Always a stop on the annual cider donut tour, Riverview Orchards never disappoints!

The weather is getting crisper, the sweatshirts are coming out and all of a sudden you’re craving apples, pumpkin and butternut squash. If you’re looking for a list of places to pick your apples by hand, here’s where you said, locally, had the best!

Okay, I admit this isn’t the typical time of year to be talking about apple orchards. But, just because there’s snow on the ground instead of colored leaves doesn’t mean my Upstate NY craving for apple has gone into hibernation.

Usually, when you think of a cover charge, you think of bars and live music, right? Well, now, you’re gonna have to pay a cover for apple picking too.

Being New Yorkers, we’re pretty serious about our apples and I’m sad to report that a Capital Region favorite has announced this was their last year.

We live in New York State, our state fruit is the apple, so once the weather gets colder and leaves start falling off of the trees, we run to apple orchards to pick as many as we can. If you’re looking for some options, here’s…