Best apple orchard to take the kids this fall?

Hillcrest Orchards is the move if you've got kids — petting zoo, pig races, the whole country-fair thing. Can easily kill a whole afternoon there.

R&A Orchards is great too, and their fried pies are dangerous (in a good way). Hillcrest is more of a full day with the animals though.

This is perfect, thank you both! Probably Hillcrest for the kids first. Is it a madhouse during the Apple Festival weekends?

Oh yeah. If you can swing a weekday, or go before the festival weekends in October, you'll thank yourself. 515 and the orchards both get slammed.