Kimmel Orchard

This Orchard and Winery is the perfect fall recipe for fun. Located about 45 mins outside of downtown Omaha, the drive was safe and easy, straight south on I-​75! Great for adults, families, kids, couples and doggies!
There are grapes, apples, and a pumpkin patch located here, with outdoor space for parties and events too. The «marketplace» boasts everything from cider, cider doughnuts, caramel apples and cider slush to wine and fudge and canned everything (I assume from their summer crops). There is a café and wine tasting bar. We purchased habenero pickles, a bottle of apple wine, and of course 5 lb of freshly picked apples. While outdoors, we had a blast wandering the rows of trees and picking apples, riding the hayrack tractor and enjoying the gorgeous weather. One thing I absolutely love about this place is that they are dog friendly. I have been searching for a fall orchard or patch that allows animals and this one was very accommodating.
This will likely become a tradition for us :) We may even go back this season!

Drove out today to check the place out. Pretty busy for a weekday. Lots of apple selections, jams, jelly, butters etc. The apple pie is extremely disappointing. The crust and shell are soft. The filling is not good. Given the freshness of the apples and their availability, it sad that the pie filling tastes like the contents of a McDonald’s apple pie. Sweet, syrupy and from the can. The wine tasting is a winner. $ 5.00 for 4 samples. Enjoyed it vicariously through others though. The white Kimmel Reserve is very good as is the desert apple Wine. Unfortunately, that the place is not pet friendly. Service dogs welcome. But if you drive all the way there, it’s a great place to walk around and can even pick your own apples. Just doesn’t make sense to keep a dog in the car in warm weather while shopping. If they rethink the policy, they will attract the other half (me) to shop as well instead of sitting outside. And they have to do something about that apple pie! Otherwise a nice trip and a pleasant enough place to visit.

Here with the fam for the Applejack festival. A few changes from last year… not all ofthem good. I’ll come back next year, i just won’t spend all day here. I kinda feel bad for referring folks to check this place out.

This old orchard is one of three orchards in the area. They have wagon tours where you can pick your own apples. The golden crisp is the best. There is a gift shop where locals shop for apple cider, jams and butters. Locals were buying gallons of cider. We got the apple and pumpkin butters. You must try the apple cider donuts. Go early because they will run out of them in the afternoon. Stop here on your way to Nebraska City.

Awesome little place. Plenty of jams, wines, pie, and cider. Prices are moderate but service was welcoming and warm. Great stop on a Sunday afternoon.

Made our first visit on the way home to Missouri from Omaha. Excellent (and a bit pricey) cherry and apple wine, very good apple cider!

We go every year, and it gets better and better. They’ve added a pumpkin patch ride, which the kids love! Can’t wait for next year!

This is a yearly tradition for my mom and I! The orchard is beautiful and the apples are delicious. It is always very busy but totally worth the wait. I love that they sell their apple cider in portable bottles ready to drink on the way home! The apple cider donuts are amazing too! One of my favorite traditions!

This is a fruit stand gone wild! Get your apples/​pear/​peaches/​ect. in season by the bag, bushel or box load. Grab a freshly made doughnut and a homemade pie for later. Wash it all down with some lovely fruit wines. The staff is friendly, even in the sweltering heat (yes we have no A/​C) and the prices are reasonable.

A great selection of locally grown produce, baked goods.

A fun place for a visit. The staff is friendly and you get a free baby tree with admission.

When the Kimmel family owned it, everything was so much better. Now it is a tourist trap and now the prices are higher. It has lost it’s heart.

Kimmel Orchard is a special place in the heart of some really great farms. Their facility is geared for locals & tourists alike, and the locally grown apples, cherries, and pumpkins make for some killer pies! Take the hay wagon ride out into the fields… A beautiful setting — love it.

Freshly baked apple pie. Well, yes, yes I will take one. The fragrant aroma was causing me to drool on the way home. That pie didn’t stand a chance.
Go there. Because its a family owned operation. And amazing.

We visit several times a year but by far the best time to go is around Nebraska City AppleJack Festival in early September. There are so many fun things going on in town! At Kimmel we do the u-​pick apples, hayrack rides and always pick up honeycrisp apples, caramel apples, cherry cider, apple donuts and a frozen bake-​at-​home apple pie.

Fun little spot! We will drive down again for the apple donuts and cider alone!!! Walk back to the kitchen and order a fresh piping hot donut! We also took the hint and grabbed a box that had the visible steam knowing they were fresh. When we got them home we placed them in the oven at 350 for about 6 minutes and they were once again crisp on the outside and oh-​so-​moist on the inside! WoNDeRFuL flavor!!! We should have bought more!

You have to go during the fall and get some apple donuts. We have been doing it for years. Look for the boxes that have humidity in them, as they are fresh from the oven. Then wash them down with some fresh apple cider.

We came for the cherries. What we found was all the cherries were pitted and frozen. I had been hoping for fresh cherries to take home. I tried the cherry cider instead. It tasted like cherry juice, without a hint of any fermentation, characteristic of cider. As cherry juice, it was OK. Next I bought some wine to bring home to Texas instead. So far, I have sampled the Voignier, and it was a crisp white. It did disappoint me that they charge $ 5 for a wine tasting. Puleeeeez — I wish wineries would stop that practice. They would sell a lot more wine if they did. Most of the wines at Kimmel were $ 19.99 a bottle.

After extensive taste tests, we pinged Kimmel as one of our two favorite cider orchards of the many fantastic ones around Nebraska City. In recent years they’ve greatly expanded their other offerings as well (the owners recently discovered that their parents, the founders, had invested money in Berkshire Hathaway when it was a start-​up, and then somehow forgotten about it). The apple donuts in particular are to die for, but they can sell out quickly on beautiful fall weekends, so stop by on the way *to* Nebraska City, not the way back.