A small Fruit Ridge cider mill and market with confirmed daily hours, but the record can't say whether apple picking is even u-pick here — there's no dedicated orchard website, only a Facebook page and aggregator listings.
Klein Cider Mill & Market sits at 2151 10 Mile Rd NW in Sparta, in the same Kent County Fruit Ridge cluster as several larger, better-documented orchards in this file. The record lists a phone number of 616-887-7815 and daily hours of 9am to 6pm. It’s described as smaller in scale than nearby Schwallier’s Country Basket and Steffens Orchard Market — a cider mill and market operation rather than a full agritourism destination with a corn maze or play area.
The most important thing to know about this record is what it doesn’t confirm: whether apples here are u-pick, pre-picked only, or both. The record’s u_pick field is explicitly left null, not because picking isn’t offered, but because no source consulted during research clearly answered the question either way. That’s an unusually basic gap for an apple-orchard listing, and it exists because no dedicated orchard website for Klein Cider Mill was found at all — the only online presence located was a Facebook business page (facebook.com/kleincidermill), which typically doesn’t carry the kind of detailed seasonal information a dedicated site would.
Pre-picked apples are confirmed as available (pre_picked: true), so at minimum you can expect to buy apples at the market even if picking your own turns out not to be an option. But no apple varieties are listed either — the record’s apple_varieties field is empty, meaning no specific list of what’s actually for sale was found anywhere in the sources checked.
Everything in this record — the address, phone number, and 9am-6pm hours — comes from aggregator listings: Yelp, the Fruit Ridge Markets directory, and ExperienceGR. None of it is Klein Cider Mill describing itself directly, since there’s no dedicated site to read from. That’s a meaningfully weaker sourcing position than orchards like Schwallier’s or Diehl’s elsewhere in this file, where hours and season dates were read straight off the business’s own pages. Treat the hours here as a reasonable starting point rather than a guarantee, especially since no season start or end date accompanies them — daily 9am-6pm could mean anything from a year-round market schedule to a fall-only window that simply wasn’t captured by the aggregators.
The one solidly confirmed feature is the cider mill itself (cider_mill: true), which fits the name. Whether that means fresh-pressed cider is sold on site, whether cider donuts are made there, or what the cider costs are all details not captured in this record — cider_donuts is left null rather than marked yes or no, and no pricing of any kind was found.
Klein sits close to the more thoroughly documented Schwallier’s Country Basket and Steffens Orchard Market, both within a mile or two on the same Sparta road grid, and Robinette’s Apple Haus & Winery is a short drive south in Grand Rapids. If you’re already headed to the Fruit Ridge for a fuller u-pick experience at one of those spots, Klein could be a quick add-on stop for cider and market shopping — but that’s a geographic observation, not anything Klein itself promotes as a pairing.
This is one of the thinner records in the file. The address, phone number, and daily hours are reasonably solid, secondhand information, but the fundamentals that matter most for planning an apple-picking trip — whether you can pick at all, what varieties are available, and what season the orchard actually operates on — aren’t confirmed anywhere. A call to 616-887-7815 before making the drive is the only way to fill in those gaps.
Not stated in the record — no season_start or season_end date was found, only daily 9am-6pm hours with no calendar window attached.
you're specifically looking to pick your own apples — the record couldn't confirm whether u-pick is offered here at all.
Klein sits about a mile or two from the larger Schwallier's Country Basket and Steffens Orchard Market operations in the same Sparta/Fruit Ridge area, with Robinette's Apple Haus & Winery a short drive south.
Not clearly stated in the record. No source found confirmed whether apple picking is u-pick or pre-picked-only, so this field is marked unknown rather than guessed.
No dedicated orchard website was found in the record — only a Facebook business page (facebook.com/kleincidermill).
The record lists daily 9am-6pm hours, with no specific season start or end date attached.
Not stated in the record — the apple_varieties list is empty.
Yes, the record confirms a cider mill.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Daily. Check with the orchard before driving out.
Pricing was not published when we last checked.
No — this orchard sells pre-picked apples from its own trees rather than u-pick.
2151 10 Mile Rd NW, Sparta, MI 49345, in Kent County. It is one of 4 orchards we track in Fruit Ridge.
We track 4 orchards in Fruit Ridge, 3 of which let you pick your own apples. The orchard has not published a starting price, so it cannot be compared on cost — call before you budget.
One caveat worth repeating: this orchard had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 2 of the 4 orchards we track in Fruit Ridge had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the orchard confirms it.
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Checked September 2026.