Take Your Pick: The 20 Best Fruit Farms Across the United States

Founded in 1651, the Belkin Family Lookout Farm, located in South Natick, Massachusetts, less than 20 miles from Boston, is one of the oldest continuously operating farms in the country. The farm cultivates more than 60,000 fruit trees, including apple, peach, nectarine, and plum, on 180 acres and offers pick-your-own fruit from June through October.

Adventure and flavor await at Showcase of Citrus in Clermont, Florida. When other U-pick fruit farms are closed for the season, this farm teems with life—with more than 50 varieties of citrus fruit growing along acres of groves. Open from November through May, the farm also offers field trips, group tours, educational amusements and a petting zoo.

At Kimmel Orchard & Vineyard in Nebraska City, visitors are free to roam 40 acres that burst forth with fruits and vegetables from June through October. Strawberries, peaches, asian pears, apples and pumpkins are all available in this U-Pick operation, but the cherries may be the biggest star at this establishment—they'll even pit them for you before you leave the farm.

How could you not be happy here? Happy Valley Farm, located in DeSoto, Kansas, features pick-your-own blueberries, blackberries, bush cherries, gooseberries, and grapes. The family-owned farm also offers an assortment of produce picked at neighboring farms. All year round, you can fill your own jar with honey from the farm’s resident beehives, and come fall you can press your own apple cider.

Nestled in the rich farmland of the Hudson Valley, Hurds Family Farm is a seventh-generation family-run farm in Modena, New York. At Hurds, more than 20 varieties of apples are on offer as well as pumpkins and, starting in late November, both cut-your-own and precut Christmas trees. Throughout the fall, enjoy a corn maze, hayride, petting zoo, and other kid-pleasing activities, then head over to the family’s 18th-century Dutch threshing barn to purchase gifts and refreshments.

If your idea of summer delight includes a freshly baked cherry pie, the 13-acre farm at Cherry Lane Orchards has plenty of fresh tart cherries to fill your pie plate. Located in Sturgeon Bay, the orchard specializes in a pick-your-own experience but also sells pre-picked sweet and tart cherries for those who want the fruit without the fuss. 

Started in 1965 as a roadside produce stand, Remlinger Farms has grown into a 200-acre tourist destination that annually welcomes more than 200,000 visitors from all over the world. Located in Carnation, Washington, the Remlinger family farm offers the “first and best fruits” in its pick-your-own operation, which includes strawberries, raspberries, and pumpkins. The farm also features a full-service restaurant, bakery, ice cream parlor, large picnic areas, and the Country Fair Fun Park.

Apples are truly the stars of the show at Soons' Orchards, located in New Hampton, New York, just a short drive from the well-known Woodbury Commons outlet mall. Soons' offers more than 28 varieties of apples as well as pick-your-own peaches and pumpkins. Hayrides, homemade apple cider, pies, doughnuts, fudge, and jams and jellies round out the farm’s attractions.

The Carter family has been farming in Georgia’s Henry County for eight generations, five of them here at Southern Belle Farm in McDonough. The pick-your-own season starts in April with strawberries and continues throughout the year with blackberries, blueberries, peaches, grapes, and pumpkins. Fall brings the farm’s popular four-acre corn maze as well as hayrides, the corn cannon, and plenty of good, wholesome fun.

Pick your own apples and then sip a little wine or hard cider at Warwick Valley Winery & Distillery, located in the heart of the Hudson Valley’s fertile Black Dirt region in Warwick, New York. Warwick Valley offers an astounding 60 different apple varieties to pick from as well as a huge assortment of wines, fruit wines, hard cider, and spirits. Live music and festivals highlight fall weekends.