The air is crisper and the leaves on the trees are changing to yellows, oranges and reds. While school has begun, that doesn’t mean you still can’t have some fun.
Check out these local farms in metro Detroit and Ann Arbor that your family is sure to love. Pick up a pumpkin to take home and carve or some apples to enjoy. Some of the farms even have animals to feed or pet and corn mazes that challenge your family teamwork.
Blake’s Big Apple
- Address: 71485 North Ave., Armada
Fall attractions include a three-story haunted barn, Zombie Paintball experience, haunted hayride, u-pick options and Funland with a children’s play area, animal farm and corn maze. Enjoy fudge, kettle corn and caramel apples.
Blake’s Orchard and Cider Mill
- Address: 17985 Armada Center Road, Armada
Head into the fields to pick your own apples, pumpkins and flowers. The Funland has a petting farm, haunted village, Amish play structures, animated scarecrow band, straw mountain, cornfield maze, miniature goat walk and storybook barn. Be sure to grab some cider.
Cook’s Farm Dairy
In October families can enjoy hayrides to the pumpkin patch to pick their own pumpkins. Try seasonal ice cream flavors like pumpkin crunch, s’more cowbell and maple walnut while there.
DeBuck’s Family Farm
- Address: 50240 Martz Road, Belleville
On this farm run by two generations, try the 15-acre corn maze, pumpkin picking, wagon rides and giant slide. The Fall Festival is Sept. 16-17, 23-24, 30.
Diehl’s Orchard and Cider Mill
- Address: 1479 Ranch Road, Holly
Try the corn maze, petting farm, pumpkin patch, hayrides, pony rides, hay pile and fresh apple cider. The Cider Fest is Sept. 23-24. Pre-packaged apples available in mid-September.
Long Family Orchard & Farm
- Address: 51540 E. Commerce Road, Commerce
Enjoy a u-pick pumpkin patch, hayride, corn maze, petting farm, bounce house, jumping pillows, straw tunnels and photo ops.
Maybury Farm
- Address: 50165 Eight Mile Road, Northville
On weekends in September and October, try a nine-acre corn maze, visit with the farm animals, take a tractor-driven wagon ride and indulge in cider and doughnuts. Fall festival is Sept. 30-Oct. 1.
Nixon Farms
- Address: 6175 Daly Road, Dexter
Operated by the Nixon family for more than 100 years, take a tractor-drawn hayride to the pumpkin patch or get lost in the Blast Corn Maze.
Three Cedars Farm
- Address: 7897 Six Mile Road, Northville
Pick your own pumpkins or test your skills in the seven-acre corn maze. The Barn Yard playland has animals, train rides and hayrides. Try pasteurized cider, doughnuts, cider slushies, hot apple cider and caramel apples.
Westview Orchards
- Address: 65075 Van Dyke, Washington
Check out a petting zoo, three-acre playground, u-pick apple and pumpkins, corn maze, wagon rides and straw mountain. Don’t miss the doughnuts, pies and flips.
Wiard’s Orchards & Country Fair
- Address: 5565 Merritt Road, Ypsilanti
Wednesday-Sunday attractions include corn maze, animal petting farm, u-pick apples and pumpkins, wagon rides and playground. Saturday-Sunday attractions include inflatables, apple cannons and fire engine rides. Enjoy fresh baked goods and fresh-pressed cider.
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