CherryHawk Farm

Our take

What’s actually confirmed here

CherryHawk Farm operates at 16220 Springdale Road in Marysville, Union County, on a property the research notes describe as 60-plus acres. The record confirms an on-site cider mill, more than a dozen apple varieties, a picnic area, farm animals, and school tours as an activity — enough to suggest a genuinely working farm rather than a small roadside stand. Hours are specific and a little unusual: Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and federal holidays, from 11am until dark. That’s a tighter weekly window than farms open daily or most of the week, worth building into any weekday travel plans.

A useful feature that couldn’t be verified

One detail stands out in this record precisely because it couldn’t be confirmed: CherryHawk maintains a dedicated page on its own site meant to track which varieties are currently ripe, in real time. That’s a genuinely useful tool if it works as described — it would let a visitor check the day before driving out and know exactly what’s ready to pick. Unfortunately, that page returned a browser certificate error when accessed for this research and couldn’t be checked directly, so this record can’t confirm either the feature’s current reliability or what varieties are ripe right now. It’s worth trying yourself when planning a visit, since the certificate issue may well be temporary or specific to how this research accessed the page.

Where the facts in this record actually come from

Unlike orchards where the primary source is the farm’s own website, most of what’s confirmed here — the address, phone, hours, cider mill, and activities — comes from third-party listings: Yelp, upickfarmsusa.com, and the Union County tourism site. A third-party estimate elsewhere put the apple season at roughly August 1 through November 7, but that figure isn’t treated as a confirmed date in this record, since it doesn’t come from the orchard’s own current-season announcement. Given that the primary site couldn’t be reached, treat every detail here as reasonably solid (multiple independent listings agree) but not as fresh as a direct 2026 orchard confirmation would be.

A narrow weekly window

The Friday-Saturday-Sunday-plus-holidays schedule is worth repeating because it’s easy to miss: this isn’t a farm you can show up to on a random Tuesday afternoon. If your trip planning has any flexibility, building around a weekend or a federal holiday is the only way this record supports visiting CherryHawk at all.

Scale suggests a serious growing operation

A 60-plus-acre footprint is large relative to several other Union County orchards in this dataset, and combined with a dozen-plus named varieties and an on-site cider mill, it points toward a farm with real production capacity behind its retail and u-pick offerings, rather than a small side-business orchard. None of that changes what’s unconfirmed about the 2026 calendar, but it’s a reasonable signal that CherryHawk likely has the volume to support a genuine u-pick experience once the season is underway, rather than a token handful of trees.

The bottom line

CherryHawk Farm has real scale behind it — 60-plus acres, a dozen-plus varieties, and its own cider mill — and a genuinely useful “what’s ripe now” feature on paper, but this record can’t confirm current apple-season dates, pricing, or whether that ripe-now page is working, since the orchard’s own site couldn’t be reached during this research. Call 937-642-6442 before making a special trip, especially if you’re trying to time a visit around a specific variety or a weekday.