Red Apple Barn

Our take

The short version

Red Apple Barn stands out in this file for one practical reason: its u-pick hours don’t follow a simple daily pattern. Per the record, picking is only available Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday — with different hours on each of those days — while the farm market itself stays open every day of the week. That split schedule means the day of the week you plan to visit matters more here than at most neighboring Ellijay orchards.

A schedule worth writing down

The specifics are genuinely useful and worth having on hand before you drive out: Saturday picking runs 10am to 5pm, Sunday is a shorter window of 1pm to 4pm, and both Monday and Friday run 11am to 3pm. There’s no Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday picking at all, according to the record. Meanwhile, the market — where you’d buy pre-picked fruit, donuts, and other goods — is open Monday through Saturday from 9am to 6pm and Sunday from 1pm to 5:30pm. If you show up on a Wednesday afternoon expecting to pick your own apples, you’ll find the market open but the u-pick rows closed.

Cider donuts, pumpkins, and flowers

Cider donuts are confirmed in the record, giving Red Apple Barn one of the more commonly cited fall-orchard treats. Whether there’s a working on-site cider mill isn’t confirmed either way — the field is simply blank. Beyond apples, the record lists pumpkin picking and u-cut flowers as activities. The research notes add a useful specific here: the pumpkin patch is explicitly seasonal, described on the site as “Open Weekends Late Sept-October,” which lines up with the same general window apple season tends to run in North Georgia.

No variety list, no pricing, no season dates

Beyond the day-specific hours, this record is otherwise thin. No apple varieties are named, so there’s no way to know from this record whether you’ll find early-season Ginger Golds or later Fujis in the rows on a given visit. No per-bag or per-pound pricing is listed either. And there’s no 2026-dated season announcement — the record notes the site gives operating hours but doesn’t tie a start or end date to the current year, so treat “fall” as the general window rather than assuming a specific date range applies.

Address confirmed two ways

One point of relative confidence in this record: the address and phone number were cross-checked against the Gilmer County Chamber of Commerce’s own apple orchards listing, not sourced from the orchard’s site alone. That double-sourcing gives a bit more assurance that the basic contact information here is current, even where season-specific details aren’t.

Part of the wider Ellijay corridor

Red Apple Barn sits within the same general Ellijay / Gilmer County apple-growing area as several other orchards in this record, on Tails Creek Rd (Hwy 282) rather than directly on Highway 52 with the Hillcrest/B.J. Reece/Aaron Family cluster. That’s worth knowing if you’re mapping out a multi-stop day — it’s part of the same county corridor but not necessarily a quick hop from the Highway 52 orchards.

What’s missing, and why it matters

The gaps here are straightforward: no confirmed apple varieties, no pricing, and no 2026 season start or end date. None of that is unusual for an orchard at this stage of documentation, but combined with the narrow, day-specific u-pick window, it means planning a visit here takes a bit more care than at an orchard with simple daily hours. Calling ahead — especially to confirm the current week’s picking status and to ask about pricing — is the sensible move before making the drive.

Getting there

Red Apple Barn is at 3379 Tails Creek Rd (Hwy 282) in Ellijay, Gilmer County, Georgia.

Bottom line

The narrow, day-specific u-pick schedule is the single most important thing to plan around here — miss the Friday-through-Monday window and you’ll find the market open but the rows closed. Beyond that, confirmed cider donuts and a seasonal pumpkin patch round out a solid fall stop, but pricing and variety details need a call to 706-635-5898 to pin down.