{"id":260847,"date":"2025-09-28T08:34:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T08:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/260847\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T08:34:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T08:34:27","slug":"beak-skiff-named-one-of-americas-best-apple-orchards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/260847\/","title":{"rendered":"Beak & Skiff Named One of America\u2019s Best Apple Orchards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nothing says fall in New York quite like a day spent filling bags with Honeycrisp<\/a>, sneaking bites of cider doughnuts and maybe sipping a boozy cider before heading home. And if you\u2019re looking for the best spot to do all of that (and more), look no further than Beak & Skiff Apple Orchards<\/a> in LaFayette, New York.<\/p>\n

The 114-year-old family-run farm was just named the fifth-best apple orchard in the United States in USA Today\u2019s 10Best Readers\u2019 Choice Awards<\/a> for 2025. That\u2019s no small feat, considering there are more than 27,000 apple growers across the country producing more than 11 billion pounds of fruit each year.<\/p>\n

Founded in 1911 by dairy farmer Andrew Beak and onion farmer George Skiff, the orchard has grown from a humble hillside operation into a full-on fall playground. Today, Beak & Skiff cultivates about 20 apple varieties, from classic McIntosh to crowd-pleasers like Honeycrisp and Snapdragon. Visitors can go the traditional pick-your-own route or stock up at the farm market, where the cider doughnuts are legendary.<\/p>\n

But this isn\u2019t just a place to haul home apples. The Apple Hill Campus has become an agritourism destination in its own right. There\u2019s a caf\u00e9, a treehouse-style play area for kids and for adults, the 1911 Established tasting room, where small-batch ciders, spirits and wines flow freely. Summer even brings a concert series to the orchard\u2019s rolling hills, which makes for a pretty unbeatable picnic backdrop. For anyone who wants to stretch their stay beyond an afternoon, the farm has added on-site vacation rentals<\/a> so you can literally sleep among the apple trees.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s No. 1 orchard crown went to Lyman Orchards in Connecticut, bumping Beak & Skiff from the top slot it held in 2024. Still, the Central New York favorite has been a repeat champ in the rankings over the past decade, nabbing the top honor in 2015, 2017, 2020, 2021 and 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Beak & Skiff is currently open daily, with extended hours Thursday through Sunday. So if your idea of autumn bliss involves fresh-picked apples, spiced doughnuts and a cider in hand, you know where to head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nothing says fall in New York quite like a day spent filling bags with Honeycrisp, sneaking bites of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":260848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,10633,405,403,10634,5226,5225,5228,5227,988,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-260847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-categories-restaurants","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-news-eating","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-restaurants","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115281006818159532","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}