A well-documented South Anchorage orchard with 11 named cold-hardy apple varieties and a normal ticketed u-pick event — but the orchard's own site confirms there is NO 2026 apple sale at all, because the trees didn't produce fruit this year.
$2 per pound in a normal year (ticketed admission via MyAlaskaTix.com); NO 2026 apple sale -- the orchard's own site says the trees did not produce fruit this year
Clark’s Apple Orchard sits at 3200 Rabbit Creek Rd in South Anchorage, and the single most important thing in this record is not a variety list or a price — it’s a direct statement from the orchard’s own website: “There will be NO 2026 APPLE SALE. We are sorry to report our trees just didn’t produce this year.” That’s an explicit, dated, firsthand confirmation, and it means anyone reading this record in 2026 should not plan a visit to pick apples here this season. Everything else in this record describes how the orchard normally operates, for reference and for planning a future visit, not what’s available right now.
In a typical year, the record describes Clark’s Apple Orchard as a well-documented South Anchorage u-pick destination with an unusually large, explicitly named collection of cold-hardy apple varieties: Almata, Antonovka, Bella Vista, Chinese Golden, Clark/Klatt, Dakota Gold, Goodland, Gravenstein, Norland, State Fair, and Sweet Sixteen — eleven named varieties, with tags describing a total collection of 24-plus. Several of these (Antonovka, Dakota Gold, Norland) are specifically bred or selected for cold-climate hardiness, which fits an Anchorage growing environment that most commercial apple orchards elsewhere in the U.S. couldn’t sustain at all.
Normal-year pricing is $2 per pound, and access runs through a ticketed model via MyAlaskaTix.com for a one- or two-day annual u-pick event, rather than open walk-up admission across a multi-week season. That ticketed, event-style format is worth understanding even for a future visit: this isn’t an orchard with a long, flexible picking window in a typical year — it’s a concentrated, scheduled event that requires buying a ticket in advance rather than showing up whenever convenient.
It would be easy to write this record around the impressive variety list and normal pricing without foregrounding the 2026 crop failure, but that would actively mislead anyone using this directory to plan a real visit. The orchard’s own words are unambiguous, and there’s no ambiguity to soften here: the trees didn’t produce fruit this year, and there’s no event to attend. The record doesn’t explain why — whether a late frost, a naturally occurring off-year in a biennial bearing cycle (common for many apple trees, which sometimes produce heavily one year and lightly the next), or another cause is responsible isn’t stated anywhere in the source material.
If cold-hardy apple varieties and Alaska’s northernmost commercial orchard operations are genuinely of interest, Clark’s Apple Orchard remains worth bookmarking for a future season based on its normal-year track record — the 24-plus variety collection and ticketed-event format are both well documented. But nothing in this record indicates whether 2027 or beyond will see a return to normal production, and checking the orchard’s own site (clarksapple.com) closer to a future fall is the only way to know.
No explanation for the 2026 crop failure is given. No information about 2027 or future-season plans exists in the record. No phone number is listed anywhere in the sources checked.
Clark’s Apple Orchard is a genuinely well-documented, cold-hardy apple destination in South Anchorage with a normally impressive 24-plus variety collection and a distinctive ticketed u-pick event model — but none of that is available in 2026. The orchard’s own site is explicit that the trees didn’t produce fruit this year, so this record exists to inform future planning, not to send anyone to Rabbit Creek Road this season.
There is no 2026 season to visit. The orchard's own site states plainly: 'There will be NO 2026 APPLE SALE. We are sorry to report our trees just didn't produce this year.' This record describes the orchard's normal operation for reference — check back for 2027.
you're hoping to visit this year — there is no 2026 apple sale. The trees did not produce fruit, per the orchard's own site.
No. The orchard's own site explicitly states there will be NO 2026 apple sale because the trees did not produce fruit this year.
Eleven are named in the record: Almata, Antonovka, Bella Vista, Chinese Golden, Clark/Klatt, Dakota Gold, Goodland, Gravenstein, Norland, State Fair, and Sweet Sixteen. Tags describe the collection as 24-plus varieties total.
As a ticketed one- or two-day annual event, per the record, with tickets sold in advance through MyAlaskaTix.com rather than walk-up admission — a $2-per-pound rate in a normal year.
Not explained in the record. The orchard's own site simply states the trees didn't produce fruit this year, without giving a specific cause (such as a late frost, an off-year in a biennial bearing cycle, or another factor).
Not stated in the record — this listing describes the orchard's normal operation, and the record has no information about 2027 plans. Check the orchard's own site closer to that season.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. Check with the orchard before driving out.
Prices start at $2. $2 per pound in a normal year (ticketed admission via MyAlaskaTix.com); NO 2026 apple sale -- the orchard's own site says the trees did not produce fruit this year
Almata, Antonovka, Bella Vista, Chinese Golden, Clark/Klatt, Dakota Gold, Goodland, Gravenstein, Norland, State Fair, Sweet Sixteen — note that what's actually ready to pick changes week to week through the season.
3200 Rabbit Creek Rd, Anchorage, AK 99516, in Anchorage Municipality. It is one of 2 orchards we track in Anchorage.
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clarksapple.com
Checked September 2026.