Bergman Orchards

Our take

What’s actually confirmed here

Bergman Orchards is located at 708 S. Bridge Road, also known as Route 269, in Lakeside-Marblehead, Ottawa County, along Ohio’s Lake Erie shore. The record confirms the business sells produce both retail and wholesale from this location, and describes itself — per its own company description — as family-owned and operating in the area for more than 150 years. That’s a notable longevity claim, coming from the business’s own description rather than something independently verified in this research, but it does point to a long-established, multi-generational operation rather than a newer venture.

What the record can actually tell you about apples

This is one of the thinner records in this batch when it comes to apple-specific detail. Public information does confirm that apple picking is offered, along with hand-dipped caramel apples and fresh cider, according to the research notes. But no 2026-specific season dates, pricing, or a variety list were found on any of the pages reviewed. Unlike some other orchards in this dataset where the gap is simply “the 2026 dates haven’t been posted yet,” here the underlying content itself — variety names, general season timing — wasn’t located during this research at all.

Where these details came from

The information in this record comes from multiple directory listings, including Yellow Pages and Facebook, cross-referenced with a general company description associated with bergmanorchards.com, accessed via search. County placement (Ottawa) is confirmed through Danbury Township and Lakeside-Marblehead geographic references rather than the farm’s own address page. Coordinates in the record are for the Lakeside-Marblehead community center, not geocoded to the exact Route 269 address, so use the street address itself for navigation.

A caramel apple and cider draw, if little else confirmed

The two most concrete consumer-facing details here are the hand-dipped caramel apples and fresh cider, both confirmed as offered. If you’re weighing whether this is worth a visit despite the missing season and pricing information, those two items at least give a sense of what’s likely to be available at the farm stand regardless of exactly when u-pick apples open.

A retail-and-wholesale model, not just a farm stand

The record specifically notes that Bergman sells both retail and wholesale produce, which is a distinction worth pausing on. A farm supplying wholesale accounts alongside its retail stand is typically operating at a larger production scale than a purely retail u-pick destination, even though this record has no acreage figure or variety count to confirm that scale directly. It also raises a practical question this record can’t answer: whether apples grown here are set aside for u-pick access at all, or whether the farm’s apple production leans more heavily toward its wholesale side. That’s exactly the kind of question worth asking when you call, rather than assuming a wholesale grower automatically offers the same walk-the-rows experience as a smaller, retail-only orchard.

The bottom line

Bergman Orchards presents itself as a long-running, multi-generational Lake Erie shore business with caramel apples and fresh cider as known offerings, but this record has real limits — no confirmed 2026 apple season dates, no pricing, and no variety list. This listing needs a direct call to 419-732-2870 to confirm current-season status before you plan a visit around it; treat everything else here as background rather than something to build a specific trip date around.