Sunday, May 22, 2016

Royal Oak Farm Apple Orchard - Harvard, IL


What really interested me about this place was the apple orchard maze where you can pick your own apples.  I thought it would be a great opportunity for Aiden to see how apples grow. I didn’t want him thinking that they (or anything else) is just magically born at the grocery store.  But it turned out to have more to offer than just apples. Along with the apple orchard maze, there are additional orchards where you can pick your own apples, a hay ride tour of the farm, a small petting zoo, playground, carousel, and kid’s train.  There is also a restaurant, gift shop, and snack shop where they make everything themselves. We absolutely loved their taffy apples, caramel apple corn pops, and apple cider donuts! There is no admission to this place but any activity that you want to do like the maze, train, carousel, etc. you will have to pay in tokens so the first thing to do when you get there is buy your tokens.  Aiden had a good time.  I think he mostly liked the play area and the petting zoo. Although he was incredibly scared of the ducks he could not stop watching them.  Even though they were behind a fence he still made sure he was at least about 4 feet away at all times.


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