Part of the old Wilshire homestead established in 1877, Riley's Apple Farm is located in the small mountain hamlet of Oak Glen, California situated midway between Palm Springs and Big Bear. We are a working historical farm where you can experience the joy of picking fruit, pressing cider, making a rope, stacking a log cabin, and many other activities that bring-to-life the farm ways and customs of long ago.

The elevation is about 5,000 feet and is ideal for the cultivation of apples. We have four seasons, snowfall in the winter, and reasonably cool summers. While maintaining the care of trees planted as early as 1887, we currently cultivate 14 varieties of apples - both new varieties such as Fuji, and some heirloom varieties such as Winesaps, Northern Spy, Jonathans, Starkey Reds, McIntosh and so on. Most of the apple trees are the "seedling" type: trees grown from an apple seed rather than a piece of root stock. These are the fabled large spreading trees that have largely disappeared and have been replaced by modern "dwarf" trees. So if you want to sit "in the shade of the old apple tree," you can do it here!

Weekdays are largely reserved for school and private tours, but if you call ahead we can arrange to have small numbers of guests pick apples. Weekends in the Fall are open to the public for apple and raspberry picking, cider pressing, archery, knife and tomahawk throwing as well as classes in corn husk doll making. We open at 10 a.m. and close the gates at 4 p.m. Try to come early as it is less crowded in the morning hours. We provide bags, bottles, picking poles and instructions. See our calendar page for up-to-date hours & information. We are closed in the Winter and Summer.