A longstanding Rio Grande orchard with a distinctive heirloom-plus-classic variety lineup, but secondary sources explicitly warn its current status is uncertain — call 505-579-4378 before you make this trip, because it may no longer be operating as a u-pick, or at all.
Romero’s Orchard is listed at County Road 1105, Driveway No. 65, in Embudo, part of Rio Arriba County’s Dixon/Embudo apple country in the Rio Grande Valley of northern New Mexico. The record describes a longstanding orchard of more than 270 trees, with a distinctive variety lineup that includes heirloom summer apples alongside Red and Golden Delicious, Rome, Winesap, and McIntosh.
That’s the kind of detail that would normally make an orchard worth featuring prominently. But this record carries something more important than any of it: a direct warning from the sources themselves. A pickyourown.org-derived summary explicitly flags that it’s unclear whether Romero’s still offers u-pick, or whether the orchard is open at all, and urges visitors to call before making the trip. That’s a categorically different and stronger caution than the routine “hours may vary, call ahead” language that shows up across most of this file’s records — it’s a specific, stated doubt about whether the operation still exists in a form visitors can access.
Most orchards in this dataset carry gaps because a website couldn’t be found or a season date wasn’t published for the current year. Romero’s carries something different: an active flag, from a source specifically built to track u-pick farm status, questioning current operation. This record takes that seriously rather than smoothing it over. The phone number on file — 505-579-4378 — is genuinely the single most important piece of information here, because it’s the only way to find out whether a visit is even possible before you drive out into Rio Arriba County.
Given that uncertainty, this draft is deliberately not written as though Romero’s is a confirmed, currently operating destination. It’s included in this dataset because historical and secondary-source evidence supports it as a real, longstanding orchard — but “longstanding” and “currently operating” are not the same claim, and this record can’t make the second one.
If Romero’s is still operating, the record describes a season historically running from Labor Day weekend through the first weekend of November, timed to overlap with the Dixon Studio Tour, a local arts weekend. That pairing — apple picking alongside an arts and studio tour — is what the record’s research notes describe as the orchard’s traditional timing, and if the orchard is still active, planning around that studio tour weekend could make for a fuller day trip. But none of this is stamped with a current-year date, and it shouldn’t be treated as a live schedule.
The variety list itself is worth noting for what it says about the orchard’s age: heirloom summer apples alongside Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, Rome, Winesap, and McIntosh reflects a planting built up over decades rather than a recently established operation optimized around a handful of popular modern varieties.
No hours, no season dates, no pricing, and no confirmed u_pick status appear in the record — all consistent with an orchard whose current operational status is itself in question. No website is listed either.
Romero’s Orchard has real historical standing in New Mexico’s Dixon/Embudo apple country, with a genuinely distinctive heirloom-plus-classic variety mix. But the honest, responsible thing this record can do is pass along the warning its sources gave: call 505-579-4378 before you plan anything around this orchard, because the available evidence doesn’t confirm it’s still open to visitors, let alone still running a u-pick program.
Historically, per the record, the season ran from Labor Day weekend through the first weekend of November, timed to overlap with the Dixon Studio Tour arts weekend. No current-year date is confirmed, and the record's sources actively question whether the orchard is still open.
you haven't called ahead — the record's sources explicitly flag that it's unclear whether this orchard still offers u-pick or is even open, and urge visitors to call first.
Not confirmed. The record notes a pickyourown.org-derived summary explicitly flags that it's unclear whether the orchard still offers u-pick or is even open, and recommends calling first — that warning is passed through here rather than resolved.
Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, Rome, Winesap, and McIntosh, plus heirloom summer apples, across more than 270 trees.
Labor Day weekend through the first weekend of November, historically timed to overlap with the Dixon Studio Tour, per the record — not a confirmed current-year date.
The record confirms pre-picked apples. Whether u-pick is currently offered is unconfirmed, tied to the same uncertainty about the orchard's current operating status.
The record's research notes describe the orchard's historical season as timed to overlap with this local arts weekend in the Dixon area, suggesting the two were traditionally paired, though this isn't confirmed as a current arrangement.
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.
No — this orchard sells pre-picked apples from its own trees rather than u-pick.
Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, Rome, Winesap, McIntosh — note that what's actually ready to pick changes week to week through the season.
County Road 1105, Driveway No. 65, Embudo, NM 87531, in Rio Arriba County. It is one of 1 orchards we track in Rio Grande Valley (Dixon/Embudo).
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Checked September 2026.