Fall Festival Botanic Gardens Chatfield

This weekend we set out to celebrate the coming of fall. I looked online for Denver events in the fall and was not surprised to find a bazillion ideas. It was my day to choose the activity so I settled on the Denver Botanic Gardens Fall Festival. It was about a half hour drive in the rain from our place to the festival.

When we got out of the car the clouds broke up and the sun poked its head out from behind the clouds. We wandered the pumpkin patch for awhile to find a good carving pumpkin, but sadly it seemed they were all picked over. The only ones left were rotten, green, and deformed which is not a good base for great carving. We strolled through the vendors and enjoyed all the kids participating in fun activities while sporting their creative Halloween costumes. There was a really impressive exhibit of turn-of-the-century steam engines on display. One of the collectors gave us a great demonstration.

For our finale of the day we decided to try the corn maze. The first picture below is the design of the corn maze and it looks impressive but we never really found a dead end and was able to do the whole maze in less than a half hour. We were a little disappointed with the easy skill level of the maze but glad to get out of the house. When we walked back to the car the clouds began to gather and it started to rain.