Why This Charming Arizona Mountain Apple Orchard Deserves a Spot on Your Fall Itinerary

Apples are growing on the side of a mountain in southeastern Arizona, and one family has been tending those trees for about a century. You pick them yourself, right off the branch, with a bucket in hand. The peaches arrive first, sometime around the Fourth of July. Then the apples take over as summer slides into early fall. The whole operation sits partway up a winding mountain road, far from any big-city farm stand. I like how simple the idea is. You drive up, grab a bucket, wander the rows, an