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Cedar Heights Orchards at Rhinebeck is a one-woman family orchard with heirloom trees, and its opening hours are the most honest in the region: "Open daily 10-5 while apples last." What You Can Pick Apples, including heirloom trees and named varieties: Galas, Cortlands, Jonamacs, Empires, Macoun, Red Delicious, Liberty, Gold Rush and Baldwin. Good to Know Cash or Venmo only. No card payments. Phone 845.876.3231. The orchard signs off its site personally: "I look forward to seeing you next fall at our family orchard. ~Arvia". Pro tip: Gold Rush and Baldwin are late keepers that hardly anybody grows for picking any more, and Liberty is a scab-resistant variety that rarely needs spraying. This is a varietal orchard, not a day out, and worth it for that.

Pennings Orchard at Warwick prices its picking in a way nothing else on this site does: $50 per car, not per person, and it includes a half-bushel bag to fill. What You Can Pick Apples - from September, with night picking on selected Saturdays Pumpkins - the field opens later in September What It Costs $50 admission per car, which includes a half-bushel bag to fill with apples, up to twenty-two pounds. In the orchard's own capitals: "UPICK IS CASH ONLY". What Else is Available A play area, a farm animal barn, a goat area, picnic areas, a market, an ice cream parlour, a beer garden, a cidery, a corn maze, a dairy barn and a tomahawk toss. Good to Know Open 9am to 5pm every day during the picking season. Pro tip: per-car pricing rewards a full car and punishes a couple. Twenty-two pounds of apples is a great deal for six people and an absurd amount for two, so either fill the seats or go somewhere charging per head.

Warwick Valley Winery and Distillery grows more than sixty-five apple varieties, which is more than any other orchard in this region, and opens its tasting room 362 days a year. What You Can Pick Apples, 5 September to 1 November 2026, daily 11am to 6pm. Which varieties are open rotates through the season with the harvest rather than being fixed. What It Costs $40 for a half-bushel bag, which holds twenty-two pounds. What Else is Available The tasting room 11am to 6pm, a café noon to 5pm Wednesday to Friday and 11am to 5pm at weekends, and live music 2pm to 5pm at weekends. Good to Know Sixty-five varieties on rotation means the fruit changes fortnightly. Ask what is open the week you go. Pro tip: $40 for twenty-two pounds works out under two dollars a pound, which for a bag you fill yourself is among the better value in this region. Compare it with the per-head gate fees down the road before you decide.

Fishkill Farms at Hopewell Junction is the only farm in this region that states flatly: "Pick-Your-Own: By reservation only." Turning up is not an option. What You Can Pick Eco-certified peaches and flowers, and apples in the autumn. Eco certification is a real standard rather than a marketing word, and very few orchards this size hold it. What Else is Available A Farm Store, the Treasury Cider Bar, and lunch and brunch service. Good to Know Store hours change seasonally and the farm asks you to check its contact page rather than assume. Book before you go. Phone 845.897.4377. No price is published. Pro tip: reservation-only picking is how a farm protects the fruit and the experience from a September Saturday. It also means the good slots go weeks ahead, so book before you plan the drive, not after.

Prospect Hill Orchards at Milton has been farmed by the same family since 1817, which is also the name of its taproom, and it opens weekends only. What You Can Pick Peaches through August and into the first weekend of September. The orchard also names cherries, apples and plums across its year. What Else is Available The 1817 Taproom and a Cider House and Distillery, plus Hilltop Farm for events. Good to Know Open weekends, 9am to 4pm, in season. $5 entry per person over two years of age. Pro tip: weekends only and a four o'clock close means this orchard has roughly fourteen hours of picking a week. Get there for nine, not for two.

Weed Orchards and Winery at Marlboro runs a four-month picking season and a winery in the same yard, and it grows zinnias alongside the fruit. What You Can Pick In the farm's own words: "From July-October our Pick-Your-Own offers an assortment of fruits, vegetables & zinnias." What Else is Available A winery and café serving Weed's Wine, local craft beer and "a variety of pizzas, salads, sandwiches and more", plus a playground. Good to Know The winery opens 11am to 5pm Saturdays and Sundays. Pro tip: a playground next to a wine bar next to a peach orchard is a specific and slightly rare combination. Anyone who has tried to keep a four-year-old entertained at a tasting room will understand why it matters.

Lawrence Farms Orchards at Newburgh picks the longest fruit list in this region and adds a vegetable list nearly as long, across a season running from Memorial Day weekend to the end of October. What You Can Pick Strawberries, cherries and apricots - early summer Peaches, plums and pears - through the summer Apples and pumpkins - autumn Vegetables - sweet corn, broccoli, aubergine, tomatoes, green beans, kale, collard greens, peppers, cucumbers, kohlrabi, cabbage, bok choy and courgette What Else is Available A farm market with jams, jellies, honey, syrups and salsas, a farm bar, tractor-pulled wagon rides and an information booth. Good to Know Open June to October, 9am to 4pm daily. 4pm is the last entry for picking and the farm itself closes at 5pm. Pro tip: apricots are the rarest thing on this list. They ripen in a ten-day window in midsummer, they bruise if you look at them, and almost nowhere in the Hudson Valley lets the public near them.

