LITTLETON, Colo. — Pumpkin Festival is the biggest single-weekend event hosted each year at Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield Farms. While attendees enjoy just a weekend of festivities, the team behind the event spends all year preparing for it.

“How can you be depressed in a pumpkin patch?” said Larry Vickerman, director at the gardens.

Along with the corn maze, live music and wagon rides, visitors can wander the patch and pick their own gourds and pumpkins to take home.

“This is probably one of the few places where you can come out here on 10 acres — I’ll guarantee you’ll find a pumpkin you really like,” Vickerman said.

Vickerman begins preparing for Pumpkin Festival in the winter, typically in January or February. Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield Farms hosts Pumpkin Fest Friday thro

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