Piney Acres Farm

Our take

Piney Acres Farm in Fortville is a 73-acre family operation that runs two distinct seasonal businesses on the same property: a fall pumpkin and corn-maze operation, and a choose-and-cut Christmas tree season. That dual identity is worth understanding before you visit, because it shapes what you’ll find in December versus what the farm’s website currently emphasizes.

Choose-and-cut with a safety net

The farm’s Christmas offering centers on what it calls a “choose & cut Christmas Tree Forest,” meaning you walk the field and select your own tree rather than buying something already cut and bundled. What sets Piney Acres apart from a bare-bones version of that experience is the pre-cut yard running alongside it. If you walk the field and don’t find what you’re after, or you’d rather skip the trek entirely with young kids or limited mobility, the pre-cut option is there as a fallback. That flexibility is a genuine convenience most single-format farms don’t offer.

A full agritourism operation, not just a tree lot

Based on the scale of Piney Acres’ fall season, which includes a corn maze, hayrides, a petting area, gem mining, and a play area, this reads as a farm built around a full family outing rather than a quick in-and-out tree purchase. In 2025 the farm added a “Glimmer Lights” evening experience: a train ride paired with lights, cocoa, and a cookie. Whether that returns for 2026 in the same form wasn’t confirmed in this research, but it’s a reasonable thing to ask about when you call, since an evening lights event changes the character of a visit considerably from a daytime cut-your-own trip.

The gap you should close before driving out

Here’s the honest limitation: the hours currently posted on the farm’s website are for its fall season, running September 19 through October 25, 2026. Those are pumpkin-patch hours, not Christmas-tree hours, and nothing in the sources checked for this research gave a confirmed December schedule. Tree pricing also wasn’t published anywhere found. This isn’t unusual this early in the year – a lot of farms don’t finalize December hours and pricing until closer to Thanksgiving – but it does mean you shouldn’t treat the fall hours as a stand-in for what you’ll find when you show up for a tree.

Weekend crowds are a reasonable bet

Farms that run a corn maze, bounce pillow, and gem mining operation during fall tend to draw meaningfully more foot traffic than a simple field-and-checkout tree lot, and there’s no obvious reason that pattern would reverse for the Christmas season, especially if the Glimmer Lights event returns. If you’re trying to avoid a crowd, a weekday visit is a safer bet than a Saturday, though that’s a general inference about how family-activity farms tend to draw traffic rather than a confirmed detail about Piney Acres specifically.

Bottom line

Piney Acres looks like a solid choice if you want the choose-and-cut experience with a pre-cut backup and don’t mind a fuller agritourism atmosphere. Just don’t plan your trip around the fall-season hours posted on the site – call or check social media closer to the date for the actual December schedule and pricing.