Wright's Farm at Gardiner runs a farm market eight in the morning until six, every day, and it is one of the very few orchards in this region where dogs are welcome. What You Can Pick Apples - September to October, 9am to 4:30pm Cherries - early summer Flowers What Else is Available A farm market, a bakery, accommodation on the farm, and the Gardiner Brewing Co. taproom, open Saturday and Sunday 3pm to 7pm. Good to Know The market is open daily 8am to 6pm. The picking day is shorter, closing at 4:30pm. Pro tip: staying on the farm is an option here that almost nowhere else offers, and a taproom that opens at three is the reason to make it an overnight rather than a morning.

Stone Ridge Orchard is a 200-year-old working farm on 115 acres in the Rondout Valley, and it picks something almost nowhere else here does: Asian pears. What You Can Pick In the orchard's own words: "U-Pick apples and Asian pears are available from labor day weekend till the end of October." The named early varieties are Asian Pears, Gala and Ginger Gold. What Else is Available A farmstand with produce, baked goods, apple cider and hard cider, open daily 9am to 6pm. A Farm Bar at weekends in September and October, noon to 6pm, with cider flights plus New York beer, wine and cocktails. Good to Know Picking runs daily, 10am to 5pm. Pro tip: Asian pears are picked ripe and eaten straight off the tree, unlike European pears which need days in a bowl. They are also the reason to come here rather than to the apple orchard next door.

Greig Farm at Red Hook opens every day of the year, nine in the morning until eight at night, which is more hours than any other farm in this region, and it picks something nobody else here does: asparagus. What You Can Pick In the farm's own list: "Asparagus, Strawberries, Snap Peas, Blueberries, Blackberries, Raspberries, Apples, Pumpkins", every day from May to October. What Else is Available A Farm Market and Café, a Barn Taproom, farm trails, a goat feeding area, a koi pond and various shops and galleries on the site. Good to Know Open 9am to 8pm, seven days, year round. Pro tip: pick-your-own asparagus is close to unheard of, because it is cut rather than picked and the window is about three weeks in May. If you are anywhere near Red Hook that month, this is the reason to come.

Dr. Davies Farm at Congers opened its peach picking on 20 June, which is remarkably early for a Hudson Valley peach, and it prices the visit in a way that lets you choose. What You Can Pick Peaches - from 20 June, $20 a half-peck bag, or $5 to enter without one Apples - in the autumn Flowers - from July, $30 a bucket plus a hayride ticket, including sunflowers and wildflowers What Else is Available The Red Barn Cidery, open Thursday and Friday from 3pm "until sunset-ish" and weekends from noon. Good to Know The farm stand opens 9am to 6pm every day. Pro tip: the $5 walk-in without a bag is the useful option nobody advertises. If you want to see the orchard and eat a peach rather than fill a bag, that is the ticket to ask for.

Wilkens Fruit and Fir Farm at Yorktown Heights is celebrating its 110th harvest in 2026, and it is an hour north of Manhattan with a season running from August to mid-December. What You Can Pick Peaches - from 22 August Apples - from the beginning of September Pumpkins - from October Christmas trees - choose-and-cut, just after Thanksgiving What Else is Available Three farm markets selling own-pressed apple cider, freshly baked pies, famous apple cider doughnuts and gifts. A corn maze and a winery. Good to Know Open Wednesdays to Mondays from late August through mid-December. Closed Tuesdays. Picking is 10am to 4:30pm, and 4:30pm is the last entry: the fields close thirty minutes later. Markets run to 5pm. Email wilkensfruitfarm@gmail.com. Pro tip: four months of continuous picking from peaches to Christmas trees is rare, and it means this farm rewards a season ticket mentality rather than a single visit. The August peaches are the least crowded thing it does.

Harvest Moon Farm and Orchard at North Salem opens its farm store every day of the year, 9am to 5pm, and runs its picking in named weekends rather than open seasons. What You Can Pick Peaches, on the weekend of 22 and 23 August. Apples follow in the autumn. What Else is Available A farm store, a café open 9am to 3pm, wood-fired pizza at events, soft-serve ice cream and a Kids Harvest Train. Good to Know Dogs are no longer allowed, service animals excepted, under Department of Agriculture guidance. This is a recent change. Pro tip: weekend-by-weekend picking means the fruit gets picked at its best and the field never gets stripped. It also means a wasted drive if you go on a Tuesday, so check which weekend is on before you leave.

Outhouse Orchards at North Salem runs its whole picking season as a single ticketed Fall Festival, 30 August to 1 November, and asks you to buy online before you come. What You Can Pick Apples Pumpkins What Else is Available A corn maze, hay rides, hard cider, a farm stand called The Barn, a dinner series, and a light-up pumpkin house for photographs. Good to Know Open Monday to Friday 10am to 6pm and weekends 9am to 5pm across the festival season. Buy tickets online before travelling. The orchard does not publish what they cost. Pro tip: an orchard that sells tickets online but will not print the price on its own website is one to check the cost of before you commit the family to a Saturday. Open the booking page first.

Stuart's Farm at Granite Springs is one of very few orchards within an hour of New York City that charges nothing to walk into the rows: "free parking and we do not charge an orchard fee." What You Can Pick Apples from Labor Day weekend, and peaches before them. The farm asks you to ring to see which varieties are available rather than assuming. Good to Know The farmstand opens 9am to 6pm and picking 10am to 4:30pm, which is two and a half hours shorter. Cash or cheque only. Hayrides run at weekends. Pro tip: in a region where a Saturday in an orchard can cost $27 a head before you touch an apple, free parking and no gate fee is worth driving past three farms for.

