Rileys at Los Rios Rancho

Paid $ 14 for an Apple Pie. Yuck! While the crust was okay, the apples did not taste good, they were rubbery, also not good flavor! We also got a Blueberry Cream Cheese bread and that was Yummy!

After exploring the apple orchards in Oak Glen a couple of months ago, we headed over here for lunch! It was a packed weekend and the line for lunch was quite long but well worth it! My husband and I had each ordered their Tri-​Tip Sandwich with Potato Salad! The tri-​tip had a nice smokey flavor to it and was well seasoned on a butter toasted bun. It was so good we went back recently and ordered 5 between the two of us! Its a simple sandwich but we really like it! I had one the next day heated in the microwave and it was still as good or even better! They have their bbq sauce on the picnic tables. You can ask for a container to put the bbq sauce for to go orders. Each steak sandwich run around $ 7.95 each. A side of red potato salad runs $ 1.75 each.
I also ordered their chocolate chip cookies. It wasn’t as good as last time. I thought everything was made fresh there so I’m not sure of the discrepancy. Also, our steak sandwich was a bit cold yesterday. Its quite cold up there so dress warmly this time of the year. That’s why the steak sandwich tasted better heated up in the microwave.
Their apple pies are ok! I’ve tried it a couple of times already.
I really enjoy going up there! Definitely a family kind of place! You can see some residual snow this time of year! Very picturesque! There is also a nice adjacent hiking trail nearby. I walked part of it. No apples to pick this time of year! Less people this time of year! You can pick apples, berries, and pumpkins other part of the year. You can even press your own apple cider!
This will definitely be a family tradition for our family as we enjoyed it!

I have been coming here since I was just a kid, but never again after today. Bought a bag of apples that was very clearly labeled grown & packaged in Oak Glen, Ca. Got home and the apples have stickers on them that say Washington state! I wish I could get a refund on my money.

A large country store full of goodies made with apples! In comparison to other shops in the area, Los Rios Ranchos is not as friendly, charming, or personable. I’m not sure if it’s because they’re just too big and we visited during the off season but no one seemed to be working at the store until we were ready to pay. All the butters and jams were self service. There were open jars and sample sticks. Even the apple cider sample was self service with a sign that read, one per person.
Prices here were slightly lower than other places but not as tasty IMHO. The apple cider ($ 12/​gal) was yummy though. You can taste fresh apples for sure! The cider lasts about 3 weeks before turning into vinegar.
Next door is a small café/​bakery with a bbq going outside. We had their pulled pork sandwich and chili. OMG! Their chili is amazing! It was seasoned perfectly, had lots of good sized bits of tri tip, and a bunch of different beans. At $ 4 for a good sized bowl, this was one of the best chili I’ve had in awhile. The pulled pork was very tasty too. The chili definitely ended our visit to Oak Glen on a high note. We will definitely return, not for the apple butter, but for the delicious chili!

It was a nice experience to take the family on a nature walk and then stop into this shop for a warm dessert. Paid $ 36 for 2 whole apple pies. No taste, crust was bland, apples were still tart, and no taste of butter or sugar. Must have been organic! lol Either way, kids enjoyed it with vanilla ice cream and a hot cocoa.

Love coming here. Nice selection of so many different things. Apple cider you press yourself is a lovely tradition my kids adore. Get the glass and when it’s empty melt candles on it and save your coins. Many places to have a picnic and take those great photos you cherish for years.

Rileys at Los Rios Rancho is a beautiful place, The store is well kept, the staff is friendly, the apples are delicious, and there is a lovely park in the back that is full of beautiful oak trees that you can hike through. This is definitely a visit we make on a yearly basis.
however my low rating really is due to their apple pie. We purchased two whole apple pies, which ran about $ 18 apiece. They were the worst apple pies I have ever tasted. The apples were coated with tons of cinnamon, had absolutely no taste, and the crust was bland… Honestly, it wasn’t even worth eating. This was a great disappointment, because I kept reading rave reviews about their apple pies and spending $ 36 on two pies is really quite expensive. We will continue our yearly trip, visiting Los Rio Rancho, but I will not be making another pie purchase in the future.

