U-Pick Mesilla Valley Apples (Burke Orchard)

Our take

The short version

U-Pick Mesilla Valley Apples, also known by the Burke Orchard name, sits in the Mesilla Valley near Las Cruces, New Mexico — a genuinely different pocket of the state’s apple country from the existing Belen, Bosque Farms, Corrales, Torreon, and Embudo entries in this dataset. It pairs u-pick apples with a home bakery selling pies and apple cake, and it sells fruit by the bag rather than by weight.

Sold by the bag, not the pound

One clear, practical detail: pricing here runs by bag size rather than per pound. A quarter-peck bag costs $7, half-peck $10, a full peck $16, and a bushel $50 — and you fill the bag yourself. That’s a useful structure to understand before you arrive, since it changes how you’d think about value compared to an orchard charging strictly by weight.

Two named varieties

Red Delicious and Jonathan are the two apples confirmed in the record. Both are well-known, classic varieties, though there’s no indication in the sources whether these are the only two grown or simply the two that happened to be named in the write-ups checked.

A pie and apple-cake bakery on-site

Beyond picking, the farm runs a bakery selling pies and apple cake — a nice complement if you’d rather eat fresh-baked apple desserts than bake your own from what you pick.

Why so much of this record is unconfirmed

The farm’s primary web presence is a Facebook page, which would not render usable content through automated fetch during this research pass. As a result, this record relies on two secondary sources, kisselpaso.com and farmgrownmarket.com, along with a directory-aggregated address match. One reported detail — a 2026 opening date of August 14 — showed up only in an AI-summarized search result, not in content the researcher could independently read on a primary source, so it’s deliberately left unconfirmed here rather than stated as fact.

Even the address has some uncertainty

One directory lists the address as “330 Shalem Colony Trail” (missing the leading 2), which is likely a transcription error; “2330” is used here since it matches the majority of listings checked. That’s a small but real inconsistency worth knowing about if you’re cross-referencing other sources.

Getting there

The address is 2330 Shalem Colony Trail, Las Cruces, NM 88007, north of downtown near the Shalem Colony/Dona Ana area. The listed coordinates are a Las Cruces city-center fallback, not a geocode of the actual address. Phone: 575-523-7437.

Bottom line

U-Pick Mesilla Valley Apples offers a genuinely distinct Mesilla Valley option paired with a home bakery, but its Facebook-only presence means real gaps remain — most notably an unverified opening date. Treat any “mid-August” date from third-party roundups as unconfirmed until checked by phone.