A Macomb County farm that has been worked since 1813 and prices its Farm Fun area at $3.50 to $4.50 a head midweek against $10.50 at weekends - one of the largest weekday discounts in metro Detroit, and the reason to take a Tuesday off.
Farm Fun admission is $3.50 per adult and $4.50 per child on weekdays and $10.50 per person at weekends; children under 36 inches tall are free. The farm market, bakery and cider barn are free to enter. U-pick apples, pumpkins and vegetables are priced separately with minimums that differ between weekdays and weekends.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $14.00 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.
Westview is the strongest argument in this batch for taking a weekday off work. Farm Fun admission is $3.50 for an adult and $4.50 for a child Monday to Friday, and $10.50 flat for everyone on Saturday and Sunday. For two adults and two children that is roughly $16 midweek against $42 at the weekend - the same mazes, the same three climbing mountains, the same petting farms and wagon rides, for a quarter under half the money.
Very few farms in metro Detroit price the weekday and weekend versions of themselves that far apart. Most charge the same rate all week and let the crowd sort itself out. Westview is effectively paying you to come on a Tuesday, and the fact that it staffs a separate Admissions Building at weekends while running weekday entry through the Cider Barn tells you the Saturday volume is real.
Children under 36 inches tall get in free. That is a height threshold rather than an age one, which typically works out in a family’s favour - a lean three-year-old may still clear it where an age-based under-2 or under-3 rule would not. Most of the farms in this region cut free entry off at 2 or 3 years old. If you have a smallish toddler, measure before you go, because it is the difference between four tickets and three.
U-pick apples, pumpkins and vegetables are billed separately from the Farm Fun wristband, and they carry purchase minimums that differ between weekdays and weekends. That second detail is the one worth pausing on. It means the cheapest day for admission is not automatically the cheapest day for picking, and a family that goes midweek for the $3.50 rate can still walk into a minimum spend in the rows. Ask what the minimum is on your day before anyone starts filling a bag.
The farm market, bakery and cider barn are free to enter. So the genuinely minimal version of a Westview visit - cider, donuts, a look round the market - costs nothing at a gate, the same as the free mills further west.
The entry point moves with the day: Cider Barn on weekdays, Admissions Building at weekends. That is a small thing that causes a large amount of standing around, particularly on a first visit. Work out which day you are going and where that puts you.
Hours are 8:00am to 6:00pm for the farm market daily, 10:00am to 5:00pm for Farm Fun daily, weather permitting, and noon to 6:00pm Saturday and Sunday for the Winery Porch. The weather-permitting clause on Farm Fun is not boilerplate in a Michigan October - it is a working farm’s climbing structures, and wet straw and wet rope get closed.
The farm’s own pages do not carry a year, which means the prices above may be a carried-over season. A metro Detroit round-up supplies the September 5, 2026 fall opening; another source calls Westview open daily year round, which reconciles as the market being year-round and the fall attractions starting in September. No closing date is published anywhere at all. If you are planning a November trip, phone 586-752-3123 rather than assume.
The farm has been worked since 1813 and it has spread into two fairly different offers. One is a children’s farm: three petting farms, playgrounds, mazes, Straw Mountain, Tire Mountain, Rope Mountain, wagon rides. The other is a winery with an indoor loft and an outdoor schoolhouse porch, open weekend afternoons.
That combination works well for a mixed group and less well for a family that wanted a quiet farm. It also means the site handles birthdays, corporate rentals and school field trips, so an ordinary weekend visit may be sharing the place with a booked group.
One firm rule to plan around: no pets, no smoking or vaping, no firearms, no drones. The dog stays home.
Fall attractions open around September 5, 2026 per a metro Detroit round-up, while the farm market runs year round; no closing date is published anywhere. Farm Fun is 10:00am to 5:00pm daily, weather permitting. Go midweek - the price difference is roughly two-thirds, and you enter through the Cider Barn rather than the weekend Admissions Building. The Winery Porch is the exception, running Saturday and Sunday noon to 6:00pm only.
Three to four hours if you are paying weekend rates - Straw Mountain, Tire Mountain, Rope Mountain, the mazes, the petting farms and the wagon rides add up. Two hours is enough to justify a $3.50 midweek adult ticket.
The weekend price tells you where the demand is. A flat $10.50 for everyone at weekends against a split $3.50 and $4.50 midweek is the farm pricing its own crowd, and the separate weekend Admissions Building exists because the Cider Barn entrance cannot handle Saturday volume.
Not published. Assume a farm lot, and assume the surface softens after October rain - Macomb County fields hold water.
Not published. The farm market, bakery and cider barn are the flat and indoor portion. Straw Mountain, Tire Mountain, Rope Mountain and the mazes are climbing structures by definition, and u-pick is field walking.
You want to bring a dog. Westview posts strict property rules - no pets, no smoking or vaping, no firearms, no drones - so unlike nearby Yates this is not a dog trip. Skip the weekend too if cost is the deciding factor, because $10.50 a head flat is triple the midweek adult rate.
Blake's Orchard & Cider Mill in Armada is roughly a half-hour north-east and is free to enter, with its own separately ticketed activity area - a useful contrast if you want to compare a free-entry mill with a gated farm-fun model. Note both Westview and Blake's Armada refuse pets.
$3.50 per adult and $4.50 per child on weekdays, and $10.50 per person at weekends. Children under 36 inches tall are free. The farm market, bakery and cider barn are free to enter, and u-pick is priced separately.
The entrance changes with the day. On weekdays you enter Farm Fun through the Cider Barn; at weekends you enter through the Admissions Building. Arriving at the wrong one is the easiest mistake to make here.
No. Westview posts strict property rules banning pets, smoking and vaping, firearms and drones.
A 2026 metro Detroit round-up lists Westview opening on September 5, 2026 with 10:00am to 5:00pm daily hours. Another source describes the farm as open daily year round, which suggests September 5 is the fall-attraction opening rather than the market's. No closing date is published anywhere, so plan on calling 586-752-3123 for late-season dates.
Opens September 5, 2026 (closing date not published). Daily (farm market); Winery Porch Saturday and Sunday. Hours: Farm market 8:00am-6:00pm daily; Farm Fun 10:00am-5:00pm daily, weather permitting (weekday entry through the Cider Barn, weekend entry through the Admissions Building); Winery Porch 12:00pm-6:00pm Saturday and Sunday.
Admission is free. Farm Fun admission is $3.50 per adult and $4.50 per child on weekdays and $10.50 per person at weekends; children under 36 inches tall are free. The farm market, bakery and cider barn are free to enter. U-pick apples, pumpkins and vegetables are priced separately with minimums that differ between weekdays and weekends.
65075 Van Dyke, Washington, MI 48095, in Macomb 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. At $3.5 a head this one sits below the regional median of $18, 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.
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Checked August 2026.