I have been coming here every year for over 10 years. It’s a family tradition I now share with my kids. We have always been hooked on the apple butter, this stuff is addicting. We also enjoy eating the tri-​tip sandwiches with apple pie at their restaurant. They have a great selection of apples, butters, cider, pies, and candies. They even added a petting zoo and other new attractions.
I recommend visiting between Halloween and thanksgiving to get the best of the season.
Staff is friendly and helpful. Food is some of the best bbq and pies I have had. Plenty of parking. Prices tend to be a bit high, but I understand. $ 6 jar of butter, $ 11 gallon cider, $ 15 pies, and $ 9 bbq. Spent close to $ 200 on food and take home items today.

An 8#, $ 19.00 bag of honeycrisp apples, perfect. Until you open the bag labeled EXTRA FANCY AND FANCY. Only to find wee little teensy tiny apples in the middle of some ok sizes,
all marked up and covered with little brown pecks. And get this, an organic label on each apple that says
. Wow. They are importing apples from an orchard just outside of Ojai, CA. These apples sucked and they aren’t even from their farm. Hilarious! No, fraud you say? Quite possibly. Bull$*** if you ask me.

Rileys has the best apple pies in Oak Glen. Very friendly folks and beautiful property. This is a must stop destination at Oak Glen.
Be sure to hike through the nature preserve behind their property too.

Across Riley’s Apple farm is the store, bakery and diner. Had the corn with butter was $ 3.50, not bad it’s like what u get a farmers market the booth is open at 11. Got a caramel apple, really thick caramel they don’t cut it for u they have plastic knives outside.
They have assortment of sample apples and butters– Sample one time. You’ll see these signs, weird don’t u want to try diff apples and butters, just didn’t feel very friendly. They have fresh ciders inside in the frig def get the gallon it’s about $ 12.75 but worth it. Bit paranoid that there was s sign cider is not pasturized so kids elderly BEWARE. Mwahhhhh.
It will be all gone the next day it tastes good cold.
Baked goods didn’t seem too tempting, they should have samples of the cakes or other goods.

This place was HORRIBLE. We usually eat our bbq in the Snowline area when we head up to Oak Glen but the bbq smelled so good here. Our noses were definitely deceived. Food was bland, portions were small, and prices were to high. When I say portions were small I’m talking three small pieces of meat per sandwich, sides came in a Gerber sized container, and they didn’t even put bbq sauce on the sandwiches. Won’t ever eat there again!

It was a girls day out with the 5 friends and one 10 month old of one of my friends yesterday (10÷9÷2015). This is all our first time here. Cute little store to buy stuff. Their orchard is also across the street where you can pick pumpkins, apples, raspberries, strawberries, and corn. It was apple picking, pumpkin picking, and raspberry picking months. :p there where only one type of apples ready for picking, so we opt out doing that. We did raspberry picking and pumpkin picking. For raspberry, it’s $ 3.50 for an oz. I got more than I an oz. So, I got my worth of raspberry for $ 3.50. :)
Two of my friends got pumpkins. They charge by the size and the weight. And, the special ones, like the white and some other ones than your typical orange one, will be charged a little more.
Over at the store, we had their BBQ. It was sooooo good. Their ribs are great. Lucky for us, we gotten the last 2 of the ½ ribs. We all shared the ribs as we each got a sandwich (either the tri tip or the pull pork or sausage). The sandwich were ok. I really like their ribs. There were a lot of people waiting in line for the BBQ. Also, we tried some of their apple pies and apple desserts they were famous for and it was great. Especially their apple pies with ice cream. Their apple ciders were great too. There were lots of people and lucky for us, we got there very early, around 9:30 am. Parking was easy. I recommend you guys to come early if you can. There is also alot of trails to go on too. Next time we are coming back for more.

