Angle Orchard

Our take

What the record actually confirms

Angle Orchard sits on Swift Trail, also known as Highway 366, on the slopes of Mount Graham near Safford in Graham County’s Gila Valley. The research notes place the actual turnoff about 7.4 miles up Swift Trail from Highway 191 — a specific, checkable detail worth having in hand if you’re relying on GPS in an area where cell service can be unreliable. This is described as a century-old family u-pick operation, and unlike most orchards on this list, it’s genuinely mountain-set rather than sitting on the desert floor.

Posted hours are narrow: Tuesday and Friday, 3:30 to 5:30pm, and Saturday, 8am to 5pm. That’s a meaningfully smaller window than most orchards in this file offer, and it means a spontaneous weekday-morning visit simply won’t work — you’d need to time a trip around one of those three specific days. U-pick apples are priced at $0.75 per pound, which the record shows as clearly the cheapest per-pound apple price among the Arizona orchards covered here.

What ripens when

Four apple varieties are named in the record: Gala, Elstar, Fuji, and Granny Smith. The research notes lay out a rough sequence — Gala and Elstar ripen first in August, with Fuji and Granny Smith following through October. That timeline is consistent with how these varieties typically ripen elsewhere (Gala is a classic early-to-mid-season apple, Fuji and Granny Smith are known late-season keepers), which lends it some real-world plausibility even though it isn’t confirmed against a specific 2026 announcement.

The research notes also mention Saturn peaches leading the summer before the apples come in, suggesting this is a working orchard with a longer harvest season than just the apple weeks, for anyone who happens to be in the area earlier in the year.

The honest gap on dates and confirmation

No season_start or season_end date appears in the record, and no official orchard website was located — the record notes that its primary channel is described as Facebook, which wasn’t directly read for this record. That’s a real limitation: without a live source to check, there’s no way to confirm whether the August-through-October pattern described in secondary coverage still holds for the current year, or whether Angle Orchard has changed its hours or pricing since that coverage was published.

Given the narrow, specific hours already on file (two weekday evenings plus one full Saturday), this reads as the kind of small operation where a phone call actually matters more than it might elsewhere — a orchard running limited hours is also one where a single closure or schedule change could mean a wasted trip if you don’t check first. Call 928-322-2769 or look up their Facebook page before making the drive up Swift Trail.

Location context

Mount Graham sits well outside Safford proper, and the Swift Trail drive itself is part of the experience — it’s a mountain highway, not a quick turn off a main road. No parking, accessibility, or crowd information appears in the record, so plan for a rural, unpaved-lot kind of visit unless you confirm otherwise directly with the orchard.

Bottom line for planning

Angle Orchard offers something distinctive in this file: a genuinely old family operation on a mountain rather than the desert floor, with the cheapest confirmed per-pound apple price and a real variety spread from August into October. But its hours are tight — three specific windows a week — and there’s no website or confirmed current-year date range to check against. Treat the August-October timeline as a general pattern, confirm the day and hour by phone or Facebook before you go, and build the Swift Trail drive itself into your time estimate.