Apple River is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Cumberland County.

The river and harbour are bordered by extensive tidal salt marshes, protected by Cape Capstan to the East and a long sand bar to the west.

Apple River is located on Route 209 and one of the communities that form the Fundy Shore Ecotour.

Circa 1783 several Loyalist families from the United States settled at Apple River including Robert Dove, Hugh Pudsey and Joseph Elderkin.

[3] Apple River had one of the first lighthouses in the Upper Bay of Fundy, established in 1848 at the tip of Cape Capstan.