Stony Hill Farm Market at Chester is certified NJDA Organic, which almost nothing else in this region can say, and it runs a ten-acre corn maze fun park alongside the picking. What You Can Pick In the farm's own words: "Pick Your Own Apples, Pumpkins, Strawberries, & Vegetables", plus raspberries and flowers. What Else is Available A greenhouse and garden centre, a farm market, the ten-acre corn maze fun park and the Rebel Sheep winery. Good to Know The farm runs a Berry Fest in June and a Sunflower Festival in August with flower picking, hayrides, wine tastings and refreshments. One rule to know: "No outside food allowed on fall weekends & holidays". Pro tip: the picking is at 15 North Road and the gardens are at 8 Route 24. They are different addresses and satnavs get this wrong, so set the one you actually want.

Windy Brow Farms at Fredon has the clearest pricing statement of any farm on this site, and it is worth quoting whole: "No admission fee, no parking fee, no price per pound fee…that's it, just the bag cost." What You Can Pick Apples, usually from the first weekend in September through late October. This year the farm expects "a ver abbreviated pyo season" after spring freeze damage, and its peaches were largely lost to the frost. Good to Know The farm store opens 9am to 6pm seven days a week, with the scoop and coffee window to 8pm Thursday to Sunday. Dogs are welcome on the property and in the fields, which almost no orchard allows. And on what it does not do, in its own words: no "bounce houses, or cow trains, or corn pits, or pumpkin cannons". Pro tip: this is the anti-agritainment orchard of the New York region and the one to choose if a Saturday queue for a cow train is your idea of hell. It is also the only one that will let you bring the dog into the rows.

Snyder's Farm at Somerset does the single most useful thing a weather-dependent farm can do: it keeps a recorded phone message updated daily with what is picking. What You Can Pick Strawberries Blueberries Raspberries and blackberries Sunflowers Pumpkins - at the Fall Festival What Else is Available Food and soft drinks on picking weekends, a Fall Festival with hayrides, pumpkin picking, a corn maze and music, CSA boxes and curbside collection. Good to Know Open weekends only when in season, and the season depends entirely on the crop. No credit cards. There is an ATM on site. In the farm's own words: "Always call before you visit, we update our phone message if crop availability is low or if we are closed due to weather." Phone 732.496.0441. Pro tip: that recorded message is more current than any website in this region, including this one. Ring it from the car.

Von Thun's Country Farm Market runs two picking sites with different crops on each, and publishes what is ripe at both. What You Can Pick At the time of checking: South Brunswick - blueberries and blackberries Washington - blackberries and raspberries Plus a Sunflower Trail, flower fields, strawberries in early summer and pumpkins in autumn. What Else is Available A farm market, an Activity Area, hayrides, a corn maze, a Snack Shack with ice cream, lemonade, doughnuts and kettle corn, and animals including cows, sheep, pigs, goats, chickens, donkeys and ponies. Barnyard Buddies costs $10 per child per session. Good to Know In the farm's own words: "our picking fields are open Tuesdays – Sundays. They are closed on Mondays." Email Cindy@VonThunFarms.com. Pro tip: two sites, different berries, an hour apart. Check which crop is at which farm before you set off, because South Brunswick and Washington are not interchangeable.

Mead Orchards at Tivoli is running its final pick-your-own blueberry weekend at half price, 21 to 23 August, and the first apples of the year are on: Zestar and Sweet Maia. What You Can Pick Blueberries - final weekend 21 to 23 August, 50% off Apples - Zestar and Sweet Maia first Good to Know Open Friday 10am to 2pm and weekends 10am to 4pm, with Labor Day Monday 10am to 4pm. Free parking and free entry. Pro tip: half price on the last weekend of a blueberry crop is the orchard telling you the bushes are still heavy and the season is closing. That is the best value picking in this region right now.

Eastmont Orchards at Colts Neck has had its year cut down to five and a half weeks, and it says so plainly: "We will be CLOSED for peaches this year." What You Can Pick Pumpkins, and in the orchard's own words that is the extent of the 2026 season: "We will be OPEN (Friday, Saturday & Sunday) starting 9/18/26 through 10/25/26 and Columbus Day, weather permitting, for Pumpkins and other family fun activities." The orchard is currently "closed for July & August". What It Usually Picks In an ordinary year this is a varietal orchard of real depth. Its own calendar names Honeycrisp and McIntosh in early September; Cameo, Cortland, Crispin, Empire, Golden Delicious, Idared, Jonathan, McCoun, Red Delicious and Spartan from mid September to mid October; and Arkansas Black, Braeburn, Fuji, Granny Smith, Red Rome, Stayman Winesap and Yellow Newtown Pippin from mid October to close. Its peaches run to eighteen named varieties across three months. Good to Know Farm hours are Monday to Friday 9am to 4:30pm and weekends 9am to 5:30pm, "subject to change due to weather & supply". The orchard asks, repeatedly, that you call ahead on (732) 542-5404. Pro tip: seven named apple varieties in the last fortnight of the season is a serious orchard hiding behind a pumpkin patch. Worth marking down for 2027.

