A gated farm park with more than 30 activities where the weekday ticket is $5 cheaper and buys only a three-hour evening — and where several of the best attractions run in daylight only.
Fall general admission: Monday-Thursday $12.99 pre-purchased or $14.99 at the gate; Friday, Saturday and Sunday $17.99 pre-purchased or $19.99 at the gate. A season pass is $49.99 and covers Sunflower Days and Balloon Fest in August plus the whole September-October fall season, day and evening. Apple cannons and paintball are flagged on the activities page as carrying special conditions or extra cost.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $51.96 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.
Gull Meadow is a gated farm park, not a cider mill with a play area. More than 30 activities sit behind one admission price, and the whole model depends on you staying long enough to use them. That makes the hours as important as the price, and here the two are entangled in a way that rewards reading the table properly.
The headline saving is real: $12.99 pre-purchased Monday to Thursday against $17.99 Friday to Sunday. Five dollars a head, twenty for a family of four.
What the weekday ticket buys is three hours, 4pm to 7pm. Saturday buys nine, 10am to 7pm. On a per-hour basis the weekend ticket is dramatically better value, and the gap widens once you account for what the farm itself flags as daytime-only: the petting farm, the chicken show, the duck races, the combine slide and the tractor pull. A weeknight visitor pays less and gets a smaller farm.
There is also the October daylight problem. A 4pm to 7pm window in mid-September is largely light. The same window on October 25 is mostly dark, which changes what a corn maze, a zipline and an obstacle course feel like — and how cold everyone gets. If the weeknight ticket is the plan, take it early in the season rather than late.
Every admission type is $2 cheaper bought in advance than at the gate. There is no scenario in which paying at the gate is the better decision, and for a family of four it is $8 for two minutes of work. Buy before you leave.
At $49.99 a season pass covers the full September 12 to October 31 fall season, day and evening, plus August’s Sunflower Days and Balloon Fest. Against the $17.99 weekend pre-purchase rate it breaks even at 2.8 visits.
For a Kalamazoo-area family that is a straightforward decision. Two weekend trips plus one August event and the pass has already won. Four passes for a family is $199.96 against $71.96 for a single weekend day, so the same threshold applies: come three times and you are ahead. For anyone travelling in from further away for one visit, ignore it.
The list is long and genuinely varied: a 5-acre corn maze, u-pick apples and pumpkins, a petting farm, zipline, jumping pillow, pumpkin cannon, pig races, duck races, a chicken show, the grain train, the Pumpkin Lane train, wagon rides, the Farmyard Speedway, an obstacle course, a combine slide, an apple chute slide, an excavation station, steer roping, a tire playground, and skee ball, plinko and giant yard games. Special events across the season include Touch-a-Tractor, All-Star Stunt Dogs, Western Weekend and a Pumpkin Drop and Candy Cannon.
Two items are not simply included. Apple cannons and paintball carry asterisks on the farm’s own activities page indicating special conditions or extra cost. The record does not give those figures, so treat them as an unknown line in the budget rather than assuming they are free.
The farm market runs on its own schedule — Tuesday to Saturday 9am to 6pm and Sunday 10am to 6pm — which is wider than the activity hours and does not require a ticket to reach. That is worth knowing if what you actually want is a pumpkin and a donut rather than a day at a farm park.
The fall season runs September 12 to October 31, 2026. Activity hours are the thing to read carefully: Monday to Thursday 4pm to 7pm, Friday 4pm to 8pm, Saturday 10am to 7pm and Sunday 10am to 6pm. That means the discounted weekday ticket buys a three-hour evening, while Saturday buys nine hours for $5 more. Saturday morning is the best-value slot on the calendar by a wide margin, and it is also when the daytime-only attractions are actually running.
Four to six hours on a Saturday to get through a meaningful share of 30-plus activities. On a weeknight you get three hours whether you want them or not.
The pricing tells you where the crowds are: Friday to Sunday costs $5 more per head than Monday to Thursday, and Saturday runs nine hours against the weeknight three. Saturday is the busiest and also the only day that offers a full daytime visit, so the crowd and the value peak together.
Not published. A farm park of this size in Kalamazoo County will be running field or gravel overflow on October weekends, and that ground softens after rain.
Not published. With more than 30 attractions spread across farm ground, expect wide variation between the market area and the field attractions; call 269-629-4214 if it matters before buying a non-refundable pre-purchase ticket.
You only have a weeknight and you want the full farm. Monday to Thursday activity hours are 4pm to 7pm, and a handful of attractions including the petting farm, chicken show, duck races and combine slide are daytime-only, so a weeknight ticket buys a genuinely smaller farm. Skip it too if you want a free wander — there is no way in without a ticket.
Monday to Thursday it is $12.99 pre-purchased or $14.99 at the gate. Friday, Saturday and Sunday it is $17.99 pre-purchased or $19.99 at the gate. A season pass is $49.99.
$71.96 pre-purchased on a weekend, or $79.96 at the weekend gate. Midweek it drops to $51.96 pre-purchased. Four season passes would be $199.96, which breaks even against just under three weekend visits.
It depends what you want. Weeknight activity hours are 4pm to 7pm, and the farm lists several attractions — the petting farm, chicken show, duck races and combine slide among them — as daytime-only. You save $5 a head and lose both hours and attractions.
Nearly. More than 30 activities sit inside the ticket, from the 5-acre corn maze and zipline to pig races, the Farmyard Speedway and the excavation station. Apple cannons and paintball are flagged separately on the activities page as carrying special conditions or extra cost.
September 12 – October 31, 2026. Daily during the fall season (activity hours vary by day); market Tuesday-Sunday. Hours: Activity hours: Monday-Thursday 4:00pm-7:00pm; Friday 4:00pm-8:00pm; Saturday 10:00am-7:00pm; Sunday 10:00am-6:00pm. Market: Tuesday-Saturday 9:00am-6:00pm, Sunday 10:00am-6:00pm..
Admission starts at $12.99 per person. Fall general admission: Monday-Thursday $12.99 pre-purchased or $14.99 at the gate; Friday, Saturday and Sunday $17.99 pre-purchased or $19.99 at the gate. A season pass is $49.99 and covers Sunflower Days and Balloon Fest in August plus the whole September-October fall season, day and evening. Apple cannons and paintball are flagged on the activities page as carrying special conditions or extra cost.
8544 Gull Road, Richland, MI 49083, in Kalamazoo 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 $12.99 a head this one sits right on the regional median of $12.99.
Its season runs about 50 days against a regional average of 58, so it is a shorter window than most of its neighbours — miss it and the nearest alternatives will still be open.
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
gullmeadowfarms.com
Checked August 2026.