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A 400-acre working farm at the foot of the Blue Ridge. It never charges admission, parking is always free, and you pay only for what you pick. Its own website could not be read: the record points at a Facebook page that returned an error.
Checked August 21, 2026
Crooked Run Orchard at Purcellville is 400 acres at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and its pricing policy is the friendliest in this region.
Blackberries, peaches, sour cherries, pears, plums and gooseberries.
In the orchard's own reported words: it never charges an admission fee, parking is always free, and you pay only for what you pick or buy from the stand.
The orchard runs an automated picking line on (540) 338-6642 and asks you to ring it before you leave home for the very latest picking information.
There is also a CSA and seasonal festivals.
Pro tip: gooseberries are close to unfindable in America, having been banned across much of the country for most of the twentieth century as a host of white pine blister rust. If this orchard has them, that alone is the trip.
Our own assessment, scored the same way for every farm on the site, from what each farm publishes about itself. Not a visit, and not a public review score.