Agritourism & Farm Experiences near Placerville, CA

Placerville

Smokey Ridge Farmstead & Winery is on Carson Road in Placerville, part of the Apple Hill growing district in El Dorado County. Carson Road anchors a strip of wineries, farm stands, and orchards that draw Sacramento-area visitors into the Sierra foothills each fall.

Placerville

Pine'O'Mine is a third-generation family farm on Carson Road in the Apple Hill district above Placerville, with u-pick apples, mainly Granny Smith and Pink Lady, running late August through mid-December, plus summer u-pick blueberries, a fall pumpkin patch, and fresh-cut Christmas trees. The barn serves food and local beer with live music most weekends from May through December.

This four-generation family ranch on Carson Road sits in the Apple Hill growing region and opens Labor Day weekend through Christmas Eve. Visitors pick up apple-barn goods, bakery items, and candy, plus a mining sluice activity and a life-size maze for kids. Standard hours run 8:30am to 5:30pm, with shortened hours on Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve.

Placerville

Lava Cap Winery has grown estate grapes at 2,700 feet in the Apple Hill district of the Sierra Foothills since the Jones family planted the vineyard in 1986. The volcanic ash soils on the property produce Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Barbera, Zinfandel, and Petite Sirah described as intensely aromatic. The tasting room opens daily from 10am to 5pm, with picnic tables set among the vines for anyone who wants to stay through lunch.

Camino

High Sierra Iris & Wedding Gardens is on Hassler Road in Camino, California, in the El Dorado County Sierra foothills known locally as Apple Hill, the region's orchard and harvest-tourism belt.

Placerville

High Hill Ranch is part of Apple Hill, the cluster of orchards and farms above Placerville in El Dorado County. Its website highlights pie-baking instructions, consistent with the ranch's reputation for take-home pies alongside its apple orchards. No further confirmed details on cider, restaurant hours, or seasonal activities.

Placerville

Tomary Heirloom Tomatoes & Dahlias grows on Pleasant Valley Road outside Placerville, in the Sierra foothill farm country south of Apple Hill. The name states the crops plainly: heirloom tomato varieties and dahlia flowers, grown at an elevation that gives El Dorado County warm days and cool nights through the growing season.

Placerville

The Rice family has run this u-pick cherry and berry farm off Highway 49 near Placerville since 1994. Four cherry varieties and seven berry varieties, including raspberry, boysenberry, and olallieberry, ripen from late spring into summer, with a one-acre picnic lawn and koi pond on site. Entry runs $5 a person, and some years the cherry crop fails outright to weather.

Camino

Apple Hill orchard on North Canyon Road known for the Apple Ridge Express, a miniature train that's run through the fall season for over 40 years. There's a fruit stand and bake shop on-site, open Friday through Sunday from late September to Thanksgiving. Listed among UC Davis's recognized farm trails and part of the 120-plus-member El Dorado County Farm Trails.

Camino

Sun Mountain Farm sits on North Canyon Road in Camino, inside El Dorado County's Apple Hill district, the volcanic-soil, roughly 3,000-foot elevation band that supports the area's dozens of apple orchards and Christmas tree farms. No public listing yet confirms which crops this specific farm sells direct.

Camino

Celtic Gardens sits on Canyon Road in Camino, inside the Apple Hill growing district of El Dorado County. At roughly 3,000 feet in the Sierra foothills, the area's volcanic soil and cool nights have made it one of Northern California's best-known apple, pumpkin, and wine-grape regions.

Camino

Goyette's North Canyon Ranch is on North Canyon Road in Camino, inside the Apple Hill growing district of El Dorado County, a cluster of high-elevation ranches known for apples, pumpkins, and fall farm visits above Placerville. No further confirmed details on Goyette's specific crops, hours, or activities.

Camino

Wofford Acres Vineyards sits on Hidden Valley Lane in Camino, within the Apple Hill area of the El Dorado County Sierra foothills, a region better known for apple orchards than vineyards. A working website was not reachable during research, so current tasting room hours and wine list could not be confirmed.

Camino

Honey Bear Ranch is on Barkley Road in Camino, inside the Apple Hill growing district above Placerville, and is listed locally under both agritourism and honey. No further confirmed details on hive count, honey varieties, or visiting hours.

Camino

Argyres Orchard sits on Apple Hill in Camino, where some of the apple trees are more than 80 years old. Visitors pick their own apples and Concord grapes on weekends only, Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., starting in late September and running until harvest is picked clean. Bring cash or a checkbook — the orchard doesn't take cards. Owner Maryann Argyres has run the place for decades.

