Rowley's Red Barn, and the year it lost its apples.

At 901 South 300 West, on the south side of Santaquin, with its own large car park. From I-15 exit 244 follow Main Street into town and turn south. The telephone number is 801-754-5511, which is worth using before a midweek drive because the posted hours are widely republished by directories and the farm's own site is the only place they are reliably current. There is a second Rowley's store in Washington, Utah, near St. George, which opened in 2013 and is a separate five hour trip.

It opens on Saturday 19 September 2026 and runs to 30 October. Weekday gates open at half past three in the afternoon and run until nine at night, Saturdays run from ten in the morning until nine, and the farm listed extra full day openings on 15, 16 and 19 October. Inside it are the ten acre corn maze, the six acre pumpkin patch, wagon rides out to the activity field, the pedal tractor races, giant slides, apple cannons, jumping pillows and zip lines, plus the cider donuts at the front.

For the 2026 Fall Festival the farm listed twelve dollars Monday to Thursday and fifteen dollars on Friday and Saturday, with a full season pass at fifty two dollars and a Monday to Thursday season pass at forty two. Groups of five or more took a dollar a head off and groups of sixteen or more took two dollars a head off. Every admission included one train ride. The store itself is free to walk into all year and the festival admission applies only to the activity area behind it.

No. The Harvest Festival, which is the pick your own apple part of the farm's year, is listed on its own events pages as unavailable this season, and the reason the farm gives is the spring weather. Utah had its warmest winter in 131 years, bloom came about a month early and mid April frosts killed the blossom across the county. The Fall Festival, the maze, the pumpkin patch and the store are all unaffected. Treat any listing that offers u-pick apples in Santaquin this autumn as out of date.

The store opened in September 1999 and the farm behind it is much older than that. The Rowley family have grown fruit in this part of Utah County since 1913, and Phil and Shirley Rowley founded the operation as Rowley's South Ridge Farms in 1984, planting apples, cherries, peaches and pumpkins alongside alfalfa. The cider mill was added in 2007, the Back 40 activity field opened in 2010, and the corn maze arrived in 2015 and has since grown to ten acres.

It is the activity field behind the orchard rows, opened in 2010, and the name is farm shorthand for the back forty acres rather than anything more decorative. Wagon rides run out to it from the front of the farm, and on it are the pedal tractor races, giant slides, apple cannons, a sandbox, a hay pyramid, jumping pillows and zip lines, with the corn maze and the pumpkin patch alongside. It runs a seasonal haunted programme later in October, which is a different evening from the daytime version.

Not in St. George itself. The second location is Red Barn Dixie at 471 West Telegraph Street in Washington, Utah, which is the neighbouring city, and it opened in 2013. Search results and directories frequently file it under St. George because that is the larger name in the area, and the practical difference is a few minutes of driving rather than anything meaningful. What is worth knowing is that it is about five hours from the Santaquin farm, so the two are separate trips rather than one.

The store carries fresh produce from the family's own ground and from growers around it, bakery breads and pastries, dairy, cider from the mill added in 2007, dried cherries by the bag, and ice cream from the parlour that has been there since the store opened in 1999. The dried cherries are the clearest link to the wider economy here, since the ground within a few miles of the till grows a large share of the tart cherries produced in the United States and the family is involved in the growers' co-op that processes them.

For the store, yes, and it is quieter. The shop, the bakery, the cider mill and the ice cream counter work through the year, and the farm also runs an Easter event in late March, a Blossom Festival in the middle of April when the orchard rows are in flower, and a sunflower event in August. What is not available outside the six weeks from 19 September is the maze, the pumpkin patch and the activity field, which is what most families are actually driving here for.