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1. Pirate’s Cove Kids Zone
A special area just for our smaller guests, Pirate’s Cove offers a shady area with play structures, slides, & an old fashioned tree swing!
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26. Market Garden – Come learn about how food grows as you stroll through the gardens! Or pay as you pick for U-Pick peas, strawberries and potatoes during the summer. |
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2. Great Prairie Corn Maze
World’s largest interactive game! Pit your wits to solve the riddle of this Edmonton, Alberta maze. With over 5 km of maze way trials, the theme changes every year!
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27. Pumpkin Patches (Sept-Oct) We grow 7 acres of pumpkins on the farm, & over 40 varieties. In Sept we hand harvest them and bring them indoors for October.
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3. Kids Corn Maze - A little overwhelmed by the sheer size of the giant corn maze? Just for kids – a 10 minute maze –within the giant maze (go to the right for the entrance!
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28. Face Painting
Check in at the Outpost General Store for a free mini-face painting! Or go for a full face - for a small fee.
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4. Minotaur Kidz Maze Just past the petting farm, you’ll find a 15 minute maze along the edge of the pond! You can’t get lost for too long!
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29. Old Thyme Photo Parlour – Dress up for a free U-Take Family Photo & Enter our Photo contest for a Seasons Family Pass!
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5. Kids Petting Farm Come meet and feed the Pygmy Goats and other farm animals in our Petting Farm.
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30. Visit the Kid's Emporium – you’ll find games, toys, and treats to buy!
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6. Outpost General Store. There’s tons of surprises, a miniature train, and some local history and local artisans wares to explore and buy.
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31. Boo’n Accord Train Station…learn about the history of Bon Accord while you enjoy a festival treat!
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7. Scarecrow Band - An animatronic band that strums unusual farm instruments all year!
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32. Bale Mountain
Come climbing - you never know when you're making a memory! |
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8. Snowball Fort! Join in for a ‘snowball’ fight anytime of year!
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33. Farm Festivals -Every long weekend and all of October, we offer special themed family festivals on the farm. Come join us for live folk music, face painting, seasonal kids’ crafts, strolling characters, and good ole’ fashioned farm fun from Easter to Halloween.
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9. Goat Walk – Look up! There’s Goats on the Roof! Snap a photo! It's not every day you see this!
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34. Pumpkin Cannon
Supports a great cause and is likely your families one & only chance to shoot a pumpkin at a pirate ship! (Really!) Small fee.
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10. Tractor & Wagon Ride Free old fashioned transportation around the farm back and forth to the Giant Corn Maze!
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35. Bale Jump – Oh, to be a kid again!
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11. Haunted Farm House If you dare! Creep in the door and scream through the Haunted House – the creaks and groans are real!
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36. Athabasca Landing Trail and Nature Walk
Take a stroll through the natural parkland forest trail along our property. In 1886, this was part of the trail the klondike gold rush traveled!
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12. Straw-bale Mazes These 5 minute mazes are fun for the Lil’ ones! Or try it blindfolded for extra challenge!
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37. Poplar Tree Play Zone
Swing, slide, climb and explore this trail in the shade of the poplar trees along the maze field
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13. Flashlight Maze Adventures It’s way more fun in the dark! Sizzle your senses and pit your wits to solve the Great Prairie Corn Maze with a flashlight!
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38. Tick Tock! Remember me from the Storyland Valley Zoo? Thousands do…Take a photo with me - I have a new home at Prairie Gardens!
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14. Chick& Cluck Ville A favourite here at Prairie Gardens & Adventure Farm! Watch the hens and chicks dash about their paddock!
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39. Crab Apple Trail
Blossoms in the spring, shady trail in the summer, sample a sweet recue crab or a pucker-power Siberian crab apple in the fall.
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15. Bunnyville It’s a miniature community rabbit warren.
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40. Peter’s Pumpkin. I’m bigger than you. Also from the Storyland Valley Zoo!
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16. Basil the Parrot
Come say hello to the most talkative bird on the farm! Some of his favs: Hello, how are you, Basil? Go Away! Love Me? Dinner!
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41. Corn Cannon
Lend a ear - and peel a cob! Way too much fun to shoot corn cobs! Small Fee.
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17. Peacock Aviary
Come visit our family of peacocks. Mr. and Mrs. Peabody and their children are spectacular!
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42. Who’s Bones?
Become a CSI to investigate. Is it dinosaur, animal, rock, petrified wood? Try your hand at this skill!
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18. Bunny Hutches
Peek into the bunny hutches – there are lots of baby bunnies!
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43. Rubber Duck Races - One of the many group interactive fun activities. Pick a chute and pump away. First rubber duck to the bottom wins!
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19. Geese / Duck Ponds
Honk! If you love me meet the new families on the pond.
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44.Giant Chess & Checkers Game. One of the many group interactive fun activities for any age. |
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20. Sheep Paddocks Baa! Baa! Kids will love the baby lambs at Easter, and Ewe will love feeding the sheep. Baa! Baa!
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45. Scarecrow & Cornstalk Puppet Shows (Festivals weekends) Kids love these 15 minute musical productions featuring Sneaky the Fox, the Little Red Hen & others.
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21. Fresh Country Sunshine Feel the sunshine on your shoulders and breathe some fresh country air, take a stroll,It’s not about ‘screen time’ on the farm!
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46. Free Make & Take Fall Scarecrows (Sept – Oct). You’ll have a white sack (head) you were given at admissions! The clothes and straw are supplied at the Make & Take Scarecrow Pavilion to make a real scarecrow to take home! Or dress up as some and come on over!
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22. Where’s Waldo? Find the Squirrels -When you least expect it! Catch a photo with our resident squirrels as they hop from branch to branch!
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47. Campfire's are great family fun at Prairie Gardens & Adventure Farm! Inquire about reserving a site. Small fee. |
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23. Garden Centre Stroll through the greenhouses to enjoy the unique & beautiful container gardens, & herb planters. In June, the hummingbirds a buzz in for blossom nectar.
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48. Corn Eating Contest
Kid's and adults alike love tucking into our sweet corn, fresh picked from our Edmonton area market garden!
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24. Blossoms & Fall Colors Enjoy the fragrance of spring blossoms, summer flower beds and brilliance of fall leaves around the farm.
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49. Seniors Outings to Prairie Gardens & Adventure Farm
Funny Face, I love you! Alpacas are sociable animals at our Petting Farm.
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25. Prospector’s Nook Come learn about the cool fossils &minerals you’ll find at the Lost Lemon Mine Gem Sluice.
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50. Lost Lemon Gem Mine
Just like in the Klondike days, come pan for real gems and fools gold! Small fee.
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