Hillcrest Orchards

Our take

The short version

Hillcrest Orchards, branded on-site as “Dodd’s Hillcrest Orchards” or Hillcrest Fun Farm, is a fifth-generation farm in Amherst, in Lorain County, Ohio. It stands out in this batch for having some of the most explicitly confirmed 2026 information: dated season boundaries, per-bag pricing, and a ten-variety list, all read directly from the orchard’s own site. The one detail worth building your trip around is that pick-your-own is weekends only, even though the overall season runs from September 5 through November 1.

A confirmed season and real pricing

Unlike many records in this dataset, this one has actual 2026-dated specifics: the season runs September 5 through November 1, 2026, with weekend pick-your-own hours of 10am to 6pm. Pricing is similarly concrete — a 10 lb bag runs $15.95, a 20 lb bag runs $29.95, and there’s a buy-4-bags-get-the-5th-free promotion. That’s useful, checkable detail that lets you actually budget a trip rather than guessing. One caveat from the source note: a separate paid admission or ticket is required to pick, on top of whatever bag you buy, so factor that into the total cost.

Ten named varieties, spanning the calendar

The record names ten apples out of roughly 20 the site describes overall: Gala, Honeycrisp, Pixie Crunch, McIntosh, Jonagold, Golden Delicious, EverCrisp, Ludacrisp, Granny Smith, and Winesap. That spread covers mid-season classics (Gala, McIntosh, Honeycrisp) through to some of the latest-ripening apples of the year — Granny Smith and Winesap are typically among the last apples picked each fall, often into late October or November, which lines up with the farm’s stated November 1 close.

Weekends only — the detail that trips people up

The season window here is generous — nearly two full months — but the record is explicit that pick-your-own itself only operates on weekends. If you’re used to orchards that offer daily picking throughout their season, this is a different model: the farm is open, but the fields aren’t staffed for picking except Saturday and Sunday. Plan your visit around a weekend specifically, not just around the September 5-November 1 window in general.

Beyond the orchard rows

The activities list includes a pumpkin patch, a farm market, and a weddings-and-events venue — suggesting Hillcrest operates as a broader agritourism destination rather than a single-purpose apple farm. Multiple Northeast Ohio roundups name it as one of the region’s best-known u-pick spots, distinct from the Ohio orchards already in the dataset that cluster around Chesterland, Rittman, and Brunswick, further east and south. Whether there’s an on-site cider mill wasn’t confirmed on the pages read, so that’s a gap rather than a confirmed no.

Getting there

The address is 50336 Telegraph Rd, Amherst, OH 44001. The listed coordinates are a street-level estimate for Telegraph Road rather than a confirmed parcel geocode, so navigate by the address itself.

Bottom line

Hillcrest Orchards gives you more to plan around than most records in this batch — real dates, real pricing, and a ten-variety list — which makes it a solid choice if you want certainty before you drive out. Just build the trip around a Saturday or Sunday, since that’s the only time the pick-your-own rows are actually open.