Rose Hill Farm at Red Hook holds 4.8 from 389 reviewers and is unusually precise about a distinction most farms blur: only the blueberries are pick-your-own. What You Can Pick Blueberries. That is the list. What Else is Available Peaches, apples and plums, all pre-picked at the farm stand. Sunflowers and zinnias to look at and photograph. A taproom. Good to Know Hours change week to week and the farm publishes a calendar rather than a fixed timetable. At the time of checking the stand ran Friday 3pm to 7pm and weekends 9am to 5pm, with the taproom open later. Pro tip: read the calendar, not the front page. A farm that changes its hours weekly is one that opens when the fruit is ready, which is a good sign and a planning hazard in equal measure.

HillView Farms at Gillette publishes its picking as a plain four-line calendar, which is the clearest thing any farm in this region does: What You Can Pick July - blueberries August - peaches and zinnias September - apples October - apples and pumpkins Good to Know The General Store opens 9am to 6pm, Monday to Sunday, May to October. The fields close to the public at 5pm, an hour before the shop. Phone (908) 647-0957. Pro tip: the fields shut an hour before the store does, and this is the kind of detail that turns a five o'clock arrival into a wasted drive. Be in the rows by four.

Lewin Farms at Wading River claims to be Long Island's first pick-your-own farm, and it runs a brewery alongside the fields. What You Can Pick Strawberries, apples and pumpkins in their usual seasons, plus Christmas trees. None of this is confirmed from the farm itself. What Else is Available A farm stand, a corn maze, and the North Fork Brewing Co. on site. Good to Know The farm's website could not be read. Every page returned navigation and nothing else, including the pick-your-own page. We have not been able to confirm its hours, its crops or its prices. Phone (631) 929-4327 before travelling. Pro tip: Wading River is the western end of the North Fork, which means you can pick here and be at a Cutchogue vineyard in half an hour. Plan it as the first stop, not the day.

Pochuck Valley Farm Market and Deli at Glenwood opens at six in the morning, which is two hours before anything else in this region and three hours before most of it. What You Can Pick The market advertises a u-pick section but does not say what is in it. Apples and pumpkins in autumn are the likely crops and are not confirmed. Good to Know Hours change with the season: 1 September to 31 October - daily 6am to 5pm 1 November to 31 August - weekdays 6am to 5pm, weekends 6am to 3pm The deli closes thirty minutes before the store does. Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year's Day and Easter; most other holidays close at noon. Phone 973-764-4732. Pro tip: a six o'clock opening means this is a working farmers' deli rather than a weekend attraction. Go for breakfast before the orchards down the road open, then pick afterwards.

Apple Dave's Orchards at Warwick is the farm that explains what happened to this whole region in 2026, and it does not soften it: "From Virginia to Albany farmers lost most or all of their apples in a deep freeze in April 2026." What You Can Pick Apples - "apple fun starts August 29, 2026" Pumpkins - "pick-your-own pumpkins will start early this year" What Else is Available A farm store with pies, doughnuts, jellies and jams, a kitchen in the red barn serving hot and cold food, cider doughnuts and drinks, and a distillery bar open weekends 11am to 6pm. Good to Know Free parking in mowed parking fields. Toilets are permanent, with additional portable units during the September and October peak. Pro tip: this orchard is telling you the truth about the crop before you drive there, which is worth more than a full car park. Take it seriously across the whole region, not just here.

Barton Orchards at Poughquag is the most heavily built-out farm in this region and one of very few anywhere with a dog park on site. What You Can Pick Apples - through the autumn Pumpkins - through the autumn What Else is Available A petting zoo, a General Store and Creamery, a Tap Room, a playground, a dog park called the Bark Park, a corn maze, a haunted house, a carousel, a wooden ship playground, gemstone mining, hay rides, concessions, the Harvest Lounge and a Sound Garden. Good to Know Open Friday 4pm to 9pm, Saturday noon to 9pm and Sunday noon to 6pm, with a regular season of 29 July to 4 November. Email info@bartonorchards.com. Pro tip: the nine o'clock Friday and Saturday closes make this the one orchard in the region you can visit after work. The fruit is the smallest part of what is on offer here, so come for the evening rather than the apples.

Battleview Orchards at Freehold has lost more to the April 2026 freeze than any other farm in this region, and it says so in its own May update: "The extreme temperatures in April has resulted in total crop loss of our Sour Cherries, Peaches, Nectarines and Apples." What You Can Pick Strawberries, from mid May. That is what survived. Sour cherries, peaches, nectarines and apples are all off for 2026. What It Costs $5 per person to enter the strawberry patch, and in the orchard's own words that fee "will include a $5.00 credit per person, towards the strawberries you pick", with no refunds. It is a deposit against fruit rather than a gate charge. Senior citizens get 10% off on Mondays and Thursdays, in the Country Store or the orchard. Good to Know The orchard's own rules, in its own order: "Always Call to confirm dates, hours and supply before traveling a distance." "We only accept cash at the picking locations." Senior discounts Mondays and Thursdays "Leave your pets at home." Orchard entrances close 20 minutes before closing time Pro tip: a $5 fee that becomes $5 of strawberries is the fairest admission model anyone in this region uses, and it is worth asking other farms why they do not do the same.

