Agritourism & Farm Experiences near New Paltz, NY

New Paltz

Apple Hill Farm is a pick-your-own orchard and farm stand on Route 32 South in New Paltz, in the Hudson Valley's Ulster County with the Shawangunk Ridge as a backdrop. Fall brings u-pick apples and pumpkins, and the stand sells cider donuts, fresh cider, and seasonal produce. It's a popular autumn stop for the Mid-Hudson area; check the season's opening dates before you go.

Clintondale

Fall is the main event at Minard's, where U-pick apple orchards come with hayrides, a corn maze, a petting zoo, pony rides, gem mining, and apple cannons on Hurds Road in Clintondale. Wristbands cover the activities, and the kitchen turns out cider donuts, apple cider, wood-fired pizza, and ice cream. After apple season the farm reopens in late November as a Christmas Wonderland. It's a family-run agritourism spot in the Hudson Valley's Ulster County.

New Paltz

Country Charm Farm sits on DuBois Road in New Paltz, in the Hudson Valley beneath the Shawangunk Ridge. Ulster County's farm belt around New Paltz runs thick with orchards, u-pick fields, and roadside stands. The farm's former web domain is now parked and for sale, so confirm current offerings and hours before making the trip.

Clintondale

Minard Farms is an apple orchard in Clintondale, an Ulster County hamlet whose Hurds Road corridor is lined with Hudson Valley fruit farms. Its former website is no longer active, so current hours, apple varieties, and any pick-your-own details aren't posted online.

Highland

Liberty View Farm grows apples on Crescent Avenue in Highland, in the Hudson Valley's Ulster County. Owner Billiam van Roestenberg runs pick-your-own apples and flowers, a farmstand, and hosts small weddings and photo shoots on the property, which has been ranked among the country's top apple-picking spots. Market events bring wood-fired pizza, gelato, and popcorn to the orchard.

High Falls

Mr Apples grows apples using low-spray methods on Orchard Street in High Falls, an Ulster County hamlet in the Rondout Valley. The name points to reduced pesticide use. No active website was found, so seasonal hours and the varieties available aren't posted online.

Stone Ridge

Stone Ridge Orchard grows apples along Route 213 in the Rondout Valley of Ulster County, one of the Hudson Valley's older fruit-growing areas. The orchard is known for pick-your-own apples across many varieties, including heirloom and cider types, with the season running late summer through fall. Picking, a farm stand, and pressing fruit for cider all center on the autumn harvest.

Highland

Corey's Sugar Shack makes maple syrup in Highland, on the west bank of the Hudson in Ulster County. Sugarhouses in this stretch of the Hudson Valley boil through late winter and often open their doors during Maple Weekend for tours and tastings. There's little public detail on this one, so contact them during sugaring season to confirm what's for sale and whether they're open to visitors.

Highland

DuBois Farms in Highland runs pick-your-own for raspberries, peaches, apples, grapes, tomatoes, and pumpkins from June into late November, on the west side of the Hudson south of New Paltz. Beyond the fields there's a pizzeria and ice cream shop, a bakery known for apple cider donuts, farm animals, and a tavern pouring local hard cider, craft beer, and wine. Entry runs $5 weekdays, $10 weekends.

Milton

Fino Farms grows tree fruit on Old Indian Road in Milton, a Hudson Valley fruit town on the Ulster County side of the river. The farm raises apples and stone fruit such as nectarines, selling wholesale as well as locally. Milton's ridges above the Hudson have grown apples and peaches for well over a century. Reach the farm at (845) 532-1933.

Kingston

New Beginnings is a 130-acre working farm on Route 209 in Kingston, running sheep, free-range chickens, and an expanding maple syrup operation. The farm makes and sells products from its own honey and maple syrup. It sits in the Hudson Valley of Ulster County, at the foot of the Catskills. Reach the farmstead for store hours and what's currently available.

Milton

Westervelt Clarke's Fruit Farm grows tree fruit on Clarkes Lane in Milton, Ulster County, in the Hudson Valley's apple country. Area farms are known for apples, along with peaches, cherries, and berries through summer and fall. Specifics for this farm are limited online, so call ahead to confirm varieties, the picking season, and how they sell.

