LAKE NORDEN, SOUTH DAKOTA   ·   A LITTLE TASTE OF THE PRAIRIE
Orange and white pumpkins in the patch beneath a blue sky

FALL AT PRAIRIE BLUSH ORCHARDS · LAKE NORDEN, SD

PUMPKIN PATCH
IS OPEN!

Buy one, get one free

SMALL PUMPKINS ONLY

Bring the family to pick your pumpkins and enjoy apple picking at the orchard.

FRESH AIR. SIMPLE PLEASURES.

A taste of orchard life.

Follow the season from the first State Fair apples in August through pumpkins in October. There’s always a reason to look forward to your next visit.

Red apples growing on a sunlit orchard tree

FROM THE TREES

Twelve varieties,
one at a time.

Honeycrisp, Haralson, Zestar!, SnowSweet, Sweet 16 and more — each with its own week or two. See the harvest calendar for what ripens when.

Our apples & harvest dates
Trays of small donuts in the orchard farm store

SOMETHING SWEET

Make room
for a treat.

Pies, caramel apples, apple butter, cider and gluten-free mini donuts, plus whatever the garden is giving us that week.

Step into the farm store
A wagon filled with orange, green, and white pumpkins

SATURDAYS

Hayrides and
mini donuts.

Saturdays bring hayrides and hot mini donuts, and the pumpkin patch is bigger than ever this year.

Saturdays at the orchard
A golden baked pie with a crimped crust

BRING A LITTLE ORCHARD HOME

A good day.
A very good pie.

Apple, cherry or pumpkin. Take a baked pie home for tonight, or a frozen one to bake whenever you want the house to smell like it.

Frozen $15.00 · Baked $16.50
None of our pies are gluten-free — but our mini donuts are.

TAKE THE SCENIC ROUTE

We’ll see you
at the orchard.

We’re on 449th Avenue outside Lake Norden — about 25 minutes from Watertown, 50 from Brookings, and an hour and a half from Sioux Falls.

Monday–FridayNoon–5:30 PM
Saturday10 AM–5 PM
SundayClosed

These are farm store hours. U-pick hours can be different — check the update at the top of this page.

In-store payments: cash, check and credit cards.

Apple blossoms with the orchard silo in the evening light

19393 449th Ave
Lake Norden, SD 57248

Get directions

BEFORE YOU DRIVE OUT

Questions we
get a lot.

What to bring, whether you need an appointment, what’s ready this week, and whether the dog can come.

Read the questions

PART OF THE COMMUNITY

Let’s grow
something together.

Interested in seasonal vending or lending a hand around the orchard? We’d love to hear from you.

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