A full-service Oakland County cider mill with a corn maze, hayrides and a petting farm - but as of late August 2026 it had not announced a fall opening date, and neither had either of the region's main round-ups, so call before you drive.
No admission or activity prices are published on longsorchard.com. Parking is free at the main barn lot.
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 this page can do is stop you driving to Commerce Township on a Saturday in early September and finding the fall season has not begun.
As of late August 2026, Long Family Orchard had not announced a 2026 cider mill opening date. Its own website said Opening Date: TBD. Both of the metro Detroit cider mill round-ups that most people plan their autumn from listed it as TBD as well. One of them noted that the 2025 opening had been September 6, which is normal timing for an Oakland County mill and a reasonable expectation - but it is an expectation, not a date, and this page is not going to dress it up as one.
Everything downstream of the opening date is unknown too. No fall hours are published. No days of the week are published. No prices are published for anything - not admission, not hayrides, not the maze, not apples. Parking at the main barn lot is free, which the farm does state, and no gate charge appears anywhere, which suggests a pay-for-what-you-use model like most Oakland County mills. That is as far as the record honestly goes.
So the only sensible approach is a phone call to 248-360-3774 before you commit a morning. Ask three things: whether the mill is open, what the hours are that week, and whether the corn maze and hayrides are running yet. Farms in this region routinely open the bakery and the mill a week or two before the weekend attractions come online, so the answer to the first question does not settle the third.
Until the mill opens, the farm has a sweet-corn drive-thru operating from noon to 6:00pm daily, subject to availability. It runs from two points: the main barn and cider mill parking lot, and a field stand on Bogie Lake Road marked by a big red shed. That is a five-minute errand rather than a day out, but it is also a free way to find out whether the farm looks like it is about to open, if you are local and passing.
The published offer is a traditional one and a fairly complete one: a cider mill pressing fresh cider, cider and cake donuts, apple picking, a corn maze, pumpkins, a petting farm, hayrides, and rentable fire pits, alongside a produce line that runs asparagus and peas in spring through to sweet corn and vegetables in late summer. Bobby Long’s mums are a separate seasonal line sold from the farm.
The fire pits are the item worth noting because almost nothing else in this batch offers them. A bookable fire pit turns a farm visit into an evening, which in October in Michigan means genuinely cold - layers rather than a jacket, and something on your hands after dark.
You can still do the arithmetic in the shape of a question. At a comparable Oakland County mill, a family of four might expect to pay nothing at the gate, something small per person for a hayride, and pumpkins by weight or by size. Two of those three numbers are unpublished here. If your budget is tight enough that the difference between a $3 hayride and a $10 one matters, that is a question for the phone call, not a surprise for the field.
What can be said with confidence is that the compulsory spend appears to be zero. Free parking, no published admission, and a bakery you can walk past. That makes this a low-risk visit with a small child once it is actually open - the risk here is entirely about whether it is open at all.
No closing date is published either. Michigan frost ends corn mazes, and a farm that opens in September typically shuts its fall attractions in the first half of November. If you are aiming at a late-October or November visit, that same phone call applies, and the maze is the first thing to go.
Unknown, and that is the headline. The farm's own site said Opening Date: TBD for the 2026 fall season, and both major metro Detroit cider mill round-ups listed it the same way. For reference, the 2025 opening was September 6, which is the usual timing for an Oakland County mill - but 2025 is not a promise about 2026. Until the mill opens, the farm was running a sweet-corn drive-thru from noon to 6:00pm daily.
Two to three hours once the fall season is running, based on the published activity list - a corn maze, hayrides, apple picking, pumpkins and a petting farm is a comfortable half-day. Ten minutes if you arrive during the sweet-corn drive-thru phase.
Unknowable from the record. What can be said is that a farm which opens later than its neighbours concentrates the same regional demand into fewer weekends, and that Commerce Township sits in the busy western Oakland County commuter belt.
Free at the main barn lot, per the farm. That lot is also one of the two sweet-corn drive-thru points, the other being a field stand on Bogie Lake Road marked by a large red shed.
Not published. A corn maze, hayrides and apple picking are field activities on uneven ground; the mill and bakery are the built part of the site.
You are planning a fixed date and cannot phone first. With no published opening date, no published hours and no published prices, this farm is currently unplannable from the internet alone. Skip it too if you are travelling any distance in early September without confirming - the risk of finding a closed gate is real.
Blake's Orchard & Cider Mill - South Lyon is about twenty minutes south-west and publishes both its hours and its Funland prices, which makes it the reliable backup if Long Family turns out not to be open on your day. It also allows leashed dogs, which Long Family does not state either way.
It had not been announced as of late August 2026. The farm's own site said Opening Date: TBD, and both major metro Detroit cider mill round-ups listed the farm the same way. One of those round-ups noted the 2025 opening was September 6. Call 248-360-3774 rather than assume.
The farm was running a sweet-corn drive-thru from noon to 6:00pm daily, subject to availability, from two points: the main barn and cider mill parking lot, and a field stand on Bogie Lake Road by the big red shed.
No admission or activity prices are published on longsorchard.com. Parking is free at the main barn lot. Beyond that we have no figures to quote and will not guess.
The published offer is a cider mill and fresh cider, cider and cake donuts, apple picking, a corn maze, pumpkins, a petting farm, hayrides, rentable fire pits, fresh produce including asparagus, sweet corn, peas and vegetables, and Bobby Long's mums.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. Check with the farm before driving out.
Admission is free. No admission or activity prices are published on longsorchard.com. Parking is free at the main barn lot.
1540 East Commerce Road, Commerce Township, MI 48382, in Oakland County. It is one of 10 patches we track in Metro Detroit.
We track 10 patches in Metro Detroit, 9 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.
One caveat worth repeating: this farm had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 5 of the 10 patches we track in Metro Detroit had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
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Checked August 2026.