Free to enter and open daily, but the last u-pick wagon leaves at 5:30pm and the farm publishes no prices at all — so you can plan the timing precisely and the budget not at all.
No admission or activity prices are published on spicerorchards.com. U-pick fruit, the corn maze, cider, donuts, ice cream and fudge are all pay-as-you-go with no figures printed on the site.
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.
Spicer sits at Clyde Road just off US-23, which is the single fact that shapes a visit here. It is the convenient fall stop for anyone travelling between Detroit and Flint, and convenience on an October Saturday means volume. The farm is open daily, 9am to 7pm for the market and 11am to 8pm for the winery, which is a longer and more forgiving schedule than most Michigan orchards offer.
The published hours flatter the picking. The last pick-your-own wagon leaves at 5:30pm, and staff clear the field by 6:15pm. That is 45 minutes before the market closes and nearly two hours before the winery does. Turn up at 6pm on a September evening with a bag and an expectation of apples and you will be buying pre-picked instead.
Work backwards from that. If picking is genuinely the reason you are coming, be on site by 4pm at the latest — that gives you time to park, get oriented, and get on a wagon that is not the last one out. In late October, when it is dark by around 6:30pm, the field cut-off is roughly aligned with the light anyway.
Two dated events reshape specific weekends. The Harvest Festival craft show runs September 12 and 13, 2026, 9am to 6pm on both days, with the farm itself flagging 11am to 5pm as the peak. On the Saturday it collides with the Honeycrisp Harvest Hustle 5K, whose runners start arriving around 7am. That is two crowds, two parking demands and one lot.
If a craft show is what you want, go. If you want apples and a quiet corn maze, that is the weekend to avoid. The Pumpkin Glow Run follows on October 30, at the other end of the season, and the Jingle Bell Jog on December 19 is well past pumpkin relevance.
Weekend food vendors appear across September and October, which adds to the reasons to come and to the reasons the lot fills.
There is no getting around this: Spicer prints no figures. Not a corn maze price, not a per-pound or per-bag u-pick rate, not a donut price. Entry costs nothing, which removes the largest single risk, but it also means you cannot compare this farm against a gated one on cost before you arrive.
What you can do is set your own ceiling. Free entry means the honest floor for a visit is a bag of donuts and a jug of cider. Decide before you walk in whether the corn maze and the u-pick are in or out, and ask the price of the picking container at the entrance rather than discovering it at the till with a full bag.
This is a cider mill and winery as much as a pumpkin patch, which in Michigan is the normal shape of a fall farm rather than an unusual one. The u-pick list runs to apples, peaches and berries by season; there is a corn maze, a pumpkin patch, a playground and farm tours; and the bakery, ice cream and fudge counters do the work of keeping people on site. The winery closing an hour after the market is a deliberate signal about who the evening is for.
One general note for late October: Michigan mazes come down when the crop and the weather are done, and the patch often outlasts the maze. Since Spicer publishes no season dates at all, a phone call is the only reliable way to know what is standing on the day you plan to come.
No fall opening or closing dates are published, so the season boundaries are unconfirmed. Within the day, the u-pick clock is the one that matters: the last wagon into the field goes out at 5:30pm and staff bring everyone up by 6:15pm, well before the 7pm market close. Arrive before 4pm if picking is the point. A weekday morning is the calmest version of this farm; the two weekends in September when the Harvest Festival craft show and the Honeycrisp Harvest Hustle 5K land are the busiest.
Two hours for the market, cider and donuts. Three to four if you are picking fruit and doing the corn maze, and longer again if the winery is part of the plan.
Being right off US-23 is the crowd story. That location makes it the default stop for two metro areas, and October weekends carry both the fall-farm traffic and the leaf-season through-traffic on the same road. The Saturday of the Harvest Festival craft show is the worst of it: the craft show runs 9am to 6pm with peak traffic 11am to 5pm, and the 5K brings runners into the same lot from around 7am.
Not published. Assume the standard Michigan farm arrangement of overflow field parking on busy weekends, and soft ground after autumn rain.
You need to know what a day will cost before you leave the house. The farm publishes no prices whatsoever — not for u-pick, not for the corn maze, not for anything. Skip a late-afternoon visit if picking is your reason for coming, because the field closes roughly 45 minutes before the market does.
There is no admission charge. Beyond that we cannot tell you: the farm publishes no prices for u-pick, the corn maze, cider, donuts, ice cream or fudge anywhere on its site. Everything is pay-as-you-go at the counter.
The last wagon into the field goes out at 5:30pm and everyone is brought back up by 6:15pm. The farm market itself stays open until 7pm and the winery until 8pm, so arriving at 6pm gets you shopping but no picking.
The craft show runs September 12 and 13, 2026, 9am to 6pm both days, with the heaviest traffic between 11am and 5pm. The Honeycrisp Harvest Hustle 5K is on the Saturday, September 12, which stacks two events onto one morning.
Both are listed, along with a playground, farm tours and u-pick apples, peaches and berries. No dates or prices are attached to any of them on the farm's site, so confirm the maze is open before a late-October trip.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Daily. Check with the farm before driving out.
Admission is free. No admission or activity prices are published on spicerorchards.com. U-pick fruit, the corn maze, cider, donuts, ice cream and fudge are all pay-as-you-go with no figures printed on the site.
10411 Clyde Road, Fenton, MI 48430, in null. It is one of 4 patches we track in Mid-Michigan.
We track 4 patches in Mid-Michigan, 4 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 0 of the 4 patches we track in Mid-Michigan had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
There are 2 other patches we track in null. All Mid-Michigan patches →
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Checked August 2026.