Open seven days a week

Pick your own apple varieties available on Friday, September 24 are Blushing Gold, Rome, and Stayman. It is a light crop this year due to hard freezes in April. 

Pick your own sunflowers and zinnias. 

Corn Maze open seven days a week.

Jump pad, wagon rides, and apple cannon on weekends

 Prepicked: Honey Crisp, Early Fuji,  Red Delicious, Jonagold, Ambrosia, Granny Smith, and Golden Delicious

Hours: Monday – Thursday: 9:00 – 5:30

Friday and Saturday: 9:00 – 6:00

Sunday: 10:00 – 6:00

 

 

Stepp's Hillcrest Orchard

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Harvesting Family Memories for Generations

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 donuts, fresh from our own bakery.  Bring a lunch to enjoy in picnic area beside the orchard.

5o Years of Pick Your Own Apples

Pick Your Own Apples – 21 Varieties

Farm Market, Apple House & Bakery

School & Adult Educational Tours

Fun Activities at Stepp's Hillcrest Orchard & Farm:

Enjoy Our Apple Cider Doughnuts

Pick Jack O’Lanterns & Baby Pumpkins!

Explore Our Corn Maze Adventure

Shoot the Apple Cannon! (Weekends Only)

 

Weekend Wagon Ride Through the Orchard

Have Lunch in Our Covered Picnic Area

Capture & Share Family Memories

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What Visitors Say . . .


Hello, My child was part of the group that came with the field trip from Clyde Elementary on 10/20. I was able to come along and was so impressed with the day that your staff put on for the children. …

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"You drive right up to the tree. You are free to go anywhere. We were there last week, and the apples are everywhere. We picked Honey Crisp and they were GREAT!" Randall - Memphis TN   …

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Stepp's Hillcrest Orchard & Farm News

UPick Apples Opening September 17

By Stepp's Hillcrest Orchard

 

Pick your own apples are back! Beginning Friday September 17, you can pick Fuji, Blushing Gold, and Golden Delicious apples. Keep in mind it is a light crop this year.

  • Prepicked apples available in the Apple House including Honey Crisp.
  • Pick your own grapes and sunflowers, too.
  • Open rain or shine.
 Lots of wholesome family fun on tap Saturday and Sunday, September 18-19 
  • get lost in the corn maze, hit the target with the apple cannon, breathe in the farm fresh air on a wagon ride around the farm.
  • Bite into a juicy caramel apple, graze on homemade kettle corn and don’t forget the apple cider and pumpkin donuts and all the apple yummy desserts  
  • Dread Life Kitchen will prepare your lunch for you on Saturday and Sunday. So come hungry and picnic in our big picnic shed.

Visit our family farm and create lasting memories with your family.
Thank you for supporting us in this difficult year.
Driving in the orchard only Monday – Friday
Hours: 9-6 Saturday, 10-6 Sunday

 
 
 

Open Weekend of September 11-12

By Stepp's Hillcrest Orchard

The farm is open this weekend, September 11-12.

No pick your own apples will be available until September 17.
BUT you can:

  • pick your own sunflowers and grapes
  • amble through our five acre corn maze
  • shoot the apple cannon
  • ride the tractor pulled wagon through the orchard
  • choose from prepicked apples in the apple house (Honey Crisp, Golden Delicious, Red Delicious, Early Fuji, Jonagold)
  • enjoy delicious apple cider and pumpkin donuts and fresh made kettle corn
  • check out the jar goods and honey along with The Girl in the Garden Soaps in the Apple House

Hours: Saturday 9-6, Sunday 10-6
No driving in the orchard and on the farm on weekends.

Labor Day Farm Fun

By Stepp's Hillcrest Orchard

Labor Day Weekend Farm Fun

The farm is open all Labor Day Weekend, Saturday – Monday, with loads of roaming room and fresh country air. The sky is the limit on the fun you can enjoy. Come spend the day with us.

  • Pick your own Red and Golden Delicious, Jonagold, and Shizuka apples
  • Bag up prepicked apples
  • Treat yourself to delicious sweet treats
  • Take a wagon ride around the farm
  • Shoot the apple cannon
  • Get lost in the corn maze
  • Create a bouquet of pick your own sunflowers and zinnias
  • Clip sunkissed grapes straight from the vine
  • Pamper yourself with The Girl in the Garden natural hand made soaps and body salves
  • Let Haus Heidleburg Food Truck prepare your picnic lunch Saturday and Sunday.

Driving in the orchard Monday – Friday only
Hours: Saturday 9-6, Sunday 10 -6, Monday 9 – 5:30
The farm is open Labor Day Monday with all the above activities (food truck only Saturday and Sunday).