An organic orchard with unusually long daily hours and a firm 2026 season, but it opens a week later than most round-ups still claim and publishes no prices for anything.
No admission or activity prices are published on plymouthorchards.com. Wagon rides, pumpkin picking and donuts are pay-as-you-go but the farm prints no figures, so no price is recorded rather than guessed.
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.
Plymouth Orchards is a straightforward farm with one awkward detail and one genuinely useful one. The awkward detail is the date. The farm had planned to open in late August 2026 and moved it to September 5, citing infrastructure improvements and supply delays. Two of the metro Detroit cider mill round-ups that people actually use to plan their autumn were still printing August 29 in late August. If you read one of those and drove out, you would have found nobody there.
Go by the farm’s own site, which is where the September 5 date comes from, and treat directory listings for this farm with suspicion generally.
The second thing to get right is that the business closes in two stages. The cider mill and orchard season ends November 8, 2026. The Red Shed Market keeps going to November 25. Those are seventeen days apart, and they cover different things - after November 8, the cider pressing, the wagon rides and the pumpkin field are done, and what remains is retail.
That is more generous than it sounds for a Michigan farm. Frost takes out most fall attractions here in early November, so a mill running to the 8th and a market to the 25th is a normal, honest calendar rather than a short one.
There are also two addresses. The orchard and cider mill are on Warren Road; there is a second Red Shed Market on Ann Arbor Road, about three miles away. When you see an event listing or a set of hours for Plymouth Orchards, check which site it belongs to.
9:00am to 7:00pm daily for the mill and orchard, 10:00am to 6:00pm daily for the market. A ten-hour day, seven days a week, is unusual on this list. Most of the farms in this batch either close two or three days a week, or run a six or seven hour day, or both. Plymouth is open when you can actually get there.
Read the closing time seasonally, though. A 7:00pm close in the first week of September gives you a real evening at the farm with light to spare. The same 7:00pm in early November is more than an hour after dark. If a late visit is the plan, do it in September and treat November as an afternoon-only proposition.
This is the honest weakness of the record and there is no way round it. The farm publishes no admission price, no wagon ride price, no pumpkin price and no donut price. What we can say is that no gate charge appears anywhere, and the activities are described as pay-as-you-go, which points to a free-entry farm where you pay for what you use.
For a family that is good news in one respect: the floor cost of walking in is apparently nothing, which makes this low-risk with a small child who might last twenty minutes. It is bad news in another: you cannot compare it against a farm like Wiard’s, where $18 or $27.50 buys a known quantity, because you have no numbers to compare with.
The practical move is a phone call to 734-455-2290 before you go, with two specific questions: what a wagon ride costs per person, and how pumpkins are priced. Those two answers turn an unbudgeted afternoon into a planned one.
Organic, which is genuinely unusual for a metro Detroit mill and worth something if organic produce is what you buy anyway. Cider pressing demonstrations rather than a press behind glass. Wagon rides, farm animals, pumpkin picking, live music, organic produce, and a formal group and school tour offer.
That is a moderate list, not a large one. There is no corn maze on the record, no play structures, no gated activity area. This is a mill-and-orchard visit with a wagon ride and a pumpkin at the end of it - fine for a couple of hours with young children, thin for a whole Saturday with older ones.
Bring boots. The pumpkin field is a field, October in Wayne County is wet, and the difference between a good visit and a miserable one here is footwear rather than budget.
The cider mill and orchard run September 5 to November 8, 2026, daily 9:00am to 7:00pm, with the Red Shed Market on 10:00am to 6:00pm and its own longer season to November 25. A 7:00pm close is generous by Michigan farm standards in September and largely theoretical by early November, when it is dark well before then - so late-season visits should be afternoon ones. Weekday mornings are the quiet window.
Two to three hours. Cider pressing demonstrations, a wagon ride, the animals and pumpkin picking make a comfortable half-day rather than a full one.
No gate and a Wayne County address between Ann Arbor and Detroit means weekend afternoons carry the load. The daily 9:00am to 7:00pm hours are the genuine advantage here - they spread demand across the week in a way that a weekends-only farm cannot.
Not published. Assume unpaved farm parking and expect it to soften after October rain.
Not published. Wagon rides and pumpkin picking are field activities; the Red Shed Market is the built, flat part of the operation. Call 734-455-2290 if this is a deciding factor.
You need a firm cost in advance. Plymouth publishes no figures at all - not for wagon rides, not for pumpkins, not for donuts - so the day is entirely open-ended. Skip a November trip after the 8th, when the cider mill season ends and only the Red Shed Market continues.
Wiard's Orchards & Country Fair in Ypsilanti is roughly half an hour south-west and is the gated-fair alternative at $18 to $27.50 a head - useful if your children want rides rather than a mill. Doing both in one day would be expensive and rushed; pick one.
September 5, 2026. The farm pushed its opening back from late August because of infrastructure improvements and supply delays. Several metro Detroit round-ups still print the older August 29 date - go by the farm's own site.
The cider mill and orchard season ends November 8, 2026. The Red Shed Market runs later, to November 25, 2026. Those are two different closing dates for two parts of the same business.
No admission or activity prices are published on plymouthorchards.com. Wagon rides, pumpkin picking and donuts are pay-as-you-go, but the farm prints no figures, so we cannot quote any. Call 734-455-2290 if you need to budget precisely.
Yes. The orchard and cider mill are at 10685 Warren Road, and there is a second Red Shed Market at 10260 Ann Arbor Road, about three miles apart. Check which address an event or a set of hours refers to.
September 5 – November 8, 2026. Daily. Hours: Cider mill and orchard 9:00am-7:00pm daily; Red Shed Market 10:00am-6:00pm daily.
Admission is free. No admission or activity prices are published on plymouthorchards.com. Wagon rides, pumpkin picking and donuts are pay-as-you-go but the farm prints no figures, so no price is recorded rather than guessed.
10685 Warren Road, Plymouth, MI 48170, in Wayne 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.
Its season runs about 65 days against a regional average of 84, so it is a shorter window than most of its neighbours — miss it and the nearest alternatives will still be open.
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Checked August 2026.