U-Pick Orchards in Loudoun for Apples, Peaches and Berries

In Loudoun, “farm” covers a lot of ground — some of these places keep the gates open seven days a week from morning to night, and at least one only opens for a few hours on Saturday. Knowing which is which before you load the car saves a wasted drive out Route 15 or Route 50.

The farms themselves

Wegmeyer Farms is the one most people already know, and its 4.4 rating across 155 reviews is the deepest track record of any orchard-style stop on this list — worth the visit on reputation alone if you’ve never been.

Ticonderoga Farms carries the same 4.4 rating, though on far fewer reviews, which makes it feel like the quieter alternative if Wegmeyer’s lot is full on a Saturday.

Hidden Gems Farm runs farm-store hours daily from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. — a tighter window than most on this list, so plan an early-afternoon visit rather than an after-work one.

Willowsford Farm is the outlier: closed every day but Saturday, and even then only 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. If you want this one, it has to anchor your Saturday morning — there’s no evening or Sunday fallback.

Krop’s Crops and Vintage Marketplace keeps easy 10-to-6 hours every day of the week, which makes it a good stop to pair with something else on a loop through the county.

Potomac Vegetable Farms is closed Mondays but open 10 to 5 the rest of the week — worth knowing if you’re the type to plan a Monday holiday trip out this way and assume everything’s open.

Markets and farm stores for the haul home

Not every stop is a field you walk into — some are where you go to buy what already got picked, and they’re worth building the trip around too.

Loudounberry has the strongest reputation of the bunch, 4.7 stars across 171 reviews, and daily hours from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. mean it fits almost any schedule.

Brossman’s Farm has by far the most reviews of anything here — 315 of them, holding a 4.6 — and stretches its hours slightly later on Fridays through Sundays (9 to 6:30) if you’re coming after a full day elsewhere.

Gathering Springs Farm posts the highest rating on this whole list, 4.8, and the longest hours — 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., every day, no closures. If you only remember one name for a spontaneous evening run, this is the one that’s least likely to be closed when you get there.

How to actually plan the day

Given how differently these places keep their doors open — Willowsford’s four-hour Saturday window against Gathering Springs’ twelve-hour daily run — the smart move is to pick one anchor stop with a narrow schedule and build the rest of the loop around it, not the other way around. Loudoun County is compact enough that stringing together two or three of these in one afternoon is realistic, especially along the corridor where Krop’s Crops, Brossman’s, and Potomac Vegetable Farms all sit within reasonable range of each other.

Because picking conditions shift week to week with weather and demand, it’s worth a quick check of each farm’s own site before you drive out, particularly for the ones with shorter or more limited hours. That five-minute step is the difference between a good afternoon in Loudoun and a long drive to a closed gate.

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Every place on this page named itself on its own website. Details change — confirm before you go. Last updated: 2026-09-01.

From NOVA This Week.