Placerville

Pleasant Valley Harvest is a small farm property on Bucks Bar Road outside Placerville, listed in local business directories as a market and event space for orchard products, weddings, and gatherings. Business records list around two employees. It's a modest operation — call ahead of a visit rather than showing up unannounced.

Camino

Ralph's Apple Ranch is a pick-your-own orchard on Larsen Road in the Apple Hill district of Camino, growing apples exclusively rather than mixed fruit. It's a small, single-crop u-pick stop within El Dorado County's fall apple region.

Camino

Larsen Apple Barn has stayed in the same family since the 1860s, making it the longest continuously family-owned farm on Apple Hill. Eight generations later, the ranch still grows apples, pears, and nectarines, and sells them alongside baked goods from its own bakeshop and a small farm museum. The barn opens Sunday through Friday from Labor Day through December, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and stays closed on Saturdays during the season.

Camino

Rainbow Camino Ridge is on Snows Road in Camino, inside El Dorado County's Apple Hill growing district in the Sierra foothills east of Placerville. The area is known for apple orchards, cider presses, and u-pick and fall-harvest operations packed into a few square miles.

Denver Dan's sits on Bumble Bee Lane in El Dorado County's Sierra foothills near Placerville, a region thick with Apple Hill orchards and seasonal tree lots along Highway 50. No verified specifics on this operation's current offerings or hours turned up online this session — confirm before making the drive.

Camino

Apple Hill Growers Association represents more than 50 family farms in the Sierra Nevada foothills around Camino, near Placerville. What started in 1964 with 16 apple ranches has grown into a district of u-pick orchards, wineries, cideries, bakeries and Christmas tree farms, all mapped through the association's seasonal harvest calendar.

Camino

Bolster's Hilltop Ranch sits in the Apple Hill region of El Dorado County, where visitors pick their own blueberries and pumpkins in season. A small winery operates alongside the orchard, and the ranch throws an annual summer blueberry festival with local arts, crafts, and live music — a fixture in Camino's cluster of hilltop farms.

Camino

El Dorado County Farm Trails represents farms and orchards along Carson Road in Camino, California, the Sierra foothill area known as Apple Hill. The trail groups growers across the Camino-Placerville corridor who open for fall apple picking, cider, and harvest-season visits.

Garden Valley

Rome Valley Vineyards is on Traverse Creek Road in Garden Valley, part of the El Dorado wine region in the Sierra Nevada foothills near Placerville. Growers here plant at elevations up to 3,000 feet, producing wine distinct from California's flatland Central Valley vineyards.

O'Halloran's Apple Trail Ranch sits on Cable Road near Camino, in the Apple Hill growing district — El Dorado County's cluster of apple orchards, cider presses, and fall farm stands in the Sierra foothills.

Placerville

The American River Conservancy runs Wakamatsu Farm in Placerville, site of the 1869 Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Farm Colony — the first Japanese colony in the United States. FogDog Farm now grows organic food on the land, and the Conservancy opens it for Open Farm Days on spring and fall Saturdays ($10 per vehicle) plus docent-led tours booked two weeks out.

Camino

Hangtown Kid Apple Orchard is on Mace Road in Camino, part of the Apple Hill growing district above Placerville, "Hangtown" being the old Gold Rush name for the area before it became El Dorado County's apple country. No further confirmed details on varieties, u-pick access, or hours.

Coloma

American Whitewater Expeditions ran river trips from a New River Road address in Coloma, on the South Fork American River where California's commercial whitewater rafting industry got its start. No current website was located under this name, so operating status is unconfirmed.

Coloma

American River Conservancy is a nonprofit land trust headquartered in the historic Kane House at Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park in Coloma. Since 1989 it has protected more than 30,000 acres and built 35-plus miles of trail across the upper American and Cosumnes River watersheds. Its working farm, Wakamatsu Farm, hosts public tours and partners with local growers.

Camino

Goodness Orchard has been certified organic since 1990, a rarity on Apple Hill where most neighbors still spray. Visitors pick heirloom apples, peaches, pears, strawberries, blackberries, and tart cherries, plus 15 vegetable varieties including sweet corn and winter squash, with picking stretched from May through December. Call ahead for what's ready that week.

Garden Valley

Also known as Rustic Dream Farmstead, Berry Heaven is a family-run u-pick operation in Garden Valley near historic Coloma, growing eleven varieties of blueberries alongside blackberries, raspberries, apples, and strawberries from May through November. A petting zoo and school tour program round out visits, with an on-farm market selling what didn't get picked.

