Pumpkin patches, corn mazes & haunted houses
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Hello & happy October! My favorite month of the whole year. I love October and I really love Halloween, so every year From Boise goes spooky for the entire month. Today's story is more helpful than spooky: it's a list of pumpkin patches, corn mazes, and haunted houses to visit this month. Don't worry, the spooky stories are coming next week. Also, you may have noticed this newsletter came from a different email address: withlove@fromboise.com. This is the email address that all the newsletters will be sent from from now on. I'm still the one sending the Tuesday newsletters, but Carly is sending the Thursday newsletters now so it felt weird to have them all come from my email address. Ya know? Anyway, be sure to mark the withlove@fromboise.com as safe by moving it to your primary inbox, replying to this email, or adding it to your contacts. Let me know if you have questions :) Ok onto the good stuff! Pumpkin patches & corn mazesIf you haven’t already, you need to get a pumpkin! There's lots of options for the whole go-pick-a-pumpkin-on-the-farm thing, plus a few good options for in-town pumpkin picking. Plus most of these places have hayrides, food, and other harvest festival things so you can make a whole adventure out of it. Lowe Family Farmstead is the largest of all and is more like a harvest carnival than an average pumpkin farm. There's a massive pumpkin patch, hayrides, potato sack slides, a ropes course, a petting zoo, candy cannon, gemstone mining, fire pits, and more. They also have a huge corn maze that has been going for 25+ years and has been named one of the top mazes in America. It’s a new design every year and this year the design is a truck. Find hours and admission info here.The address to the farm is 2500 South Eagle Road, Kuna. The Berry Ranch transforms into a pumpkin patch in the fall. As the name suggests they have berry picking in the summer, and they have meat and honey, too. For pumpkin picking, you can do a walk through the pumpkin patch or take a hayride. Check out the options for reservations here. Also it’s cash only. The address is 7998 US-20, Nampa. Jordan' Garden Center & Pumpkin Patch is one of my favorites. They have a ton of different kinds of pumpkins – huge pumpkins, Cinderella pumpkins, warty pumpkins, green, red, yellow and white pumpkins, minis pumpkins, plus they have corn stalks and straw bales if you are looking for some porch/yard decor. There is also a hay maze, petting zoo, corn pit, toys & photo ops. This one is perfect for little kids. It's all free! Address is 2591 Cole Road, Boise. (PS Jordan’s is my fave place to be a Christmas tree too!) Shindig Farms is a pumpkin patch and straw maze in Nampa. They also have a haunted version of the straw maze that starts at 8pm on Saturday nights throughout October. Other attractions include a zipline, slide, play area, jump pad, mechanical bull, corn cannon, and a swing ride. You can find hours and admission info here. Address is ID-45 & Scism Rd., Nampa. Cherry Hill Farms has a pumpkin patch, an ongoing fall festival, and a corn maze. They also do apple picking days on October 18-19. The fall festival includes a corn maze with three different paths, a smaller hay maze for little kids, barrel cart rides, tube slides, a car track, farm animals, corn hole, large straw bale maze with activities, cherry pit sandbox, and tractor tire playgrounds. You can purchase fresh produce, ice cream treats, donuts, hot dogs, and other food at the fruit stand. Address is 19125 Apricot Lane, Caldwell. Pumpkin Palooza is an urban pumpkin patch in Meridian. There’s a pumpkin lot, inflatables, a hay maze, train rides, a petting zoo, axe throwing, carnival games, and more. There’s a $3 admission and then you buy tickets for whatever activities you want to do. Address is 1133 W. Chinden Blvd., Meridian, 83646. Haunted HousesYou either love em or want nothing to do with em. We have a few commercial haunted houses and a handful of really amazing residential haunted mazes/attractions. You can see a map of Halloween decorations & haunted houses throughout the valley here. Haunted World is the largest indoor & outdoor haunted attraction in Idaho! It's over 40 acres and takes around 2 hours to complete. Go through Hacksaw Jim's Stanky Cellar, Voorhee's Dilapidated Shack, Vertigo's Tunnel, Leon's 55-foot Slide into Darkness, and Cannibal Lecter's Carnival of Pigs. The haunted house, Skullvania, is a hostel asylum gone spooky. This one is only about 15 minutes. There’s different hours on different days of the week. Address is 20031 Northside Blvd., Nampa. Requiem is a 13,000 sq ft haunted house in downtown Caldwell. Lots of jump scares, blood, gore, clowns, skeletons, strobe lights and more. It takes about 30-45 min to complete. Address is 810 W Main Street, Caldwell. Haunted Hallways Maze is a residential haunted maze at 5009 Eugene Street in Boise, directly next door to the James Castle house. The front yard maze has numerous and confusing directions, unique handmade creatures & features The Mighty Doll Room, bowels of the pirate ship, a clown college, an alien probe station, and more. It’s free but they accept donations. Also there’s two other residential haunted houses that usually happen but I haven't seen anything yet this year so idk the details. Psycho Circus at Cimarron is a residential creepy clown circus at 4304 S Cimarron Ave in Boise. Boise Bench Haunted Zombie Toyland is located at 2029 S Columbus Street and has been going for 8 years! And if you want to go for a haunted house road trip, take a drive to the Haunted Mansions of Albion in Albion, Idaho. It's awesome. Ok that's my list for ya. Also I was on City Cast Boise's podcast talking about my favorite October things. You can listen here. Thanks for reading! With love from Boise, Marissa
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