Today, the orchard is maintained by volunteers and Seattle Parks staff and is the site of community events, including an annual Festival of Fruit.

[1] The fire devastated Piper’s downtown business, the Puget Sound Candy Factory, prompting the family to relocate.

Minna Piper was known for her skills in gardening and grafting, raising flowers and vegetables that the family would transport to market by horse and wagon.

[2] After Andrew Piper's death in 1904, his son Paul took over the duties of taking the orchard's produce to market.

In 1981, landscape architect Daphne Lewis was hired to survey Carkeek Park for a master plan.

Included are Wealthy, King, Gravenstein, Dutch Mignone, Red Astrachan, Rhode Island Greening, Bietigheimer, and Esopus Spitzenburg.