I had my daughters birthday party at the Little Seedling Ranch at Los Rios. I’m rather disappointed at some of the staff and wanted to share my experience. First, we signed a simple contract for the venue fee so they could set up an area in the Seedling Ranch for the party. After telling them I was going to have more attending than I expected, they orally told me a party price rate for additional horse rides and hayrides which were a few dollars lower than listed. So far, so good.
After sending in my deposit, I stopped by to look to the party site. The staff actually wanted to charge me and my family an admission fee into the Seedling Ranch to look at the site. I was rather shocked.
I asked if I could bring up my party supplies the day before, they said no in a rude and stern manner. They gave no reason as to why. I can understand if there was a reason, but none was given. This is a sought out venue, so I’m sure this request was not unusual.
Now the party. It was a warm day. They did not have enough shade for my guests. They wanted to charge me an additional $ 200 to set up a tent. Their tables were very old and ugly. They offered table cloths for $ 50. The look of their tables forced you to renting table cloths.
I had 60 people attending the party and they would not let me into the party area until 30 minutes before. I scrambled to set up while my guests were arriving. Very disappointing.
As they refused to store my gourmet cupcakes, they melted before we were able to serve them.
The ugly picnic benches they set up for the party were on very un-​level ground. Some were on a slope making it uncomfortable for my guests to sit and perhaps dangerous.
Also, we actually had a 9 year old fall off a horse during the pony ride. The saddle was loose. No one even came to check and see if he was ok. Needless to say, it was embarrassing as the party host.
Lastly, remember when I said above that we had orally agreed to additional pony rides and hay rides for a discounted party rate? Well that didn’t happen. They looked us in the eye after the party to settle the bill and said no staff had agreed to that discount.
If you want to have a birthday party in Oak Glen, you may want to explore other options.

I started coming here when I was a kid-​quite some time ago when it was just Los Rios Rancho. They continue to have the BEST apple cider. It’s not cheap but it is so good-​the perfect blend of sweet and tart. Like biting into a fresh apple.
I like coming here i the fall and bringing a picnic and eating in Oak Glen park behind Los Rios. The café is very good. Homemade quality. When tend to go early in the morning so the lines aren’t too long and we also go in the winter — sometimes we are lucky enough to see and play in the snow.
We like to hike from the park down to the road below and back up.
We don’t do the apple picking as it is just too $$. We usually just buy the cider and some apple crisp ala mode in the café. It has become more touristy over the years (since Riley’s took over) and the prices have gone up.
We usually visit once or twice a year.

I visited Oak Glen for the first time this past weekend and loved the charm of this town! You have to drive a little ways up the hill to get to Rileys. Unfortunately, the u-​pick was closed already and we were told that October would be the best time to come. I was a little bummed out because I wanted to go apple picking. However, I moved forward with the next item on my agenda — apple cider making!
It was $ 17 but the experience and product was worth it to me. I got to choose my varieties of apples, used a 100+ year-​old machine to grind the apples up, and press the juice out. It was a heavily laborious process and I struggled, even with the assistance of my friend and the young man running the apple cider making station. You will definitely get a workout out of this! Fresh apple cider tastes amazing though and you can’t go back to regular apple juice after this experience!
Rileys also have a corn maze, horse and tractor rides, a petting zoo ($ 1 admission, 50 cents for feed), BBQ, desserts, and a store. The store has plenty of samples of apples. They also had apple cider and apple butter for your tasting! You can also buy apples here. It has a little of something for everyone.
Overall, it was an amazing experience as a first-​timer in an apple orchard and in the neighborhood of Oak Glen. It was beautiful out here and the weather was fresh, sunny, and cool. All the workers were friendly and helpful. There are two parking lots and while it was busy, there were a lot of cars pulling out. We are considering going back next October to do the u-​pick!

