Everly Farms

Our take

The short version

Everly Farms is the rebranded former Minnetonka Orchards in Minnetrista, now built around a winery and restaurant in addition to the orchard and fall festival grounds. Its own site confirms a specific 2026 opening date — August 29 — and lays out a genuinely useful two-tier visiting structure: free on weekdays, paid on weekends, with the paid tier unlocking most of the rides and activities. If you’ve visited under the old Minnetonka Orchards name before, expect a noticeably different, more adult-oriented property now.

A confirmed opening date

The site states plainly: “OPENING AUGUST 29TH, 2026.” That’s a specific, checkable date rather than a general seasonal description, which puts Everly Farms among the more clearly dated records in this research batch. What isn’t posted is a closing date, so if you’re planning a trip later in the fall, a call to 952-808-6638 is the way to confirm the season is still running.

Free weekdays, paid weekends — know which one you’re getting

This is the detail most worth understanding before you go. Per the record, weekday visits (Monday through Friday) are free, and children under 2 are always free — but a weekday visit is limited to the retail barn and pick-your-own rows. Weekend admission costs $12 for adults, $8 for seniors 65 and up, and $8 for children ages 3-12, and that paid tier is what unlocks hayrides, the animal barn, and live music. If your family is hoping specifically for the hayride or animal barn, a weekday trip won’t include them even though it’s free to enter.

Three varieties named, a broader festival built around them

The record names Honeycrisp, Zestar, and SweeTango for pick-your-own. Cider donuts are also confirmed as available. Beyond the orchard itself, the activities list is long and adult-leaning for a Minnesota orchard: a wine garden and live music sit alongside more typical fall-festival fare like a corn pit, face painting, a hay mountain, train rides, a playground, and a pumpkin patch — reflecting the property’s newer identity as a combined winery, restaurant, and orchard rather than a straightforward u-pick farm.

A rebrand worth knowing about

If you’ve been to this property before under the name Minnetonka Orchards, note that it now operates as Everly Farms — the same location, per the record, but repositioned around the addition of a winery and restaurant. That’s a meaningful shift from a straightforward orchard visit to something closer to a combined dining-and-orchard destination, and it may change what to expect if your last visit predates the rebrand.

What’s not confirmed

No season-end date is posted, so plan around the confirmed opening rather than assuming a specific closing weekend. Pricing for pick-your-own apples themselves — separate from the weekend admission fee — also isn’t broken out in the record, so budget loosely for the fruit beyond whatever entry fee applies to your visit day.

Getting there

Everly Farms is at 6530 County Road 26 in Minnetrista, Hennepin County, in the West Metro / Lake Minnetonka area. Coordinates on file are an approximate area estimate, not individually geocoded.

Bottom line

Everly Farms offers a confirmed opening date and real flexibility — free weekday access if you just want to pick apples and shop, or a paid weekend visit if you want the full slate of rides, animals, and live music. The wine garden and restaurant additions make this feel like a more grown-up fall outing than some of the more strictly kid-focused orchards in this batch.