A small, pesticide-free desert orchard with unusually early-ripening apples, but coverage is thin and dated enough that even whether you pick your own fruit isn't confirmed — call before you drive out.
Fenway Park Orchard sits at 42610 Highway 60-89 in Morristown, out in Maricopa County’s Hassayampa Valley northwest of Phoenix. According to the record, it’s a family farm run by Allen and Carol Way, with more than 2,000 low-chill apple trees plus peaches, grown without synthetic pesticides. Posted hours are Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday, 8:30am to 4pm — or until sold out, whichever comes first. That “until sold out” qualifier matters: this reads as a small enough operation that showing up late in the day carries real risk of finding empty bins.
Two apple varieties are named in the record: “Annie” and Golden Dorset. Both are low-chill types suited to a hot desert climate where winters rarely provide enough cold hours for standard apple varieties to fruit reliably. That’s worth knowing on its own — Fenway Park Orchard isn’t growing the McIntosh or Honeycrisp you’d find in a Michigan or New England orchard, it’s growing apples specifically bred or selected to work in Arizona’s low desert.
The research notes call out something specific enough to repeat here rather than bury: “Annie” is reported exactly as it appeared in a secondary source, but that may be a mistranscription of “Anna,” a well-known low-chill desert apple variety with a genuinely different name. No official Fenway Park Orchard site was found to check which is correct. This draft isn’t going to quietly “fix” it to Anna, because that would be presenting a guess as a confirmed fact — but if you’re trying to track down a specific variety before visiting, it’s worth keeping both spellings in mind when you search or call.
What sets this orchard apart from most others in the Arizona group is when its fruit ripens. The research notes place Fenway Park’s apples in June and July — well ahead of the Willcox orchards to the southeast and Angle Orchard up on Mount Graham near Safford, which don’t hit their stride until August through October. If you’re chasing an early-season Arizona apple, or you’re simply visiting the state in early summer and assumed apple picking wasn’t an option yet, this is one of the few spots in the file that would actually be in season then. That said, no specific season_start or season_end date made it into the record, so “June and July” should be read as a general pattern rather than a locked window.
The record is honest about a real gap: no source could confirm whether visitors pick their own fruit or buy it pre-harvested. The u_pick field is left null rather than assumed either way. If a hands-in-the-dirt picking experience is the point of your visit, that uncertainty is worth resolving with a phone call to 623-388-2603 before you make the drive, rather than finding out on arrival that it’s a farm-stand model instead.
Coverage of the farm more broadly is described in the record as thin and somewhat dated — there’s no working website in the record, and the sources behind these details are general-interest roundups (Phoenix New Times, Kids Out and About Phoenix, Travelness) rather than anything read directly from the farm’s own channels. No price data, no confirmed activities beyond the fruit itself, and no accessibility or parking notes appear anywhere in the record.
Fenway Park Orchard is a real, family-run low-chill apple and peach farm with a genuinely early Arizona season and pesticide-free growing practices — but this record can’t tell you whether you’ll be picking fruit yourself, what it costs, or exactly when the window opens and closes each year. Given the “until sold out” hours and the thin documentation behind it, this is a call-first orchard rather than a drop-in one.
The record's research notes place ripening in June and July, notably earlier than most Arizona orchards on this list, but no season_start or season_end date is confirmed, so a phone call before visiting is the safer plan.
you specifically want a u-pick experience — the record can't confirm whether picking here is self-serve or staff-picked.
Not confirmed. The record notes no source explicitly stated whether picking is u-pick or staff-picked, so this field is left null rather than guessed.
The record lists 'Annie' and Golden Dorset. The research notes flag that 'Annie' may be a mistranscription of 'Anna,' a well-known low-chill desert apple variety, but the record reports it exactly as found rather than silently correcting it.
The record doesn't use the word 'organic' or cite certification, but notes the farm grows its 2,000+ trees without synthetic pesticides.
The record lists Tue, Wed, Thu, Sat, and Sun, 8:30am to 4pm or until sold out — meaning it can close early on a given day.
No official Fenway Park Orchard website could be located for this record; the phone number on file is 623-388-2603.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Tue, Wed, Thu, Sat, Sun. Check with the orchard before driving out.
Pricing was not published when we last checked.
No — this orchard sells pre-picked apples from its own trees rather than u-pick.
Annie, Golden Dorset — note that what's actually ready to pick changes week to week through the season.
42610 Highway 60-89, Morristown, AZ 85342, in Maricopa County. It is one of 1 orchards we track in Hassayampa Valley.
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Checked September 2026.