A family orchard and farm market outside Mansfield with u-pick apples and pumpkins and a full deli and bakery, but not one date, hour or price is published anywhere we could reach, so treat it as a call-first stop rather than a planned day.
No pricing found from any source.
There is very little we can tell you about Apple Hill Orchards with confidence, and padding that gap would be worse than admitting it. This is the thinnest record in our Ohio set.
The shape of the place is clear enough: a family-owned orchard and farm market outside Mansfield with pick-your-own apples, pick-your-own peaches, u-pick pumpkins, a full deli and bakery, a farm market, and fall activities for families. What the sources do not establish is a single date, a single opening hour or a single price. The tourism listing we relied on carries no year stamp, and the orchard’s own website did not return readable content when we tried it.
That absence is the most useful thing on this page, because it tells you how to approach the trip. This is not a farm you plan a Saturday around from a schedule. It is one you ring on the Thursday.
Two of the six listed items will mislead you if you take them at face value in October.
Peaches are a summer crop in Ohio and are finished well before pumpkin season. A directory listing that mentions peach picking is describing the orchard’s whole year, not its autumn, and turning up in the third week of October expecting peaches is a misunderstanding of the calendar rather than a failure by the orchard.
The phrase “fall activities for families” is doing no work either. It is listing language, not a description of rides, mazes or a play area, and there is nothing in the record to say what it covers. Assume the visit is picking, buying and eating unless the orchard tells you otherwise on the phone.
What is left is a real one: apples, pumpkins, a market and a bakery. Richland County is genuinely good apple ground and this is apple country rather than an October theme farm.
Two things bound it. Apples ripen by variety in sequence from late August onwards, so what is available to pick changes every couple of weeks and an orchard can be perfectly open and still have nothing you wanted. And the pumpkin end is closed by frost, not by a calendar: once north-central Ohio takes a hard freeze the field is done, whatever a website says.
Between those two facts, the practical overlap where apples and pumpkins are both likely is roughly the first three weeks of October. That is also when everyone else goes, which is the case for taking a weekday if you have one.
The other thing October does here is take your daylight. By the end of the month the useful afternoon is short, and an orchard visit that starts at four in the last week of October is a visit that finishes in the dark. Go in the morning. The ground is firmer before a day of foot traffic, the light is better, and you are not racing the clock through the rows.
Mud is the defining hazard of Ohio farm visiting and orchard rows hold water. Wear boots you can hose off and accept that the car will need a mat shake afterwards.
Then make the call. Ask what is picking, ask what it costs, ask what time they close, and ask whether the pumpkin field is open yet. Four questions, and you will know more than any published page currently says about this orchard.
We cannot give an honest 2026 answer. No season dates, operating days or hours were found on any source we read, and the orchard's own website did not load for us. What holds regionally is that Ohio apple picking runs from late August through October with varieties ripening in sequence, and pumpkins arrive behind the apples and finish with the first hard frost. That makes the first three weeks of October the overlap window where both are likely to be available at once. Ring first and ask what is actually ready that week, because at an orchard the answer changes fortnightly rather than seasonally.
An hour to ninety minutes for picking, plus however long the market and bakery hold you. Orchards with a deli attached routinely turn a forty-minute errand into a two-hour outing.
No crowd information exists in the record. The structural point in Ohio is that the pickable season is short and frost-bounded, so demand concentrates into the October weekends, and an orchard with a bakery gets a second wave of people who came for food rather than fruit. Mid-morning on a weekday is the low-friction version of this visit.
Not published. Orchard parking in Ohio is usually a mown field or a gravel apron beside the market, both of which turn soft after autumn rain. That is a regional norm rather than something confirmed here.
Unpublished. Orchard rows are grass and uneven ground almost everywhere. If the market and bakery are the main draw for someone with limited mobility, ask on the phone whether you can reach them without crossing the picking ground.
You need fixed opening times or a budget in advance. Nothing about the schedule or the cost is published. Skip it too if you are looking for a ride-and-maze festival day, because none of the listed activities is an attraction in that sense.
No pricing was found from any source. U-pick orchards in the region typically charge by container or by weight rather than by admission, but we have nothing orchard-specific to offer and will not guess a number.
U-pick pumpkins are listed by two separate directory sources, alongside pick-your-own apples and peaches. Confirmation of a 2026 pumpkin season from the orchard itself was not something we could obtain.
No. Peaches are a summer crop in Ohio and are long finished by pumpkin season. The peach listing describes the orchard's full year, not its autumn.
Not published anywhere we read. This is the thinnest record in our Ohio set: no season dates, no operating days, no hours and no prices were found, and the orchard's own site did not return readable content.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. Check with the farm before driving out.
Admission pricing was not published when we last checked. No pricing found from any source.
1175 Lexington-Ontario Rd., Mansfield, OH 44903, in Richland County. It is one of 7 patches we track in Northwest Ohio.
We track 7 patches in Northwest Ohio. The farm has not published a gate price, so it cannot be compared on cost — call before you budget.
What sets it apart locally: it has u-pick fields, a market, bakery or taproom, which most Northwest Ohio patches on our list do not.
One caveat worth repeating: this farm had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 5 of the 7 patches we track in Northwest Ohio had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
applehillorchards.com
Checked August 2026.