Orchards near Riverside, CA

Riverside

Cali-Dragon Farm and Orchard is on De Anza Avenue in Riverside, a city built on the citrus industry that once made this part of Southern California famous. The name points toward dragon fruit, a crop small Inland Empire growers have taken up in recent years, though the farm's current offerings aren't listed online.

Ridgedale Orchard & Vineyard is off Ridgedale Drive in Riverside County, in the 92570 zip shared by Perris and Winchester near the edge of Temecula Valley wine country. Small orchard-vineyard operations in this stretch typically pair fruit trees with a few acres of wine grapes.

San Bernardino

Beaumont

B&R Organic Cherry Orchard grows cherries under organic practices in Beaumont, in Riverside County's San Gorgonio Pass, an elevation band cool enough for stone fruit that struggles lower in the valley. No public listing confirms hours or u-pick access.

Beaumont

This Beaumont u-pick orchard, formerly known as Wohlgemuth's and now called BR Organic Cherry Orchard, grows mostly Rainier cherries — prized for lower acidity and higher sugar content than standard sweet cherry varieties. The orchard has operated organically from the same Eleventh Street property for years and is worth a call ahead before visiting.

Cherry Valley

Guldseth Cherry Orchard grows cherries near Cherry Valley, in the San Gorgonio Pass area of Riverside County — high enough in elevation to get the winter chill hours stone fruit needs, unlike most of inland Southern California.

Snow-Line Orchard has grown apples in Oak Glen since 1898, when Isaac Ford first planted the land; Mert and Shirley Hudson have run it for more than 36 years since. Today it's an orchard, cidery, and winery in one, growing three dozen-plus apple varieties, pressing cider in a mill older than most of the surrounding town, and opening a raspberry patch to u-pick each August.

Oak Glen

Yucaipa

Stone Pantry Orchard sits on Oak Glen Road in Yucaipa's apple-growing highlands, open weekends from Labor Day through Thanksgiving for u-pick apples, pears, and wild blackberries. Visitors can press their own cider and buy it by the gallon or half-gallon. Weekday visits run by appointment only, and the orchard also hosts school tours, church retreats, and weddings.