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Los Rios Rancho at Oak Glen is "The Largest and Oldest Apple Farm in Southern California", in its own words, and it has been operating since 1906. What You Can Pick Apples. At the time of checking: "Macintosh Apples available now for U-pick!" The main 2026 season begins Labor Day weekend. What Else is Available A Farm Store Tent, a Farm Kitchen doing tri-tip sandwiches and BBQ, nature trails, Oak Knoll Park and Blue Sky Park, hard cider tastings, a Cider Co., Wilshire's Apple Shed, a Market Barn and Kitchen, and Little Seedling Ranch. Events run all season: an Apple Butter Festival, Old West Days, Movies on the Green, Farm to Table dinners and Chuck Wagon Suppers. Good to Know Oak Glen sits at about 4,700 feet in the San Bernardino mountains, which is why apples grow here at all and why it is ten degrees cooler than the valley below. Pro tip: Macintosh in late August is unusually early, and it is a soft, aromatic, short-keeping apple that is best eaten within a week. Pick it to eat now, not to store.

Parrish Pioneer Ranch at Oak Glen has been growing apples since 1867, which makes it the oldest business in this region by some margin. Its own masthead reads "Crisp Apples Since 1867". What You Can Pick Apples. The ranch publishes an Apple Season FAQ split into late summer, autumn and winter, headed "Pirates, Apple Picking, and Beyond". What Else is Available Apples, cider, jams and jellies, a snack bar, a picnic park, an art gallery and gift shops. Events through the year include a car show in June, a Big Game weekend and Light Up the Glen in November. Good to Know Open Friday through Sunday, 10am to 5pm, and open year round rather than seasonally, which almost no Oak Glen ranch manages. Pro tip: a working apple ranch that has been in the same business since the year Nebraska became a state is worth an hour on its own. The picnic park is free and the view down the Glen is the reason to bring lunch.

Forneris Farms at Mission Hills has been "Growing Greatness since 1966" and is the last working farm in the San Fernando Valley, sitting a quarter of a mile from the San Fernando Mission. What You Can Pick Pumpkins, in the annual patch. There is no fruit picking here. What Else is Available An old-fashioned family farm stand selling locally grown produce, and the thing the farm is actually famous for: "the Best Tomatoes in Southern California". Tomato season runs summer through late autumn. A corn maze and a train ride in autumn. Good to Know At 15200 Rinaldi Street, adjacent to the San Fernando Mission Cemetery. Pro tip: thirty-two kilometres from downtown Los Angeles is as close as a working farm gets in this region. Go for the tomatoes in August and the pumpkins in October, and do not expect an orchard.

Villa del Sol Sweet Cherry Farms in Leona Valley charges nothing to walk in, and asks one thing in return. In the farm's own words: "There is No Entrance or Parking Fee. So We Do NOT Allow Any Eating of Cherries While Picking." What You Can Pick Sweet cherries, in the Leona Valley cherry belt north of Los Angeles. Good to Know The 2026 season is over. In the farm's own words: "2026 Closed for the Season. Hoping for lots of Cherries in 2027." The farm runs a Cherry Hotline on (661) 270-1356, and this is the best thing about it: "Gary will update the HOTLINE every Evening around Sundown to advise on Cherry picking for the next days." There are email Cherry Alerts too. Two firm rules: No dogs, on insurance grounds. The farm notes the weather is too hot to leave them in the car, so leave them at home. No buses. "ALL BUSES will be turned away at the gate." Pro tip: a hotline updated by a named person every evening at sundown is the single best picking information source found anywhere on this site. Sign up for the alerts in April and you will never waste a drive to Leona Valley.

Stetson Creek Ranch is the most remote farm in this region and possibly on this site. It is an apple orchard in the mountains, completely surrounded by National Forest, and getting there is part of the deal. Getting There In the ranch's own words: "Our ranch is down a long dirt Forest Service road that is rocky and must be taken slowly and carefully. The Forest Service recommends high clearance vehicles for these roads. It is one lane but there are places wide enough for one car to pull off and allow oncoming traffic to pass." What You Can Pick Apples, in the autumn. Good to Know The ranch's rules are unlike anything else on this site, and worth reading in full before you go: No smoking. "We are completely surrounded by National Forest, and a careless ash could cause a catastrophe!" Keep your children with you at all times. "The forest is home to many animals that don't respect property boundaries. Some of them are predators." There is also a pond. Dogs stay in the car. There is livestock. Sensible shoes. "Our orchard is in the mountains... We have uneven terrain, wild roses with thorns, ground squirrel holes, rocks, snakes and other hazards." No climbing trees or throwing apples. Credit cards are now accepted, which the ranch flags as news. Pro tip: this is the only farm on this site that warns you about predators, snakes and the fire risk from a dropped cigarette. Take the warnings seriously, take a proper car, and go anyway. Nothing else near Los Angeles is remotely like it.