Milton

Prospect Hill Orchards runs pick-your-own cherries, peaches, plums, and apples on a Hudson Valley hillside in Milton, about 90 miles north of New York City. The farm fries apple cider donuts and sells baked goods at NYC Greenmarkets several days a week. Its 1817 Taproom pours hard cider and spirits distilled on site, and the property hosts events at Hilltop Farm.

Marlboro

Weed Orchards & Winery offers pick-your-own fruits, vegetables, and zinnias from July through October in Marlboro, on the west bank of the Hudson in Ulster County. Beyond picking, the farm runs a winery with flights and tastings, a cafe serving pizza and sandwiches, weekend live music, and a children's playground. The farm is dog-friendly and family-run.

Newburgh

Pugh Farms raises poultry on Quaker Road in Newburgh, in Orange County's mid-Hudson farm country. The farm focuses on birds and eggs for the local market.

Accord

Westwind Orchard is an organic apple orchard and cidery in Accord, in the Rondout Valley of Ulster County. Alongside its hard cider, the farm runs a wood-fired pizza kitchen and sells provisions, apparel, and gift boxes. It's become a weekend draw in the Catskills foothills for Hudson Valley day-trippers. Hours are seasonal, so check before going — the pizza and tasting windows are limited to the warmer months.

Newburgh

Pick-your-own runs almost the whole season here, starting with strawberries and cherries in June and rolling through peaches, apricots, plums, apples, grapes, and rows of vegetables into October. Tractor-pulled wagons carry visitors out to the fields, and the farm market sells jams, local honey, syrups, and salsas. There's a farm bar pouring homemade wine and animals for kids to meet. Open daily 9am to 4pm from Memorial Day weekend through late October, off Colandrea Road in Newburgh.

Poughkeepsie

Solvang Tree Farm is a choose-and-cut Christmas tree farm on Bedell Road in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County. Hudson Valley tree farms open in late November, letting families walk the rows and cut their own fir or spruce.

Accord

A choose-and-cut Christmas tree farm started in 1991 on a family dairy property in Accord, between the Shawangunk Ridge and the Catskill foothills in Ulster County. Alongside fresh-cut trees, Bell's makes wreaths, greenery, swags, and white pine roping. Like most Hudson Valley tree farms, it opens for the season the weekend after Thanksgiving.

Newburgh

Valley Bee Farm keeps bees along Route 9W in Newburgh, in the Hudson Valley of Orange County. It produces local honey and hive products from apiaries in the mid-Hudson region. As a small beekeeping operation, its honey reflects the wildflower and orchard bloom of the valley across the season.

Olivebridge

The Ashokan Center is a nonprofit outdoor-education campus on 385 wooded acres in Olivebridge, at the edge of the Catskills near the Ashokan Reservoir. It runs school field trips, traditional music and dance camps, group retreats with lodging and dining, and public events, with trails and streams open across the property. Despite the agritourism tag, it's an education and gathering center rather than a working farm.

Hyde Park

Clover Brooke Farm keeps llamas, alpacas, goats, donkeys, and mini horses on a small working farm in Hyde Park, and most visits center on the animals. Guided llama and alpaca hikes, goat walks, and tea with alpacas run alongside fiber-arts and soap-making workshops, farm yoga, and a summer camp for kids. A gift shop sells naturally dyed yarn, and guests can book an overnight farm stay through Airbnb.

Pleasant Valley

Remsburger Honey & Maple produces honey and maple syrup in Pleasant Valley, a Dutchess County town in the mid-Hudson Valley. Maple runs in late winter; honey follows through the warm months. No website or shop listing was found online to confirm where the products are sold.

Salt Point

Hahn Farm works land on Salt Point Turnpike in Dutchess County, raising its own meat and running a fall harvest season with pumpkins and hayrides. The farm store sells farm-raised beef and pork alongside seasonal produce. It sits in the Hudson Valley farm country north of Poughkeepsie.

Saugerties

Boice's Farm sits on Kings Highway in Saugerties, in the Hudson Valley farmland of Ulster County west of the river. Its specific crops and offerings aren't detailed online. This stretch of Ulster County grows sweet corn, vegetables, and orchard fruit, much of it sold at roadside stands through summer and fall.

Saugerties

Platte Creek Maple Farm taps trees for maple syrup on Glasco Turnpike in Saugerties, in the Catskill foothills of Ulster County. Sugaring season here runs late winter into early spring, when the sap flows and the evaporator boils it down to syrup. The farm keeps a website for its maple products.