Giamarese Farm and Orchards at East Brunswick charges the lowest admission in this region, $3 a person, and picks straight through from May to December. What You Can Pick Strawberries, peas and lettuce - late May to June Tomatoes, peppers and aubergine - through the summer Apples - autumn Christmas trees - cut-and-choose, 5ft to 20ft, $99 What It Costs $3 per person admission to the picking fields. Good to Know Picking runs Tuesday to Sunday, 9am to 4:30pm. The farm market opens Tuesday to Friday, 9am to 6pm. The farm asks you to call before coming to confirm availability, since "Pick Your Own can change daily". No pets, and the farm is explicit that service animals are welcome but emotional support and comfort animals are not. Pro tip: $3 a head is what admission to a picking field should cost, and it is a tenth of what the North Fork charges. Everything you take home you pay for by weight on top, which is the honest way round.

Glover Farms at Brookhaven is a two-crop farm on Long Island: strawberries in summer, pumpkins in October, and nothing in between. What You Can Pick Strawberries - early summer Pumpkins - October Good to Know In the farm's own words: "We are now closed for the season and will re-open in the Fall for U-Pick Pumpkins!" No outside animals, which the farm attributes to USDA rules. Phone (631) 286-7876. The farm publishes no hours and no prices. Pro tip: a farm that shuts entirely between June and October is telling you its strawberry field is the real business. Diary it for next June rather than turning up in August.

Apple Ridge Orchards at Warwick opens on 29 August and, like four other farms in this region, has lost a crop this year: "we will not have a Pick-Your-Own Peach season this year". What You Can Pick Apples - from 29 August Pumpkins - from 19 September Peaches - not in 2026 What Else is Available A farm stand and market, apple cider doughnuts, a tractor-pulled hay wagon ride, farm animals, an Amish-built playground and a honeybee observation hive. Good to Know Open Thursday to Sunday, 9am to 6pm. The Christmas on the Farm light show begins 27 November. Pro tip: the honeybee observation hive is a glazed frame you can watch a colony working through, and it is the sort of thing children remember longer than the apples. Ask where it is rather than assuming you will walk past it.

Ochs Orchard at Warwick publishes the clearest month-by-month picking calendar of any farm in this region, and this year it carries a warning in capitals: "Due to a devastating freeze during blossom time, fruits will be thin this year. NO CHERRIES FOR 2026!" What You Can Pick Strawberries - June Raspberries - June to October Blueberries - June to July Blackberries - July to August Peaches - July to September Tomatoes and vegetables - August to October Apples - late August to November Pumpkins - September to November Good to Know Open every day, 9am to 6pm. The petting zoo is free, with goats, donkeys and a family of peacocks. Pro tip: "fruits will be thin this year" is not a disclaimer, it is a forecast from someone who has walked the rows. Ring the day before and ask what is actually on rather than picking from the calendar.

Windy Acre Orchard at Calverton is a small North Fork orchard with no website at all. What You Can Pick Apples, in the autumn. Good to Know There is no website. The orchard has a Facebook page and nothing else, and publishes no hours, no prices and no season dates. Phone (631) 727-4554. Pro tip: eight orchards in this region lost all or part of a crop to the April 2026 freeze, and a farm with no website is the least likely to have announced it. Ring before you drive out to Calverton.

Harbes Orchard on the North Fork grows twenty-seven apple varieties and nine acres of on-the-vine pumpkins, and it is the most expensive picking in this region by a wide margin. What You Can Pick Apples - twenty-seven varieties, from 29 August Pumpkins - nine acres, picked on the vine rather than off a pallet What It Costs Weekday apple picking - $20 a person Weekends and holidays - $27 a person Both include a three-pound bag and the farm activities. Larger packages run $24 to $37. Pony rides cost extra. Good to Know The season runs 29 August to 31 October. The farmstand and barnyard open 10am to 6pm Monday to Thursday, 10am to 7pm Friday and 9am to 7pm at weekends. Credit cards only. Pro tip: three pounds of apples is about eight apples. At $27 a head on a Saturday that is not a fruit price, it is a day-out price, and it is worth being clear with yourself about which you came for.

Hurds Family Farm at Modena gives exact picking dates when most orchards give a month, and its email address tells you what it thinks it sells: wegrowfun@gmail.com. What You Can Pick Apples - 28 August through 30 October Pumpkins - starting late September What Else is Available A café, a bar in the barn, a gift shop, hayrides, a corn maze, a bounce pillow, an obstacle course, pond fishing and golf cart tours. New for 2026 are themed special events and a Farmer 5K course. Good to Know Phone 845-883-7825. The farm publishes no opening hours and no prices. Pro tip: pond fishing at an apple orchard is genuinely unusual, and it is the thing that will get you an extra hour out of a child who has lost interest in apples by eleven o'clock.

Masker Orchards at Warwick opens 200 acres to the public and lets you drive your car into the orchard, which is the thing everybody who has been here remembers. What You Can Pick Apples, from 5 September through early November. Good to Know Open seven days a week, 9am to 5pm, until early November. Email maskersapples@gmail.com. No price is published. Pro tip: two hundred acres means you can genuinely get away from other people, which on a September Saturday an hour from the city is worth more than any other feature an orchard can offer. Drive further in than you think you need to.

