An eight-variety orchard on the Berks/Lehigh line with a genuinely long picking window, but a tight, easy-to-miss weekly schedule — closed Monday and Tuesday, with only a short Wednesday/Thursday window.
County Line Orchard sits on Kings Highway in Kempton, right on the line between Berks and Lehigh counties. Its own website, read directly on August 29, 2026, confirms a genuinely long variety list — Gala, Honeycrisp, Jonathan, Fuji, Crimson Crisp, Melrose, Golden Delicious, and Goldrush, eight named apples in total, which is one of the longer lists among the orchards covered in this research pass. Hours are also confirmed directly from the site, and they’re worth reading carefully: Wednesday and Thursday, 9am to noon only; Friday and Saturday, 9am to 5pm; and Sunday, noon to 5pm. The orchard is closed entirely on Monday and Tuesday.
This is the single most useful, checkable fact in this record: County Line Orchard’s midweek hours are dramatically shorter than its weekend hours. A Wednesday or Thursday visit has to happen before noon, full stop — there’s no afternoon window those two days the way there is Friday and Saturday. If you’re planning a weekday trip, arriving expecting normal farm-stand hours (say, into the afternoon) means arriving to a closed gate. The weekend hours are far more generous, running a full workday Friday and Saturday and a decent afternoon slot on Sunday. Given that Monday and Tuesday are closed entirely, the practical takeaway is simple: this is functionally a five-day-a-week operation with one short day and two full ones.
The eight named varieties span a wide stretch of the apple calendar. Research notes attached to this record describe the list running from Gala early on through Goldrush at the late end — and Goldrush in particular is a well-documented late-season apple, prized for keeping and baking, so its presence suggests County Line Orchard is set up to stay in the picking business well into fall rather than wrapping up early. That range, combined with the site’s own description of picking running “September through first freeze in November,” points to one of the longer windows among the Berks and Lehigh County orchards in this research batch — useful if your schedule doesn’t line up with the first couple weeks of September, when many nearby orchards are just getting started.
A corn maze, petting zoo, and cider donuts are all associated with County Line Orchard, which would round it out as a fuller family destination beyond just picking. It’s worth flagging, though, that these details come from a related search snippet describing the same Kempton farm rather than being confirmed on the orchard’s own homepage during this research pass. That’s a smaller gap than an entirely third-party listing, but it’s still one step removed from the site’s own current statements — reasonable to expect, less certain than the hours and variety list above.
No specific year is attached to the “September through first freeze” language, so while it’s a reasonable description of the general season, it’s not a dated 2026 confirmation the way a page stating “opens September 5, 2026” would be. Pricing is also entirely unconfirmed — no per-bag or per-pound figure turned up anywhere in this research, which is worth asking about by phone (610-756-6411) before you go, especially with a group.
County Line Orchard’s real strength is variety and season length — eight apples spanning early to late fall, with a picking window that plausibly runs into November. Its real trap is the schedule: don’t assume normal hours on a Wednesday or Thursday, and don’t plan a Monday or Tuesday visit at all. Get the hours right and this is a strong pick for anyone chasing a specific late-season variety like Goldrush that’s harder to find elsewhere in the area.
The orchard's own site says pick-your-own runs 'September through first freeze in November,' without a specific year attached. Hours are Wed-Thu 9am-12pm, Fri-Sat 9am-5pm, and Sun 12pm-5pm — plan around the shorter midweek window.
you can only visit Monday or Tuesday — County Line Orchard is closed those two days entirely.
Wednesday and Thursday 9am-12pm, Friday and Saturday 9am-5pm, and Sunday 12pm-5pm, per the orchard's own site. It's closed Monday and Tuesday.
Gala, Honeycrisp, Jonathan, Fuji, Crimson Crisp, Melrose, Golden Delicious, and Goldrush, according to the orchard's own website — one of the longer variety lists among the orchards in this research batch.
The site states picking runs 'September through first freeze in November' without naming a specific year, so exact 2026 dates aren't confirmed.
Yes to both — a corn maze, a petting zoo, and cider donuts are associated with the farm, per a related search snippet describing the same Kempton location, though these weren't confirmed directly from the fetched homepage.
Not stated in the record. No 2026-dated pricing was found.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Wed-Sun. Check with the orchard before driving out.
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.
Gala, Honeycrisp, Jonathan, Fuji, Crimson Crisp, Melrose, Golden Delicious, Goldrush — note that what's actually ready to pick changes week to week through the season.
9200 Kings Highway, Kempton, PA 19529, in Berks County. It is one of 1 orchards we track in Lehigh Valley / Berks County.
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countylineorchardpa.com
Checked September 2026.