South-Central Colorado's clearest u-pick apple pricing in this research batch — $3.99/lb straight from the farm's own site, with free hayrides and no admission fee — though no apple varieties are named.
U-pick apples $3.99/lb, per the orchard's own website
Happy Apple Farm in Penrose gives this research batch something rare: confirmed, specific pricing straight from the orchard’s own website. At $3.99 per pound for u-pick apples, with free hayrides and no admission or parking fee, this is one of the more transparently priced stops covered anywhere in this research — and it sits in a part of Colorado, the Arkansas River valley near Cañon City, that’s otherwise thin on confirmed u-pick apple orchards.
Most records in this research batch either have no pricing information or rely on secondhand estimates. Happy Apple Farm is different: its own website quotes $3.99 per pound for apples and $1.05 per pound for pumpkins, both confirmed directly from the source rather than pieced together from directories. That per-pound structure is also worth noting for planning purposes — it’s a different model from the flat per-bag pricing seen at some other orchards, so the total cost of a visit scales directly with how much you pick.
The orchard’s own site states there’s no admission charge and no parking fee, and that hayrides are included at no extra cost. Combined with the confirmed per-pound apple price, this gives a visitor an unusually clear picture of what a trip here will actually cost — a genuine point of differentiation from orchards in this batch where pricing simply isn’t published anywhere.
Penrose sits in the Arkansas River valley near Cañon City, placing Happy Apple Farm in a growing region distinct from both the Western Slope cluster (Palisade, Grand Junction, Delta and Montrose counties) and the Front Range orchards (Longmont, Eaton, Ault, Fort Collins, Golden) covered elsewhere in this research batch. For anyone in South-Central Colorado, this is one of the only confirmed u-pick apple options this research turned up outside those two better-covered regions.
Despite pulling directly from the orchard’s own website, nothing on the pages retrieved named specific apple varieties. That’s the clearest gap in an otherwise well-documented record — if a particular variety matters to your visit, that’s a question for the farm rather than something this record can answer. The consistency of solid pricing and hours information elsewhere in this record makes the missing variety list stand out as a genuine gap rather than a sign of thin overall documentation.
The orchard’s own website displayed a message reading “CLOSED for the 2025 Season… See you next August” at the time of research. That phrasing reads as a rolling annual notice the farm reuses each year, rather than a dated 2026-specific announcement — it doesn’t use the word “2026” explicitly. Still, it’s a reasonable, checkable signal that the farm reopens seasonally each August, which is useful for rough planning even without a confirmed exact date.
Confirmed hours are Friday through Sunday, 9am to 4:30pm — a shorter, weekend-focused window compared to some daily-open orchards elsewhere in this research. Hayrides and a pumpkin patch round out the activity list, both confirmed from the orchard’s own site alongside the apple u-pick offering.
Happy Apple Farm is at 1190 1st Street in Penrose, Fremont County. The phone number on file is 719-429-6300.
Happy Apple Farm offers the clearest, most farm-confirmed pricing of any orchard in this research batch — $3.99/lb for apples, free hayrides, no hidden fees — in an under-covered part of Colorado. The one real gap is variety names; everything else here is about as solid as this research method gets.
The farm's own site indicates a seasonal reopening around August each year; a 'CLOSED for the 2025 Season' message suggests a similar August 2026 reopening, though this isn't a dated 2026 confirmation.
You need confirmed apple variety names — none are listed anywhere in the record.
Happy Apple Farm is in Penrose, Fremont County, in the Arkansas River valley near Cañon City — a South-Central Colorado growing area distinct from both the Western Slope orchard cluster and the Front Range orchards covered elsewhere in this research batch.
$3.99 per pound, according to the orchard's own website — a per-pound price rather than a flat per-bag fee.
No — the orchard's own site states there's no admission or parking fee, and hayrides are free.
Not stated in the record. Nothing on the orchard's own site named specific apple varieties, so this field is left null rather than guessed.
Friday through Sunday, 9am to 4:30pm, per the orchard's own website.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Fri-Sun. Check with the orchard before driving out.
Prices start at $3.99. U-pick apples $3.99/lb, per the orchard's own website
Yes — it's a pick-your-own orchard, with pre-picked apples at the farm stand too.
1190 1st Street, Penrose, CO 81240, in Fremont County. It is one of 1 orchards we track in South-Central Colorado.
happyapplefarm.com
Checked September 2026.