The pilot episode was filmed in Calgary and Canmore, Alberta, as well as Denver, Colorado, but subsequent series filming relocated to Ogden, South Salt Lake, Draper, and Park City, Utah.

The show was canceled by the WB in May 2006 following the network's merger with UPN to form the CW, even though its finale averaged about 4 million viewers, which would have ranked it in the top 5 CW shows the following year.

The series was renewed against and canceled in favor of the new show Runaway, which was itself pulled after only three episodes, and in favor of a new season of 7th Heaven, which had already aired its own series finale.

The series finale 'Foreverwood' was written to work as both a season finale and a series finale due to uncertainty over the show's future amid the WB/UPN merger, with producers preparing two possible endings.

Producers originally scripted a 'series-finale cut' montage jumping forty years into the future to show the characters at Andy's funeral, bringing the story full circle, but it was never filmed due to budget constraints and hopes for a fifth season.

The Parents Television Council named Everwood its No. 1 'worst network TV show for family viewing' for the 2003–04 season, criticizing its treatment of teen sexual issues.

Entertainment Weekly gave the show's third season an A− rating in 2005, praising how it handled soap opera tropes like unexpected pregnancy and adultery.

Everwood received two Emmy nominations: for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music in 2003, composed by Blake Neely, and for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series in 2004 for James Earl Jones's appearance as Will Cleveland.