Apple season starts in late August and runs into October: it’s the perfect fall activity to please everyone, from toddlers to grandparents. Take photos in the rows, taste varieties straight from the tree, leave with a bag for Sunday’s apple crisp, and often a tractor ride, a corn maze or a mini-farm thrown in. This guide brings together the pick-your-own orchards in Quebec, each with the venue’s listing, varieties and picking dates.
Tips: on sunny September weekends, arrive early; call or check the listing that morning, since open rows change with the ripeness of the apples.
Our favourites
Verger Charbonneau, Mont-Saint-Grégoire. At the foot of Mont Saint-Grégoire, more than 35,000 apple trees of some thirty varieties, a craft cidery and a crêperie open on weekends.
Cidrerie verger Bilodeau, Île d’Orléans. Pick your apples, then head to the free tasting: ice cider, mistelle and maple cider, winners of several gold medals.
Domaine de Dunham, Eastern Townships. An ecological orchard of 15,000 fruit trees where you pick apples, crabapples, plums and pears, before a picnic by the ponds and a stop at the shop for still, rosé, sparkling or dessert ciders.
Cidrerie Lacroix, Saint-Joseph-du-Lac, Laurentians. Ciders, orchard and bistro in the heart of the Lower Laurentians: the apple in every form, for an outing with friends.
Verger Hudson Bio, Hudson, Montérégie. A small organic orchard along the scenic route of Lac des Deux Montagnes, where you can pick more than 12 apple varieties, several of them rare and little known.
🍎 Orchards by region
QuebecLavalCentre-du-QuébecChaudière-AppalachesEastern TownshipsLanaudièreLaurentidesMauricieMontérégieOutaouais
Quebec
5 places
Laval
1 place
Centre-du-Québec
4 places
Chaudière-Appalaches
8 places
Eastern Townships
9 places
Lanaudière
1 place
Laurentides
3 places
Mauricie
1 place
Montérégie
23 places
Outaouais
1 place
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