Cox Farms Fall Festival

Cox Farms Fall Festival in Centreville is built around a hayride the farm calls world-famous, a puzzle it names the Cornundrum, and giant slides, with a Festival Market beside the grounds. Fields of Fear is the separate nighttime haunt, ticketed on its own and sometimes closed for weather while the market stays open. On a hot day the farm runs misters and sells lemonade, apple cider slushies and a neon-blue dirty slushie at Mac & Freeze. Shady benches are there for adults while kids run. The farm is at 15621 Braddock Road.

Our take: If Fields of Fear is weathered out, the market can still be open late for cider slushies, so read that day's alert before you count on the haunt.