Center Grove Orchard

Center Grove Orchard is a family-owned apple orchard and farm in Cambridge, Iowa, with 34 apple varieties across a 20-acre orchard. Visitors can pick their own apples, find a pumpkin in the patch, walk the corn maze and stop by the bakery, which sells Apple Cider Donuts and Caramel Apples during fall. The farm also has more than 40 attractions, including giant slides, jumping pillows, a corn pool, a zip line and farm animals.

The fall season opens August 29 and runs with festival weekends. Pumpkin Fest runs October 1 through November 6, and Pumpkin Nights stays open late on select Friday and Saturday evenings in October with tickets required. Pass holders such as Farm'All Pass and Fall Season Pass holders get in free. The farm sits about 35 minutes from Des Moines and 20 from Ames, reached by Exit 102 off I-35 and then five miles east on Highway 210.