A Palisade fruit stand that actually lists apples as a u-pick crop rather than a peach-season afterthought, but nearly everything beyond the address and phone number is unconfirmed.
Green Barn Fruit Co. sits on 36 Road in Palisade, right in the stretch of the Grand Valley known as the Fruit and Wine Byway. What makes it worth a mention in this research is a small but real distinction: the record explicitly lists apples as a u-pick crop, not just peaches. In a region where apple picking is often mentioned in passing behind Palisade’s famous peaches, that’s a checkable detail worth knowing before you drive out.
The tags on this record include “U-Pick” alongside “Farm Stand,” and both u-pick and pre-picked options are marked as available. That combination — pick-your-own plus a stand for buying already-picked fruit — gives visitors a choice depending on how much time and effort they want to put in. What the record does not include is any list of apple varieties, so there’s no way to say from this source whether you’ll find early-season Ginger Golds, mid-season Honeycrisp and Gala, or late-season Fuji and Pink Lady. That’s a real gap, and it’s one worth asking about on the phone rather than guessing.
The posted hours — roughly 8am to 3pm for u-pick — come from a tourism-board blog rather than the orchard’s own website or social media, and the source material itself recommends calling ahead to confirm. Days open are listed simply as “Daily,” but with no season start or end date on file, that daily schedule could mean anything from a short late-summer window to a full fall run. Given the total absence of a farm-operated site or Facebook page in the research for this record, the phone number — 970-773-8017 — is genuinely the best tool a visitor has for planning a trip here, not a backup option.
Nothing in the record indicates what u-pick apples cost, whether by the pound or by the bag, or whether there’s a farm-stand markup for pre-picked fruit. Given how commonly this kind of pricing detail is missing for smaller Grand Valley stands, it’s worth asking directly when you call to confirm hours, so you’re not guessing at the gate.
The address — 599 36 Road — places Green Barn Fruit Co. within easy reach of other orchards covered in this same research batch, including Peachfork Orchards & Vineyards and High Country Orchards, both also on the Palisade side of the valley. That makes it realistic to combine a stop here with a couple of other fruit-and-wine stands in a single afternoon, provided you’ve called ahead to each to confirm they’re actually picking apples that day. One caveat on navigation: the latitude and longitude on file are Palisade’s city-center coordinates rather than a geocoded point for the street address itself, so plug the address — not just the coordinates — into your map app.
This is a thin record in several respects that matter for trip planning: no confirmed 2026 season dates, no apple varieties, no pricing, and no way to check any of that online before you go. What it does confirm, directly from a tourism-authority source rather than an anonymous aggregator, is that apples are a real, named part of what this stand offers — which is more than can be said for some other Palisade operations where apples are only implied.
Green Barn Fruit Co. is a legitimate apple u-pick option in the Palisade Fruit and Wine Byway corridor, distinguished mainly by explicitly naming apples rather than treating them as a peach-season afterthought. But with no farm website, no variety list, and hours sourced secondhand, this is a call-first, drive-second kind of stop.
Not stated in the record — no season dates are posted, so calling ahead is the only way to know what's ready to pick.
You want to check hours or apple varieties online first — no orchard website or Facebook page could be located.
The address sits on 36 Road in the heart of the Palisade Fruit and Wine Byway, close to several other orchards in this Grand Valley area, including Peachfork Orchards & Vineyards and High Country Orchards.
Yes — the record lists u-pick as available, and apples are named explicitly rather than only peaches, which sets this stand apart from several Palisade neighbors that treat apples as secondary.
Not stated in the record. No variety list was found for this stand.
Approximately 8am to 3pm for u-pick, according to the record — but the record itself flags this as needing a confirming call.
Not confirmed. No orchard-operated website or Facebook page turned up in research, so the phone is the reliable channel.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Daily. 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.
599 36 Road, Palisade, CO 81526, in Mesa County. It is one of 5 orchards we track in Grand Valley.
We track 5 orchards in Grand Valley, 3 of which let you pick your own apples. The orchard has not published a starting price, so it cannot be compared on cost — call before you budget.
One caveat worth repeating: this orchard had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 0 of the 5 orchards we track in Grand Valley had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the orchard confirms it.
There are 4 other orchards we track in Mesa County. All Grand Valley orchards →
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
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Checked September 2026.