Somerset

Granite Springs Winery sits in Somerset, within El Dorado County's Fair Play AVA, a granite-soil wine region in the Sierra foothills known for Zinfandel and other warm-climate reds. A working website was not reachable during research, so current tasting hours and wine list could not be confirmed.

Michael's Vineyard grows old-vine Zinfandel grapes on Fairplay Road in the Sierra foothills' Fair Play wine country, and opens the rows for U-pick rather than selling exclusively to wineries. The grapes lean toward home use — jelly and syrup more than juice — given the character of old vines. Hours run 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekdays and 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekends during harvest.

Noel's Pumpkin Patch sits on Fairplay Road in the Fair Play area of El Dorado County, a Sierra foothill district better known today for its wineries under the Fair Play AVA than for its pumpkins. Pockets of orchard and row-crop ground still line the road alongside the vineyards.

Pollock Pines

Harris Tree Farm has stayed in the same family for seven generations, dating back to 1853, on Blair Road in the El Dorado County town of Pollock Pines. Pick-your-own fruit season starts in June, with blackberries among the regulars, and the property is also known locally for u-cut Christmas trees come winter.

Pollock Pines

Harris Family Farm works Sierra foothill ground on Blair Road in Pollock Pines, with u-pick apples, berries, and mulberries alongside farm-baked pies and donuts. The farm also runs pie-making classes, orchard yoga, high tea, and camping from late May through Christmas Eve. Open Thursday through Sunday, 9am-4:30pm. Call ahead or check Instagram for which crops are ready to pick.

Plymouth

Amador Flower Farm in Plymouth grows more than 1,200 daylily varieties across 4 acres of demonstration gardens, plus a nursery and gift shop. They ship plants online March through November and are open daily 9am-4pm in season (Thursday-Sunday in winter).

Shingle Springs

El Dorado Honey bottles raw, unfiltered honey sourced from bee yards across El Dorado County, in the Sierra foothills east of Sacramento. Rather than selling from a single farm stand, the honey moves through more than a dozen regional retailers, including Boa Vista Orchards and Nugget Market. No heat-processing or additives, a standard several small foothill apiaries use to set themselves apart from imported honey blends.

Fiddletown

Casa de la Pradera is a European-style bed and breakfast built on a working organic farm outside Fiddletown, in California's Sierra foothills. The property grows its own vegetables, herbs, apples, and olives, and keeps goats on the grounds. Rooms look out over an open meadow, and reviewers consistently single out the breakfast and the quiet — it's currently the only bed and breakfast listed in the Fiddletown area.

Plymouth

Amador Country Acres sits on Fiddletown Road outside Plymouth, in Amador County's Shenandoah Valley wine and orchard district. No further details on crops, hours, or products turned up online at the time of this listing.

Pilot Hill

Enchanted April Inn sits on a hillside in the Sierra Foothills between El Dorado Hills and Pilot Hill, with gardens planted around the property and views over the surrounding hills. Rooms come with fireplaces, daily housekeeping, and a full breakfast included in the stay. It's a small operation — TripAdvisor lists it as the only bed and breakfast in Pilot Hill — and reviewers consistently mention the quiet and the grounds over anything flashy.

El Dorado Hills

Once in a Blue Moon Berries is a small berry operation on Arroyo Vista Way in El Dorado Hills, in the Sierra foothills east of Sacramento, with an active Instagram account under the same name. Specific varieties, u-pick hours, or a public phone line weren't confirmed online.

Auburn

The Mountain Mandarin Festival celebrates Placer County's foothill-grown Owari Satsuma mandarins each year at the Gold Country Fairgrounds in Auburn, the weekend before Thanksgiving. More than 30,000 visitors come through over the three days for grower booths selling 10-pound bags straight off the trees, food and artisan vendors, chef demos, and a kids zone. The Mountain Mandarin Growers Association has run the event for more than 30 years.

Auburn

AnneBelle Farms sits on Grass Valley Highway in Auburn, California, in the Sierra foothills of Placer County - gold country terrain that gradually gave way to orchards, vineyards, and small farms after the mining era.

Loomis

The Flower Farm in Loomis combines a plant nursery, coffee house, and six acres of citrus, Malbec grapes, and cutting flowers with a separate bed and breakfast inn and event center down the road. The cafe serves breakfast burritos, seasonal sandwiches, and craft mimosas, and a small tasting bar pours Casque Wine on-site. The nursery and cafe have operated in their current form since 2006, with the inn and event space run from a second location on Auburn-Folsom Road.

