One of New Mexico's largest apple operations, built around a mountain retreat with cabins and a pool rather than a simple farm stand, with a confirmed four-weekend 2026 Apple Festival — but whether everyday picking is u-pick or staff-run isn't stated even on the orchard's own event page.
Manzano Mountain Retreat & Apple Ranch sits at 210A Los Pinetos in Torreon, up in Torrance County’s Manzano Mountains. This record carries a level of confirmation most others in this batch don’t: the 2026 Apple Festival dates, hours, address, and activities were read directly from the orchard’s own site, at manzanomountainretreat.com/2026-apple-festival, during research. That’s an explicit, current-season confirmation rather than a secondary source’s summary — the record marks this as “confirmation: orchard_site” for exactly that reason.
The 2026 Apple Festival runs four consecutive fall weekends: September 26-27, October 3-4, October 10-11, and October 17-18, with hours of 11am to 5pm on each Saturday and Sunday. Activities confirmed for the festival include hayrides, a petting zoo, an artisan market, and live music, plus cider donuts.
The research notes describe this as one of New Mexico’s largest apple operations — a 170-acre mountain property with more than 40 acres of orchard spread across more than 37 apple varieties. That variety count, though, comes from a separate source (an Orange Pippin/OnlyInYourState summary) rather than the festival page itself, so it’s a slightly different tier of confirmation than the festival dates above: real and specific, but not the same direct site-read.
What makes this property distinctive in this file is that it isn’t built as a standalone orchard at all — it’s a retreat with cabins, a pool, and a ropes course, where the apple orchard and festival are one part of a larger stay. Sunday property tours are mentioned in the research notes as well, reinforcing that this reads more like a resort with an orchard attached than a farm you swing by for an hour.
Here’s the honest limitation worth stating plainly: the orchard’s own festival page didn’t say whether general apple picking — outside the four festival weekends, or even during them — is u-pick or staff-picked. The record leaves u_pick null rather than assuming either way. Given the scale described (40+ acres, 37+ varieties), it would be reasonable for a visitor to expect a u-pick program, but nothing in this record confirms one exists in that form. If picking your own apples yourself is the point of the trip, that’s worth a direct question to the retreat before you book anything.
Pre-picked apples are confirmed as available, and no phone number is listed in the record — the website is the only contact channel on file: manzanomountainretreat.com.
Nothing in the record states festival admission, apple pricing, or cabin rates. Given the property’s scale and the festival’s artisan market and live music, it’s reasonable to expect some kind of admission or activity fee, but this draft won’t invent a number. Check the site directly for current pricing before planning a visit, especially if you’re weighing a day trip against an overnight stay.
Manzano Mountain Retreat stands out in this file for having a directly confirmed, current-year event calendar — a real advantage over orchards where even the season dates are secondhand guesses. But its scale and resort-style setup also mean this is likely more of a planned half-day or overnight visit than a quick apple run, and the one meaningful gap — whether everyday picking is self-serve — is worth resolving with the retreat directly before you go, since the festival page that anchors this record doesn’t say.
The 2026 Apple Festival runs four consecutive fall weekends, confirmed directly from the orchard's own site: September 26-27, October 3-4, October 10-11, and October 17-18, 11am-5pm.
Likely a half-day outing given the retreat's cabins, pool, and Sunday property tours, though the record doesn't state a specific visit length.
Festival weekends draw an artisan market and live music per the record, which suggests these dates are the retreat's busiest apple-season days rather than a quiet drop-in visit.
you want a guaranteed u-pick experience — the festival page doesn't state whether general apple picking is self-serve or staff-picked.
The record's research notes group Manzano Mountain Retreat with Costanza Apple Orchard in Belen and Hays Honey & Apple Farm in Bosque Farms as part of the broader New Mexico apple-growing area, for anyone planning multiple stops.
Four consecutive weekends: September 26-27, October 3-4, October 10-11, and October 17-18, 2026, 11am-5pm, read directly from the orchard's own site.
The record confirms pre-picked apples are available. Whether general picking is also u-pick isn't stated on the festival page the record was built from, so this is left unconfirmed.
A separate source (not the festival page itself) puts the count at 37+ varieties across 40+ acres of orchard, on a 170-acre property.
The record lists hayrides, a petting zoo, an artisan market, and live music as festival activities, plus cider donuts, cabins, a pool, and a ropes course as part of the broader retreat.
Yes — the record describes it as a 170-acre retreat property with cabins, a pool, and a ropes course, built around a broader stay rather than a quick picking stop.
September 26 – October 18, 2026. Sat-Sun. Hours: 11am-5pm.
Pricing was not published when we last checked.
No — this orchard sells pre-picked apples from its own trees rather than u-pick.
210A Los Pinetos, Torreon, NM 87061, in Torrance County. It is one of 1 orchards we track in Manzano Mountains.
manzanomountainretreat.com
Checked September 2026.