Orchards of Concklin at Pomona has been farmed by the same family since 1712, which makes it one of the oldest continuously worked farms in New York State. What You Can Pick Apples and peaches in their usual seasons. We could not confirm this from the orchard itself. Good to Know The orchard's website could not be read. It sits behind a security service that blocks automated access, so we have not been able to check its hours, its prices or whether the April 2026 freeze affected it as it did eight other farms in this region. Phone (845) 354-0369 before travelling. Pro tip: eight farms within an hour of here have lost all or part of a crop to the April freeze. Ask specifically what is picking rather than what is usually picking.

Ort Farms at Long Valley runs the longest day of any farm in this region: the market opens at eight in the morning and the ice cream counter closes at nine at night. What You Can Pick At the time of checking: tomatoes, aubergine, peppers, squash and more, plus u-cut flowers in bloom. Strawberries in early summer and pumpkins in autumn. What It Costs Fill a half-peck bag for $10 on the vegetables. There is no admission fee to visit the farm animals and kids play area. Full-farm admission applies on pick-your-own festival weekends. Good to Know The picking fields open 9:30am to 6pm, the farm market 8am to 7pm and the ice cream 11am to 9pm. Email info@ortfarms.com. Pro tip: free access to the animals and the play area on an ordinary weekday is the quiet bargain here. It is a real farmyard rather than a petting-zoo attraction, and it costs nothing outside festival weekends.

Patty's Berries and Bunches at Mattituck picks all four berries and runs a seven-month season, June to December, with no reservations needed. What You Can Pick Strawberries Raspberries Blueberries Blackberries Flowers - peonies, dahlias and sunflowers What Else is Available A farm stand with ice cream, cider and drinks, baked goods and snacks, honey, jams and vegetables. Yard art and photo spots. Good to Know Open daily 9am to 6pm, June through December. "NO Reservations Needed for U-Pick", which on the North Fork is worth saying out loud. Pet friendly, though pets are not allowed in the picking rows. Pro tip: peonies are a two-week crop in late May and early June and hardly anyone lets the public cut them. If you can only come once, come then.

Peterson Farm at Flemington publishes its whole year as four lines and asks, plainly, that you "Call before visiting." What You Can Pick Strawberries - late May to June Peaches - July to August Apples and pumpkins - September to October Christmas trees - November to December Good to Know Hours vary seasonally. The farm points you at its "What's in Season" page before you set off, and asks you to ring. Parking available on site. Phone (908) 878-7303. Pro tip: a farm that asks you to ring is not being difficult, it is being honest about a crop it cannot predict. Eight orchards in this region lost fruit to the April freeze; this is exactly the kind of place where a two-minute call saves a two-hour drive.

Farms View Roadstand at Wayne is a working roadside farm in the middle of suburban Passaic County, growing its corn, lettuce and jalapeños on site rather than trucking them in. What You Can Pick Strawberries - early summer Pumpkins - autumn What Else is Available A farm stand with the home-grown corn, lettuce and jalapeño peppers, plus specialities including pickled quail eggs and olive oil. Good to Know Open Monday to Saturday 9am to 6pm and Sunday 9am to 1pm. Pro tip: the Sunday one o'clock close is five hours earlier than the rest of the week and is the single easiest way to waste a trip here. Sunday is a morning, not an afternoon.

Phillips Farms at Milford is one of only two farms in this region picking Asian pears, and it republishes its picking hours every week rather than posting a season. What You Can Pick Blackberries - late summer Apples - autumn Asian pears - autumn Cucumbers Good to Know The farm market opens seven days a week, 9am to 6:30pm. Picking hours change weekly. The week of 17 to 23 August ran 9am to 6pm; once school returns the weekdays close and "Pick-Your-Own will be OPEN WEEKENDS throughout the fall season". There is a message line on (908) 995-0022 as well as the market number. Pro tip: a dedicated recorded message line is a farm telling you it expects the answer to change daily. Ring it on the way rather than reading the website the night before.

Woodside Orchards at Aquebogue makes craft cider on the North Fork and picks the apples that go into it. What You Can Pick Apples, in the autumn. What Else is Available The craft cidery, fresh apples and baked goods. Good to Know The orchard publishes no opening hours, no season dates and no prices on its own site. Email woodsideorchardsli@gmail.com or phone 631-722-5770 before travelling. Pro tip: Aquebogue is the first orchard you reach coming east onto the North Fork, which makes it the natural first stop of a day rather than a destination. Ask what is ripe before you commit further east.

Soons Orchards at New Hampton is one of five farms in this region carrying the same bad news for 2026, and it puts it plainly: "no peach u-pick in '26 due to April freeze". What You Can Pick Apples - limited availability starting 12 September Pumpkins - returning on autumn weekends Peaches - not this year What Else is Available A market, a tap room open Friday to Sunday, and an ice cream counter, Tuesday to Sunday noon to 8pm. Good to Know The market opens 9am to 6pm daily. "Limited availability" is the orchard's own phrase about its apples, and after a freeze that took the whole peach crop it should be taken at face value. Pro tip: 12 September is a fortnight later than most Hudson Valley orchards open, and the crop is thin. Ring before driving up, and go early in the day rather than early in the week.

Apple Hill Farm at New Paltz opens later than almost anything else in the Hudson Valley: 18 September 2026, three weeks after the early orchards. What You Can Pick Apples, from 18 September. Pumpkins follow. Good to Know Open Friday to Sunday, 10am to 6pm. Picking closes at 5pm, an hour before the farmstand. Hayrides run noon to 5pm on Saturday and Sunday only. Email applehillfarmnp@gmail.com, phone 845-255-1605. Pro tip: an 18 September opening skips the early varieties entirely and goes straight to the mid-season fruit, which keeps better and cooks better. If you are picking for pies rather than for the lunchbox, later is the right end of the season.

