Pride of Neola Orchards

Our take

What the record actually confirms

Pride of Neola Orchards sits at 5976 Neola Hwy in Neola, Utah, in Duchesne County’s Uintah Basin — a genuinely different part of the state from the Salt Lake/Utah County and Wasatch Front/Northern Utah clusters that account for most other Utah orchards in this research batch. It’s included here specifically because it’s a real, operating u-pick apple orchard in this less-covered region, adding geographic breadth rather than padding an already well-represented area. Two apple varieties are named: Honeycrisp and Gala. Peaches, including several Elberta variants, and plums are also grown here, according to research notes, though apples are the focus for this record.

An old-fashioned, no-frills setup

The most distinctive detail here is the operation’s straightforward, low-tech structure: $1 per pound, cash only, bring your own boxes or buckets. That’s a meaningfully different model from the festival-style orchards elsewhere in this dataset that offer online pre-orders, tiered pricing by variety, or bundled activities like corn mazes and photography sessions. Pride of Neola Orchards reads as a genuinely old-fashioned, small-operation pick — closer to a roadside family orchard than a destination attraction. For a visitor who values simplicity and a low, flat price over amenities, that’s a real point in its favor; for anyone expecting a bakery, farm store, or festival programming, this isn’t that kind of stop.

Sunup to sundown, literally

Hours are described simply as “sunup to sundown,” daily — not a fixed clock time the way most other orchards in this file specify, but tied to daylight itself. That’s a practical, if informal, way to describe access for a small operation, though it does mean actual opening and closing times shift with the season; a visit in early September will have meaningfully longer daylight hours available than one in late October.

An address with some ambiguity

The record notes a minor but real inconsistency: some listings give the mailing town for this address as Roosevelt, UT rather than Neola, even though it’s the same physical location. This is common in rural areas where a mailing address’s listed town doesn’t always match the more commonly used place name for a location, and it’s worth being aware of rather than assuming it’s an error — both names may legitimately point to the same spot depending on postal versus geographic conventions.

What’s still missing

No dedicated orchard website was located — all information here comes from directory and aggregator sources like LocalHarvest, PickYourOwn.farm, and AARP local listings, rather than the orchard confirming these details itself. No 2026-specific season dates were found, and there’s nothing in the record about parking or accessibility, though given the rural, informal nature of the operation, a formal parking area may not be part of the setup at all — that’s a reasonable inference, not a confirmed fact.

Bottom line

Pride of Neola Orchards offers a genuinely old-fashioned, low-cost u-pick experience in a part of Utah — the Uintah Basin — not covered by any other orchard in this research batch. The tradeoffs are real: cash only, bring your own containers, no confirmed website, and no dated 2026 season information. A call to 435-353-4949 before making the drive to Duchesne County is the sensible way to confirm the orchard is currently picking before setting out.