A tenth-generation hilltop farm in the Litchfield Hills that gave one of the few explicit, year-stamped 2026 dates in this entire research batch — reopening August 15, 2026 — though pricing and varieties still need a call.
Averill Farm is located at 250 Calhoun Street in Washington Depot, in Litchfield County’s Litchfield Hills region, with a phone number of 860-868-2777 and an email contact also available. The farm’s own site states directly: “Our stand is closed for the season, reopening August 15, 2026” — one of the clearest, most specific, year-stamped dates found anywhere in this New England research project. Both u-pick and pre-picked apples are offered, and a corn maze operates adjacent to the orchard, with tickets sold at the farm stand.
Many orchards in this research gave a specific calendar date (a day and month) without spelling out the year, requiring an inference that the page was current for 2026. Averill Farm’s record is different: the phrase “reopening August 15, 2026” includes the year explicitly, making this one of the few genuinely confirmed 2026 dates in the entire batch, alongside Sunrise Orchards in Vermont and Mad Tom Orchard, also in Vermont. That’s a meaningful confidence boost for anyone planning a trip specifically around this farm’s opening.
While the reopening date comes with high confidence, the daily 9:30am-5:30pm hours and the “tenth generation family farm” description are flagged differently in the record — they come from an earlier aggregator summary rather than being independently re-confirmed on the page that gave the August 15 date. That distinction matters: the record is being careful to separate what the farm’s own current page states from what an older secondary source claims, even when both pieces of information may well be accurate.
The tenth-generation claim, if accurate, would place Averill Farm among the longest continuously family-run properties documented across this entire project — longer even than the century-old operations at Honey Pot Hill or Bashista Orchards in Massachusetts, assuming “generation” here reflects a roughly similar span. That’s a notable historical claim, though it comes with the aggregator-sourced caveat above rather than a direct quote from the farm’s current site.
Confirmed directly from the official site, the adjacent corn maze with tickets sold at the farm stand gives Averill Farm a non-apple draw similar to several Massachusetts orchards in this research (Connors Farm, Tougas Family Farm). Combined with the confirmed reopening date, this suggests a farm that’s actively promoting its 2026 season rather than running on stale prior-year content — a positive signal compared to some other records in this project where a posted date turned out to be leftover text from an earlier season.
No apple variety list and no PYO pricing were posted on the page fetched. The specific hours and multi-generation history, while likely accurate, technically come from a different, older source than the confirmed reopening date.
Averill Farm offers one of the most trustworthy 2026 opening dates in this entire research batch — August 15, 2026, confirmed directly and explicitly by the farm’s own site — making it a strong choice for anyone who wants certainty about timing. Confirming apple varieties and PYO pricing will still require a call to 860-868-2777 closer to that date.
On or after the farm's confirmed reopening date of August 15, 2026, which the site states applies to both the farm stand and PYO together.
you need confirmed apple varieties or PYO pricing before visiting — neither was posted on the page fetched.
The farm's own site states: 'Our stand is closed for the season, reopening August 15, 2026' — an explicit, year-stamped date applying to the farm stand and PYO together.
9:30am-5:30pm daily, per the record, though this figure comes from an earlier aggregator summary rather than being independently re-confirmed on the most recently fetched page.
The farm is described as a tenth-generation family operation, per the record.
Yes — a corn maze operates adjacent to the orchard, with tickets sold at the farm stand, per the official site.
Not stated in the record. No variety list or PYO pricing was posted on the page fetched.
Opens August 15, 2026 (closing date not published). Daily. Hours: 9:30am-5:30pm.
Pricing was not published when we last checked.
Yes — it's a pick-your-own orchard, with pre-picked apples at the farm stand too.
250 Calhoun Street, Washington Depot, CT 06794, in Litchfield County. It is one of 2 orchards we track in Litchfield Hills.
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Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
averillfarm.com
Checked September 2026.