DuBois Farms at Highland runs the longest season of any farm in this region, 19 June to 22 November, and has an admission rule nobody else has thought of: college students with a valid ID get in free. What You Can Pick In the farm's own list: "Raspberries, Nectarines, Plums, Apples, Peaches, Grapes, Tomatoes, Peppers, Eggplant, Pumpkins, Flowers, and More". What It Costs $5 a person on weekdays $10 a person at weekends and on holidays Free for college students with valid ID What Else is Available A farm market, a café, a bakery, a pizzeria, an ice cream shop, a tavern, farm animals and free parking. Good to Know Open 10am to 5pm every day. Major credit cards accepted. One rule catches people out: personal bags are not permitted on the premises, excluding nappy bags, small handbags and bags for medical needs. Pro tip: the bag rule is unusual and strictly worded, so travel light. And if there is a student in the party, the weekday visit is genuinely cheaper for everyone else too.

Bonacorsi Family Farm runs its year as three distinct openings rather than one long season, and it picks grapes, which only two other farms in this region do. What You Can Pick Berry U-Pick - "Strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, and more", June through early July Autumn U-Pick - apples and grapes, mid September to the end of October What Else is Available A roadside farm stand with peaches, apples and other home-grown produce, restocked daily from mid August to December. Good to Know Each of the three openings has its own status, and the farm marks them "CLOSED FOR THE SEASON" or "NOT OPEN YET" on its own front page. Read that before travelling. Email info@bonacorsifamilyfarm.com. A newsletter carries field availability and fruit ordering. Pro tip: pick-your-own grapes are genuinely rare, they come in a three-week window at the end of September, and they are heavy. Bring more bags than you think and expect to carry them further than you would apples.

Twin Star Orchards at New Paltz is best known as the home of Brooklyn Cider House, and it is the farm in this region we can tell you least about. What You Can Pick Apples, in the autumn. Beyond that, nothing is confirmed. Good to Know The orchard publishes no readable picking information. Its own website returned an empty page when we checked, and it does not state its season, its hours or its prices anywhere we could read. Phone (845) 633-8657 before travelling. Pro tip: everything we would normally tell you here has to come from that phone call. Ask three things: whether picking is running, what it costs, and whether you need to book.

Wickham's Fruit Farm at Cutchogue grows fruit on some of the oldest continually cultivated land in the country, much of it dating from 1661. It is 300 acres on Peconic Bay, 200 of them in fruit. What You Can Pick At the time of checking: peaches and berries, on Saturdays. The farm also grows sweet corn and sunflowers. What Else is Available A farmstand selling baked goods and doughnuts, cheeses, pies and preserves, and an old cider press still on site. Good to Know The farmstand opens Monday to Saturday, 9am to 5pm, and is closed Sundays, along with Thanksgiving and Christmas. The retail market runs May through December. Picking is 10am to 3pm, five hours, and at the time of checking Saturdays only. School groups can book weekday tours, see a live working beehive and, when possible, watch the historic cider press. Pro tip: a Sunday closure on a Long Island fruit farm in August is the giveaway that this is a working farm rather than a weekend destination. It also means Saturday is very busy, and Saturday is the picking day.

Jenkins-Lueken Orchards at New Paltz keeps seven-day hours through the season, which in a region where half the orchards open weekends only is the useful thing to know about it. What You Can Pick Apples - from the last weekend of August Berries - in summer Pumpkins - in autumn Good to Know Open Monday to Sunday, 9am to 5pm. Phone (845) 255-0999. No price and no admission fee is published. Pro tip: Yankee Folly Road is five minutes from New Paltz village, which makes this the easiest orchard in the mid-Hudson to combine with lunch and a walk rather than committing a whole day.

Longmeadow Farm at Hope opens for eighteen days a year, weekends only through September and October, and grows fifteen apple varieties in that window. What You Can Pick Apples - fifteen varieties, first weekend in September to the last in October Raspberries and blackberries - in the berry patch Pumpkins Good to Know Open Saturdays and Sundays 9am to 5pm, plus Labor Day and Columbus Day Mondays. The Harvest Festival is 3 October 2026, 11am to 4pm, with food, live music, picking and artisan vendors. Pro tip: an autumn berry patch is genuinely unusual, since raspberries and blackberries are a July crop almost everywhere else. Everflowering canes in October are worth the drive on their own.

Wightman Farms at Morristown keeps its market open seven days a week, 8am to 6pm, but the picking is a much narrower thing: weekends only, 9am to 4pm. What You Can Pick In the farm's own capitals: "PEACHES & APPLES". What Else is Available A farm market with baked goods, coffee, tea, prepared meals and farm-grown produce. Good to Know The rules here are firm and worth reading before you arrive: No pets, ADA service animals excepted No coolers or outside food and drink A 3% credit card processing fee applies Pro tip: a 3% card surcharge is unusual enough to catch people out on a big apple haul. Bring cash if you are filling more than a bag or two.

