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

Pick Your Own Apples

On Friday, September 24 picking Blushing Gold, Rome, and  Stayman. The crop is very light this year due to two hard freezes in April.  

Plan a visit to Stepp Farm’s Hillcrest Orchard to pick your own North Carolina apples.  Pick a 1/2 peck or pecks of fresh apples on our 4th generation orchard and farm.

  • Free admission!
  • Picking equipment available for your use
  • Bring a picnic lunch to enjoy by the orchard
  • Dog Friendly! (Click to read our policy)

Here you can find out which apples are ready to pick! 

Just look for this symbol:

 

Click to View our Ripening Schedule

Click to view the Orchard Map!Orchard Map Thumbnail

Scroll down or click to jump to an orchard:

Orchard 2 Orchard 5
Orchard 3 Orchard 6
Orchard 4 Orchard 7

Orchard 1

Availability Row Variety
apple picture 1-4 Stayman
  5 Pink Lady
apple picture 6-7 Stayman
  8-11 Fuji
  12 Mutsu
  13-14 Fuji
  15 Cameo
  16 Red Delicious/Jonathan
  17-18 Red Delicious
  19 Jonathan/Crimson Crisp
  20 Early Fuji
  21 Jonagold
apple picture 22-23 Blushing Gold
apple picture 24 Gala/Blushing Gold
  25 Ginger Gold

Orchard 2

Availability Row Variety
  1 Jonagold/Stayman (across road) Pink Lady
  2 Honey Crisp (across road) Cameo/Pink Lady
  3 Mutsu/Fuji (across road) Cameo/Pink Lady
  4 Fuji (across road) Fuji
  5 Cameo (across road) Fuji

Orchard 3

Availability Row Variety
  1 Cameo/Early Fuji
  2-3 Cameo
apple picture 4-6 Rome
  7 Arkansas Black/Granny Smith
  8 Granny Smith
  9 Granny Smith/Fuji
  10-11 Fuji
  12 Pinata
  13-18 Golden Delicious
  19 Pink Lady
  20-22 Shizuka/Winter Banana
  23 Shizuka/Arkansas Black/Winter Banana
  24-25 Pink Lady

Orchard 4

Availability Row Variety
  1 Braeburn
  2-5 Golden Delicious
  6 Lucacrisp/Stayman
  7 Evercrisp/Arkansas Black
  8-10 Granny Smith
  11 Cameo/Pink Lady
  12 Golden Delicious
  13 Gala
  14 Red Delicious
  15 Crimson Crisp
  16 Mutsu
  17 Blushing Gold/Ginger Gold
  18 Jonagold/Golden Delicious
  19 Jonagold/Ultra Gold
  20-22 Jonagold
  23-24 Fuji
  25-26 Early Fuji
  27 Granny Smith
  28 Pink Lady/Granny Smith/Pink Lady
  29 Pink Lady/Granny Smith
  30-34 Mutsu

Orchard 5

Availability Row Variety
  1-3 Stayman
  4 Golden Delicious
apple picture 5-9 Rome

Orchard 6

Availability Row Variety
  1-3 Red Delicious
  4 Golden Delicious
  5 Fuji/Golden Delicious
  6 Granny Smith/Jonagold
  7-8 Cameo
  9 Gala
  10-11 Cameo
  12 Jonagold
  13 Mutsu/Ginger Gold
  14 Ginger Gold
  15-19 Stayman

Orchard 7

Availability Row Variety
  1-10 Honeycrisp

Dog Friendly Orchard:

Walk your dog on a leash through acres of apple trees; please clean up after , throw their waste in the dumpster next to the picnic shed, and monitor their behavior.  We ask that you please don’t bring your dog into the apple house due to food regulations. They aren’t allowed on the wagon ride.