Riley's Farm at Oak Glen is an apple farm wrapped around a living-history theatre company, and its picking now happens mostly after dark. What You Can Pick Berry Picking Nights are ticketed evening events, running through the summer. Apples, raspberries, cherries and olallieberries across the year, with a U-Pick Mercantile on site. What Else is Available Rather a lot that is not farming: Living History Adventures open to the public and to schools, dinner shows, a Colonial Faire, The Armory, the Hawk's Head Bakery and restaurant, birthday parties, lodging, and Saturday "Adventures in the Old World". Good to Know Everything is ticketed. Berry Picking Nights, dinner shows and field trips all sell tickets in advance. The farm is running a public fundraising campaign. Its own site carries a "Save Riley's Farm" section with a Donate button and a crowd-lending programme, and its journal discusses farm planning openly. Its future is under active discussion. Pro tip: Berry Picking Nights in an Oak Glen summer are genuinely the right idea, because picking in an afternoon at 4,700 feet in August is hot work. Book, because they are events rather than opening hours.

Oak Tree Mountain at Oak Glen is a fourteen-acre year-round country fair that started life as a small apple shed and has been drawing families for over sixty years. What You Can Pick Apples, possibly. The site calls itself "An Apple Season favorite" but describes rides, food and shops rather than fields, and picking is not confirmed. What Else is Available A great deal, and much of it free: the Little Oaks Speedway trike track, a Bubble Barn, Axe Therapy, a Play Tree, the Inspiration Forest, live music at the Mountain Outpost and Eddie the Yeti selfies. Paid: axe throwing, a fishing pond and "the Largest Slide in the USA". Plus fresh-baked pies, hand-dipped caramel apples, a petting zoo, open-pit BBQ, local shops, educational tours and a wedding venue. Good to Know Less than 90 minutes from Los Angeles and Orange County, with cool summers and snowy winters at Oak Glen's elevation. Pro tip: go for the mountain, the pies and the yeti. If picking apples off a tree is the point of the trip, Los Rios and Parrish are ten minutes away and do exactly that.

Snow-Line Orchard at Oak Glen picks autumn raspberries, which is unusual anywhere and remarkable in southern California, and it is famous locally for something else entirely: mini apple cider doughnuts. What You Can Pick Blackberries - summer Raspberries - autumn-bearing Apples - autumn The orchard uses natural growing practices. Good to Know The orchard's website blocked us. oakglenorchard.com returns a flat "Blocked" response to automated requests, so we have not been able to confirm its hours, crop dates or prices. Pro tip: autumn-bearing raspberries in the San Bernardino mountains fruit in September and October when the valley below is still in the nineties. That is the reason to come, and the doughnuts are the reason to stay.

Copeland's Cherry Ranch is one of the Leona Valley cherry farms, in the hills north of Los Angeles where the Antelope Valley meets the San Gabriels. What You Can Pick Sweet cherries, in late May and June. Good to Know The ranch's website could not be read. It returned an empty page. Pro tip: Leona Valley cherry season is about three weeks and every farm opens and closes on the fruit rather than a date. Villa del Sol next door runs a nightly hotline; use it to work out when the whole valley is picking.

McGrath Family Farm at Camarillo is a Ventura County farm working under integrated pest management, on the coastal plain where most of California's strawberries are grown. What You Can Pick Blackberries and strawberries, alongside beetroot and vegetables. None of this is confirmed from the farm itself. Good to Know There is no website. No hours, no prices and no season dates are published. Pro tip: Ventura County strawberries start in February and can run to July, which is four months earlier and two months longer than anywhere on the east coast. The California season is a completely different shape.

Willowbrook Apple Farm at Oak Glen is an Oak Glen apple farm whose website has gone. What You Can Pick Apples, in season. This comes from a u-pick directory rather than from the farm, so treat it as unconfirmed. Good to Know Nothing here is confirmed from the farm itself. It publishes no readable hours, no crop dates and no prices, so ring before you travel. Pro tip: southern California picking seasons run months earlier than the rest of the country. At a farm that publishes nothing, that makes the phone call more important rather than less.

Live Oak Canyon Pumpkin Farm at Redlands is an autumn fairground built around a pumpkin patch, and it is upfront about the balance. What You Can Pick Pumpkins, from 17 September 2026. There is no fruit picking here. What Else is Available Mechanical rides, inflatables, fairground games, a haunted maze and entertainment. Some attractions are free, most are on general admission or ticketed separately, and the farm publishes a Ride Guide to sort them out. In winter it becomes a Christmas tree farm. Good to Know The farm publishes a Know Before You Go page, a farm map and separate free and paid attraction lists. Read those before buying. Pro tip: this is a funfair with pumpkins, not a farm with a funfair. Price up the rides before you arrive, because the admission is only the beginning.

