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| - This was such a disappointing experience. We headed to Hillcrest Orchard on a perfect autumn day, looking forward to the corn maze and finding fresh apples. I had read the extensive list of apples they grown on their website, and was pretty excited about the wide variety. The parking lot was packed when we got there, but the place is so big that it really didn't feel crowded once we were walking around. The young lady in the check-in shed gave us the gist of things, and pointed us down a path toward the corn maze and orchard. She had mentioned a hay ride, but we didn't see any tractor and there were several other people walking, so we started walking down the path. It was a beautiful day as I mentioned, and part of the reason we were there was to get a little outdoor exercise.
It really wasn't clear where the corn maze was. There were pictures hanging in the check-in shed that made it look gigantic, but the only corn field that we passed was quite small, and the corn wasn't even waist high. We all agreed that this surely couldn't be the corn maze, and we kept walking. We got to the u-pick apple area, and saw an older woman sitting at a table with the bags that you use to pick the apples. When we approached her, the first thing she said was "where did you come from??" and it just went downhill from there. She berated us (six adults) for not riding in on the hay cart, and told us that she didn't even want to give us the bags to pick our apples because we hadn't done it "the right way." The six of us looked at each other like we were in a skit from Saturday Night Live. This nasty old lady continued her tirade but finally, begrudgingly, gave us some bags (after one of us explained that we had simply followed the path we had been pointed to, as many other people had done,) but not without an enormous amount of attitude. We all wanted to just leave at that point.
I asked another group of people there where the corn maze was, and sure enough, it was the sad little field we had already passed. There are only four or five different varieties of apples to choose from in the u-pick area, only two of which were palatable. The golden delicious are excellent. The red delicious are passable. The cortlands were mealy and I really don't remember the others. You can buy honeycrisp, but only in the "farm store," for $25 per bag. I would recommend this place to you if you are into paying admission to go pick your own apples, which you then also pay for, and being yelled at for no apparent reason. I will never go back. There is another corn maze/U-pick pumpkin place that is excellent (and the pumpkins are $1/each instead of $3 something a pound like they are at Hillcrest) nearby, so there is absolutely no need to deal with the awful customer service and poorly executed corn maze that are at Hillcrest.
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