The harvest Syracuse
A corn maze and pumpkin patch on the far west side of Syracuse
Black Island Farms, a corn maze on Syracuse's western edge
At 2075 South 4000 West, out on the flat farm ground on the far west side of the city, Black Island Farms runs an eight acre corn maze cut in three phases, a pumpkin patch, a farmers market, and a separately ticketed haunted corn attraction on select fall nights. The fall festival runs roughly late September through October. Here is what is on the farm, when it is open, how to get there, and why there is still room for corn this close to town.
By Scott Buehler, Moving Utah
Updated October 2026
The short answer
Black Island Farms is a family farm at 2075 South 4000 West, out on the flat ground on the far west side of Syracuse, about two and three quarter miles from City Hall. In fall it turns into an agritourism draw: an eight acre corn maze cut in three phases, a pumpkin patch, a farmers market, and a separately ticketed haunted corn attraction on select evenings. The fall festival runs roughly late September through October, and because it is a working farm the dates, hours and prices shift a little each season, so check the farm's own site before you drive out. Plan on a couple of hours for the maze and the courtyard, more if you add the haunted section.
What the farm is
A working farm that opens its fields for the harvest
Black Island Farms is a longtime family farm on the far west side of Syracuse, and for most of the year it is exactly that, a farm. The reason people drive out to it is the fall, when it opens its fields as an agritourism attraction. The centerpiece is an eight acre corn maze, cut in three phases so it walks as three shorter routes rather than one long slog, alongside a pumpkin patch, a farmers market, and a courtyard with concessions.
Separate from the daytime maze, the farm runs a haunted corn attraction of roughly four acres on select fall evenings. It is a different ticket at a higher price, it is aimed at older kids and adults rather than young children, and it does not always run on the same nights as the maze, so a maze and courtyard ticket does not cover it. If you are planning a trip around both, the two schedules are worth checking side by side on the farm's own calendar before you commit to a night.
None of this is a fixed roster. A working farm changes what it offers from one season to the next, and the prices, the exact attractions and the opening dates move with it. Treat anything written here as the shape of the place rather than a promise about a particular year, and let the farm's own site settle the details for the season you are visiting.
Season and getting there
When it is open, and the road you take to reach it
The fall festival runs roughly late September through October, which is a stretch of about six weeks, and the hours vary by day rather than following one steady schedule. Weekday evenings are the quiet times and weekend evenings run latest, with the opening weekend usually the busiest of the season. There is no set-in-stone calendar to carry here, because a working farm adjusts it every year, so the honest instruction is the same one it always is: check the farm's own site for the current dates, hours and prices before you set out.
Getting there is simple. From City Hall the route is out to Antelope Drive, west to 4000 West, and then south. Antelope Drive is the main west-side arterial, and out past 4000 West it thins down toward the county road that carries on to the lake, so the farm sits right where the busy part of the road gives way to open ground. From outside the city, the shortest approach is the West Davis Highway interchange at Antelope Drive, which opened in 2024. There is no public transit to this address, so plan on driving.
On fall weekend evenings the traffic near the farm is an evening pattern, not an all-day one, and the pinch is the last turn into the fields rather than the road itself. Arriving a little early on a Friday or Saturday is worth more than leaving early. For a household on the west side, the useful thing to know is that the pattern is predictable, confined to a few weeks in the fall, and gone by November.
The details
Before you go
- Check the farm's own site for the current dates, hours and prices. As a working farm on a seasonal calendar, it adjusts all three from year to year.
- The corn maze and the haunted corn are separate tickets, and they do not always run on the same nights. Buying one does not get you into the other.
- The haunted section is aimed at older kids and adults. The farm sets its own age guidance for it, so read that before bringing young children.
- It is a working farm on flat, open ground, so evenings turn cold and the footing gets muddy after rain. Dress for a field after dark rather than a parking lot.
Why the farm is still here
Room for a cornfield inside a growing city
The interesting thing about this farm, if you are looking at Syracuse as a place to live rather than just a place to spend a fall evening, is not the maze itself. It is that the maze is possible at all. Syracuse is a city of about 39,900 people, closely built and growing hard, and it still has room for a farm this size inside its own boundary, a couple of miles from City Hall and about a mile from a state park entrance. That says something about how the west half of the city is put together.
The arrangement is simple once you look at the boundary. Two of Syracuse's four sides are other cities, West Point on the north and Clearfield and Layton on the east and southeast, and two sides are unincorporated Davis County: the southern frontage on the west end and the whole western side. Those two county sides are the ones that will not be annexed into someone else's grid, and they are where the remaining farm ground sits. The West Davis Highway opened across the west side of the city in 2024 with an interchange at Antelope Drive, which changed how you reach this ground without changing what it is.
This is the low, flat lake plain, the same well watered ground that has been farmed since a canning factory opened here in 1898 and processed the tomatoes and fruit grown around it. The crops have changed over the years and a corn maze is a newer use of the fields, but the ground is the same. It is why the western horizon out here stays open, and it is worth understanding before you read too much into any one green field you can see from a window.
Here is the honest version for anyone weighing a west-side address. A private farm is a private business, and its ground is a private asset: it can be sold, it can change use, and it is not a park. Open land you can see from a window is only permanent when someone has made it permanent, and in this city the ground that is genuinely fixed is the unincorporated county frontage on two sides, not the working farms inside the limits. The Syracuse mover page works through which open ground is which, and how to tell them apart.