I’ve come here twice with my girlfriends over the past couple years. The first time was much better; this year it was just ok. We parked in the general area and made the short walk to the u-​pick area. I was so happy to see they had a crossing guard to help us get across the busy road. The employees seem to be hit or miss. Some were very friendly and went out of their way to help and others were just there not doing much, no one was rude. There wasn’t much available for picking this time. Pretty much only the more expensive apples were available and it was pretty hard to find decent apples to pick. We made the best of it, each trying to find enough apples to make whatever thing we were planning to cook later that week. After we were done picking we walked back to the main location and had some lunch.
After lunch, two members of the group wanted to make some cider. There was a bit of a line but that allowed us the time to let the kids in the group help us pick out all the apples we needed for the cider. This was a fun little thing to do and the kids thought it was great to help.
The thing great about this farm is everything was here, in one spot. Apple picking, food, store, cider making, petting zoo, hayrides, etc. It’s some good family fun but just make sure that the apple harvest was decent so you’re not disappointment in the apples available for picking.

We came out 2 weekends ago and had a great time!
We filled a box full of apples (red delicious & rome) in less than 30 minutes. They opened the rome orchard that day so there were plenty of apples, and we did not have to walk far to find them!
Before heading home, we shopped at the market for cider and apple butter and had a BBQ lunch (mediocre).
In hindsight, I should have bought a pie! I heard how amazing they are AFTER we left to come home.

This is one of my two regular stops when I come out to Oak Glen. I’ve been coming here for about 19 years so far and I always get the gigantic, crumb crust apple pie. I still think it’s the best apple pie I ever tasted. The crust is thick, crispy, and sweet, kind of like a shortbread cookie with caramelized sugar crystals. The crust is almost better than the filling. The filling is not too sweet and tastes very fresh. It’s nothing like the pies you get at Marie Callender’s or Coco’s. The apples are not drenched in some thick sugary syrup. These are fresh, tart apple pieces with maybe some brown sugar and lemon juice. The whole thing is massive and lumpy. It doesn’t look pretty or neat, but tastes way better than any of the pies at chain pie shops. If you want a slice of pie you have to order from the bakery/​restaurant where they also serve sandwiches and other food items. However, the line can be super long if you go on a weekend. I just get the whole pie to go which can be purchased at the main store which doesn’t have a long line.
Although I come here mainly for the pie, it is a good all around place for families. About two thirds of the store sells apples, jams, baked goods, and other knick knacks. Another third of the store is the bakery/​restaurant. Outside area has a huge picnic area, BBQ, press your own cider station, hayride, and even a small petting zoo which has goats, sheep, pigs, and a llama. There’s live entertainment on weekends as well.
The grilled corn they sell outside is really good too. They give it to you with some butter and you can help yourself to seasonings like garlic salt, cayenne pepper, parmesan cheese, etc.
It’s hard to miss this place if you come on a weekend because it is super crowded. Even with additional parking in the dirt lot, I still had trouble finding parking.

After apple picking and apple cider pressing, we got famished and drove down to see what else there was. We stumbled upon this place and decided to stop in for lunch. There’s apple picking, tractor rides, corn maze, bakery, market, deli, picnic areas and live entertainment.
We went into the market and found that there’s apple butter on every shelf! In fact, they advertised an apple butter festival during Thanksgiving weekend this year. We stood in line for the deli and which we passed the grilling area where they were grilling ribs and tri-​tip, it looked amazing.
We got to the register and put our order in, we ended up getting an extra drink the apple cider smoothie and getting charged for it too, but whatever. There’s hardly any seating since it was so busy but we were lucky to find a few chairs. They take the order out to you once they find your number displayed somewhere. The tri-​tip and pulled pork sandwiches were really good but I felt that the potato salad was very bland.
Parking was a bit of a hassle so when we left, there were tons of other people waiting to take our spot, so make sure to come here a bit earlier.