One of Illinois’ Most Popular Apple Orchards Announces 2024 Closing Date

The clock is ticking when it comes to loading up on your favorite apple cider donuts at Edwards Apple Orchard West, they just announced their closing day for this season. 

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Earlier this month we discovered that Illinois' favorite dessert is a donut, which makes it so easy to understand why Stateline residents are so obsessed with the local apple orchards... because they make fresh donuts that aren't available all year long!

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Sure, like me, your favorite donut might be a chocolate frosted chocolate donut, but perhaps that's just because you know you can get one any day of the year, but I bet you have a super sweet soft spot for the extra squishy apple cider donuts our local orchards are making from the end of summer through the end of fall.

While I'm pretty sure you'll accept any local apple cider donut as a sweet treat, since the day I walked into this town, I've always heard that Edwards Apple Orchard West does is better than anyone else.

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Do I believe that I could pick out which donut was from which orchard if you handed them to me to taste? No. But I think Stateline residents who've spent their whole lives eating these donuts could absolutely tell the difference.

So many of our local orchards close up shop in early November, but Edwards Apple Orchard West just announced that they will be open through the entire month of November, with Sunday, December 1 being their last day open for this season.

It could be winter by then! I say that as I'm typing on October 21 and it's 80 degrees out... but you never know.

How many times will you visit Edwards before they say goodbye for the season?