack ride, etc. Optional "fees" are reserved to just animal feed, souvenir shopping, food or reserving a specific campsite.+We were able to pack our own snacks and light lunch without any issue-There isn't a ton of staff to supervise or explain things (again, this could be something that's different on a weekend visit). Wasn't ultimately a huge deal to me either. -if you do have bigger or very ambitious kiddos, it may not be a full day's worth of activities for your ticket price. -be aware, it is farm terrain - should you need a wheelchair or wagon or stroller, you may struggle or need additional accommodations as the paths are all dirt or gravel

Genuinely enjoyed my time here! Wasn't expecting too much, but I was surprised. Corn maze is awesome, you actually can get lost in there ! Unfortunately, we went on a rainy day so we were not able to do daisy train or hayride. However, from the things that were open I'd say the corn maze was the best attraction. Admission price wasn't too bad but the food at Emmys Barn wasn't worth the money. Definitely eat before going. Thought eerie trail was cute, and I loved the animals they had! Someone said they were free range, so if they wanted to get out of their enclosed area they had that option. Worth a visit for sure!

We're blessed that every year our realtor, Samantha Tisinger, has a client appreciate get together at Skinny Bones. So for transparency I've never actually paid to get into this place. The prices though seem way too expensive to me. That being said we always have a blast here. The bathrooms are pretty cool in a converted grain bin. My daughter loves the giant slide (that I REFUSE to go down). Bonus that she was tall enough for the tube ride this year too. I think that was her favorite now. There is plenty to keep you busy for hours and they have fire pits to rent if you wanted to. I still haven't done the corn maze or hay bale rides, but it's on my list to do next year. Skinny Sones would get 5/5 stars from me if the prices for food and entrance weren't so expensive. Parking can also be interesting depending on when you visit.

This is our 12th year in a row going to Skinny Bones. All the way back to when the parking lot held about 25 cars. We found it by accident and now it's a family tradition. We have SO MANY October birthdays, we rent a fire pit, the whole family comes, we roast hot dogs and smores. It's grown every year but still in a "Pumpkin Patch Family Way". I remember when the owner would drive our hayride every year. He doesn't now but we speak to him every time he lights our fire.We go TOMORROW, OCTOBER 14TH and yes it will be chilly but everyone gets excited about our Skinny Bones day! We personally don't go to the "other one" much.We have yet to do the night time haunted corn maze, but we will. As my mom got older and couldn't walk as well, they would bring a gator up to her and bring her right to our pit. Before 2023 you called to make reservations and always spoke the owner's wonderful wife. I kinda missed that because we'd chat about our awesome tradition. Now with automated scheduling I didn't speak to her, but hopefully we see her. Ava has been going every year of her life, as has Bennett and Kaydee went at 5 and I'd now 16. You're never TOO OLD or TOO YOUNG for Skinny Bones. Sometimes I pay to use air cannons (the ONLY thing not included in entry fee) but I am this year.If you prefer the extremely spread out "other patch", that's great! We've gone. But Skinny Bones is literally as important to us as our Christmas Holiday traditions! The mad cow ride, check out "Betty". My mom's name and the kids always ride in her. Kaydee, unfortunately, got too big.I am writing a long post because this is so much fun in a FAMILY type atmosphere. We can sit at fire pit #1 and watch the kids on the slides and jumping balloons. So, the only thing Skinny Bones Pumpkin Patch, some of us are 12 years older and those bikes ARE NOT as easy as they look! A tiny motor for us old-timers?? Do not miss the Haunted Trail. We do it every year and still love it.The only thing from "the other one" I really love is the big ball pit room with air cannons. You asked me last year if I thought of any new things to let you know! And a little zip line. But you're perfect so don't worry!TRUST ME! MORE AFFORDABLE, PLENTY OF FUN, AMAZING PUMPKINS, HOT COCOA, FOOD, RESTAURANT, KETTLE CORN, CARAMEL APPLES, A STORE AND SO MUCH FUN FOR ALL AGES. EVEN IF YOU GO TO "THE OTHER ONE", YOU GOTTA TRY SKINNY BONES! YOU WON'T REGRET IT!Skinny Bones has ratings and customers for life in our family, due to the family atmosphere. Friendliness off staff. Fun things to do. And honestly JUST FUN. We've gone every October and we've had to wear everything from shorts to winter coats. Doesn't matter! We're so ready for tomorrow! Our goal every year is all punches on the corn maze card!!! Love you Skinny Bones!

Time for my annual Skinny Bine review. First I will say, the prices have jumped quite high! Coming a few years ago it seemed like just dollars and now it's nearly the cost of Vala's, with less than half of the attractions. I'm not sure why this dramatic price increase happened, it was shocking even my husband was taken back by the cost. Anyway, know that The grounds itself are about the same. I didn't see anything new this year but we did stay and play as long as we could. We always have fun in the corn maze.

The best pie ever. Tons of great family photo spots. Lots of slides and stuff that little kids will love. Petting zoo. Neat gift shop. Well worth it.

Absolutely disappointing. Underwhelming. Lazy. Half-assed. We came here two years ago and thought, "This is OKAY." Two years later, I figured we could give it another chance. We showed up about 1pm and left less than 2 hours later. There is absolutely, positively, no way that this place was voted best pumpkin patch in Nebraska. Ice cream for the kids! Oh wait, it's just Italian ice and overpriced containers of crazy ice cream flavors. How hard is it for a place that is "family friendly" to have some damn vanilla or chocolate ice cream? Laziness. This upset me so much because I saw the sign and told my 3-year-old they had ice cream.About 2:45pm we were hungry and saw the Food Barn was nearly empty. Score! Time for a turkey leg, some mac & cheese for the kids, and... what's that? Anything from the kitchen will be a 30 minute wait? What about a corn dog? 30 fucking minutes for a corn dog? Are there other food places? No? You mean to tell me that I paid nearly a hundred bucks to get in here and there is ONE place to get food? Got it. We left after that. GOODBYE. Not giving these greedy owners another dime. They offered uncrustables. Are you FUCKING kidding me? This crossed the line. All you can offer me is a damn $6 uncrustable? You ought to be absolutely ashamed as an owner that this is what you offer your customers. I understand you have to make money, but you are blatantly ripping people off.Not a thing changed in 2 years except the price. I paid $95 for 4 people and feel absolutely ripped off. We will never come here again. I'm not going to let my kids suffer because of this place's incompetence either so I will be taking them to another pumpkin patch next weekend. They deserve much better than this. I will spend twice as much as I spent here too and actually enjoy myself. I won't leave hungry either.I finally get it now. It's called Skinny Bones because they want you to starve to death while you're there.

Flies on food at emmys food barn, dont cover most of their precooked food, kids working there dont care, also oold fries old precooked cheese curds but food is expensive. Few things to do at this pumpkin patch. So very disappointed! Seemed very old cheap quality attractions all outdated. Never again.

This year (Friday-2024) is a complete bust. About 1/4 of the attractions don't work. Pumpkin plunge creates more work the pleasure, nothing works in the Eari forest, the haunted car works when it wants. The tractor hay ride isn't operating. Save your money this year.

Cute pumpkin patch They have enough activities to fill our day My kids ( and myself ) love the new slide they added last year.