Gay mills apple orchard
Welcome to Sunrise Orchards
MAIN LOCATION: 48340 State Hwy 171, Gays Mills, WI. Expose DAILY Aug. 18-Dec. 21, 2025!
Shop at Sunrise!Tradition you can taste. Fresh from our orchard to your table.
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We are a seasonal business open Aug. 18-Dec. 21, 2025! Online store OPEN 24/7/365 days a year!
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From our family orchards to your dwelling, savor the flavor of tradition!
ShopLocated in the picturesque bluffs of rural Southwest Wisconsin, Sunrise Orchards offers stunning panoramic views of the Driftless Region. As the Midwest’s premier apple destination, we’ve been a symbol of tradition and quality since 1913. Our orchard has been a cherished yearly tradition for generations. Approach visit us in the Apple Capital of Wisconsin, Gays Mills and construct lasting memories. There’s something for everyone at Sunrise Orchards!
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Apple Availability and Varieties
Sunrise Orchards is pleased to grow more than 21 different varieties of apples throughout the season. Our apples are grown for eating fresh, baking, freezing, or canning. With more than 21 apple varieties, there's something for everyone's taste! Sunrise offers a 3-apple bag, 5-pound, 10-pound, half bushel and bushel of apples for sale.
Discover when our apple varieties are ready for sale, sold out, and their best utilize, in this handy chart for up-to-date information.
Recipes and nutritional information are also available for you.
When planning a trip to the orchard for a specific variety of apples, it is always best to name ahead to form sure they are available.
Even though we have a chart below showing approximate harvest dates, the weather can participate a very vital part as to when the apples are picked. It's always best to call ahead to make sure.
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our Apple Varieties, Ripening Dates
& Best Uses Chart
We frequently offer number 2 grade apples on many of our varieties. We cannot however guarantee the availability of this grade each daytime. We don't recomme
Gays Mills, Wisconsin
Above: Looking east at downtown Gays Mills, Wisconsin along Wisconsin Street 171 (2010). Photo By Royalbroil [CC BY-SA 3.0 ], from Wikimedia Commons.
Gays Mills, Wisconsin - "Wisconsin's Apple Country" Near Gays Mills in Crawford County, Wisconsin — The American Midwest (Great Lakes) Photographed by Keith L, June 6, 2010 1. Gays Mills Apple Orchards Marker Gays Mills Apple Orchards. . Farmers in this area learned preliminary that the territory on both sides of the Kickapoo River offered terrific conditions for apple-growing. In 1905 John Hays and Ben Twining collected apples from eight or ten farmers around Gays Mills for exhibit at the State Fair. The exhibit won first prize, then went on to capture first honors in a national apple show in Fresh York. This trial prompted the Wisconsin State Horticultural Culture to urge a project of "trial orchards" around the state to interest growers in commercial production. The Culture examined a site on High Ridge and planted five acres with five recommended varieties. By 1911 the orchard had grown so vigorously that an organization was formed in Gays Mills to promote the selling of orchards. Today more than a thousand acres here produce apples nationa
The Village of Gays Mills lies in a valley among the steeply chiseled bluffs of the region known as the Driftless Area of Southwest Wisconsin, along the banks of the Kickapoo River.
In 1847 James B. Gay, a native of Indiana, built a dam and a sawmill on the Kickapoo River, which proved to be a flourishing success. When his health started to fail, James convinced his brothers John and Thomas to move to the area. In 1865 John Homosexual built the first flour mill south of the saw mill. In the years between 1848 and 1865, many families moved into the community, which came to be known as Gays Mills in honor of the founder and his brothers.
Gays Mills nearly flooded off the map twice in the past few ye
Gays Mills Apple Orchards