The most expensive farm on this list and the one where buying online matters most — the same ticket ranges from $19.95 on a flash sale to $31.95 at the regular gate, and the grounds stop admitting an hour before closing.
General admission is required for everyone aged 3 and over. Weekday (Wednesday-Friday) fall admission is $22.95 online or $26.95 at the gate. The regular gate price is $31.95. A fall flash sale was running at $19.95 online, ending August 28, 2026. An annual pass is sold separately. Premium Animal Encounter upgrades cost extra.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $91.80 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.
Lewis is the outlier in this batch on price, and the honest framing is that it is not really competing with the cider mills and free-entry markets around it. It is a gated farm park with a zoo attached, and the ticket is priced accordingly.
Four different numbers apply to the same admission. A pre-season flash sale ran at $19.95 online and closed on August 28, 2026. Midweek fall admission is $22.95 online. The same midweek ticket at the gate is $26.95. The regular gate price is $31.95.
For a family of four, all three and over, that is $79.80 at the flash-sale rate, $91.80 midweek online, $107.80 midweek at the gate and $127.80 at the regular gate. The difference between the best and worst realistic outcome is $48 — a meal, a tank of fuel, or four pumpkins — and it depends entirely on whether you bought a ticket before you left the house and which day you chose.
Note also where the age floor sits. Admission is required from three, not two, which is a year earlier than several Michigan farms. A family with a two-year-old gets one free place; a family with a three-year-old does not.
Entry to the grounds stops one hour before closing. With a 6pm close every day, that puts the effective last admission at 5pm. It is a reasonable operational rule and it is stated plainly, but it is easy to read the posted hours and plan to arrive at 4:30pm for a cheap late afternoon. You cannot, and at these prices you would not want to — a farm advertising more than 46 attractions needs most of a day to justify itself.
The farm runs Wednesday to Sunday and closes Monday and Tuesday for the season, September 11 to November 1, 2026.
The zoo half is the genuine differentiator, and it is not a euphemism for a goat pen. Sloths, lemurs, kangaroos and capybaras sit alongside the conventional barn animals, and paid Premium Animal Encounter upgrades let you get closer for photographs. If you have a child who would rather look at a capybara than climb a straw bale, this is the farm in the batch that delivers that.
The rest is a well-stocked activity park: corn maze, sunflower field, orchard access, pick-your-own pumpkins, a carousel, a barrel train, a giant slide, jumping pillows, the Corny Barn, Ball Town, the Barnyard Twister, lasso ponies and a pumpkin house photo display. There is a bakery and food on site, which you will use, because you are there over a meal.
New Era is well north of Grand Rapids on M-20, closer to the lakeshore than to any city. That geography argues for treating this as a day out rather than an afternoon detour, and it also means the weather turns earlier and wetter than it does inland. The season ends November 1, so the final weekend is a genuinely late-autumn visit — layers, not a jacket.
If you can move your visit to a Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, do it. You get the cheaper ticket and the emptier site in the same decision, which is rare.
The fall season runs September 11 to November 1, 2026, Wednesday through Sunday. Closed Monday and Tuesday. Hours are 9am to 6pm Wednesday to Saturday and 10am to 6pm on Sunday, but entrance to the grounds ends one hour before closing — so the real last-entry times are 5pm every day. A Wednesday, Thursday or Friday is both quieter and cheaper, with midweek admission at $22.95 online against a regular gate price of $31.95.
Most of a day. The farm advertises more than 46 attractions and a zoo half that includes sloths, lemurs, kangaroos and capybaras. At these prices a two-hour visit is poor value, and the 5pm cut-off means a late start compresses everything.
Weekends carry the weekend price for a reason. The pricing structure itself is the clearest crowd signal the farm gives: midweek is discounted, Friday to Sunday is not. The one-hour-before-close entry cut-off also pushes arrivals earlier in the day than the posted 6pm suggests.
Not published. Assume field or gravel parking on a rural M-20 site, with soft ground after rain — Oceana County is close enough to the lakeshore to catch its share of October weather.
Not published. A site advertising more than 46 attractions across open farm ground will vary a lot from one attraction to the next; call 231-861-5730 before travelling if that matters, because at this ticket price you want to know what is usable before you pay.
You want a cheap, low-commitment pumpkin stop. Admission is required from age three and it is a single gate price rather than pay-per-ride, so there is no version of this that costs ten dollars. Skip it too if Monday or Tuesday is your only free day — it is closed both.
It varies more than most farms. Midweek fall admission is $22.95 online or $26.95 at the gate, while the regular gate price is $31.95. A pre-season flash sale ran at $19.95 online and ended August 28, 2026. Everyone aged three and over pays.
At the midweek online rate, $91.80. At the midweek gate rate, $107.80. At the regular gate price, $127.80. That $36 spread between the best and worst case is entirely down to when you buy and which day you come.
Earlier than the closing time suggests. Entrance to the grounds ends one hour before the 6pm close, making 5pm the effective last entry. Opening is 9am Wednesday to Saturday and 10am on Sunday.
The zoo. Alongside the corn maze, sunflower field, pumpkin patch, carousel, barrel train, giant slide and jumping pillows, the farm keeps sloths, lemurs, kangaroos and capybaras. Paid Premium Animal Encounters get you closer for photos.
September 11 – November 1, 2026. Wednesday to Sunday (closed Monday and Tuesday). Hours: 9:00am-6:00pm Wednesday-Saturday; 10:00am-6:00pm Sunday. Entrance to the grounds ends one hour before closing..
Admission starts at $22.95 per person. General admission is required for everyone aged 3 and over. Weekday (Wednesday-Friday) fall admission is $22.95 online or $26.95 at the gate. The regular gate price is $31.95. A fall flash sale was running at $19.95 online, ending August 28, 2026. An annual pass is sold separately. Premium Animal Encounter upgrades cost extra.
4180 West M-20, New Era, MI 49446, in Oceana 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. At $22.95 a head this one sits right on the regional median of $22.95.
Its season runs about 52 days against a regional average of 55, so it is broadly in line with the rest of the region.
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
lewisadventurefarm.com · lewisfarmmarket.com
Checked August 2026.