Orchards near Stillwater, MN

White Bear Lake

This is the strawberry side of Pine Tree Apple Orchard at 450 Apple Orchard Road near White Bear Lake. Pick-your-own strawberries run a short window from mid-June into early July, before the orchard closes to prep for apple season. The same farm reopens in mid-August with 25 apple varieties, a bakery, and fresh cider.

Dellwood

Pine Tree Apple Orchard grows 25 apple varieties on Apple Orchard Road northeast of the Twin Cities, with apple season running mid-August into February. The on-site bakery draws people for pies, fresh cider, and caramel apples. Fall weekends add a corn maze, pumpkin patch, and wagon rides. Generations of White Bear Lake area families have made it a fall tradition.

Town of Somerset

River Falls

River Falls

Hastings

The Femling family has run Afton Apple Orchards in Hastings since 1989, growing apples, raspberries, strawberries, and pumpkins across 250 acres in the St. Croix Valley. Pick your own or buy fruit already harvested at peak ripeness. Fall brings a 15-acre corn maze, hayrides, and a petting farm, making it one of the larger u-pick operations in the south metro.

Hastings

Afton Apple Orchard, run by Cenco Farms, is one of the larger pick-your-own operations in the Twin Cities metro, at 14421 90th Street South near Hastings in Washington County. It opens for u-pick apples and pumpkins in fall alongside a corn maze and hayrides, and picks strawberries and raspberries earlier in summer. The orchard's website carries current picking conditions and hours.

Fischer's Croix Farm Orchard sits above the scenic Lower St. Croix River near Hastings, a mile north of Highway 10. It grows a long list of apples, including University of Minnesota varieties like Honeycrisp, Zestar, Sweet Sixteen, and Keepsake, sold pick-your-own and pre-picked. Fall adds a pumpkin patch, corn maze, weekend wagon rides, and farm animals, plus a straw mountain and the Apple Express ride. Open Tuesday through Sunday, September into November. Call (651) 437-7126.

Hastings

Croix Farm Orchard offers pick-your-own apples, a pumpkin patch, and a corn maze on St. Croix Trail south of Hastings, run by John and Kay Leadholm. Weekend wagon rides carry visitors out to the pumpkins, and a small barnyard of goats, rabbits, and chickens is open for petting and photos. A food truck sells fried treats and apple cider. Admission is free; picking bags and the corn maze cost extra.

Hastings

Prescott

River Falls

River Falls

Taylors Falls

This orchard overlooks the St. Croix Valley just south of Taylors Falls, with pick-your-own strawberries from mid-June into mid-July and pick-your-own apples starting Labor Day weekend. Fall weekends bring hayrides, a pumpkin patch and live music, and a market barn sells produce and treats. A nature trail winds the grounds and a few farm animals round out the visit. Email [email protected] or call 651-257-9159.

Prescott

Beldenville