The $ 2 wagon ride would cost us $ 8 for the family and is essentially a 5 – 10 minute ride around the perimeter of a few fields. Our kids always want to do the corn pit but it’s hard to pay another $ 4 after you spend all the money doing the maze, jumping pillow, etc. Other area orchards have some of these activities for free, or at least a «pay one price to get in». The Corn Maze is ok… it’s less of a maze than a design carved out of the corn… there’s many ways you could ‘solve’ the maze and unfortunately patrons will barge through where they’re not supposed to and make ‘shortcuts’ and it’s not clear whether they’re an official path or not.
So the kids can get quite a bit of time for their $ 4 each. The Jumping Pillow is something our boys really love, and on the positive, the times we’ve been there, there has been no enforced time limit (although the ‘monitor’ did have a stopwatch, I didn’t see it being used). As you can see, even with only 2 boys we could spend a LOT of money here, and that’s before eating a single apple goodie in the café. $ 2 each for the corn pit, cow train, wagon ride, apple canon… I believe the «jumping pillow» was $ 4 as was the pony rides. This year’s prices were $ 6 for the Corn Maze. The dropped that option a few years ago and now you pay for almost everything. A few years back they had a wristband that you could buy that basically let the kids do whatever they wanted. «If I wanted to just buy apples I would have went to the grocery store» said the dad. They were confused as they thought that was the whole point of going to an orchard. We went with some new friends this year and they were disappointed that there was no «self pick» option on the day we came.
The activities are on both sides of 2 different county roads (including the parking area), so it’s always a little unnerving having kids cross them. Less-good: This place tends to get crowded, so it’s definitely not the «down home the farm» feel that you might expect. There is a small petting zoo which is free, and a small play area catering to kids probably 8 and under. A few of them are free, but most of them cost extra (more on that below). There are plenty of activities to do, mostly geared toward the 12-and-under set. It’s a beautiful setting, on the Crow River with an old barn and farmstead. We’re from the west edge of Plymouth so it’s an easy drive for us. Good: For starters, it’s relatively close to the Metro. There’s a lot of good here, but some problems. We’ve been coming here for years, since our boys were babies, and seen it change from a homey orchard with a few fall activities, to a full-fledged (and somewhat expensive) fall amusement park of sorts. The focus here is less about apple picking than it is on «family fall fun».
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