Click through the map for 20 orchards within a 100 ... located on both sides of an Illinois country road. An apple orchard and sunflower farm sit on the east, and a 71-acre pumpkin patch waits ...

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but few experiences can beat a beautiful fall day in an apple orchard. Luckily for us, Illinois and the surrounding states are full of family-owned, often multigenerational orchards where ...

The orchard also features a glass-sided beehive, petting corral, autumn crafts, apple slingshot, corn tunnel, straw tunnel and straw bale pyramid. There are also hay rides on the weekends.

Curran's Orchard is back on top of the apple cider game after taking home first prize in the state at the 2024 Illinois Farm Bureau Everything Local Conference in Springfield last month.

Sarah Bell had never heard of an apple tree maze either until her family — which owns Royal Oak Farm Orchard in Northern Illinois, just over the Wisconsin border — decided to create one.