The farm is now closed for the 2019 apple picking season.
Thank you for your visit. Hope to see you fall 2020.
The Stepp Family has been inviting guests to pick their own apples on our 70-acre working farm and apple orchard in Hendersonville NC for nearly 50 years. We invite you and your family to visit the farm to experience fun, family-friendly farm activities in a beautiful country setting on the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains in western North Carolina near Asheville. Pick your own apples and pumpkins or select from varieties of pre-picked apples. Navigate our 5-acre corn maze or try hitting a target with the apple cannon. Visit our Country Market for a delicious cup of apple cider or an apple cider slushy. Enjoy apple cider or pumpkin donuts, fresh from our own bakery. Bring a lunch to enjoy in picnic area beside the orchard.
Stepp's Hillcrest Orchard & Farm News
Lots of Apples Still to Pick
We still have lots of apples to pick from our trees!
Join us this weekend, October 26 and 27, at Stepp’s Hillcrest Orchard for a weekend of family fun! Here’s what’s going on:
- Pick your own apples! We still have lots of apples to pick from the tree including: Law Rome, Taylor Rome, Red Delicious, Blushing Gold and Fuji.
- Pre-Picked Apples. Varieties that may be available: Fuji, Granny Smith, Pink Lady, Rome Beauty.
- Pick your own pumpkins. Walk through our pumpkin field to find your perfect pumpkin. It’s not too late!
- Ugly Pig BBQ will be here serving lunch from 11 – 4 Saturday and Sunday.
- Try to hit our targets with the apple cannon! Our cannon will be open Saturday and Sunday as well as our tractor-pulled wagon rides. The corn maze with our 50th anniversary design is open every day of the week. Activities are open rain or shine.
- Tasty sweet treats to eat – Apple cider donuts, pumpkin donuts, apple pies, apple fritters, apple oatmeal caramel cookies, caramel apples, fudge, apple cider slushies and hot cider will be served all weekend.
- Delicious Kettle Corn – Don’t miss an opportunity to try our amazing kettle corn. New to the farm this year, we’ve had many people say it’s the best they’ve ever had!
- Hours: Friday & Saturday 8 – 6, Sunday 10 – 6, Monday – Thursday 8 – 5:30 rain or shine.
- Driving in the orchard is permitted Monday – Friday only.
Special Friday Farm Fun, Oct. 25, 2019
****Final Friday of the Season Special ****
Friday, October 25, only…
Wagon ride, cannon bucket and corn maze ticket
$10 for 12 and under
$12 for 13 and up
Starting at 10:00 AM
The farm will be open for regular weekend activities Saturday and Sunday, October 26 and 27.
Monday through Thursday hours are 8-5:30. The last day of the 2019 apple picking season is Thursday, October 31.
Open rain or shine.
Driving permitted in the orchard Monday – Friday.
Labor Day Weekend
Happy Labor Day Weekend! The farm celebrates all hard working Americans!
You have two places to celebrate with us this weekend:
Our booth at the 73rd NC Apple Festival on Main Street in Hendersonville across from the Historic Henderson County Courthouse. Go by and visit the young folks. They’ll be dishing up fresh NC apples, apple cider donuts, and apple cider slushies.
The farm will be open all Labor Day Weekend offering:
- Pick your own apples – Gala, Early Fuji, Jonathan, Mutsu, and Jonagold
- Prepicked apples – Gala, Early Fuji, and Honey Crisp (while they last)
- Pick your own sunflowers from several varieties
- Delicious and refreshing apple cider donuts, apple fritters,apple cider and lemonade slushies
- Wagon rides around the farm (Saturday, Sunday, Monday)
- Shooting the apple cannon (Saturday, Sunday, Monday)
- 5 acre challenging corn maze (everyday)
Hours
Friday and Saturday – 8-6
Sunday- 10-6
Monday – 8-5:30
Hope to see you at the farm this weekend.
***Driving is permitted in the orchard Monday – Friday.***
