Stutzman Ranch

Our take

The short version

Stutzman Ranch’s own about page traces its farming roots back to 1907, which the record notes makes it one of the older continuously operating u-pick spots in the Wenatchee Valley. That kind of longevity is a genuine, checkable detail rather than marketing language — it comes straight from the farm’s own history page. The practical side of visiting, though, comes with real constraints: a short daily picking window and only one confirmed apple variety.

A short window, not an all-day operation

The u-pick hours here are 9am to 3:30pm — notably tighter than the longer store hours posted at several other orchards in this research batch. If you’re planning a visit, that means mornings and early afternoons are your actual window for picking, not a lazy late-afternoon stop. The record does note the farm stays open daily whenever fruit is available, including on July 4th and Labor Day, which is a useful detail if you’re trying to plan a holiday-weekend visit and don’t want to guess whether the gate will be open.

Gala confirmed, later varieties an open question

Gala is the only apple variety directly confirmed in the record, tied to third-party descriptions of August offerings that also include peaches and Bartlett pears. Gala is a mid-season apple, sweeter and milder than tart early varieties like Paula Red, and it’s one of the more widely available options at this point in the calendar across Washington orchards generally. What the record doesn’t say is what replaces or joins Gala later in September and October — no later varieties are named, and no 2026-dated season calendar was found on the farm’s own site at the time it was checked. If your visit is planned for October rather than late summer, call 509-667-1664 to ask what’s actually ripe before you drive out.

Beyond apples

The record lists a fruit stand and pumpkins in fall as the other on-site offerings. Combined with the third-party references to peaches and Bartlett pears, this reads as a working multi-crop farm rather than an apple-specific operation — apples are one stop on a longer summer-into-fall harvest calendar that starts with stone fruit and ends with pumpkins. That’s worth knowing if you’re hoping for a purely apple-focused outing versus a broader taste of what the farm grows across a season.

Getting there

Stutzman Ranch is at 2226 Easy St in Wenatchee, in Chelan County. Unlike several of the Green Bluff records in this batch, the lat/lng here still represent Wenatchee’s city-center coordinates rather than a geocoded street address, so navigate by the posted address itself rather than the map pin. No specific nearby-orchard pairing is confirmed in the record, so treat this as a standalone stop unless you’re already building a broader Wenatchee Valley itinerary from other sources.

Bottom line

A century-plus of farming history and a confirmed morning window for Gala apples make Stutzman Ranch a reasonable, low-risk stop if you can get there before mid-afternoon. The record doesn’t give you enough to plan confidently around a specific fall date or a specific late-season variety, so treat any visit after August as one where you should call first to check what’s actually ripe.