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Top 3 Pick Your Own Apple Spots

By Stephanie Stewart September 28, 2016
Graves Mountain Lodge
 
Rt. 670 Syria, Virginia 22743
Phone: 540-923-4231

Apple Harvest Festival:
October 1 – 2, 2016
October 8 – 9, 2016
October 15- 16, 2016
10:00 AM – 4:30 PM Daily

Features include: Food and Entertainment, Bluegrass Music, Cloggers, Arts and Crafts Vendors, Hayrides, Hay Mountain, Hay Maze and Horseback & Pony Rides. Our favorite thing to do is bring lawn chairs and blankets to enjoy the entertainment by the beautiful creek view. 

Orchards are open for apple picking or you may select your own from the apple bins at the picnic pavilion.

Pick your own apples fresh from the trees as long as they last. Varieties include: Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, Stayman, York, Winesap, Mutsu, Fuji, Granny Smith, Rome, and Empire. At the packing shed, you can also select pre-picked apples to suit your tastes or purchase pumpkins, gourds, cider and Indian corn.

Carter Mountain Orchard 

1435 Carters Mountain Trail Charlottesville, VA 22901
Phone: 434-977-1833 

Apple Harvest Celebration
June 4 – November 5:
Daily 9am -6pm
Open Thursdays ’til 9pm through Sept 22
Open 8am – 7pm on 10/8, 10/15, and 10/22

All through September, October, and November, visitors are invited to pick-your-own fun with food, hayrides, wine tastings, pumpkins, apple picking, apple butter, apple cider, apple cider donuts, apple pie, and all things apple!

In Season Now: Golden Delicious, Jonagold
Fuji - beginning 9/30
Winesap – beginning 9/30
York – beginning 9/30
Granny Smith – beginning 10/6
Stayman – beginning 10/6
Pink Lady – TBA later in the season – probably 10/21 or 10/28….stay tuned!

Great Country Farms 
18780 Foggy Bottom Road, Bluemont, VA 20135
Phone: 540-554-2073

Fall Pumpkin Harvest Festival
September 24-October 31, 2016
Open Daily: 9am-6pm - Last Picking Ride 5pm

Pick your own pumpkins and apples, corn maze, cider donuts, and lots more entertainment. 

September & early October feature Gala, Jonagold, Jona Free, Candy Crisp, Ruby Jon and Fuji varieties.