86th Street Orchard

Our take

The short version

86th Street Orchard, north of Topeka, is a bare-bones, no-frills u-pick operation — just apples, peaches, and honey, cash only, with no festival programming, hayrides, or food trucks layered on top. That simplicity makes it a useful point of contrast against the bigger, more commercialized agritourism parks found in the Kansas City area. The real catch with this record is timing: both the orchard’s own website and its Facebook page still showed 2025 season details when checked for this research, rather than updated information for 2026.

Seven varieties, straightforwardly listed

The farm’s own site names Red Delicious, Yellow Delicious, Winesap, Granny Smith, Fuji, Jonagold, and Ein Shemer — a solid, recognizable lineup including Ein Shemer, a less commonly seen early-season variety among the orchards in this research. Beyond naming these varieties, the site doesn’t add festival dates, activity lists, or bundled experiences; this really is presented as a place to come pick or buy apples and little else.

Last season’s pricing, not confirmed for this year

The most specific pricing information available is from 2025: $42 per bushel or $26 per half bushel, cash only, with customers expected to bring their own containers. Those numbers are useful for setting rough expectations, but they are explicitly last year’s figures, not a confirmed 2026 price. Given how many other Kansas orchards in this batch have also had trouble getting current-season information updated, it’s reasonable to expect some inflationary adjustment or a small change, but this record can’t say what that adjustment might be.

An honest data problem, worth naming directly

This is a case where the source material itself hadn’t caught up to the current season at the time of research — both the website and the Facebook page displayed dated information rather than a 2026 update. That’s different from a farm simply not publishing details at all; it suggests either a slow-to-update small operation or a page that hadn’t yet been refreshed for the new season. Multiple phone numbers are reportedly in circulation for this small operation, which adds a bit of friction to confirming details by phone as well — trying 785-409-3224, the number on file, is the best available option.

A genuine no-frills alternative

For anyone who has found the bigger Kansas City-area operations too expensive or too crowded, 86th Street Orchard’s stripped-down model — just fruit, honey, and a fair cash price — is worth keeping in mind as an alternative once 2026 specifics are confirmed.

Getting there

86th Street Orchard is at 5332 NW 86th St in Topeka, in Shawnee County. No precise photo or street-view marker is on file for this location.

Bottom line

86th Street Orchard offers a genuine, bare-bones u-pick experience with seven solid varieties and historically fair cash pricing, but this record can’t confirm 2026 dates or prices because the orchard’s own site and Facebook page were still showing 2025 information as of this research. A phone call before visiting is essential here, more so than at farms with a freshly updated website.