An apple orchard and family fun park that does not advertise pumpkin picking anywhere on its own 2026 pages, with a rule that every single person entering the orchard must buy a picking bag — which puts a family of four at $104 minimum before lunch.
Family Fun Park admission is $10 per person, adults and children alike, and everyone age 1 and older needs a ticket. Pick-your-own apples is priced by bag and each bag includes all-day Fun Park admission plus a tractor-drawn train ride: quarter peck $26, half peck $30, full peck $39, half bushel $59, full bushel $89 per person. Every person entering the orchard must buy a bag.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $40.00 in admission alone at the posted starting rate, before pumpkins, food, parking or any add-on listed above. Most families end up well north of that once they are through the gate.
Start with the thing our record makes unavoidable: Apple Holler’s own 2026 pages do not advertise pumpkin picking. Not on the home page, not on the Farm Park page, not on the pricing page, not on the picking calendar. It appears in a pumpkin directory because it is a major southeastern Wisconsin fall farm, but if you drive here expecting to walk a pumpkin field you may be disappointed. Come for apples, the mazes and the fun park, and treat a pumpkin as a separate errand.
With that settled, this is a substantial operation — an orchard with a restaurant, bakery, farm store, biergarten, hard cider bar and dining domes attached, plus a Fun Park with a giant slide, pedal karts, duck races, animal pens, a corn maze, a cow maze and a tile maze, an observation bee hut and a butterfly garden.
Two separate prices govern a visit. Fun Park admission is $10 per person, and everyone age 1 and up pays. Apple picking is sold by the bag, per person, from $26 for a quarter peck up to $89 for a full bushel, and each bag includes all-day Fun Park admission and a tractor-drawn train ride.
The rule that reshapes everything is that every person entering the orchard must buy a bag. Not one bag per family — one per person walking into the rows. For two adults and two children, the absolute floor for a picking visit is four quarter pecks at $26 each: $104. That is before food, before the bakery, before anything else.
Set against the alternative, $40 buys the same four people Fun Park admission with no picking at all. The $64 gap is the cost of the fruit and the train ride.
A quarter peck runs roughly 3 to 4 pounds of apples. At $26 that is about $7 to $8.50 a pound, which is several times what the same apples cost at a supermarket. You are paying for the experience, and that is a legitimate thing to pay for — but it is worth naming, because the value per apple improves sharply as you move up the tiers. A full peck at $39 is only $13 more than the quarter peck and buys far more fruit. If you are picking anyway, buying small is the expensive choice.
The honest framing: a family that will genuinely eat, bake and give away a peck each is getting reasonable value. A family that buys four quarter pecks because it is the cheapest line on the sheet, and eats six apples between them, has paid $104 for a playground.
Last admission to the park and orchard is 3pm, an hour before the 4pm close. This is the operational fact most likely to ruin a day. A leisurely lunch somewhere else, a wrong turn off I-94, and a 3:15 arrival means you are turned away. The farm also states plainly that hours are subject to change at a moment’s notice, which is unusual candour and a good reason to phone before a long drive.
At the other end, a 9am opening in an October orchard is genuinely cold. Southeastern Wisconsin mornings in mid-October sit low enough that adults regret single layers, and the fruit is wet with dew until the sun works on it.
There is no peach picking in 2026. The farm lost the crop to frost and says so on its own picking calendar, which is worth respecting as a reason to plan around apples rather than hoping.
Pony rides run only on September and October weekends. If a pony ride is what you have promised a five-year-old, that promise is only keepable on a weekend inside those two months.
And the food side deserves more weight than it usually gets in a farm listing. A working restaurant, bakery, cider bar and biergarten mean this is one of the few farms in the region where the meal is a real part of the day rather than a food truck afterthought. It also means your spend can drift a long way past the ticket price without anyone noticing, so decide in advance whether lunch is here or elsewhere.
Apple Holler publishes no fall season start or end date, so we have no 2026 window to give you. What is published is that apple picking runs from early July into early November in 2026 and that the Farm Park and orchard are open daily 9am to 4pm with last admission at 3pm. A weekday in late September or early October is the version of this place with the shortest queues at the bakery and the restaurant. Whatever you choose, arrive before 3pm or you do not get in at all.
Three to four hours if you are picking and using the Fun Park, which is the only way the bag price makes sense. Under two hours and you have paid orchard prices for a playground visit.
Daily operation from 9am to 4pm across a long picking window spreads demand better than a weekends-only festival, but the 3pm last admission compresses the afternoon. October weekends are the peak, and the bakery and restaurant queues at a place like this routinely outlast the ride queues.
Not published in our record. Sturtevant is close enough to I-94 that access is easy; assume an unpaved overflow area on busy October weekends, as at any orchard of this size.
Not published. The Red Barn Restaurant, bakery, farm store and biergarten are the parts likeliest to work for a visitor with limited mobility, and Fun Park admission is $10 whether or not you can use the slide and pedal karts — worth weighing, since the orchard rows themselves are grass and uneven ground.
You came for pumpkins. None of the farm's own 2026 pages advertise a pumpkin patch or pumpkin picking, so if a pumpkin is the point of the trip, this is the wrong listing — go to a dedicated patch and come here for apples another day. Skip it too if you have a large group and a small appetite for apples, because the every-person-buys-a-bag rule scales badly.
Sturtevant is a short drive from Franksville, where Swan's Pumpkin Farm has a free gate and an actual pumpkin field. That is the natural pairing if your day needs both apples and a pumpkin, and it fixes the one real gap in an Apple Holler visit.
Not according to its own website. We read the home page, the Farm Park page, the pricing page and the picking calendar in August 2026 and none of them advertise pumpkin picking or a pumpkin patch. The draw here is apples, the mazes and the fun park. If you need a pumpkin, plan on buying one elsewhere.
It is priced by bag, per person: quarter peck $26, half peck $30, full peck $39, half bushel $59, full bushel $89. Every person entering the orchard must buy a bag, and each bag includes all-day Fun Park admission plus a tractor-drawn train ride.
Yes. Fun Park admission is $10 per person, and everyone age 1 and older needs a ticket. That is the cheapest way in.
3pm, an hour before the 4pm close for the Farm Park and orchard. The farm store and bakery run 8:30am to 4pm and the Red Barn Restaurant 8:30am to 3pm. The farm also states its hours are subject to change at a moment's notice, so call 262-884-7100 if you are driving any distance.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Daily. Check with the farm before driving out.
Admission starts at $10 per person. Family Fun Park admission is $10 per person, adults and children alike, and everyone age 1 and older needs a ticket. Pick-your-own apples is priced by bag and each bag includes all-day Fun Park admission plus a tractor-drawn train ride: quarter peck $26, half peck $30, full peck $39, half bushel $59, full bushel $89 per person. Every person entering the orchard must buy a bag.
5006 South Sylvania Avenue, Sturtevant, WI 53177, in Racine County. It is one of 7 patches we track in Milwaukee Region.
We track 7 patches in Milwaukee Region, 3 of which are free to walk into. At $10 a head this one sits right on the regional median of $10, undercutting 1 of the 4 paid patches we track here.
One caveat worth repeating: this farm had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 5 of the 7 patches we track in Milwaukee Region had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
There are 2 other patches we track in Racine County. All Milwaukee Region patches →
appleholler.com
Checked August 2026.