A dual-purpose Green Bluff farm and wedding venue with a genuinely wide amenity list — bakery, petting zoo, playground — but no apple varieties or 2026 season dates are confirmed.
High Country Orchard reads less like a single-purpose fruit farm and more like a small agritourism complex that happens to grow apples. The record lists a bakery, a petting zoo, a playground, and a gift shop alongside the orchard itself, and notes that the property also operates as a wedding venue — a combination that explains the more polished amenities compared to some plainer Green Bluff stands covered in this same research batch. What it doesn’t offer is any confirmed detail on which apples you’d actually be picking.
Unlike several neighboring farms that offer one or the other, High Country lists both u-pick and pre-picked fruit as available. The record also notes the farm carries a range of crops from rhubarb through apples across the season, rather than being an apples-only operation. That breadth is worth knowing if you’re bringing a group with different interests — someone can pick while someone else browses the pre-picked stand or bakery.
Posted hours are consistent and specific: Sunday 10am to 5pm, and 9am to 5pm the rest of the week. That’s a dependable, near-daily schedule, better than several Green Bluff neighbors with narrower weekend-only windows. What’s missing is any indication of when the apple season actually starts or ends in 2026, or what a specific week’s fruit availability looks like. The hours tell you when the gate is open; they don’t tell you what’s ripe.
No apple varieties are named anywhere in the record, whether from the orchard’s own site or from the third-party directory listings (Yelp, VisitSpokane) used to cross-reference the basic facts. That’s a real gap if a specific apple is the point of your visit — this is a farm to call ahead about (509-992-5966) rather than one to plan a variety-specific trip around based on the available research.
The wedding-venue detail is worth flagging because it changes what kind of visit to expect. A property built to also host weddings tends to invest more in polish — the bakery and playground fit that pattern — but it may also mean parts of the grounds are occasionally reserved for private events. Nothing in the record addresses that directly, so if you’re planning around a specific weekend, it’s reasonable to ask whether an event is scheduled that day when you call.
High Country Orchard is at 8518 E Greenbluff Rd in Colbert, in the same Green Bluff cluster as several other orchards in this research batch. The lat/lng on file point to Colbert’s city center rather than a geocoded street address, so navigate using the address itself. Given the near-daily hours here, this is a reasonable anchor for a Green Bluff day trip, with the petting zoo and bakery giving younger kids something to do beyond walking rows of trees.
High Country Orchard offers more built-in activity than a typical u-pick stop — petting zoo, playground, bakery — and dependable daily hours to match. The tradeoff is a total absence of apple-specific detail: no varieties, no season dates. If the fruit itself is secondary to a fun family outing, that gap matters less; if a particular apple is the goal, call ahead before you go.
Not stated with specific dates. Hours are posted (9am-5pm most days), but the record has no confirmed 2026 apple-season window.
You need a confirmed apple variety before you commit to the trip — none are named in the record.
High Country Orchard is part of the same Green Bluff cluster as Beck's Harvest House, the Cherry Shack, Walters' Fruit Ranch, and Hansen's, all covered in this research batch and within a few miles of each other.
Not stated in the record. Neither the orchard's own site nor the directory listings used for this research named specific varieties.
Both — the record lists u-pick as true and pre-picked as also available, giving visitors a choice depending on how much time they want to spend in the orchard.
Sunday 10am-5pm, Monday through Saturday 9am-5pm, per the record.
Yes, wedding venue is listed among its activities, alongside a gift shop, bakery, petting zoo, and playground — a wider mix than most straightforward u-pick farms in this batch.
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.
8518 E Greenbluff Rd, Colbert, WA 99005, in Spokane County. It is one of 6 orchards we track in Green Bluff.
We track 6 orchards in Green Bluff, 6 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 cider donuts or a bakery, a petting area, a playground, which most Green Bluff orchards on our list do not.
One caveat worth repeating: this orchard had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 1 of the 6 orchards we track in Green Bluff had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the orchard confirms it.
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Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
highcountryorchard.com
Checked September 2026.