Welcome to Cobble Knoll Orchard

Pick your own apples at our beautiful orchard in Rutland County, Vermont!

Our Vermont Apple Orchard offers over 80 different types of apples including your favorites for fresh eating such as Mac, Honeycrisp, Autumn Crisp and Cortland. We also have difficult to find cooking apples such as Calville Blanc D’Hiver, Rhode Island Greenings, and Zestars. For the home cider-maker we have cider varieties such as Dabinette, Ellis Bitter and Franklin Cider Apples. You can pick your own apples, pears (and more!) or there is always a variety of apples available at the farm stand.

Fresh from our family orchard to your family table!

Traditional Family Orchard

Open August 22 – October 25, Open Daily from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Vermont Apple Orchard

Pick Your Own

Pick-your-own apples, pears, and peaches — visitors will enjoy tons of family fun and making memories at our Vermont apple orchard.

Apples | Pears | Peaches

Fresh Pressed Apple Cider in Central Vermont

Fresh Pressed Cider

Using a mix of Cobble Knoll apples in each batch, depending what’s in season, our cider is as fresh as it comes! <

Our Cider

Pies, donuts & other baked goods in Rutland County

Donuts & Baked Goods

Bring home our delicious homemade donuts, cookies, pies and other tasty baked treats. Available daily or by pre-order.

Bakery Info

Sunflowers & Fresh Cut Flowers

Sunflowers & Fresh Cut Flowers

We've also just planted sunflowers and hope to have a magnificent, thriving sunflower field and other fresh cut flowers for you to enjoy.

Fresh Flower Info

Pumpkins & Squash

Pumpkins & Squash

The perfect pumpkin and squash await you at Cobble Knoll Orchard in Benson, Vermont!

Pumpkins | Squash

Vermont Apple Orchard Growing Practices

Growing Practices

It is important to us that we maintain stewardship of this land and treat it with the utmost care.

Learn More

Orchard Weekly Update

It's the final weekend at the orchard and we are still picking 25 varieties! We have had a terrific crop and so many new pickers, but there are still a lot of apples on the trees. We are having a PYO special this Saturday and Sunday October 24th and 25th, 2026.

PYO Bushel $20
PYO Half Bushel $10
PYO Peck, Half Peck or Quarter Peck $5

We accept cash, local check and card. We even take it if it zaps out of your watch!

Now picking: Frostbite, Rhode Island Greening, Jonagold, Northern Spy, Florina Querina, Suncrisp, Macoun, Empire, SnowSweet, Bramley's Seedling, Hampshire McIntosh, Mutsu, Fuji, Blondee, Enterprise, Candy Crisp, Golden Delicious, Cortland, Baldwin, Autumn Crisp, Galarina, Crimson Topaz, Calville Blanc, Hudson's Golden Gem, Ashmead's Kernel, Esopus Spitzenburg, Golden Russet and Pixie Crunch.

Hope to see you this weekend in the orchard! Thank you all for a great season.

Amy and Rick

Road through an apple orchard in fall
The children picking apples in an orchard

Testimonials

Such a great experience compared to the tourist trap orchards that have become so common. Staff was very friendly, prices were great and the apple selection is the best I have ever seen. Crimson topaz is our new favorite!

Don Lehman

Cider, donuts, and apples. Great service, worth the drive off the main road!

Nicholas Caldwell

Best cider doughnuts in the area! Loved going apple picking and enjoying these amazing farm views!!

Noah Elsberg