Pumpkin Patches in Western North Carolina

It is officially October! That means, pumpkins, pumpkins, pumpkins, and cornmazes, and fall festivals! For anyone living in or visiting the Asheville area this fall, here is a list of some cornmazes, festival, and pumpkin patches to visit during the month of October:

• Eliada Cornmaze-one of the most popular in the region and has food, corn box, pumpkins, corn chunkin, hayride, a scary cornmaze at night, and three fun mazes to try. (Buncombe County)
• Stingy Jack's Pumpkin Patch-pumpkin chunkin, carving, hayrides, and trails (Transylvania County)
• Hickory Nut Gap Farm (Buncombe)-also featuring a run/walk.hike on Oct. 13-all who participate receive a pumpkin
• Taylor Ranch-new this year in Buncombe, the pink cornmaze. The ranch is having a fall filled October to support the "Breast Cancer center at Mission Hospital." The ranch will be open every weekend in October, have live music, food, hayrides, haunted trails, cornmazes, and games.
• Grandad's Apples (Hendersonville)-this apple farm features some of the biggest pumpkins around! There is a cornmaze, food, fun train, photo stops, and farm animals. It's a great place to get apples and pumpkins.
• Stepp's Hillcrest Apple Farm-(Hendersonville)-pick apples, grapes, and pumpkins. This is a great family farm and wonderful to visit during the autumn season.
• Cold Mountain Corn Maze (Canton)-the mountain made famous in a book and movie is a great place to go enjoy a cool autumn day in the mountains.
• Blue Ridge Corn Maze (Brevard)-this is a popular corn maze in beautiful Pisgah Forest. One of the features is it's haunted corn maze.

There is also a pumpkin patch in Madison County. I will hopefully have more info on that in a few days. This is not all to do in Asheville in October, but it's a good start. Happy Autumn!