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🗺️ Farm Day Trips guide
Illinois has 9 orchards in our Farm Day Trips directory, in towns like Alto Pass, Carlinville and Champaign. Many are an easy drive from a lavender farm, so you can visit both in one day.
9 places · updated October 17, 2026
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Alto Pass orchard farmed by one family since 1873, selling its own peaches and apples at a farm market from late June through October.
Carlinville orchard growing 26 apple varieties plus peaches and pumpkins, with U-pick apples from Labor Day and a free October Pumpkin Festival.
Champaign orchard with 25-plus apple varieties to pick or buy, cider and apple donuts, and a fall pumpkin patch; open July 20 to December 23.
Family orchard east of Edwardsville with 21 apple varieties to pick from late August into November; free entry, with apples at $2.60 a pound.
Family orchard near the Wisconsin line with about 20,000 trees and 30-plus apple varieties to pick, open daily late August through October 31.
Marengo family orchard with weekend apple picking in September and October, then October pumpkin hayrides, a 5-acre corn maze and cider donuts.
Mount Morris family orchard open weekends 8 to 4 from late August in 2026, growing apples and aronia berries, with fall U-pick and cider donuts.
Family orchard in Poplar Grove since 1964, with apple picking September through October and cider donuts made daily from its own pressed cider.
Woodstock orchard with about 16,000 apple trees, U-pick from late August to November 1 in 2026, plus a corn maze, pig races and cider donuts.
The Lavender Passport is free on greatlakeslavenderfarm.com. Check in at the farms and stops you visit to collect a stamp for each one, play Field Quest to collect plant varieties as you walk the farm, and earn badges, points and sponsor rewards along the way.
The free Lavender Passport keeps a stamp for each farm and stop you visit, in real life and in the Lavender Farm Simulator. At the farm, play Field Quest to collect plant varieties as you walk, climb the leaderboards and unlock sponsor rewards.
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