After a 2023 apple crop that several Door County orchard managers described as a bumper crop, followed by a 2024 that they generally called a little below average, the 2025 Door County apple crop appears to be right around where it should be for the number, size and quality of the fruits as residents and visitors from all over head out to the orchards for the bustling pick-your-own apple season.

Orchards that offer pick-your-owns of early ripening apple varieties like Zestar, Ginger Gold and Viking have been open since the end of August, with midseason apples like McIntoshes, Cortlands, Galas and Honeycrisps on tap for mid-September, maybe a week later, followed in October by the late varieties like the well-known Red Delicious.

Weather plays the biggest factor in when the apples are rea

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