Autumn (apple season!) in New York State is truly magnificent. The air turns crisp, the leaves catch fire with color, the smells of cinnamon float through the air, and the orchards are brimming with juicy New York apples. There are so many delicious and gorgeous orchards ready for U-Pick adventures all along the Hudson River. We’ve listed some of our favorites below.
If you’re super busy this time of year (who isn’t?!), before you start plotting your own adventure, check out one of the many Apple & Pumpkin Picking Tours with EscapeMaker this fall. Apple picking getaways packaged up for you and your crew! From September 8 – October 28, spend beautiful weekend days visiting quaint Hudson Valley towns, visiting farms, and picking apples to your heart’s content. Choose from our direct bus tours from Bryant Park, or our hop on / hop off looper shuttles, which start with a train ride on Metro-North Railroad.
1-2 Hrs from NYC:
- Outhouse Orchards (Salem, NY in Westchester County)
- Harvest Moon Farm & Orchard (Salem, NY in Westchester County)
- Stuarts Farm (Granite Springs, NY in Westchester County)
- Wilkins Fruit & Fir Farm (Yorktown Heights, NY in Westchester County)
- Orchards of Concklin (Pomona, NY in Westchester County)
2-4 Hrs from NYC:
- Barton Orchards (Poughquag, NY in Dutchess County)
- Meadowbrook Farm (Wappinger Falls in Dutchess County)
- Breezy Hill Orchards & Cider Mill (Staatsburg, NY in Dutchess County)
- Cedar Heights Orchard (Rhinebeck, NY in Dutchess County)
- Mead Orchards (Tivoli, NY in Dutchess County)
- Montgomery Place Orchards (Red Hook, NY in Dutchess County)
- Fishkill Farms (Hopewell Junction, NY in Dutchess County)
- Rose Hill Farm (Red Hook, NY in Dutchess County)
- Prospect Hill Orchards (Milton, NY in Dutchess County)
- Greig Farm (Red Hook, NY in Dutchess County)
- Lake View Orchards (Mayfield, NY in Central New York)
- Roger’s Family Orchard (Johnston, NY in Central New York)
- Bellinger’s Apple Orchard (Fultonville, NY in Central New York)
- Pavlus Orchards (Fort Plain, NY in Central New York)
- Sand Flats Orchard (Fonda, NY in Central New York)
- Terrace Mountain Orchards (Schoharie, NY in Central New York)
4 – 5 hrs from NYC:
- Old McMarley’s Apple Farm (Clinton, NY in Central New York)
- Middlefield Orchard (Cooperstown, NY in Central New York)
- Littletree Orchards (Newfield, NY in Tompkins County)
- Indian Creek Farm (Trumansburg, NY in Tompkins County)
Make a weekend getaway out of it and check out the cozy inns, B&Bs, camp sites, and more in the Catskills, Finger Lakes, Hudson Valley, and Central New York regions!
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