Newcastle

Miller Honey Farms opened its Newcastle operation in 1974 and still sells jars locally at Echo Valley Ranch and Ace Hardware in nearby Auburn, alongside its own honey and mandarins. The Geraldson Road location is part of a larger multi-state beekeeping business, not a single-family roadside operation. Retail hours vary by season — check with local retailers carrying the honey before making a special trip.

Loomis

Flower Farm sits on Horseshoe Bar Road in Loomis, in the Placer County foothill belt known for citrus and nursery stock at the edge of the Sacramento Valley. The name and agritourism listing point to a working nursery operation. No further confirmed details on plant selection, hours, or additional offerings.

Colfax

Charleston Lavender Farm sits at the corner of Yankee Jims and Pine Hollow roads in Colfax, where visitors can walk the rows during Lavender U-Pick Days on Fridays and Sundays each June and July. Open house weekends bring in other local vendors selling handcrafted goods alongside the farm's lavender products.

Foresthill

Snowy Peaks Christmas Tree & Berry Farm is on Foresthill Road in Placer County's Sierra foothill country above Auburn. The pairing of Christmas trees and berries fits the elevation — cool enough for conifers, warm enough lower down for summer berry crops.

Loomis

Horton Iris Garden has grown irises on King Road in Loomis since 1999 and now carries around 1,200 to 1,500 varieties. Bloom season runs April and May, when the garden opens Friday through Monday, 10am-5pm, for viewing and ordering bare-root and potted iris plants; a cut-your-own pumpkin patch runs in fall.

Auburn

Amber Oaks Raspberries is a family-owned u-pick farm on Shanley Road outside Auburn, open Saturdays from 9am to 2pm and closed the rest of the week. Beyond the raspberries in its name, the farm grows blackberries, peaches, mandarins, squash, and tomatoes, offering both pick-your-own and pre-picked orders depending on what's ripe that week.

Penryn

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Winterport Farm sits on Twin Cities Road near Ione, about 31 miles from Sacramento, and has been in the Port family's hands since land purchased by the Winters in 1905. The property cycled through dairy and Christmas tree operations before settling into grass-fed beef, raised with no hormones, antibiotics, or grain.

Bushnell Gardens Nursery operates in Granite Bay, in the oak-studded foothill country northeast of Sacramento. The business sells plants, trees, and home decor, drawing gardeners from the Placer County suburbs and the wider Sacramento region.

Granite Bay

Rickey Ranch grows its own pumpkins on Cavitt Stallman Road in Granite Bay and opens the fields every October 1st through the 31st, 10 a.m. to dusk. The family runs hayrides and horse rides alongside pens of pigs, goats, chickens, and sheep, and props skeletons on old farm equipment scattered through the property. Regulars say it's smaller and quieter than the county's bigger patches — plus there's a vineyard on the same ground.

Loomis

The Loomis Eggplant Festival is a community event held in Loomis, a small Placer County town with a farming history tied to fruit orchards and produce stands. It is organized around a single crop rather than a single farm. Current dates, vendors, and admission details were not verifiable online this search.

Grass Valley

Dry Creek Herb Farm has grown organic herbs and edible plants in the Sierra gold country since 2006. Beyond the retail gardens, where visitors can walk through and buy plants directly from the source, the farm runs as a working learning center offering herbalism classes and apprenticeships. Owner Mary Evans Peterson built the operation around hands-on plant education rather than just sales, and the gardens stay open for browsing through the growing season.

Roseville

Bambi's Christmas Tree Land is listed on South Harding Boulevard in Roseville, running as a seasonal cut-tree lot in the Sacramento-area suburbs. No working website or social page turned up in research, so current pricing, tree varieties, and hours could not be confirmed.

Lincoln

Nastase Honey Farm keeps hives on Sego Lane outside Lincoln and bottles what they produce as raw, unfiltered honey, mostly orange blossom and wildflower varietals shaped by the almond and citrus orchards nearby. It's a small, family-run operation — no storefront, no farmers market circuit listed, just honey sold directly from the farm.

Roseville

Berryfest is Roseville's annual strawberry festival, held on Mother's Day weekend near Vernon Street and the surrounding downtown blocks. Local farms supply the strawberries for shortcake and other treats sold alongside arts and crafts booths, a parade, live music, and a petting zoo. Johny 5 Productions organizes the event.