A family-owned Eastern Nebraska orchard with roughly 500 apple trees and farm tours by request — coverage outside tourism directories is thin, so no varieties, pricing, or exact hours are confirmed.
Fontanelle Orchard is a family-owned operation on Highway 91 northeast of Fremont, Nebraska, in Dodge County. It’s a smaller, lower-profile farm than the more festival-oriented orchards clustered near Nebraska City, with roughly 500 apple trees and farm tours offered by request. Coverage of this orchard outside tourism directories is genuinely thin — this is one of the more information-sparse records in this batch, and the honest recommendation is to treat it as a call-ahead visit rather than one you can plan from published details alone.
The confirmed activities here center on farm tours by request, combined with self-serve picking at the farm’s Apple Barn. That’s a slightly different visitor experience from a fully staffed pick-your-own operation — tours suggest a more personal, by-appointment feel, at least for that part of the visit, while picking itself sounds like a more independent, self-guided activity.
One useful geographic detail: Fontanelle Orchard sits closer to Fremont than to either Omaha or Lincoln, Nebraska’s two largest cities. That distinguishes it from other, more festival-oriented Nebraska orchards clustered near Nebraska City. If you’re coming from the Fremont area specifically, this is a closer option than driving toward those bigger orchard destinations.
Direct attempts to load two plausible domain names for this orchard — nebraskafruit.com and fontanelleorchards.com — either failed to resolve or returned no usable content. As a result, the record points instead to the orchard’s Facebook page as the best available online source. That’s a real limitation: without a working orchard-controlled website, there’s no way to check hours, current pricing, or apple varieties online in the way you could for many other orchards in this dataset.
No apple varieties, no 2026-specific season dates, no hours, and no pricing were found in any source checked, tourism directories included. This is one of the thinner records in terms of operational detail, though the core facts — family ownership, roughly 500 trees, tours by request, self-serve picking — are consistently corroborated across the sources available (visitnebraska.com, Yelp, and the Columbus Telegraph).
The address is 26982 NE Hwy 91, Nickerson, NE 68044. The listed coordinates are Nickerson, NE city-center coordinates rather than a geocode of the Hwy 91 address, so treat the map pin as approximate.
Fontanelle Orchard is a legitimate small family orchard in a part of Eastern Nebraska not otherwise well represented, but it’s genuinely under-documented. Call 402-727-5272 before making a special trip, since there’s no way to confirm hours, pricing, or what’s currently ready to pick from published sources alone.
Not stated in the record. No hours, season dates, or pricing were found in any source checked.
You need confirmed hours or pricing before you go — neither is published anywhere the research could find.
Roughly 500 apple trees, per the research notes, at the farm's Apple Barn.
Yes — farm tours by request are confirmed in the record, alongside self-serve picking at the Apple Barn.
Not stated in the record.
Direct fetches of two candidate domains (nebraskafruit.com, fontanelleorchards.com) failed to load usable content or resolve, so the record points to the orchard's Facebook page instead.
It sits closer to Fremont than to Omaha or Lincoln, distinguishing it from the more festival-oriented orchards near Nebraska City.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. Check with the orchard before driving out.
Pricing was not published when we last checked.
Yes — it's a pick-your-own orchard.
26982 NE Hwy 91, Nickerson, NE 68044, in Dodge County. It is one of 1 orchards we track in Eastern Nebraska.
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
facebook.com · visitnebraska.com · nebraskafruit.com
Checked September 2026.