It's springtime. Fruit trees are in bloom and early wildflowers are popping up. For the month of April, you'll see landscapes filled with blooming flowers, some blooming in April and May, and the higher-altitude ones blooming in June and July.

Latter-Day Saints pioneers planted thousands of fruit trees in the fertile Fremont River Valley. From the 1880s to 1960s, these trees provided food and income to the families who called Fruita home. Apples, apricots, cherries, peaches, pears, and plums dotted each family’s orchards.

Today, the orchards are preserved and protected as part of the Fruita Rural Historic Landscape listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The orchards contain approximately 1,900 trees.