One of the fairest pricing models in southwest Michigan — apples by the pound rather than the bag, a maze under ten dollars, and a pie shop you can walk into for free — with a 3% card surcharge as the only sting.
Corn maze admission is $8 for ages 11 and up, $5 for ages 6-10 and free for ages 5 and under. U-pick apples are $1.80 per pound. Pre-picked peach pecks are $32 while supplies last. A 3% fee is added to card payments. The farm market and Pie Pantry are free to walk into.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $20.00 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.
Free to walk in. Your spend here is whatever you choose — pumpkins, food, and any paid activities. That makes it a low-risk stop if you are not sure how long the kids will last.
Crane’s is really two businesses sharing a site, and understanding that is most of what you need to plan a visit. There is the orchard — u-pick apples and peaches, the pumpkin patch, hay rides, the cow train and the corn maze — and there is Crane’s Pie Pantry, a restaurant, bakery and winery that people drive to Fennville for on their own terms.
You can do either. Walking into the market and the Pie Pantry costs nothing, so a visit that consists entirely of pie and cider is a legitimate way to spend an afternoon here without paying a gate.
Two things stand out. The corn maze is age-tiered rather than flat: $8 for anyone 11 and up, $5 for ages 6 to 10, free for 5 and under. That structure matters more than it sounds. A family of two adults and two primary-school children pays $26 rather than the $32 a flat rate would produce, and a family with a preschooler pays for three people instead of four.
The second is the apple pricing: $1.80 per pound. Most Michigan orchards sell u-pick by the bag or the peck, which is fine if you bake and wasteful if you want a dozen apples to eat over a week. Weight pricing lets you take exactly what you want. Ten pounds is $18; five is $9. If you have ever left an orchard with half a peck of apples you did not need, this is the model that fixes it.
Pre-picked peach pecks at $32 are the exception, and they run while supplies last early in the season.
Add three percent to any card payment. On a maze ticket it is pennies. On a full day — maze for four, a large apple haul, lunch at the Pie Pantry and a bottle from the winery — it is a real number, and it is the one detail here most likely to surprise someone at the till. Bring cash if you are planning to spend properly.
Hours are 10am to 6pm daily, from August 28 through late October, weather permitting. The maze itself reopens for Labor Day weekend 2026.
Same hours every day is a genuine advantage. Most farms give you a short weekday and a long Saturday, which forces everyone onto the weekend; here a Tuesday is the same length as a Saturday. Southwest Michigan in October carries heavy weekend traffic from Chicago and the lakeshore, and Fennville sits in that flow, so taking the midweek option costs you nothing in access and saves you the queue.
The weather-permitting clause is worth taking seriously rather than reading past. A wet October day in Allegan County can close the field side of the operation, and no wet-weather policy is published. Call before driving on a bad day.
No closing date is published beyond late October, so the tail of the season is unconfirmed. As everywhere in Michigan, the maze usually comes down before the patch does once the crop and the frosts are finished.
Dogs are banned entirely from the orchard, the pumpkin patch and the corn maze. That is a full exclusion of the parts of the site you came for, not a leash rule.
And the address is worth double-checking before you set a navigation app. Some directory listings show 6054 124th Avenue; the farm’s own site gives 6080. We have gone with the farm’s figure, but if you end up at a driveway that does not look right, that is why.
Open daily 10am to 6pm from August 28 through late October, weather permitting, with the corn maze reopening for Labor Day weekend 2026. No closing date is published beyond late October, so the end of the season is unconfirmed. The daily schedule is the same every day, which is unusual and useful: a Tuesday visit gets you the same hours as a Saturday with a fraction of the traffic. Mid-September onwards is when apples and pumpkins overlap properly.
Two hours for the maze and a walk. Three to four if you are picking apples and eating at the Pie Pantry, which is most of why people come.
Being open daily across roughly two months spreads demand better than a weekends-only festival can. Southwest Michigan draws heavy Chicago and lakeshore weekend traffic in October, and Fennville sits in that corridor, so the weekday advantage here is real.
Not published. Expect the usual orchard arrangement of gravel or grass, and October softness after rain.
You are bringing a dog. Dogs are banned outright from the orchard, the pumpkin patch and the corn maze, which rules out most of what you would come for. Skip a wet-weather trip too — the hours carry a weather-permitting condition, and there is no published wet-weather policy to fall back on.
$8 for ages 11 and up, $5 for ages 6 to 10, and free for children 5 and under. It reopens for Labor Day weekend 2026 and runs daily 10am to 6pm through late October, weather permitting.
$1.80 per pound. That is a weight price rather than a bag price, which is unusual in Michigan and better value if you only want a small quantity. Pre-picked peach pecks are $32 while supplies last.
No. Dogs are not allowed on the orchard, in the pumpkin patch or in the corn maze.
With two adults and two children aged 6 to 10, the maze is $26. Add ten pounds of apples at $1.80 and it is $44. Pay by card and the 3% surcharge adds about $1.30. Lunch at the Pie Pantry is on top and is the item most likely to double the total.
Opens August 28, 2026 (closing date not published). Daily, weather permitting. Hours: 10:00am-6:00pm daily from August 28 through late October, weather permitting.
Admission is free. Corn maze admission is $8 for ages 11 and up, $5 for ages 6-10 and free for ages 5 and under. U-pick apples are $1.80 per pound. Pre-picked peach pecks are $32 while supplies last. A 3% fee is added to card payments. The farm market and Pie Pantry are free to walk into.
6080 124th Avenue, Fennville, MI 49408, in Allegan County. It is one of 3 patches we track in Southwest Michigan.
We track 3 patches in Southwest Michigan, 1 of which are free to walk into. At $5 a head this one sits below the regional median of $12.99, undercutting 2 of the 2 paid patches we track here. Entry here costs nothing, which puts it in the minority even in a region with several free options.
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
craneorchards.com
Checked August 2026.