Livermore-Area Pumpkin Patches 2003
We recently visited a part of the greater Bay Area that we've never
before visited on our pumpkin hunting missions: Livermore. What we
found is that these people mean business with their patches! At
these farms, pumpkins are secondary to all the carnival-like
fun!
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G & M Farms |
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487 East Airway, Livermore |
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G & M Farms most closely resembles
the pumpkin patches we're used to: plenty of pumpkins and
gourds, a crafts area, farm animals, refreshments, straw
maze, pony rides, and a corn maze.
We took a spin through their huge corn
maze and spent a good 30 minutes trying to get out.
They have trivia spots along the way to help you find the
correct path out of the maze. You are given a few
questions to choose from with multiple choice
answers. The correct answers tell you the correct
way to head - the incorrect answers send you on the wrong
path! We liked how the maze is broken into two parts
- half way through, you end up back where you started,
giving you a chance to grab a drink or give up!
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Joan's Farm |
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4351 Mines Road, Livermore |
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Based on the amount of families there,
Joan's Farm, is the place to be! The little ones were
running all about playing on the pumpkins, climbing the
trees, visiting the animals, jumping in the inflatable
jumper, and chowing down on hot dogs!
Joan's Farm is in a lovely small valley
with a creek running through it. The farm offers a
corn maze, hay rides, fort maze, gold panning, an old west
town, refreshments, picnic areas, pony rides, face
painting by a clown, and of course, pumpkins, gourds,
Indian corn, squash, and wheat stalks.
The real fun for the families seemed to
be all the activities and areas for the kids to run around
and play. Picking out a pumpkin came when the kids
got tired!
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Dell'Osso Farms |
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26 West Stewart Road, Lathrop |
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Dell'Osso Farms isn't in Livermore, but
it's not that far from it - just a freeway ride away in
Lathrop! And if it's a carnival-like atmosphere you
want, it's worth the drive! I barely noticed the
pumpkins here, as I was so wrapped up in the other fun
activities. The place is huge and all outdoors, with
food and drinks, a picnic area, horse rides, a haunted
house, pumpkin blasters, a speedway (kids on tricycles -
they even get little numbers to wear - too cute!), crafts,
a train ride, a corn maze, a straw tunnel, and lots more
fun!
We spent a good deal of our time firing
the pumpkin blasters (they have 10!)! You load the
air-powered blaster with a mini-pumpkin and aim for one of
the targets out in the field and fire! The goal is
to get the mini-pumpkins through the eyes, nose, and mouth
of a huge metal pumpkin, ghost or bat. It was great
fun to watch and hear the mini-pumpkins smash to pieces
(or rather smash to mush) against one of the targets,
making it almost more fun not to shoot the pumpkin through
the holes!
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