Grim's Orchard & Family Farms

Our take

What the record actually confirms

Grim’s Orchard & Family Farms, on Schantz Road in Breinigsville, is one of the larger operations covered in this Lehigh Valley research batch, with more than 25,000 apple trees and, per research notes, somewhere around 23 to 25 varieties across the season. Hours are confirmed directly from the orchard’s own site: 10am to 6pm on weekdays, extending to 10am-7pm on weekends during the Fall Festival, which the site dates as running September 5 through November 1. Four activities are confirmed — hayride, corn maze, bounce pillow, and play corral — alongside a tiered bag-pricing structure for apples: $11.99 for a quarter peck, $19.99 for a half peck, $31.99 for a full peck, and $54.99 for a half bushel.

The detail that changes your budget

This is the fact worth reading twice before you go: everyone age 3 and up needs a purchased picking bag to enter the orchard rows, per the orchard’s own site. That’s a per-person requirement, not a per-family one, which means a group of four adults and two kids over 3 would need six separate bags — even if some of you only intend to walk along rather than pick a full haul. Doing the math in advance matters more here than at orchards charging a single flat entry fee. If your group plans to pick heavily, the $54.99 half-bushel option likely works out to a better per-pound value than multiple smaller bags, though the orchard’s page doesn’t spell out per-pound equivalents directly — that’s a reasonable inference from the tiered pricing, not a stated fact.

What’s ripe right now

At the time this record was researched, four varieties were listed as currently picking: Premier Honeycrisp, Sweet Maia, Fuji, and EverCrisp. Honeycrisp is a well-known mid-season apple, and both Fuji and EverCrisp typically ripen later in the fall — so seeing all three “in season” together suggests Grim’s was picking well into its season at the time of research, consistent with the mid-August-through-mid-November window posted on-site. Sweet Maia isn’t one of the more widely documented varieties, so no general ripening-window claim is made here; ask on-site or by phone (610-395-5655) if you’re specifically chasing that one. With 23-25 varieties total across the farm, the four confirmed as currently picking are a snapshot, not the full lineup — expect the list to shift as the season progresses.

The fall festival, separately from picking

The bounce pillow and play corral, on top of the more common hayride and corn maze, put Grim’s toward the more elaborate end of the Lehigh Valley farms in this research batch. The festival’s own dates — September 5 through November 1 — run inside the broader mid-August-to-mid-November picking season, which suggests the orchard opens for picking a few weeks before the full festival programming kicks in and keeps picking going after the festival wraps. If the festival extras are the main draw for your visit, plan around that narrower window rather than the full picking season.

What’s missing, and why it matters

The one soft spot in this record is the year itself: the orchard’s site describes its season using month-and-day ranges (mid-August through mid-November, festival September 5 through November 1) without printing an explicit year on the page. Since this research was conducted August 29, 2026, treating these as 2026 dates is a reasonable, contextual read — but it’s not a confirmed date the way a page that explicitly says “2026” would be. There’s also no cider mill or cider donuts confirmed here, which is worth noting if those are part of what you’re expecting from a fall orchard visit.

Bottom line

Grim’s Orchard is a big, well-equipped Lehigh Valley destination with unusually clear pricing and a genuinely full festival lineup. The tiered bag system and per-person entry requirement mean it rewards a little planning — figure out roughly how much your group intends to pick before you arrive, and budget for a bag per person age 3 and up, not one bag per family.