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Carter Mountain Orchard
9 a.m. – 6 p.m., Daily.
Pick your own in the orchard or buy pre-picked in the store.
Also available in the store: apple cider slushies, apple cider
donuts, pumpkins, and specialty crafts. Ticketed admission on
weekends begins on September 12.
WHERE: 1435 Carters Mountain Trail, Charlottesville, VA 22902
www.cartermountainorchard.com
Grave's Mountain Lodge
Oct 3 – 4, Oct 10 – 11, Oct 17 – 18; 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Pick your own apples in the orchards during our Apple Harvest
Festival. Other activities include pony rides, hayrides, petting
zoo, hay mountain, hay maze, and pumpkin patch.
WHERE: 205 Graves Mountain Lane, Syria, VA 22743
www.gravesmountain.com
Great Country Farms
Sept. 1 – 25, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Wagon rides to pick your own apple orchard.
WHERE: 34345 Snickersville Turnpike, Bluemont, VA 20135
www.greatcountryfarms.com
Hartland Orchard
Currently open through late October
Mondays – Fridays, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.
PYO apples. Cash or check only!
WHERE: 3064 Hartland Lane, Markham, VA 22543
www.hartlandorchard.com
Apple Picking
listed in alphabetical order
Apple Picking,
Pumpkin Patches
and Festivals
Belvedere Plantation
Sept. 12 – Nov. 7; Thursdays and Fridays, 10 a.m. –
2 p.m.; Friday evenings, 6 p.m – 10 p.m; Saturdays,
10 a.m. – 10 p.m.; Sundays, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.; Columbus
Day, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.; October 31, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
This working farm celebrates the fall harvest time with
pumpkin picking, bonfires, evening hayrides, a cornfield
maze, pedal tractors, pig races, a pumpkin mountain
slide, barnyard animals, and the fun barn with giant
rope swings. Food and other specialty items sold on
the premises.
WHERE: 1410 Belvedere Drive, F'burg, VA 22408
www.belvedereplantation.com
Braehead Farm Festival Weekend
Sept. 26 – Oct. 24; Weekends, 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Braehead Farm is having its annual Fall Festival
Weekends in October! Hayrides through the decorated
forest, interactive game within the corn maze, a sun-
flower walk for the little ones. Also, visit with the Great
Pumpkin in the pumpkin patch sitting on his hay throne.
WHERE: 1130 Tyler Street, F'burg, VA 22401
www.braeheadfarm.com
Cox Farms
Sept. 19 – Nov. 8; September & October, 10 a.m. – 6
p.m.; November, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Hayrides, 5 giant
slides, farm animals, rope swing, kid zone, pumpkins
and more.
WHERE: 15621 Braddock Road, Centreville, 20120
www.coxfarmsva.com
Pumpkin Patches
listed in alphabetical order
