Pick-your-own apple orchards are open for business, and readily available for Chicagoans. Check out this guide to Chicagoland Apple Picking to start planning your family trip this Fall.

 

Whether we like it or not, it appears the guaranteed warm days of 2009 are gone -- and with them the warm-day weekend activities. Instinct causes many of us to turn to the indoors for family fun, but how 'bout them apples?

 

Pick-your-own apple orchards are open for business, and readily available to Chicagoans. A great weekend jaunt, apple-picking promises fun for kids, delicious local apples at good prices, and the crisp, Fall sights and smells Mother Nature has to offer.

 

Below are some of the pick-your-own apple orchards around Chicagoland. We recommend you always call or visit their website in advance to confirm this information. If you know of any other pick-your-own apple orchards in the area, please let us know!

 

All Season Apple Orchard
14510 Route 176
Woodstock, IL 60098
(815) 338-5637

Everyday, 10 am - 5pm

 

Apples On Oak (only open thru this weekend Oct 11)
16146 Oak Avenue
Lockport, IL 60432
(815) 726-0386
Wed & Sat, 9am - 6pm

Sun, 11am - 5pm

 

Heinz Orchard
1050 Crest Road
Green Oaks, IL 60048
847-287-5867

Fri-Sun, 9:30am - 5:30pm

 

Homestead Orchard
11802 Charles Road
Woodstock, IL 60098
815-338-7443
Mon - Sat, 10am - 5pm

Sun, Noon - 5pm

 

Honey Hill Orchards
11747 Waterman Road
Waterman, IL 60556
815-264-3337

Everyday, 9am - 5pm

 

Jonamac Orchard
19412 Shabbona Road
Malta, IL 60150
815-825-2158

Everyday, 9am - 5:30pm

 

Kuipers Family Farm
1N318 Watson Road
Maple Park, IL 60151
815-827-5200

Sat & Sun, 10am - 6pm

 

Lang's Orchard
17411 Secor Rd
Woodstock, IL 60098
815-568-7547

Sat-Wed, 11am - 5pm

 

More Than Delicious Orchard
9905 Thompson Rd
Woodstock, IL 60098
815-338-2309
Fri, 11am - 4pm
Sat & Sun, 10am - 5pm

 

Plank Road Apple Orchard
50w737 Plank Road
Sycamore, IL 60178
815-899-4020
Thur-Mon, 10am - 5pm

 

Prairie Sky Orchard
4914 N Union Rd
Union, IL 60180
815-923-4834
Weekdays, 10am - 5pm Weekends, 10am - 6pm

 

Royal Oak Farm and Fruit Orchard
15908 Hebron Road
Harvard, IL 60033
815-648-4141
Everyday, 9:30am - 5pm

 

Valley Orchard
811 E Elgin St.
Cherry Valley, IL 61016
815-332-9696
Mon-Sat, 9am - 6pm
Sun, 10am - 6pm

 

Woodstock Country Orchard
17015 Garden Valley Road
Woodstock, IL 60098
815-923-4359
Wed-Fri, 10am - 2pm
Sat & Sun, 9am - 4pm 

 

Know of any other orchards nearby? What about recipes and storage ideas to make use of all those apples? Share with the community!