Sussex County Strawberry Farm at Sussex is a June strawberry farm in the far north-west corner of New Jersey, and its website has gone. What You Can Pick Strawberries, in June. That is the extent of what is confirmed. Good to Know The farm's website returns a 404 from its own server. It is not a blocked page or a broken certificate: the site is no longer there. We have not been able to confirm the farm's hours, its prices, or whether it is still picking. Phone (973) 579-5055 before travelling. Pro tip: strawberry season here is roughly three weeks in June and it moves with the weather. With no website to check, the phone is the only way to know, and it is worth ringing the week before rather than the morning of.

Melick's Town Farm is New Jersey's largest apple grower and runs four separate sites, only one of which you can pick at. What You Can Pick In the farm's own list: apples, strawberries, peaches, pumpkins and flowers. The picking is at Califon Orchards, 472 County Rd 513, Califon, in the farm's own words a place to "pick-your-own peaches, apples, or pumpkins when in season". What Else is Available The Oldwick Farm Market at 170 Oldwick Rd, the Cider Mill and Orchard at 19 King St with fifty acres of orchard around a 150-year-old barn, and the Bridgewater Market at 351 Rt 28. Hard cider, school tours and group events. Good to Know The farm publishes a ripening calendar rather than fixed dates, which is the page to read before you go. Pro tip: four addresses and only one of them picks. Set the satnav for Califon, not Oldwick, or you will spend a very pleasant hour in a shop wondering where the orchard is.

Demarest Farms at Hillsdale opens eight in the morning until five, every day, and is the closest pick-your-own orchard to the George Washington Bridge. What You Can Pick Peaches - summer Apples - autumn Pumpkins - autumn What Else is Available A petting zoo, a farm shop, an Orchard of Lights and a Halloween light show. School groups can reserve. Good to Know The farm runs a "Book Now" booking system on its own site, so check whether your visit needs a slot before travelling. Phone 201-666-0472. Pro tip: twenty-five minutes from upper Manhattan makes this the orchard for people without a whole Saturday. It also makes it the busiest, so the eight o'clock opening is the one to use.

Beemerville Orchard at Sussex is a small apple orchard in the Kittatinny hills, and it does not have a website. What You Can Pick Apples, in the autumn. Good to Know There is no website to check. The orchard publishes no hours, no prices and no season dates anywhere we could find. Phone (973) 875-1029. That is the only way to find out what is happening here. Pro tip: eight farms within an hour of here lost all or part of a crop to the April 2026 freeze. A small orchard with no website is exactly the sort that will not have told anyone. Ring first.

Tindall Farms at Cream Ridge is a small Monmouth County farm that trades entirely through Facebook. What You Can Pick Strawberries, in early summer. Good to Know There is no website. The farm publishes no hours, no prices and no season dates anywhere but its Facebook page, which is where the current picking news will be. Phone (609) 631-8086. Pro tip: a farm that only posts to Facebook posts often, because that is the only channel it has. Check the page the morning you go rather than ringing.

Alstede Farms at Chester grows the longest pick-your-own list in this region and runs it daily, from strawberries in May to Christmas trees in December. What You Can Pick In the farm's own list: "Strawberries, peas, raspberries, blueberries, beans, peaches, blackberries, peppers, eggplant, tomatoes, flowers, potatoes, apples, pumpkins, and Christmas trees". What Else is Available A farm store, a café, farm animals and hayrides. The farm publishes a weekly circular of what is ready. Good to Know Open daily. Rather than fixed crop dates the farm runs a "What Can I Pick Today" page and an Annual Harvest Schedule, both of which are more reliable than any calendar. Phone (908) 879-7189. Pro tip: fifteen crops on one farm means you can go four times a year and pick something different every time. Read the "What Can I Pick Today" page the morning you leave, not the week before.

Happy Day Farm at Manalapan is a flower farm with berries attached, and it runs the most expensive gate in this region: $18 a person, before you pick anything. What You Can Pick Blueberries - summer Blackberries and raspberries - summer Lavender - summer Sunflowers, zinnias and cosmos - from early July What It Costs $18 a person to enter the flower field, children two and over pay Sunflowers $2.50 each Zinnias and cosmos, two for $1 Purchases in the fields are cash only. Good to Know The Golden Hour sessions run Friday and Saturday, 3pm to 8pm, and the farm is candid about what they are for: "the perfect setting for photos, family memories, and a magical summer evening on the farm." The farm also makes its own maple syrup and honey. Pro tip: $18 in and $2.50 a stem means a bunch of ten sunflowers costs $43 for one person. Price it up before you go, and be clear that what you are buying is an evening in a field at golden hour, not flowers.

Terhune Orchards at Princeton is one of eight farms in this region carrying a lost 2026 crop, and its notice is four words long: "NO peach picking this season". What You Can Pick Flowers and vegetables - 9am to 5pm, vegetable picking closed Mondays Strawberries - early summer Apples - autumn Peaches - not this year What Else is Available A farm store, a winery open Saturday and Sunday noon to 5pm, and event spaces. Good to Know The farm store opens 9am to 6pm Monday to Thursday, 9am to 7pm Friday and 9am to 6pm Sunday. The orchard is currently marking the death of Gary Mount, 14 May 1944 to 29 December 2025, who farmed here for over fifty years. Pro tip: with the peaches gone, the flower and vegetable rows are what this farm is actually offering this summer, and they run seven days except Mondays. Go for those rather than arriving expecting fruit.