A small Hampshire County orchard growing roughly 40 apple varieties on just 15 acres, sold by appointment rather than open pick-your-own — a genuinely distinctive operation, but with no confirmed phone number, website, or current hours.
Ruggles Orchard is a long-running small orchard near the unincorporated community of Levels, in Hampshire County’s Potomac Highlands region, notable mainly for the sheer density of its variety count: roughly 40 apple types grown on just 15 acres. That’s an unusually concentrated selection for a small operation, but this is not a destination built for casual visitors — fruit is picked by the family itself and sold by appointment or through local farmers markets, rather than offered as an open pick-your-own field.
Forty apple varieties on 15 acres works out to a genuinely tight planting, likely reflecting a farm built up over many years of adding new varieties to a fixed piece of land rather than a large-scale commercial operation. For anyone interested in trying a wide range of lesser-common apples, that density is the main draw here — though which specific varieties are available at any given time isn’t detailed in what’s available for this record.
Unlike most of the orchards in this research, Ruggles doesn’t appear to function as a visitor destination in the usual sense. Multiple directories describe purchases happening by appointment directly at the orchard, or through the farm’s presence at local farmers markets. That’s a meaningfully different model from a farm you can simply drive to on a fall weekend and expect to find open — planning ahead, or catching the farm at a market, is the more realistic path here.
This record has a genuine limitation worth stating plainly: no working phone number or website was confirmed for Ruggles Orchard. That makes the “by appointment” model somewhat difficult to act on directly — without a contact method on file, arranging that appointment likely requires either finding the farm through a local farmers market first, or reaching out through the Hampshire County agritourism network that documents it. This is one of the more contact-limited listings in this entire research project.
Given the appointment-only structure and lack of confirmed contact information, Ruggles Orchard is probably better understood as background information about a notable small farm in the area rather than a first stop to plan a visit around. If a wider, more accessible Potomac Highlands option is the goal, Morgan Orchard in nearby Sinks Grove offers a more visitor-facing schedule, even with its own gaps.
Ruggles Orchard is at 131 Ruggles Orchard Rd in Levels, in Hampshire County. The coordinates on file are a community-center approximation for this rural crossroads rather than a geocode of the exact address.
Ruggles Orchard stands out for a genuinely unusual variety density — 40 apple types on just 15 acres — grown by a family that sells its own fruit by appointment or at farmers markets rather than running an open pick-your-own operation. With no confirmed phone number or website, this is a farm best approached through local farmers-market channels or by asking around in Hampshire County, rather than one to plan a direct visit around.
Not stated in the record. Purchases are by appointment or at farmers markets, per third-party directories, with no fixed public hours to plan around.
You want a drop-in, pick-your-own experience — Ruggles is described as an appointment-based, farm-picked operation rather than a visitor-facing u-pick destination.
No — the record describes fruit as picked by the family and sold by appointment at the orchard or at farmers markets, rather than an open u-pick field.
Roughly 40, on about 15 acres, per third-party agritourism listings — a notably dense variety count for a small orchard.
By appointment, per multiple directories, or by finding the orchard's fruit at a local farmers market. No confirmed phone number or website is on file for direct contact.
Near the unincorporated community of Levels in Hampshire County, part of West Virginia's Potomac Highlands region.
Not confirmed. Nothing in the record describes activities beyond fruit sales, consistent with this being a working farm rather than an agritourism park.
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.
131 Ruggles Orchard Rd, Levels, WV 25431, in Hampshire County. It is one of 3 orchards we track in Potomac Highlands.
We track 3 orchards in Potomac Highlands, 1 of which let you pick your own apples. The orchard has not published a starting price, so it cannot be compared on cost — call before you budget.
One caveat worth repeating: this orchard had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 0 of the 3 orchards we track in Potomac Highlands had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the orchard confirms it.
There are 3 other orchards we track in Hampshire County. All Potomac Highlands orchards →
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
cometohampshire.com · eatwellguide.org
Checked September 2026.