Village of Red Hook

Brittany Hollow Farm sits on South Broadway in the village of Red Hook, in the northern Dutchess County stretch of the Hudson Valley. Its crops and visitor details aren't posted online. Red Hook is a well-known farm town with orchards, vegetable growers, and an active weekend farm-stand and market scene.

Town of Red Hook

Montgomery Place Orchards grows apples in Red Hook, in the Hudson Valley's Dutchess County. The farm sells from a wayside stand that dates back to the 1935 Dutchess County Fair and still serves as its market building today. Chefs and Hudson Valley locals know the orchard for its wide range of apple varieties and other tree fruit. Check the farm's website for current market hours and what's ripe.

Village of Red Hook

Oriole Orchards is a pick-your-own orchard in the Village of Red Hook, in the apple country of Dutchess County. Depending on the season you can pick apples, peaches, pears, and sour cherries. The Hudson Valley's cool nights and long autumns suit tree fruit, and sour cherries in particular are a short early-summer window worth timing. Reach the farm at (845) 758-9355.

Fishkill

The Fresh Air Fund runs this site as part of its Sharpe Reservation, more than 2,000 acres of woods, lakes and trails in Fishkill in the Hudson Valley. The nonprofit uses the land for outdoor and environmental education, including a working farm and maple sugaring that show visiting children where food comes from. The Fresh Air Fund has served New York City kids since the 1870s.

Campbell Hall

A pick-your-own berry farm on Shea Road in Campbell Hall, in the Orange County farmland of the mid-Hudson Valley. Strawberries and other summer berries are the typical draw here. Hours and crop timing aren't posted online.

Pleasant Valley

Lilymoore Farm on Moore Road in Pleasant Valley runs guided alpaca treks and farm tours across a historic Dutchess County property built around an 1840 colonial house and a 1900 barn. It hosts birthday and bachelorette groups, school and scout visits, and rents out as a film and photo location. The farm also shelters rescued pigeons through the nonprofit 'Dreaming of a Chance.' TripAdvisor ranks it the top thing to do in Pleasant Valley.

Red Hook

Greig Farm runs one of the Hudson Valley's long-standing pick-your-own operations, spread across fields on Pitcher Lane in Red Hook. Visitors pick berries through summer and pumpkins in fall, and the property hosts a farm market and several independent food vendors. Dutchess County, a few miles from the village of Red Hook and Bard College.

Campbell Hall

Halfway Acres grows USDA certified organic blueberries for pick-your-own on Purgatory Road in Campbell Hall. Picking runs about $8 a pound, with pre-picked berries also sold, and the season opens in late June and runs into early August. The farm posts daily hours each summer, usually morning and evening blocks midweek plus full weekend days. Orange County, near Goshen.

Town of Red Hook

Apiary 16 is a beekeeping operation on Tribune Lane in the town of Red Hook, in Dutchess County's Hudson Valley. The focus is honey and hive products from locally kept bees. As a small apiary, sales are likely direct or through area markets and seasonal, so reach out to confirm how to buy honey and whether visits are possible.

Millbrook

A Hudson Valley farm in Millbrook that raises a herd of more than 200 Suri alpacas and turns their fleece into a luxury home and apparel line. Products include alpaca throws, blankets, pillows, and bed linens, plus coats and knitwear for women, men, and children, crafted by artisans and sold under the brand's own label.

Verbank

Abel's Trees is a Christmas tree farm on North Clove Road in Verbank, part of the town of Union Vale in eastern Dutchess County. Choose-and-cut farms in this part of the Hudson Valley open the weekend after Thanksgiving for families cutting their own fir or spruce.

Town of Beekman

Barton Orchards runs a large pick-your-own operation on Apple Tree Lane in Poughquag, with apples and pumpkins you harvest yourself plus a five-acre corn maze, petting zoo, hay rides, and gem mining. The farm bakes its own apple cider donuts and pours local beer and cider in an on-site tap room. A second stand, The Apple Core, sells produce year-round in nearby Poughkeepsie. Live music runs through the fall season.

Germantown

Rider Farm works land on Sawmill Road in Germantown, a Columbia County town on the east bank of the Hudson known for its apple and cherry orchards. Family farms here supply Hudson Valley farm stands and pick-your-own visitors through the growing season.

