A reportedly large 22-variety u-pick orchard with homemade cider, jellies, jams, and honey near Sioux Falls — but confirmed by only a single regional magazine, with no address, phone, or hours found anywhere, so treat it as a lead rather than a confirmed listing.
Hoversten Orchard is named in the record as a Brandon, South Dakota orchard offering u-pick and pre-bagged apple options, with a reported 22 apple varieties — a notably large count among the South Dakota orchards researched in this batch. Beyond apples, the same source describes the operation as selling jellies, jams, honey, and homemade cider, suggesting a business built around a full range of homemade products rather than raw apple sales alone.
All of this comes from a single source: thehoodmagazine.com’s Sioux Falls-area apple-picking guide. That source doesn’t provide an address, phone number, or hours for the orchard — a real gap for what otherwise sounds like a substantial, well-rounded operation.
It’s worth being direct about the confidence level here: unlike most other orchards in this South Dakota batch, which draw on at least a business directory or the orchard’s own site in addition to other sources, Hoversten Orchard’s entire record rests on a single regional lifestyle magazine article. That doesn’t mean the information is wrong, but it does mean nothing here has been cross-checked against an independent second source.
A separate search turned up a mention of an unnamed “25-acre you-pick-we-pick orchard” at 25789 480th Ave in Brandon, SD, with a similar general description to Hoversten Orchard. This could plausibly be the same business, but that match was never confirmed, so the address is deliberately left out of this record rather than presented as verified. If you’re trying to track down this orchard, that address is a reasonable lead to investigate further, but shouldn’t be treated as confirmed.
The 22-variety figure is specific enough to be a genuinely useful data point if accurate, and it would put Hoversten Orchard among the more variety-rich apple operations in the state, alongside Country Apple Orchard and Krause Family Orchard & Nursery in this same research batch. But because it comes from a single magazine source rather than the orchard’s own materials, it’s reported here as a claim to note rather than a fact to rely on for planning around a specific apple type.
The source magazine’s guide frames Hoversten Orchard alongside Country Apple Orchard as one of the two main Sioux Falls-area apple destinations. That pairing is useful context — it suggests Hoversten is locally regarded as a comparable, notable stop — but Country Apple Orchard has considerably more independent documentation (its own website, even though currently unreachable, plus multiple tourism-directory listings), making it the more reliably plannable of the two.
No address, no phone number, no hours, and no confirmed 2026 operating status exist anywhere in the record. The 22-variety figure and the homemade-cider, jellies, jams, and honey offerings all trace back to the single magazine source. Given the total absence of contact information, there’s currently no direct way from this record alone to reach the orchard to confirm any of these details.
Hoversten Orchard sounds, on paper, like one of the more substantial South Dakota apple operations in this research batch — 22 varieties, homemade cider, jellies, jams, and honey — but it’s the least independently confirmed listing among the state’s better-known orchards. With no address or phone number found, this is a name worth researching further (starting, perhaps, with the possible 25789 480th Ave address) rather than a confirmed destination to drive to.
Not stated in the record. No hours, season dates, or 2026 operating status could be independently verified.
you need a confirmed address, phone number, or current operating status before visiting — none of these could be found in any source.
Country Apple Orchard in Harrisburg is grouped alongside Hoversten Orchard as one of two main Sioux Falls-area apple destinations in the source magazine's guide, and offers a much more independently documented alternative.
22, according to the single source found (a regional lifestyle magazine) — a reported figure that wasn't independently cross-checked against a second source.
Yes, per the record — described as offering both you-pick and pre-bagged options.
Neither was found. A separate search snippet mentioned an unnamed 25-acre you-pick-we-pick orchard at 25789 480th Ave, Brandon, SD with a similar description, which may be the same business, but that match wasn't confirmed, so the address is left unlisted rather than guessed.
Jellies, jams, honey, and homemade cider, per the record, alongside apple picking.
Lower-confidence than most. It's confirmed by only a single secondary source (a regional lifestyle magazine) rather than the orchard's own site or a business directory, so treat it as a lead worth confirming by phone rather than a solid listing.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. 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.
We track 4 orchards in Big Sioux River 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 4 orchards we track in Big Sioux River Valley had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the orchard confirms it.
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
thehoodmagazine.com
Checked September 2026.