Hinton's Orchard & Farm Market

Our take

What the record confirms

Hinton’s Orchard & Farm Market operates at 8631 Campbellsville Road in Hodgenville, LaRue County, in Central Kentucky. The family’s roots run deep here: per the record’s history page, the Hintons trace their farming lineage eight generations back, and they took over the long-established “Tommy Bennett Orchards” property in LaRue County in 2002. The phone number on file is 270-325-3854, and the site is hintonsorchard.com. Hours are listed as 9am to 6pm, Monday through Saturday, closed Sunday.

What’s actually for sale

The record names three specific apple varieties available at the market: Gala, McIntosh, and Jonathan. Of those, Gala and McIntosh both fall into the mid-season ripening window, which is a useful planning detail if you’re trying to time a visit around when these varieties are typically at their best — though the record itself doesn’t give a specific 2026 date range for when each variety comes in. Fresh apple cider is also confirmed as something sold here, alongside the apples themselves. Beyond apples, the research notes mention the farm has expanded into vegetables, berries, flowers, and Christmas trees over the years, giving it a broader identity than a single-crop apple operation.

This is a market, not a confirmed U-Pick

This is the most important distinction to draw out of the record: Hinton’s markets its apples as something you buy at the farm market, not as an advertised pick-your-own experience. The record is explicit about this framing — there’s no U-Pick language on the site, and no 2026 season dates or pricing are posted anywhere in the material reviewed. That doesn’t necessarily mean picking is unavailable, but it does mean this record can’t confirm it, and the honest read is to treat this as a farm-stand-with-orchard-on-site listing rather than a guaranteed hands-on picking trip. If picking your own apples is the point of the visit, it’s worth calling 270-325-3854 directly to ask, since the site’s own silence on the topic is itself informative.

Farm tours are on offer

One activity is confirmed in the record: farm tours. That’s a modest but real offering for anyone wanting to see the operation beyond just the market building, even if the record doesn’t specify whether tours are self-guided, scheduled, or require a reservation.

Two locations, one listing

Worth flagging clearly: the record notes that the Hinton family also operates a separate retail market in Elizabethtown, in neighboring Hardin County. This particular listing is built around the Hodgenville/LaRue County location, since that’s where the orchard itself — as opposed to a satellite retail market — is actually described in the source material. Anyone searching for Hinton’s online should make sure they’re heading to the right address, since the two locations aren’t interchangeable.

What’s missing, and one coordinate caveat

No 2026 season dates, no pricing, and no U-Pick confirmation are the clearest gaps here. On top of that, the record notes its latitude and longitude are a Hodgenville city-center approximation rather than a geocode of the exact street address — worth knowing if you’re relying on the map pin rather than the written address to find the farm.

Bottom line for planning

Hinton’s Orchard & Farm Market is a well-established, eight-generation operation with confirmed apple varieties — Gala, McIntosh, Jonathan — fresh cider, and farm tours, but this record can’t confirm pick-your-own access or give a firm 2026 season window. Anyone planning a visit should treat it as a market-purchase trip first, and call ahead if picking your own apples off the tree is a non-negotiable part of the plan.