🍎Guide to Apple Picking in North Carolina 🍎 Save this for your fall bucket list! 🍂 Just a short drive from Charlotte, Hendersonville is packed with the dreamiest orchards pumpkin patches: 🍏 Grandad’s Apples ‘N Such – 100 acres of apples a pumpkin patch (late Sept). Don’t miss the bakery, corn maze, hot cider donuts country store. 🍏 Stepp’s Hillcrest Orchard (my fave) – 26 apple varieties, 5-acre corn maze, apple cannon, wagon rides covered picnic spots. 🍏 Sky Top Orchard – hayrides, gem mi