A Sunday-only u-pick ranch out near Petaluma, well outside the usual Sebastopol apple cluster, with simple flat pricing — $10 per family plus $2/lb for apples — but the whole listing rests on a single tourism-board source, not the ranch's own site.
$10 per-family entry fee, plus apples at $2/lb
Chileno Valley Ranch is a u-pick apple operation located out toward Petaluma, near the Marin County line — geographically distinct from the tighter cluster of Sebastopol-area orchards that make up most of Sonoma County’s apple-picking scene. It’s open for u-pick on Sundays only, with a described start in August, and uses a simple pricing structure: a $10 per-family entry fee plus $2 per pound for apples picked. The catch is that every detail in this record traces back to a single third-party tourism guide rather than the ranch’s own website, which couldn’t be found.
Most of the Sonoma County orchards in this directory — Apple-A-Day Ratzlaff Ranch, EARTHseed Farm, Walker’s Apples — sit in or near Sebastopol, historically the heart of the region’s Gravenstein apple economy. Chileno Valley Ranch is different: it’s positioned out near Petaluma, close to the Marin County line, well outside that cluster. If you’re coming from the Petaluma or southern Sonoma County direction, or you’d simply rather avoid the more concentrated Sebastopol-area traffic, this is a genuinely different geographic option within the same county.
The pricing structure here is refreshingly straightforward compared to some of the more layered fee models elsewhere in this directory: a flat $10 entry fee covers a family, and apples themselves are priced at $2 per pound once you start picking. There’s no separate per-person admission or bag-based pricing to puzzle through — just a flat cover charge plus a clear per-pound rate. That simplicity makes it easy to estimate your total cost before you go, assuming the pricing is still current.
Unlike orchards open across a full weekend or even daily, Chileno Valley Ranch’s u-pick program is described as Sunday-only. If your schedule doesn’t allow for a Sunday visit, this ranch isn’t going to work as a spontaneous alternative on a Saturday — it’s worth building around that single-day window specifically rather than assuming flexibility that isn’t documented.
The tags on record include “Honey & Lavender” alongside “U-Pick Apples,” hinting that the ranch may offer additional products or attractions beyond apple picking. The record doesn’t go into further detail on this — no description of a lavender field you can visit, or whether honey is sold at a stand — so treat it as a hint worth asking about rather than a confirmed additional activity.
It’s worth being transparent about the sourcing limitation here: every fact in this entry — the Sunday schedule, the August start, the pricing — comes from one source, Sonoma County Tourism’s pick-your-own guide. No official website for the ranch could be located to independently verify any of it. Tourism-board guides are often reasonably reliable since they typically pull information from the farms themselves, but a single unconfirmed source is a thinner foundation than a direct read of a farm’s own current page.
There’s no confirmed 2026 season start or end date beyond the general “starting in August” description, no apple variety list, and no information about cider, activities, or accessibility.
The address is 5105 Chileno Valley Rd, Petaluma, CA 94952. Coordinates on file are a Petaluma city-center fallback, not geocoded to this specific address — and given the ranch’s more rural, out-of-the-way location relative to central Petaluma, navigating by the street address rather than a general area pin matters more here than at some other entries.
Chileno Valley Ranch offers a geographically distinct, simply priced Sunday u-pick option away from the busier Sebastopol apple cluster. With the whole listing resting on a single tourism-board source, a call to 707-765-6664 before you go is the sensible way to confirm the season is underway and the pricing still holds.
A third-party tourism guide describes u-pick starting in August and running on Sundays only. No specific 2026 dates or an end-of-season date were confirmed.
You need a day other than Sunday, or you want the ranch's own confirmation of hours and season dates rather than a single third-party source.
Sundays only, per a Sonoma County Tourism pick-your-own guide — a third-party source, since no official ranch website could be located to confirm independently.
A $10 per-family entry fee, plus apples priced at $2 per pound once you're picking.
The tourism guide describes u-pick starting in August, but no specific 2026 start or end date was confirmed.
The tags list 'Honey & Lavender' alongside u-pick apples, suggesting the ranch may also sell or feature honey and lavender products, though this isn't elaborated on further in the record.
Chileno Valley Ranch is out toward Petaluma, near the Marin County line — notably outside the Sebastopol/Gravenstein cluster where most other Sonoma County orchards in this directory are located.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Sundays. Check with the orchard before driving out.
Prices start at $10. $10 per-family entry fee, plus apples at $2/lb
Yes — it's a pick-your-own orchard.
5105 Chileno Valley Rd, Petaluma, CA 94952, in Sonoma County. It is one of 1 orchards we track in Sonoma County.
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Checked September 2026.