Apple Picking in NY
I live in NYC and would like to take a trip to go apple picking. Since apple picking season is coming up, can anyone recommend any farms or orchards to go to in upstate NY or Long Island? Thanks!
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9 Comments:
Hi! I'm from the Central New York area and it's FABULOUS for leaf peeping and apple picking. My favorite place to pick is a bit touristy, but you get hayrides, cider, etc - it's great. The name is Beak & Skiff Apple Farms. Check their website for the picking schedule (beakandskiff.com). You'd also be convenient to the Finger Lakes and you could do apples one day, wine tasting the next!
vermonted at 9:42AM on 08/31/07
I'm originally from NY and I would suggest any orchard in the vicinity of New Paltz, NY. The orchards are beutiful and have all the baked and juiced goodies (cider donuts, woot!) and the town of New Paltz has a cute fun little village center with great restaurants (I strongly reccomend Main Street Bistro and The Bakery) and you can take a little side trip up into the mountains to Mohonk or Minnewaska. You can get to NP on a Trailways out of the Port Authority.
Jennefur at 10:09AM on 08/31/07
we were just in Columbia County near Hudson NY (about 2 hours north of NYC) and picked apples at 2 good orchards- Love Apple Farms and Samascott Orchards. Both have web sites.
hrherman at 8:54PM on 08/31/07
Thanks for the recommendations! I'll be sure to look into these places. =)
I haven't gone apple picking in ages so, I'm definitely looking forward to get some nice apples and other goodies.
Jennefur - Cider donuts sound delicious! I'll have to pick some up!
breukelencook at 10:51AM on 09/01/07
g to eatapples.com
close to new paltz
about an hour from nyc.
I am taking the family in Oct.
stickyrice at 1:13PM on 09/01/07
Go to Montgomery Place Orchards, just north of Rhinebeck, only two hours north of NYC. Not only do they have several rare heirloom apple varieties, the orchard is also part of a historic Hudson estate and you can tour the house. There's a harvest festival there sometime in October, complete with pumpkin-carving, a raptor display, and a sheep-herding demonstration, if you can make it.
butterface at 10:54PM on 09/02/07
If you really want to have a great apple picking time, Go to Ithaca's Apple Festival the first or so weekend of October. I loooooveee it. So much! And the area around there is very cute and lovely.
ErieIndiana at 1:41PM on 09/05/07
Years ago we used to go to Salinger's Orchard off Route 22 just outside of Westchester County in Brewster probably an hour's drive from NYC. I bet it's still there.
mojay at 2:48PM on 09/13/07
the warwick ny area is only about 1hr (plus or minus 15 mins) from the gw. its a beautiful area particularly in the fall. there are about 5 different orchards in the town, and we have checked them all out over the years. Theres Applewood orchard and winery (they make a nice wine!), which is just outside Sugarloaf craft village on kings highway in warwick (a great place to go for handmade crafts!) and Ochs orchards on rte 94 in warwick, which a nice quaint almost uncommercial orchard with a farmers market and HOME MADE icecream! Maskers is on rte 17A but is extremely well known and VERY crowded, as is Pennings orchard on rte 94 (for some reason they charge 3.00 per bag more than any of the other orchards in town!) A small and mostly unknown orchard is Jessup Road Orchard that you might enjoy. Prices range from 16.25 to 20.00 per bag (about 20 lbs of apples). There are a number of other orchards a bit further up, ie, New Paltz etc which is always an enjoyable outing and a nice ride up from the city. Have a fun time! Warwick also has an Apple Fest every year I think the 1st Sunday in Oct. CROWDED. so that effects traffic going to warwick that day to apple pick..
bobdb at 3:40PM on 09/18/07