Tanners Orchard

Our take

What the record actually confirms

Tanners Orchard sits at 740 IL-40 in Speer, Marshall County, with a phone number of 309-493-5442 and a website at tannersorchard.com. The homepage carries an explicit, self-reported statement that “Tanners Orchard is NOW OPEN for the 2026 Season!!!” — a direct confirmation that this year’s season is underway, even though it doesn’t spell out an exact calendar start date to pin down season_start precisely.

Hours are fully confirmed and change meaningfully across the fall: August runs Monday through Saturday, 8am to 5pm, while September and October expand to daily hours from 8am to 8pm — a full 12-hour day, seven days a week, once the fall stretch really gets going. That’s a notable jump in both days-open and hours-per-day compared to August.

A pricing structure worth understanding before you go

Tanners uses a two-part pricing model that’s worth calling out specifically, because it’s structured differently from a lot of other orchards in this file. There’s a flat $5-per-person field admission fee (for anyone age 3 and up) just to access the u-pick rows, and then apples themselves are priced separately: $13 for a half-peck bag, or $22 for a full peck. That means the total cost of a visit depends on both how many people are coming and how many apples you plan to pick, rather than one flat number covering everything. A family of four, for instance, would pay $20 in admission alone before any apples are picked, on top of whatever bag size they choose once inside.

Scale: roughly 11,000 trees, 17 varieties

The research notes describe Tanners as a large Peoria-area operation, advertising roughly 11,000 u-pick apple trees and 17 varieties. That’s a substantial scale, among the larger tree counts referenced in this file, though — as with several other entries — no individual variety names are given, so this record can’t speak to which specific apples make up that 17-variety count or when each ripens.

A full activities lineup

Beyond apple picking, the record confirms a corn maze, a pumpkin patch, a sunflower field, farm animals, and an area specifically branded as “Back 40 Fun Acres.” That’s a broad, kid-oriented lineup on par with some of the larger Chicago-area agritainment orchards in this file, suggesting Tanners is built as a full fall destination rather than a picking-only stop. No cider mill or cider donut offering was confirmed on the pages checked, which is worth noting since that’s a common pairing at orchards of similar scale elsewhere in this file.

The one real gap: an exact opening date

Despite the clear “NOW OPEN for the 2026 Season” language, there’s no specific calendar date given for when that season actually started, which is why season_start and season_end are both left blank in the structured data even though the 2026 status itself is confirmed. If timing your visit to the very start or very end of the season matters, a call to 309-493-5442 would be the way to pin that down more precisely.

Bottom line for planning

Tanners Orchard is a large, well-documented Peoria-area u-pick destination with confirmed 2026 operation, detailed seasonal hours, and a clear (if two-part) pricing structure — $5 per person for field admission, then $13 or $22 depending on bag size. The main things this record can’t tell you are the exact 2026 opening date and which of the 17 advertised varieties will be ready on a given visit, both worth a quick call to confirm if precision matters to your trip.