A working orchard that shares a courtyard with the Colterris winery tasting room — apples are real here, but the marketing (and most of the research trail) is built around Palisade peaches and wine, not apple picking.
High Country Orchards sits in Palisade’s Grand Valley, and the clearest picture of it comes from a detail buried in the research notes rather than the marketing: it shares a courtyard and gift shop with the Colterris winery tasting room. That single fact does a lot of work in setting expectations — this reads as a stop built around wine tasting and a broader fruit-stand experience, with apples present but not the headline act.
A Colorado Land Conservation Assistance Network profile confirms this is a working orchard growing apples and other tree fruit, which is enough to establish that apples are genuinely part of the operation. But no source found named specific varieties, and none clarified whether apple picking here is currently offered as u-pick or is farm-stand-only — that field is left unknown in the record rather than assumed one way or the other. If picking your own apples is the point of the trip, that’s worth a phone call first, though no phone number is on file for this record either.
The research notes describe High Country Orchards as “emblematic of the Western Slope pattern”: an operation built and marketed primarily around Palisade peaches, where apples get mentioned only in passing. That’s a useful frame for setting expectations across several Grand Valley stops, not just this one — a visitor arriving expecting a dedicated apple-picking destination may find a peach-and-wine operation that happens to also grow apples.
The one solid scheduling detail on file is hours of 10am to 5pm. There’s no season start or end date, no days-open pattern beyond “Daily,” no phone number, and no website — which makes this one of the harder Grand Valley stops in this research batch to plan around without simply showing up and seeing what’s available.
Nothing in the record indicates admission cost, per-pound or per-bag apple pricing, or wine-tasting fees at the shared Colterris space. Given the pairing with a winery tasting room, it’s reasonable to expect the wine side has its own pricing structure separate from any fruit-stand costs, but that’s an inference from context, not a confirmed fact — treat it as a question to ask on arrival rather than something to budget around in advance.
The address places High Country Orchards within Palisade’s fruit-and-wine corridor, alongside other orchards in this research batch including Green Barn Fruit Co. and Peachfork Orchards & Vineyards — realistic to combine into a single day if you’re touring the area. As with other Palisade records in this batch, the latitude and longitude on file are city-center coordinates rather than a geocoded point for the specific address, so navigate by the street address itself.
High Country Orchards is a legitimate stop for anyone combining wine tasting with a fruit-stand visit in Palisade, but it’s not documented well enough in this record to promise apple pickers a u-pick experience, confirmed varieties, or even a phone number to call ahead. Go in expecting a peach-and-wine-forward operation where apples are a bonus, not the destination.
Not stated in the record — no season dates are posted, and daily hours of 10am-5pm are the only schedule confirmed.
You specifically want a u-pick apple experience — whether picking is currently offered here was not confirmed by any source.
High Country Orchards is in Palisade's Grand Valley fruit-and-wine corridor, near other orchards in this research batch such as Green Barn Fruit Co. and Peachfork Orchards & Vineyards.
Not confirmed. The record leaves u-pick status as unknown rather than guessing — no source specified whether picking is currently self-serve or farm-stand-only.
Not stated in the record. No variety names were found for this orchard.
Based on the record's research notes, yes — it's marketed primarily around Palisade peaches, with apples described only in passing as 'other tree fruit,' alongside a shared courtyard and gift shop with the Colterris winery tasting room.
10am to 5pm, according to the record, with no separate note on which days.
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.
No — this orchard sells pre-picked apples from its own trees rather than u-pick.
3548 E 1/2 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.
Checked September 2026.