Sherwood Orchards

Small u-pick orchard, beautiful! Tools/buckets available. No extras, a quiet wonderful experience.

Gem off the side of 99. Acres of gorgeous heirloom varieties. They send you with an apple picker for higher branches. Best apples I have ever had. Crisp and flavorful explosions. Pricing was extremely reasonable. $1.25 a pound. We will definitely be visiting again. Starting in June, they have cherries, plums and pears.

My partner and I ended up at Sherwood Orchards on a Friday that we both had off work since we had been having a craving to do some apple picking and the farm was nearby. It's a drive-able distance from the suburbs that makes you feel as though you're in the country, even though it's just off the highway. They have a lot of different apple varieties to choose from and it's quite fun to be able to pick your own apples. I thought that the employees were pretty helpful, and it seemed reasonably priced. I found it to be a fun little outdoorsy experience and an opportunity to get some fresh fruit.

Orchard was large enough, but the size of the apples and pears were very small.and the flavor just wasn't enough to justify returning.

Make sure to check their hours the day that you go, they change them on Sunday or Monday nights. On Sunday the hours for Tuesday said 5 PM so I made plans for Tuesday; but on Tuesday they had changed their hours to 4 PM, which was too early for me to be able to make it on time. I had very disappointed children that day.