A free-entry farm market with a tap room and an events calendar rather than an attraction park — but the farm's own website was still showing 2024 and 2025 information in August 2026, so call before you drive.
No gate admission or activity prices are published. Ticketed special events (farm-to-table dinners, concerts, holiday parties) are sold separately. U-pick is priced at the farm.
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.
The most useful thing we can tell you about Dunneback is also the least satisfying: in August 2026 the farm’s own website was still showing content dated to the 2024 and 2025 seasons. No 2026 fall dates, no 2026 hours, no prices. Everything below rests on that, and none of it should be treated as this year’s schedule until someone at the farm confirms it.
Set that aside and the shape of the operation is clear enough. This is a working farm market on the north-west edge of Grand Rapids, and it leans as heavily on its tap room and its events calendar as on picking. The published rhythm includes happy hour on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, trivia on Wednesday, live music, and a Sunday brunch service starting at noon.
That is a genuinely different proposition from the activity farms elsewhere in West Michigan. There is no corn maze in the record, no wagon rides, no play attractions. What there is: a market with fresh produce, a bakery and gift shop, u-pick apples and pumpkins in autumn following asparagus, strawberries and cherries earlier in the year, farm and school tours, and a bar.
For a household with small children looking for a Saturday of rides, that is a mismatch, and it is better to know it now. For a couple, a group of adults, or a family with older children who want cider, apples and somewhere to eat, it fits well.
Entry is free, which is the most important number available. No gate admission and no published activity pricing means the floor for a visit is zero and the ceiling is whatever you buy at the market and the bar. U-pick is priced at the farm, so ask before you take a container — with no published rate, the size of the bag you accept is the only lever you have on the bill.
Ticketed special events are a separate category entirely. Farm-to-table dinners, concerts and holiday parties are sold individually and can take over parts of the site, so an event price is not a guide to the cost of an ordinary visit, and an event day is not a guarantee of an ordinary visit.
On the prior-season pattern, this farm runs longer weekday evenings than weekend ones: Tuesday and Thursday to 8pm, Wednesday and Friday to 9pm, but Saturday only to 5pm and Sunday noon to 5pm. Monday is closed.
If that holds for 2026, it flips the usual advice. The long, unhurried visit here is on a Wednesday or Friday evening, not a Saturday afternoon — and a family arriving at 4pm on a Saturday has one hour. That is exactly the kind of assumption worth checking, because getting it wrong costs you the trip rather than just some comfort.
Call 616-784-0058 and ask three things: whether the hours have changed for 2026, what is ready to pick, and whether any private event is running on the day you want. Michigan orchards move their picking windows with the weather, and a farm whose site has not been refreshed for a year is not going to tell you any of that online.
No 2026 fall dates are published. The hours we have — closed Mondays, Tuesday and Thursday 9am to 8pm, Wednesday and Friday 9am to 9pm, Saturday 9am to 5pm, Sunday noon to 5pm for brunch — were posted on a page dated to the 2024 and 2025 seasons and are not confirmed for this year. On that pattern, Wednesday and Friday give the longest day and Saturday the shortest, which is the reverse of most farms. Treat all of it as provisional and confirm by phone.
An hour for the market and bakery. Two to three if you are picking apples or pumpkins, and longer if you are staying for happy hour, trivia or brunch.
Not documented. A market and tap room with weeknight programming spreads its traffic across the week in a way an attraction farm does not, so the October Saturday crush that hits activity farms is less likely to be the shape of things here. That is an inference from the format, not something the record establishes.
Not published. Standard expectations apply for a working Kent County farm — likely gravel or grass, likely soft after autumn rain.
You want a family activity farm. There are no rides, no corn maze and no play attractions in the record — this is a market, a bakery, u-pick and a tap room. Skip a Monday entirely, since it is closed, and skip an unconfirmed trip of any distance until you have spoken to someone at the farm.
Nothing to enter. No gate admission or activity prices are published, and u-pick is priced at the farm. Special events such as farm-to-table dinners and concerts are ticketed separately.
The hours we found — closed Mondays, Tuesday and Thursday 9am to 8pm, Wednesday and Friday 9am to 9pm, Saturday 9am to 5pm, Sunday noon to 5pm — came from a page dated to the 2024 and 2025 seasons. They had not been updated for 2026 when we last checked, so confirm on 616-784-0058.
U-pick pumpkins and apples are both listed for autumn, following asparagus, strawberries and cherries earlier in the year. No 2026 picking dates are published, and apple and pumpkin availability in Michigan moves with the crop, so ask what is ready before you come.
Not in the way an activity farm means it. The listed offering is a farm market, bakery, gift shop, u-pick, farm and school tours, and a tap room with live music. Children will find picking and a market visit; they will not find rides or a maze.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Tuesday to Sunday; closed Mondays. Check with the farm before driving out.
Admission is free. No gate admission or activity prices are published. Ticketed special events (farm-to-table dinners, concerts, holiday parties) are sold separately. U-pick is priced at the farm.
3025 6 Mile Road NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49544, in Kent County. It is one of 4 patches we track in West Michigan.
We track 4 patches in West Michigan, 2 of which are free to walk into. Entry here costs nothing, which puts it in the minority even in a region with several free options.
What sets it apart locally: it has an after-dark attraction, which most West Michigan patches on our list do not.
One caveat worth repeating: this farm had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 2 of the 4 patches we track in West Michigan had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
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Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
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Checked August 2026.