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Sunrise Orchards

Family-operated apple orchard in Gays Mills — the apple capital of Wisconsin — at the western edge of the Driftless Area. Operating since the early 1900s on Crawford County coulee terrain that the apple industry recognized as some of the best apple-growing ground in the upper Midwest. Today: 50,000+ trees across multiple orchards, 30+ varieties, packing operations supplying regional grocery, an on-site farm market, and a fall pick-your-own season that draws visitors from across the upper Midwest. A working substrate-builder anchor for the Driftless directory cluster.

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Sunrise Orchards is one of several century-plus apple orchards in and around Gays Mills, the small Crawford County village that has been the apple capital of Wisconsin since the early 20th century. The Driftless coulees produce apples of unusually good quality — cool nights, well-drained sloped ground, the long growing season of the upper Mississippi corridor — and Gays Mills’s annual fall apple festival has been a regional fixture for decades. Sunrise’s orchards (50,000+ trees) sit on coulee slopes around the village, with a packing-and-storage operation and an on-site farm market.

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Crawford County’s apple industry was nearly destroyed by a 1996 flood that wiped out a substantial portion of the village‘s orchards and infrastructure. The recovery — over twenty years — is part of why the surviving operations like Sunrise have such durable place-attachment. The county’s apple-growing identity is held by a small number of family operations who chose to rebuild rather than relocate.

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