Orchards near Saginaw, MI

Midland

Apple Blossom Orchard grows apples on Wilder Road in Midland, in Michigan's Tri-Cities area. Apple season here typically runs from Labor Day through October.

Montrose

Montrose Orchards runs a working cider mill and U-pick orchard about 20 miles northwest of Flint, now in its third generation of family ownership. Pick your own apples, pears, strawberries, cherries, blueberries, or pumpkins, then stop at the bakery for cider and donuts from Debbie's Kitchen. The farm store also stocks jams, honey, maple syrup, and cherry juice, plus hayrides and a fall pumpkin patch.

Montrose

Montrose Orchards has grown apples at 12473 Seymour Rd. in Montrose since 1913, and the Hill family has run the 150-acre farm since 1926. The stand carries more than 30 apple varieties plus pears, blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, and sweet cherries, along with cider donuts and pies baked on site. Hours run daily 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. during harvest, shorter in winter.

Hemlock

Gary and Lynne Jacques grow more than twenty apple varieties on their family orchard outside Hemlock, including HoneyCrisp and EverCrisp alongside older standbys. The picking season runs long for Michigan — apples from July through November, with peaches, pears, and plums filling out the rest of the calendar. It's a small operation by design, run by the family that plants and prunes the trees itself.

Hemlock

Flushing

Wolcott Orchard grows fruit on Coldwater Road near Mount Morris, Michigan, in Genesee County's orchard country north of Flint. No confirmed details on varieties or U-pick access are available online yet.