Sunmist Estate in the De Luz Heights above Temecula is a gated 35-acre citrus orchard that runs picking alongside weddings, camping and a bed and breakfast. What You Can Pick The estate publishes a "U-Pick & Hiking" page under the heading "From Farm to Table". The directory records blueberries and avocados and says no pesticides are used. Most of the estate is citrus, which has no guide on this site. What Else is Available Weddings in The Meadow Oaks, events, field trips, hiking, campsites and B&B accommodation. Ten minutes from Old Town Temecula. Good to Know Email info@sunmistestate.com, phone 626-434-5267. Pro tip: picking and then camping on the same 35 acres is a combination nothing else in this region offers. If you want a whole weekend rather than a morning, this is the one.

Orcutt Ranch at West Hills is the only farm on this site run by a city parks department. It is a historic ranch inside Los Angeles, with citrus groves and gardens, managed by LA City Parks. What You Can Pick Oranges, at an annual public picking event rather than through an open season. Citrus has no guide on this site, so nothing is recorded against this listing. Good to Know This is a public park as much as a farm: gardens, picnic areas, an adobe ranch house and mature oaks, forty kilometres from downtown but well inside the city. Picking is by event and the dates are announced by the parks department, usually in summer. Pro tip: a city-run orange picking day inside Los Angeles is a genuinely strange and lovely thing, and it sells out. Watch the LA Parks horticulture page in early summer rather than turning up.

Youngblood Farms at Los Angeles County is a farm trading through Facebook, picking apples and apricots. What You Can Pick Apples, apricots, in season. This comes from a u-pick directory rather than from the farm, so treat it as unconfirmed. Good to Know Nothing here is confirmed from the farm itself. It publishes no readable hours, no crop dates and no prices, so ring before you travel. Pro tip: southern California picking seasons run months earlier than the rest of the country. At a farm that publishes nothing, that makes the phone call more important rather than less.

Salinas Family Orchard at Los Angeles County is a small Los Angeles County peach orchard with no website. What You Can Pick Peaches, in season. This comes from a u-pick directory rather than from the farm, so treat it as unconfirmed. Good to Know Nothing here is confirmed from the farm itself. It publishes no readable hours, no crop dates and no prices, so ring before you travel. Pro tip: southern California picking seasons run months earlier than the rest of the country. At a farm that publishes nothing, that makes the phone call more important rather than less.

Soffel Farms at San Bernardino County is a San Bernardino County farm listed by name and nothing else. What You Can Pick Apples, in season. This comes from a u-pick directory rather than from the farm, so treat it as unconfirmed. Good to Know Nothing here is confirmed from the farm itself. It publishes no readable hours, no crop dates and no prices, so ring before you travel. Pro tip: southern California picking seasons run months earlier than the rest of the country. At a farm that publishes nothing, that makes the phone call more important rather than less.

Cherries LA by Tenerelli Orchards at Littlerock is the largest cherry operation in the Antelope Valley, and it has been growing: the business has absorbed Bright Ranch and Rhodes Orchard, both bought by the Cherry House. What You Can Pick Sweet cherries, under natural growing practices. The orchard takes group reservations. Good to Know There is no website. No hours, no prices and no season dates are published anywhere we could find. Pro tip: Antelope Valley cherries run late May into June and the season is short. Three orchards in this district, Villa del Sol, Copeland's and this one, all pick within a few miles of each other, so ring more than one.

Guldseth Cherry Orchard at Cherry Valley grows everything organically and publishes the most complete price list in this region. It also has no cherries this year. In the orchard's own capitals: "NO CHERRIES IN 2026 DO TO CROP FAILURE." And in its own words: "We regret to inform you that we have NO cherries for 2026. Please come back next year. 2027." What You Can Pick Sweet cherries - end of May through June, sometimes into July. Not in 2026. Kumquats and plums - June Apricots - July Peaches - August Vegetables - August through November What It Costs The orchard's 2025 figures, which are the last it published: Adults $25.00 Seniors, teens and veterans $20.00 Children $15.00 Children under three feet tall: free U-pick cherries: $3.00 a pound on top No refunds after entry. Restrooms are for registered pickers. Good to Know Open 9am to 5pm Monday to Saturday and noon to 5pm Sunday in cherry season. "Always call ahead of time for availability: 951.845.2490." Bring a box two inches deep or a cool box; the orchard provides picking buckets. There is picnicking and fishing at Bogart Park nearby. Pro tip: $25 a head plus $3 a pound is the most expensive picking in this region by a distance, and it buys organic cherries in a valley named after them. In a year with no cherries at all, ring before you plan anything.

