Best Places To Go Apple Picking
Hello fellow Fall lovers! Grab your best basket and let’s head to the countryside…
In parts of the country, leaves are turning and sweaters are emerging from dresser drawers. Already, pumpkin spice lattes have returned to coffee shop menus (ew, sorry not sorry), and apples are ripe for picking at orchards. Even if you’re not excited to get your hands on a Red Delicious, a Pink Lady, or a MacIntosh apple, apple picking is about so much more than fruit. All over the country, these farms supplement apple picking with fall entertainment like live music, festivals, corn mazes, hay rides, and even wine tastings. Many of the farms on this list also have amazing shops, which sell jams and jellies, candies, cider donuts, hard cider, and all kinds of signature fall treats.
Not all the best apple picking is limited to the East Coast. While there are plenty of great orchards in Maine, Massachusetts, and New York, autumn lovers can find scores of beautiful farms to visit across the Midwest and on the west Coast, too. Places like Georgia, Virginia, Minnesota, Washington, and even California have amazing picking destinations — so it’s easy to pick a bushel at an orchard near you. (*Most orchards only offer picking until the first frost, so apple pickers have until about mid-November before peak picking season is over.)
Farm Favorites
Honey Pot Hill Orchards in Stow, Massachusetts
Bear Swamp Orchard and Cidery in Ashfield, Massachusetts
Applecrest Farm Orchards in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire
Poverty Lane Orchards in Lebanon, New Hampshire
Shelburne Orchards in Shelburne, Vermont
Fishkill Farms in Hopewell Junction, New York
Apple Dave’s Orchards in Warwick, New York
Demarest Farms in Hillsdale, New Jersey
Terhune Orchards in Princeton, New Jersey
Solebury Orchards in New Hope, Pennsylvania
Sky Top Orchard in Flat Rock, North Carolina
Mercier Orchards in Blue Ridge, Georgia
Stribling Orchards in Markham, Virginia
Weston’s Antique Apples in New Berlin, Wisconsin
Apple Jack Orchards in Delano, Minnesota
Aamodt’s Apple Farm in Stillwater, Minnesota
Mt. View Orchards in Mount Hood, Oregon
Johnson Orchards in Yakima, Washington
Los Rios Rancho in Oak Glen, California