Germantown

Chester

Pine Hill Berry Patch grows pick-your-own berries on Route 94 in Chester, in Orange County's farm belt in the lower Hudson Valley. Strawberries lead off the season in June, with other berries following through summer. Check ahead for what's ready and current picking hours.

Monroe

Pure Terror Scream Park on Route 17M in Monroe bills itself as America's longest walkthrough haunted attraction, a Guinness World Record holder packing ten haunts, trails, and live scare actors on one Hudson Valley site about 40 miles north of New York City. It runs select nights September through November, with a separate holiday event from late November into early January. It's a Halloween attraction, not a farm.

Middletown

Maples Farm sits on Route 17M in Middletown, in Orange County's farm country in the lower Hudson Valley. The roadside operation serves the Middletown area with seasonal produce.

Grahamsville

Catskill Mountain Sugarhouse taps an 800-acre farm outside Grahamsville and boils roughly 8,000 gallons of pure New York maple syrup a year, some of it sold to well-known pancake houses in New York City. Beyond syrup, the operation sells maple equipment and supplies and posts recipes for maple cookies, cakes, and French toast casserole. It's in the Sullivan County Catskills, off Sugarhouse Lane.

Middletown

The Pierson family has farmed this Route 211 West land in Middletown long enough to earn a Bicentennial Farm distinction, marking more than 200 years under one family. Alongside the greenhouse growing operation, the farm sells plants and seasonal produce to Orange County customers. Reach the farm directly to confirm what's growing and when the greenhouses are open.

Celtic Valley Carriage and Farm runs horse-drawn carriage service out of the Wallkill and Middletown area of Orange County, in the lower Hudson Valley. The operation pairs a working farm with carriage and wagon rides booked for weddings, holiday outings, and hayrides. Draft horses do the pulling. Carriage work is scheduled by appointment, so booking and availability come straight from the farm.

Dover Plains

Soukup Farm works land on Halls Corners Road in Dover Plains, in the eastern Dutchess County countryside near the Connecticut line. Small farms across this part of the Hudson Valley grow vegetables and run seasonal stands and CSA shares. This one keeps little of a presence online, so contact the farm directly for its crops, hours, and how to buy before heading out.

New Hampton

Soons Orchards grows apples on the edge of Orange County's Black Dirt region in New Hampton, west of the Hudson River. The family operation runs a farm market and presses its own cider, including a hard cider made from the orchard's fruit. Fall brings pick-your-own apples and pumpkins, and the market carries pies, cider donuts, and local produce through the harvest season.

Woodridge

The Outlier Inn is a small farm and event property on Mountaindale Road in Woodridge, in the Sullivan County Catskills. It hosts weddings and gatherings and offers overnight farm stays, with glamping-style lodging alongside its animals. Guests come for a rural retreat within a couple hours of New York City. Booking and current offerings run through the property directly.

Mountain Dale

Majestic Farm raises pasture-raised pork and poultry in the woods and pastures around Mountain Dale, along with heritage-breed livestock and organic apples. The orchard opens for U-pick, and the farm presses its own hard cider and cures sausages and specialty meats. You can book a stay at their cabin through Airbnb or find them at area farmers markets. It sits in the Catskills of Sullivan County.

Middletown

Pierson's Farm & Greenhouse grows greenhouse plants and nursery stock on Route 211 West in Middletown, Orange County. Expect bedding plants, hanging baskets, and vegetable starts in spring, plus seasonal produce and fall items like mums and pumpkins. It's a working family greenhouse serving the Hudson Valley; call ahead for current stock and seasonal hours.

Patterson

BobBee Apiaries is a family-run apiary on Route 311 in Patterson, in Putnam County's slice of the Mid-Hudson Valley near the Berkshire foothills. Beyond bottling local honey, they offer full-service hive care and concierge beekeeping, swarm and colony removal, beekeeping education, and custom honey gifts, drawing on more than fifteen years of experience. Their Instagram (bobbeeapiaries) shows current honey and offerings.

Woodbourne

Coco's Farm is on State Highway 42 in Woodbourne, a Sullivan County hamlet in the Catskills. Farms in this part of the western Catskills tend toward pasture, hay, and small mixed livestock on hilly ground. Listed as an agritourism spot.

Patterson

Kessman Farms works land on Cornwall Hill Road in Patterson, in Putnam County near the Connecticut line. This corner of the lower Hudson Valley runs to small livestock farms, hay ground, and horse properties. Carried on the directory as an agritourism farm.