Pick or pitch your own pumpkin? The choice is yours at Colorado farms that also offer other seasonal activities.
Orchard Valley Farms
Daily, 15836 Black Bridge Road, Paonia; 970-527-6838, orchard . No admission charge.
Free cider squeezed by an antique press, U-pick pumpkins, tomatoes, apples, table grapes.
Fall Festival and Pumpkin Patch
Daily, Anderson Farms, 6728 Weld County Road 3 1/4, Erie; 303-828-5210, andersonfarms . Adults $10, kids & seniors $8.
Twenty-six kinds of pumpkins, wagon rides, 30-acre corn maze, punkin-chunkin’.
U-Pick and Punkin Chunkin’
10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, Bartels Farm, 3424 E. Douglas Road, Fort Collins; 970-493-3853, thebartels . Adults $8, kids $6.
Cannon launches a pumpkin a half-mile. Plus: pumpkins, straw bale maze, petting zoo, bonfire.
Halloween Harvest Festival
Fridays through Sundays, May Farms, 64001 E. U.S. 36, Byers; 303-822-5800, . Adults $10, kids & seniors $7.
U-pick pumpkins, corn maze, plus Pumpkinpalooza punkin- chunkin’ competitions on Oct. 25.
U-pick pumpkins
Daily, Studt’s Pumpkin Patch and Corn Maze, 22 and J roads, Grand Junction; 970-270-7060, . Tickets: $3. Corn maze and pumpkin patch with three varieties, including some that weigh nearly 100 pounds, plus pumpkin- carving contest, 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday.
Great Pumpkin Patch Express
11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. departures, Saturdays and Sundays, Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum, 479 Main Ave., Durango; 970-247-2733, . kin. Adult $29, child $21, reservations recommended.
U-pick pumpkins, plus visits from the “Peanuts” crew and trick-or-treating practice.
