A Grand Rapids institution with no gate fee but a schedule full of traps — closed for Labor Day weekend, hayrides only Thursday to Saturday with Saturday slots requiring advance booking, and a petting zoo that runs Sundays only.
No gate admission. Corn maze $8 for anyone three and over. Hayrides $10 per person with under-2s free; Saturday hayrides must be booked online in advance. U-pick apples are $24 per peck bag on September and October weekends. Petting zoo, jumping pillow and nature trail prices are not published.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $32.00 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.
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.
Robinette’s has been part of a Grand Rapids autumn long enough that the queue at the Apple Haus counter is treated as normal. Reviewers describe a line out the door at opening and roughly a half-hour wait, moving briskly. That is a useful thing to know before you arrive with an impatient child, and it argues for the 8am opening or a weekday.
There is no gate here, which removes the usual cost anxiety and replaces it with a calendar problem. Three separate rules govern when things happen.
The farm shuts entirely for Labor Day weekend and only switches to seven days a week after it. Before that it runs Tuesday to Saturday, closed Sunday and Monday. Hayrides run Thursday, Friday and Saturday in October, and Saturday rides require an advance online booking rather than a ticket at the counter. The petting zoo runs on Sundays. Read those together and a Saturday visit — the default choice for most families — gets you the maze, the bakery, the winery and a hayride you needed to book days earlier, but no petting zoo.
Because entry is free, the arithmetic is entirely under your control. A family of four doing the corn maze at $8 each spends $32. Add hayrides at $10 each and it is $72. Add a peck bag of u-pick apples at $24 and you are at $96 before donuts. Alternatively, the same family can walk in, buy a bag of cider donuts and a jug of cider, walk the nature trail and leave having spent well under twenty dollars.
That range is the real argument for this place. Very few farms let you spend either ten dollars or a hundred on the same visit without feeling short-changed at the bottom end.
One structural point on the u-pick: $24 a peck is a bag price, not a weight price. If your household will bake and freeze, that is fine value. If you want a dozen apples to eat, it is not, and buying pre-picked from the Apple Haus makes more sense.
The corn maze is 6.5 acres cut on a 9/11 memorial theme, priced at $8 for anyone three and over, and it runs daily through the end of October. Eight dollars for a maze of that size is fair, and the age floor at three is worth noting because it is the same floor as the jumping pillow — a two-year-old in your group pays for neither and can do neither.
The winery is the piece that changes the character of a visit. Wine and hard cider tasting alongside a bakery makes this a viable adult stop, not just a place adults endure for their children. Hours are staggered: Apple Haus 8am to 5:30pm Tuesday to Saturday, winery 10am to 5:30pm on the same days.
No dated season end is published beyond the maze running through the end of October, so anything after that is unconfirmed. In West Michigan the maze is usually the first thing to go once the crop is done and frosts arrive, while the bakery and winery carry on. A 5:30pm close is a very different visit in mid-September than it is on October 30, when it lands close to dusk — bring layers and expect the orchard side to be cold and damp underfoot before the Apple Haus is.
The farm closes entirely for Labor Day weekend and only moves to seven days a week after it; before that it is Tuesday to Saturday, closed Sunday and Monday. No dated 2026 season start or end is published beyond the corn maze running daily through the end of October. The Apple Haus opens at 8am and closes at 5:30pm, which makes this a morning farm rather than an evening one — and reviewers describe a line out the door at opening, so the genuinely quiet slot is a weekday mid-morning after the first rush clears.
Ninety minutes if you are here for donuts, cider and a walk. Three hours or more with the corn maze and a hayride, plus whatever the queue takes.
The research on this one is unusually clear: reviewers describe a line out the door at opening and waits of around half an hour, with staff moving it briskly. That is the Apple Haus counter, not the attractions. The queue is part of the experience here rather than a sign something has gone wrong, but it does mean the 8am opening is a real strategy and not just a slogan.
Not published. Assume the mix of paved and overflow field parking typical of a long-established Kent County orchard, and soft ground on the overflow after October rain.
Not published. The bakery, winery and dining areas are the parts of the site most likely to be straightforward; the corn maze and the orchard rows are field terrain, so anyone with mobility limits should call 616-361-5567 before committing to the picking side.
You want a hayride on short notice. They run only Thursday, Friday and Saturday in October, and Saturday rides must be booked online in advance rather than paid for at the farm. Skip a Saturday trip if the petting zoo is the draw for your toddler, because it runs on Sundays. And do not plan anything around Labor Day weekend; the farm is shut.
There is no gate admission. The corn maze is $8 for anyone three and over, hayrides are $10 per person with under-2s free, and u-pick apples are $24 per peck bag on September and October weekends. Petting zoo, jumping pillow and nature trail prices are not published.
For Saturdays, yes — the farm requires advance online booking for Saturday hayrides. Hayrides run Thursday, Friday and Saturday in October only, so there are three ride days a week.
No. The farm states it is closed for Labor Day weekend and opens seven days a week after it. Before Labor Day it runs Tuesday to Saturday, closed Sunday and Monday.
It is 6.5 acres on a 9/11 memorial theme, open daily through the end of October, and priced at $8 for ages three and up. That size sits in the middle of the range for West Michigan — big enough to get properly lost in, small enough to finish with young children.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Seven days a week after Labor Day; Tuesday-Saturday before Labor Day (closed Sunday and Monday). Closed Labor Day weekend.. Check with the farm before driving out.
Admission is free. No gate admission. Corn maze $8 for anyone three and over. Hayrides $10 per person with under-2s free; Saturday hayrides must be booked online in advance. U-pick apples are $24 per peck bag on September and October weekends. Petting zoo, jumping pillow and nature trail prices are not published.
3142 4 Mile Road NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49525, 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. At $8 a head this one sits below the regional median of $22.95, undercutting 1 of the 1 paid patches we track here. 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 hayrides, 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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Checked August 2026.