Young's Apple Box Orchard

Our take

What the record actually confirms

Young’s Apple Box Orchard sits at 2999 Power Plant Road in Lingle, Wyoming — the same irrigated bottomland along the North Platte Valley that hosts Pope Farm & Apple Orchard, and the record describes it as apparently the only other commercial apple operation found in Goshen County besides that neighbor. It’s a small family orchard growing both apples and pears. Picking is described, via a local newspaper feature, as happening Saturdays only, phrased informally as running “while the pickings are good” — language that suggests an operation without a fixed multi-week season calendar, instead staying open as long as fruit remains worth picking that particular Saturday.

No phone number is listed anywhere in the sources checked; the only online presence found is a Facebook page (facebook.com/appleboxorchard), which did not load its full post content during this research, meaning nothing here reflects a directly confirmed current-year post.

An informal schedule, not a season calendar

The “while the pickings are good” framing is worth taking seriously as a planning constraint rather than just a colorful phrase. It suggests that unlike orchards with a posted season-start and season-end date, Young’s Apple Box Orchard’s Saturday availability likely depends on how much fruit remains on the trees that week — meaning the orchard could effectively be “done” for the year on a Saturday earlier than a calendar-based estimate might suggest, or conversely could still have fruit into a later Saturday than expected if the crop was large. Because there’s no way to check current availability by phone, this is a case where checking the Facebook page shortly before a planned Saturday visit is meaningfully more useful than relying on any general apple-season date range.

A possible connection to a 2016 university feature

The source material for this record notes a 2016 University of Wyoming Barnyards & Backyards feature describing a “Caleb Carter” running an orchard called “Apple Box” in the area. This appears related to Young’s Apple Box Orchard given the name overlap and location, but the connection — and whether current ownership matches that 2016 feature — was not confirmed. If accurate, it would suggest a decade-plus operating history, but this record treats that connection as unverified rather than assuming it.

A natural pairing with Pope Farm

Because Young’s Apple Box Orchard and Pope Farm & Apple Orchard both sit in the same small stretch of Lingle bottomland, and the record specifically frames Young’s as “apparently the only other commercial apple operation” in Goshen County besides Pope Farm, a single Saturday trip to the area could reasonably include both stops — assuming both are confirmed open. Pope Farm’s daily 8am-to-dusk hours are more predictable than Young’s Saturday-only, condition-dependent schedule, so building a visit around Pope Farm’s hours with a stop at Young’s if it happens to be open makes more practical sense than the reverse.

What’s still missing

No apple varieties are named anywhere in the record — a real gap for a listing otherwise specific about scheduling. No pricing, no phone number, and no confirmed current owner name exist either. Whether the orchard is u-pick, purchase-only, or a mix isn’t stated. Given the total lack of a working phone contact, the Facebook page is genuinely the only lead available, even though it couldn’t be read directly during this research pass.

Bottom line

Young’s Apple Box Orchard is a real, named small orchard in the same fruit-growing pocket as Pope Farm, offering apples and pears on an informal Saturdays-only schedule — but this is one of the thinnest records in the Wyoming batch, with no confirmed varieties, pricing, or phone contact, and only an unloadable Facebook page to check before a visit. Treat it as a possible add-on to a Pope Farm trip rather than a destination to plan around on its own.