Ritter's Cider Mill

What they do

Ritter’s Cider Mill is a family-owned cider mill, orchard, and fall-festival operation in Mount Cobb, PA — Lackawanna County, in the [[poconos|Pocono Mountains]]. The Ritter family has been making cider since 1978.

Operations:

• Cider press on-site — currently un-pasteurized. They do not use drop apples, and all apples are inspected for decay and brush-washed before pressing
• Orchard retail — 20 apple varieties available for purchase
• Bakery — cider donuts, cookies, pies, caramel apples; the famous baked-apple aroma anchors the visitor experience
• Agritourism layer — Hay Barn, corn maze, friendly farm animals (with Windy Hill Ranch running pony rides), scenic hayrides every weekend (plus Columbus Day) through fall

Open the first Saturday after Labor Day through December 23.

Why it’s listed

A 47-year multigenerational family cider mill with on-site pressing, an orchard, and a deliberate fall-festival agritourism layer is exactly the kind of operation [[directory|the directory]]‘s editorial signal tracks. The un-pasteurized cider commitment is a real quality choice — most US cider mills shifted to pasteurization in the post-1996 HACCP wave; Ritter’s chose to keep the traditional pressing standard alongside quality-control practices.

Bioregional fit

Mount Cobb is in Lackawanna County, the [[lackawanna-valley|Lackawanna Valley]] region of the Poconos. The directory has a [[lackawanna-valley]] bioregion stub for this region.

See also

Auto-generated from this entry’s typed relations: frontmatter, grouped by relation type so the editorial signal isn’t flattened.

• Instance of: [[orchard]] · [[farm-stand]] · [[agritourism]]
• Contained by: [[lackawanna-valley]]

Sources

• Ritter’s Cider Mill website
• Ritter’s Cider Mill on Discover NEPA
• OpenStreetMap: original tag

Related concepts: [[farm]] · [[farm-stand]] · [[agritourism]].

A listing in the 0mn1.one [[directory]]. Filed under [[lackawanna-valley]] in [[directory|the directory]].