Volcan Valley Apple Farm

“What a great experience for a family and kids. The drive to this apple farm is absolutely fantastic, winding through Southern California mountains. The apple orchard is ten sprawling acres of perfect rows with multiple types of apples. Very easy to park, if parking is jammed up as you enter the property just continue around to the other side, there is a gate on either side of the orchard. Easy drive from San Diego, and definitely a must do family activity during September and early October.”

“This was a fun outting! The price when we went was $5 per person and $15 per bag. Kids under 5 free. We picked so many apples. We came home and made an apple pie. The apple tastes so good fresh. I will be back next year, too!”

“We had a fun family day in the Julian area and spent part of it at Vulcan Valley Apple Farm wandering the orchard and collecting a bag of apples. Entry is only $5. A good way to start Fall.”

“Great place for family time or date!! Apple picking berry picking and pumpkin picking for the family and a nice Winery with live music snacks and great food for the date. Can't wait till I go again. Downside is that it does get a bit busy also it's a bit pricey to walk around picking your own fruit $12 a bag Oct/2018”

“Family apple picking activity on a Saturday in October for a group of young kids and adults was held at Volcan Valley Apple Farm recently. We took freeway 8 from the direction of Wynola and Santa Ysabel and it was an uphill climb with lots of turns and narrow road. One of the children got car sick and threw up. So, on the way back to San Diego, we took the longer route through Ramona to prevent passenger getting car sick again. $5 admission for each person at $18 for a small bag of apples, approximately 6-7 pounds of apples. The rows of apple trees by the entrance didn’t have any apples on them as they were pretty picked through. So we decided to go in further in search for apples because we didn’t want to disappoint the children. We managed to find small apples in the back rows of the farm. A lot of the apples had wormholes in them, unfortunately. We heard that the apple orchard in Julian had an unfavorable harvest this year, much less apples than they had last year. We realized that it’s no fault of the farm but they should have advised the incoming visitors that there were only small apples left on the trees as most of them were gone or got tossed on the ground and perhaps they should have waived the admission fee and charge the apples picked by pound. This would have been fair to the customers. While it was a fun activity for the young children in our group. They enjoyed picking and tasting the apples off of the trees. However, we felt cheated as the farm failed to communicate and inform visitors that the farm currently didn’t have enough good apples for good picking. They also gave us the much smaller bag this year for the apples at an increased price tag per bag. Disappointed. We will not be back to this farm and will try other apple farms in the area next year.”