The farms listed below are grouped by similar offerings. The carnival-like offerings (which are often more expensive) are toward the bottom of this page. Many venues have different offerings on weekends, and many have coupons posted on their web site.
Munson Farms, Valmont Road and 75th Street, Boulder, features pumpkin picking, winter squash and gourds. Exotic varieties. Carts provided. Hayrides on weekends. Corn maze. 720-971-8847.
Cottonwood Farm 75th Street and Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder, offers a pumpkin patch, straw-bale maze, corn field maze, 1906 steam tractor, and farm animals. 720-890-4766.
Rock Creek Farm 2005 S. 112th St., Broomfield, has a 100+ acre u-pick pumpkin patch, baked goods, and 3 amazing corn mazes. 303-465-9565
Hill's Harvest Pumpkin Patch 124th Avenue & Steele Street, Thornton, offers the option to pick a pumpkin from the field or selecting from their market of pumpkins, gourds, and more. 303-451-5637
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Sunflower Farm 11150 Prospect Road in Southeast Longmont, offers their regular farmfest on Saturday. Sundays in September and October also include live music, pumpkins, sunflowers, roasted marshmallows, and horse-drawn haywagons. 303-774-8001
Burch Maze and Pumpkin Patch (no link) 4225 Weld County Road 32 in Longmont, has three different mazes and a petting zoo of farm animals, hay wagon, hay-bale maze, barrel train, and old-fashioned fun. 303-772-1350
Berry Patch Farms 13785 Potomac St. in Brighton, offers pick-your-own year-long but on Saturdays in October has hay rides, straw maze, children craft, and silhouette portraits. Special entertainment varies each weekend. 303-659-5050
Denver Botanic Garden at Chatfield 8500 Deer Creek Canyon Road in Littleton. Pumpkin Festival Oct 17-18, 2009. Choose a pumpkin, enjoy children's activities, vendors, farm animals, tour the historical ranch, and enjoy the carnival rides. Corn maze and teen/adult haunted house nearby.
May Farms 64001 East Highway 36 in Byers (30 min east of Aurora), has a pumpkin patch, corn maze, barrel train, hay rides, animal barnyard, and special events on weekends. The pumpkin launching competition is 10/24/09. 303-822-5800
Pumpkins and More Farms Dillon Road and 104th St., Louisville, is now CLOSED. Editor's note: Darn! this was my kids' favorite in 2007.
Miller Farms 9040 Colorado 66, Platteville, features hay ride thru pick-your-own vegetable and pumpkin fields; petting zoo, corn maze, hay maze, hay pyramid, giant slide, fire truck, train, plane, pedal cars, and an Indian village as well as plenty of picnic tables for lunch. Reservations required for "Haunted" hay rides. 970-785-6133
Rocky Mountain Pumpkin Ranch 9057 Ute Highway, Longmont. Weekday activities ($7/child) include picking pumpkins, paint-a-pumpkin, jumpy obstacle course, corn maze, hay bale maze, bag of food to feed the farm animals, and (weather permitting) honey bee observatory. Weekend activities (w/ higher fee) include entering the petting zoo, cider making, pony rides, airplane rides, seeing hand-spun cotton candy, a roller coaster, balloon typhoon, and a much much more. 303-684-0087
Anderson Farms 6728 WCR 3¼, Erie, features a big harvest festival and handicapped-accessible pumpkin fields. Wagon rides to pumpkin patch & animal acres, hay bale maze, barrel train rides, gem stone mining, ghost town "backlot" tour, milking skill practice, tricycle course, pumpkin launching, jailhouse, bonfires (some days), and much more. 303-828-0248
Please visit each site or call for event specifics. The exact activity listings have not been verified for 2009, and the farms' offerings may have changed.