GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Already home to Michigan’s “Big Apple,” which has served as a photo opportunity for visitors since 1973, Robinette’s Apple House and Winery has created an even bigger apple this fall.
Starting Tuesday, Sept. 6, after guests get a photo with the iconic nine-foot apple in the outdoor picnic area, located at 3142 4 Mile Rd. NE, they can venture into a 6.5-acre corn maze — which this year has been cut into, you guessed it, the design of a large apple.
The past two years the maze has offered respects to late owners Jim and Bethel Robinette, who died in 2020, as well as honored those who lost their lives in 9/11 on the 20th anniversary of 2001′s terrorist attacks.
This year, the maze has been shaped to represent the largest crop fruit of the 125-acre farm that has been in the Robinette family since 1911 when it was purchased by Edward Robinette.
After six decades of harvesting apple, peach and cherry fruit trees, that are still maintained on site, the family began expanding in the early 1970s, first with a cider mill, then by offering donuts, and then opening the Apple Haus in 1973. A gift barn followed in 1985 and the winery in 2006, a news release states.
The Big Apple corn maze opens to the public on Tuesday and will remain open through Sunday, Nov. 6. The maze will open at 10 am Monday-Saturday and at noon on Sundays. Last entry into the maze is at 5 pm daily.
Tickets for this year’s maze are $9 per person. Children ages 0-2 may enter free of charge. Tickets for groups of 15 or more with one person paying are $1 off per person. Dogs are not allowed in the maze.
For more information, visit www.robinettes.com or call the Apple House at 616-361-5567.
Robinette’s Apple Haus and Winery’s, 3142 4 Mile Rd. NE, 6.5-acre corn maze is available Tuesday, Sept. 6 through Nov. 6, 2022. (Photo provided by West Michigan Tourist Association)
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