A working farm on the west side is a pleasant thing to live near. It is not a guarantee of a view, and it should not be bought as one.
Black Island Farms is a private business, so its dates, hours and prices change from season to season, and the farm's own site is the only place to confirm them. Nothing here is a city fee schedule or a filed record, and a private attraction can move its calendar or its prices from one year to the next, or close. Treat the maze, the pumpkin patch and the haunted corn as a good reason to visit in the fall, not as a permanent fixture of the land. What is durable about this corner of Syracuse is the geography: the city's southern and western frontages are unincorporated Davis County, and the open ground out there does not depend on any one farm staying in business.
Living nearby
A few busy fall weekends, and a quiet field the rest of the year
For a household on the west side of Syracuse, the honest summary is that Black Island Farms is a short seasonal event with a predictable shape. The activity is concentrated in the fall, mostly on weekend evenings, and the traffic near the farm builds and clears in a pattern you learn quickly after a season or two. It is nowhere near the scale of the big causeway days, and outside the fall the fields are just fields. If a west-side address puts you close to it, the practical effect is a handful of livelier evenings in October, not a year-round change.
It is also the one paid attraction inside the city, and it slots into a local calendar that is otherwise mostly free. Founders Park hosts the city's big June week, the neighborhood parks and splash pads are open in season, and the regional museum is a modest indoor stop. Black Island Farms is the fall counterpart to all of that, the thing to do in the weeks when the days are shortening. The county outings page sets it next to what the other Davis County towns offer, and the Syracuse things-to-do list puts it in the local order.
If a fall visit is what has you looking at Syracuse in the first place, the practical side of an address here, the neighborhoods, the schools and what homes cost, sits on the Syracuse city guide, and the wider run of lake-shore towns is written up across the Davis County section. Davis County is outside the part of Utah I cover in person, so when you are ready to look at homes near the farm or anywhere on this side of the county, I will connect you with a Davis County partner agent who works this ground, and stay on the financing side of things myself.
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Quick answers
The farm, answered
The fall festival, with the corn maze and the pumpkin patch, runs roughly late September through October. Hours vary by day across the season rather than following one steady schedule, and weekend evenings run latest. Dates, hours and prices at a private farm change from year to year, so check the farm's own site for the season you are visiting before you drive out.
The farm charges admission, and the corn maze and courtyard are ticketed separately from the haunted corn attraction, which costs more and runs on select nights. A season pass is usually offered as well. Prices at a private attraction move from year to year and sometimes within a season, so the farm's own site is the only reliable place to see the current cost before you go.
In fall the main draws are an eight acre corn maze cut in three phases and a pumpkin patch, with a farmers market and concessions in the courtyard, and a separately ticketed haunted corn attraction on select evenings. The exact lineup shifts each season, so treat any list as a snapshot and check the farm's own site for what is running now.
The corn maze runs about eight acres, cut in three phases so it can be walked as three shorter routes rather than one long one. Alongside it the farm runs a smaller haunted corn attraction of roughly four acres, which is a separate ticket on select fall nights. The maze and courtyard admission covers the farmers market and concessions in the courtyard but not the haunted section.
Yes. The pumpkin patch is part of the fall festival that runs roughly late September through October alongside the corn maze, the farmers market and the courtyard. Because it is a working farm on a seasonal calendar, the opening dates and hours shift a little each year, so check the farm's own site for the current season before planning a visit around it.
It is aimed at older kids and adults rather than young children, and the farm sets its own age guidance for it. It is a separate attraction from the corn maze, with its own higher priced ticket, and it runs only on select evenings, so a maze and courtyard ticket does not cover it and the two do not always run on the same nights. Anyone planning around both should read the farm's own calendar.
It is at 2075 South 4000 West, on the flat, low, far west side of Syracuse, about two and three quarter miles west and south of City Hall at 1979 West 1900 South, roughly seven or eight minutes to drive as an estimate. The route is Antelope Drive west to 4000 West and then south. From outside the city, the shortest approach is the West Davis Highway interchange at Antelope Drive, which opened in 2024.
Because two of the city's four sides are not municipal. West Point holds the north line and Clearfield and Layton the east and southeast, but the whole southern frontage on the west end and the entire western side are unincorporated Davis County. That is the flat, low lake plain ground that has been farmed since a canning factory opened here in 1898, and it is where the remaining working fields sit. The West Davis Highway opened across the west side of the city in 2024, which changed the access rather than the ground.
Not on that basis alone. A private farm is privately owned ground inside a growing city: it can be sold, it can change use, and it is not a park. What is genuinely durable about the west side of Syracuse is that the city's southern and western frontages are unincorporated Davis County, and that the lake and shoreland beyond them are not the city's to fill in. Buy for the county frontage and the open western horizon, and treat a working farm inside the limits as a pleasant bonus rather than a guarantee.
Looking at a home out on the west side?
A working farm is a pleasant thing to live near, and the open western horizon out here is real. But the questions that matter for a west-side address are which open ground is permanent county land and which is somebody's field, and where the city boundary runs behind the last row of houses. Davis County is outside the part of Utah I cover in person, so tell me the streets you are weighing and I will connect you with a Davis County partner agent who works this end of the county, and stay on the financing side myself.
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