2025 Nichols Ranch Sixth Annual Cherry Festival
2025 Cherry Festival: cherry-picking (limited), pie, and cider! Food trucks, art/craft vendors, kids activities, live music, and beer/wine.
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Location
Nichols Ranch and Orchards
236 Cottonwood Canyon Road La Luz, NM 88337Refund Policy
About this event
- Event lasts 10 hours
Please note that due to bad weather, Cherries are limited this year, and we cannot guarantee the opportunity to pick your own cherries. There should be plenty of already picked cherries available for purchase.
Come out for the 2025 Cherry Festival for cherry-picking, cherry pie, and cherry cider! Over 30 food and snack vendors, and more than 85 arts and crafts vendors! Live music from multiple bands each day! Beer and wine from local breweries and wineries! With a petting zoo, mechanical bull, and games, there is fun for all ages! We have a great cherry crop this year!
An annual tradition, the Cherry Festival celebrates the more than 100-year history of cherries grown in the Sacramento Mountains. Nichols Ranch and Orchards invites you to enjoy breathtaking views of the Tularosa Basin including White Sands National Monument, mountain fresh air, and a fun-filled experience that your family will remember for years to come.
L ive Music Schedule
Friday
Noon to 215pm Gription
245pm to 5pm Roscoe and the Boozehounds
Saturday
9-12 Doso Dirtbags
1230-330 9-12 Phil Hamilton
4-7 Rosewater Blues
Sunday
930-1215 Captain Klaus
130-445 Justin kemp Band
Special Considerations
The festival takes place in the mountains at an elevation of 6800 feet. The event is spread out over a large area and requires a lot of walking. Make sure you are prepared for a warm day outdoors and plenty of walking. The festival takes place on a working farm in a rural setting - there are uneven and unpaved walking surfaces.
- Wear good walking shoes
- Hydrate...it can get hot!
- Wagons are useful for carrying all the items you may purchase such as cherries, pies, and cider
- We will have chairs and tables available but you can bring your own chairs if you want make sure you have seating
- Strollers with off-road wheels are recommended. Regular stroller wheels do not do well on our terrain
- A free shuttle is available to take you from the parking lot to the top of the festival grounds and back to the parking lot
****Anyone choosing to participate in agritourism events at the Cherry Festival does so voluntarily and understands and acknowledges that engaging in agritourism activities at the Farm, including but not limited to animal interaction, crop harvesting, and touring the farm grounds, involves inherent risks that may result in injury, illness, or even death. By attending the event, each participant voluntarily assumes all such risks.****
Frequently asked questions
Yes so long as they are good boys/girls, remain on a leash, and you, the owner pick up and dispose of their poop. We allow this because we are dog lovers and know how great it is to take fur friends on adventures. Please abide by the rules and be respectful of others so we can continue to allow dogs
Phone apps and GPS often provide poor directions. Use the directions on our website instead. https://www.nicholsranchandorchards.com/contact-us/directions
- Wear good walking shoes - Hydrate...it can get hot! - Wagons are useful for carrying all the items you may purchase such as cherries, pies, and cider - We will have chairs and tables available but you can bring your own chairs if you want - Strollers with off-road wheels are recommended.
Yes if you purchased a bucket at previous festivals bring it and pay only for a refill. Other containers and bags are not allowed for cherry picking. We only allow the buckets or baskets we are selling to be used.