Tanaka Farms at Irvine is the best-known farm in Orange County and the only working farm left in the middle of it. Its picking is sold as guided tours rather than open field access. What You Can Pick Strawberries - at the spring Strawberry Festival Melons - the current season, with melon tasting and evening tours Pumpkins - the autumn Pumpkin Patch What Else is Available A Produce Market Stand, a Barnyard Exhibit, Hana Field, a CSA with weekly boxes, field trips, private events and Hikari: Festival of Lights. The farm also runs the Tanaka Heritage Project, documenting four generations from Japan to Orange County, which is a genuinely unusual thing for a farm to publish. Good to Know The Produce Market Stand opens 9am to 5pm, seven days. Everything else is booked. Pro tip: a guided wagon tour is a different proposition from walking into a field, and worth knowing before you book. What you get here is a working farm in the middle of Irvine, which is remarkable in itself.

The HomeStead in Oak Glen at Oak Glen is an Oak Glen property whose name does not quite match the directory entry. What You Can Pick Apples, in season. This comes from a u-pick directory rather than from the farm, so treat it as unconfirmed. Good to Know Nothing here is confirmed from the farm itself. It publishes no readable hours, no crop dates and no prices, so ring before you travel. Pro tip: southern California picking seasons run months earlier than the rest of the country. At a farm that publishes nothing, that makes the phone call more important rather than less.

M & M Peach Ranch at Los Angeles County is a peach ranch whose only web presence is a Facebook video. What You Can Pick Peaches, in season. This comes from a u-pick directory rather than from the farm, so treat it as unconfirmed. Good to Know Nothing here is confirmed from the farm itself. It publishes no readable hours, no crop dates and no prices, so ring before you travel. Pro tip: southern California picking seasons run months earlier than the rest of the country. At a farm that publishes nothing, that makes the phone call more important rather than less.

Underwood Family Farms at Moorpark is the largest pick-your-own operation in southern California and the most organised. It publishes three separate pages just to tell you what is open. What You Can Pick The farm runs a "Pick Your Own This Week" page, a map showing which fields are open, a Projected Crop Calendar and a Seasonal Produce Guide. Between them they are the best picking information published by any farm in this region. Strawberries and blueberries in spring, vegetables through the summer, Pick Your Own Roma Tomatoes as a named event, and pumpkins in autumn. What Else is Available An Animal Center, a farm market, tractor rides, birthday parties in the Barnyard or the Pony Paddock, farm camp, and a long calendar of weekends: Antique Tractor Weekend, Wild West Weekend, All About Pumpkins Weekend, a Springtime Easter Festival, a Tulip Garden Experience and Christmas On The Farm. The Fall Harvest Festival is the big one, with a schedule of events and its own site map. Good to Know There is a second farm at Somis with its own picking calendar, listed separately here. Admission and tickets are published on the farm's own site. Pro tip: read "Pick Your Own This Week" and the field map together. Knowing which field is open saves you walking the wrong half of a very large farm in the California sun.

Underwood Family Farms Somis is the quieter of Underwood's two farms, thirteen kilometres beyond Moorpark, and it keeps its own picking calendar. What You Can Pick Blueberries and strawberries, plus vegetables, on a calendar published separately from the Moorpark farm. What Else is Available A Somis Animal Center and a Somis Farm Market. Good to Know The two Underwood farms are not interchangeable. They publish different calendars because different fields are open at different times. Check the Somis calendar specifically rather than the Moorpark one. Pro tip: Somis is the one to choose on a weekend. Moorpark has the festivals, the crowds and the car park to match; Somis has the same fruit and a fraction of the people.

Tierra Rejada Family Farms at Moorpark runs a large October pumpkin patch with Clydesdales, in the same valley as Underwood. What You Can Pick Pumpkins, in a large patch, in October. There is no fruit picking here. Good to Know There is no website. No hours, no prices and no dates are published. Pro tip: Clydesdales pulling a wagon through a pumpkin field is a good hour with small children, but if fruit is the object, Underwood is four minutes away and picks all year.

Temecula Berry Co is a u-pick blueberry farm in the Temecula Valley, and it prices its picking in a way that makes the cost obvious before you arrive. What It Costs Small container: $6 Medium container: $12 Large container: $20 Every guest aged five and over must buy a container. That is the admission. Cash or cheques only. What You Can Pick Blueberries. Southern California blueberries run far earlier than eastern ones, roughly April through June. Good to Know The 2026 season is complete. In the farm's own words: "Thank you for a berry sweet year!" Last entrance is usually thirty minutes before closing. There is a Holiday Pop-Up in December, and a Berry Bulletin mailing list. Pro tip: container pricing means a family of four with small containers pays $24 before anyone picks a berry. Buy one large between two rather than four smalls, and check the farm allows it first.