New York's oldest U-Pick orchard, family-run since 1905, with a rare direct 2026-dated hours confirmation from its own site — though specific varieties and pricing still require a phone call.
Hicks Orchard sits at 18 Hicks Road in Granville, Washington County, in New York’s Capital Region, and bills itself as New York’s oldest U-Pick orchard — a family operation running continuously since 1905. That’s the longest-running claim among the orchards researched for this guide. Phone is 518-642-1788. The orchard runs its own Slyboro Ciderhouse tasting room out of a building dating to 1935, alongside a confirmed cider mill and cider donuts, plus event space rentals for gatherings.
What makes this listing stand out procedurally is a detail rare across this entire research batch: the orchard’s own site posted an explicit “Summer 2026 Hours” notice, naming the year directly rather than leaving it ambiguous. Those hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 9am to 5pm, with Friday extended to 8pm — a longer evening window than most orchards in this research offer.
Across this batch of Hudson Valley and Capital Region orchards, most season and hours information came from pages that either didn’t state a year at all, or referenced a leftover 2025 date. Hicks Orchard’s explicit “Summer 2026” label is a genuine point in its favor: it signals the site has actually been updated for the current year, rather than left stale from a previous season. That said, it’s worth being precise about what that confirmation covers — it’s a general hours posting, not a dedicated apple-picking calendar with a specific season start or end date. The hours tell you when the farm is open; they don’t tell you exactly when apples will be ready or how long the season will run.
Despite the strong hours confirmation, this record couldn’t pin down two things most visitors will want to know: which apple varieties are available to pick, and what a bag or basket actually costs. Neither was listed on the page reached during this research. Given the farm’s century-plus history and its Ciderhouse operation, it almost certainly grows a range of varieties suited to both eating and pressing — but nothing in this record confirms specific names, so don’t plan a trip around a particular apple without calling first.
The Slyboro Ciderhouse, operating out of a 1935 building on the property, is a distinctive draw here beyond the picking itself. Pairing a century-old orchard with a dedicated cider tasting room housed in a nearly-90-year-old building gives this stop a sense of place that a newer or more commercially built-out orchard can’t easily replicate. If a relaxed cider tasting alongside picking sounds appealing, the extended Friday hours (until 8pm) make an after-work or early-evening visit realistic in a way most orchards’ daytime-only hours don’t.
Hicks Orchard offers one of the more trustworthy pieces of current information in this entire research batch — an explicitly dated 2026 hours notice — plus a genuinely long operating history and an on-site cider house with real character. The tradeoff is that the specifics most likely to affect your actual picking experience, variety selection and pricing, remain unconfirmed, so a call to 518-642-1788 before you go is still worthwhile, especially if you have a particular apple in mind.
The orchard's own site posted explicit 'Summer 2026 Hours': Wednesday through Sunday, 9am to 5pm, with Fridays extended until 8pm. This is general operating hours rather than an apple-specific picking calendar.
you need confirmed apple varieties or per-bag pricing before you go — neither is stated on the page reached during this research, so call ahead.
The orchard's own site posted 'Summer 2026 Hours: Wednesdays-Sundays 9am-5pm, Fridays until 8pm,' one of the few explicitly 2026-dated confirmations found across this research batch.
Not stated in the record. Specific varieties weren't listed on the page reached during this research — call ahead to ask what's currently pickable.
Yes — the record confirms a cider mill, cider donuts, and an on-site Slyboro Ciderhouse tasting room, run out of a 1935 building on the property.
Since 1905, per the record, and it bills itself as New York's oldest U-Pick orchard, still run as a family operation.
518-642-1788, or hicksorchard.com.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Wed-Sun. Check with the orchard before driving out.
Pricing was not published when we last checked.
Yes — it's a pick-your-own orchard.
18 Hicks Road, Granville, NY 12832, in Washington County. It is one of 4 orchards we track in Capital Region.
We track 4 orchards in Capital Region, 4 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.
What sets it apart locally: it has fresh cider, which most Capital Region orchards on our list do not.
One caveat worth repeating: this orchard had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 0 of the 4 orchards we track in Capital Region had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the orchard confirms it.
There are 18 other orchards we track in Washington County. All Capital Region orchards →
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hicksorchard.com
Checked September 2026.