A working Morris County farm market with a confirmed 2026 Apple Festival running September 5-7, Honeycrisp and Gala apples confirmed current, and cider donuts on-site — one of the more directly verified orchards in this batch.
Apple Festival admission about $15/adult (ticketed online), kids 3 and under free; apples themselves priced separately at the farm stand.
Ort Farms stands out in this research batch for something surprisingly rare: a specific, farm-confirmed 2026 event date. The site explicitly states the Apple Festival runs September 5-7, 2026, with Honeycrisp and Gala apples confirmed as currently available. Layered on top of ordinary pick-your-own access, the festival weekend adds hayrides, sunflower cutting, and food trucks — making Ort Farms as much a fall event destination as a straightforward apple stop, at least for that particular weekend.
Most of the orchards researched for this project describe their season only in general terms — “late August through October,” or similar. Ort Farms is a clear exception: its own website states the Apple Festival runs September 5-7, 2026, in plain, dated language, with no inference required. Admission for the festival is roughly $15 per adult, purchased as a ticket online, with children age 3 and under admitted free. That admission covers the festival experience; apples themselves are priced separately at the farm stand.
The record confirms two specific varieties — Honeycrisp and Gala — as currently available on the farm’s own site. That’s a meaningful distinction this particular year: several nearby New Jersey orchards, including Terhune Orchards, have publicly stated that Honeycrisp specifically was lost to an April frost that damaged fruit crops statewide. Ort Farms’ direct confirmation that Honeycrisp is available suggests its crop came through in better shape, though the record doesn’t list a full variety roster beyond these two, so don’t assume every apple type is on offer — just that these two specifically are.
Outside the named festival weekend, the farm runs 9:30am to 6pm daily, per its own site. What isn’t detailed on the page read is exactly how regular pick-your-own access and pricing work on an ordinary Tuesday in late September, as opposed to the festival weekend itself. If your plan is to avoid the festival crowds and visit on a quieter day, calling 908-876-3351 ahead to confirm standard PYO terms is worth doing, since the site’s clearest pricing and scheduling information is tied specifically to the festival.
Beyond picking, the farm stand sells cider donuts and more than 20 flavors of homemade ice cream, both confirmed in the record. The festival weekend itself adds a hayride, sunflower cutting, and food trucks — a genuinely full day’s worth of activity rather than a simple in-and-out apple run. A petting zoo also appears among the farm’s activities.
Ort Farms is at 25 Bartley Rd in Long Valley, part of Morris County’s Skylands region. The coordinates on file are a Long Valley town-center estimate rather than a geocoded point for the Bartley Road address, so navigate using the street address.
Ort Farms offers something unusually solid for this research batch: a confirmed festival date, confirmed varieties, and a farm-stated 2026 status that reads as normal rather than frost-damaged, unlike several nearby orchards. The trade-off is that its clearest information is tied to the September 5-7 festival weekend specifically; regular pick-your-own terms outside that window are less documented. For anyone planning around a specific date, September 5-7, 2026 is about as reliable a target as this research found anywhere in New Jersey this season.
The orchard's own site explicitly confirms the Apple Festival runs September 5-7, 2026, which is the clearest date on file. Regular hours outside the festival are 9:30am-6pm daily, though ordinary (non-festival) pick-your-own pricing beyond the festival weekend wasn't spelled out on the page read.
The farm runs a ticketed Apple Festival specifically September 5-7, 2026, which strongly suggests that weekend will be the busiest stretch of the season.
You're looking for a quiet, crowd-free visit — festival weekends tend to draw the biggest turnout, and this farm has a ticketed, food-truck-and-hayride event built around September 5-7.
The farm's own site explicitly states the Apple Festival runs September 5-7, 2026.
Admission is about $15 per adult, ticketed online, with kids 3 and under free. Apples themselves are priced separately at the farm stand.
Honeycrisp and Gala are confirmed current on the farm's own site as of this record. A broader variety list for the rest of the season isn't published.
9:30am-6pm daily, per the farm's own site, though pricing and pick-your-own access outside the named festival weekend weren't detailed on the page read.
Yes — hayrides, sunflower cutting, food trucks, cider donuts, and over 20 flavors of homemade ice cream are all confirmed at the farm stand and festival.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Daily. Check with the orchard before driving out.
Prices start at $15. Apple Festival admission about $15/adult (ticketed online), kids 3 and under free; apples themselves priced separately at the farm stand.
Yes — it's a pick-your-own orchard, with pre-picked apples at the farm stand too.
Honeycrisp, Gala — note that what's actually ready to pick changes week to week through the season.
25 Bartley Rd, Long Valley, NJ 07853, in Morris County. It is one of 4 orchards we track in Skylands.
We track 4 orchards in Skylands, 3 of which let you pick your own apples. At $15 to start this one sits right on the regional median of $15, undercutting 1 of the 3 priced orchards we track here.
What sets it apart locally: it has a petting area, which most Skylands orchards on our list do not.
One caveat worth repeating: this orchard had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 1 of the 4 orchards we track in Skylands had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the orchard confirms it.
There are 3 other orchards we track in Morris County. All Skylands orchards →
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
ortfarms.com
Checked September 2026.