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Issue date: 10/21/08 Section: Arts & Entertainment

Tipper, a yellow lab, bounds over pumpkins at Ric and Geri Ruiz's Puyallup, Wash., farm. Double R Farms is home to a pumpkin patch, corn maze, and tractor-pulled hay rides, and is open to the public daily.

Get your rain boots and a warm coat and take a trip to find the perfect Halloween pumpkin. If you have no interest in pumpkins, enjoy corn mazes, caramel apples, petting zoos, and haunted houses/forests. No need to look any further. Here is a list of the best farms around the Puget Sound area.

Pheasant Fields Farm:
This is a family-run farm that has corn mazes and pumpkins. In addition to their fresh produce, Pheasant Fields Farm sells poultry, beef, flowers, and eggs.
They offer farm tours by appointment year-round for groups of five or more.
Wild Woods, a haunted farm tour, will be running Oct. 24, 25, 31, and Nov. 1.
During the month of October, this farm is open seven days a week for pumpkin patch visits and pumpkin sales.

Monday - Saturday: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Sunday: 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Pheasant Fields Farm is located at 13274 Clear Creek Road N.W. in Silverdale, WA.
Phone: 360-697-6224.

Double R Farms:
This farm is closer to Tacoma, in Puyallup. Here look forward to pumpkins, a pumpkin patch-pick in the field, an already picked pumpkin patch, corn maze, and tractor-pulled hay rides.

Hay rides are offered on Friday, Saturday and Sunday only. 

They only accept cash and checks. Sold at the farm are ornamental squash and gourds, corn stalks, and pumpkin slingshots.

The farm is located at 5820 44th Street East, in Puyallup, WA 98371.
Phone: (53) 926-8158.
Double R Farms are open Monday-Friday from 3 p.m. to dark; Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to dark.

Maris Farms Pumpkin Patch and Corn Maze

Maris Farms offers a variety of entertainment for young and old. Pumpkins, a corn maze, night corn maze, animal farm, hayrides, a jump pillow, monster truck rides, pony rides, and haunted woods are some things to look forward to.

Pumpkin picking lasts until Halloween, and prices range from $2 to $14 per pumpkin.

The Haunted Woods is a 30 minute walk through a haunted corn field and forest. You'll walk in small groups along a designated trail and fall victim to the frights within. The 2008 Maris Farms Haunted Woods begins its season October 3rd and continues each Friday & Saturday night throughout the month of October in the countdown to Halloween. Tickets are $20 per person.

Oct 3 & 4 (7:30-10 p.m.)
October 10 & 11, 17 & 18 (7:30-11 p.m.)
October 19th (7-9 p.m.)
October 24 & 25 (7-11 p.m.)
October 26th & 30th (7-9 p.m.)
October 31 (7-11 p.m.)
November 1st (7-10 p.m.)
Maris Farms is located at 24713 Sumner-Buckley Highway, in Buckley, WA 98321. Phone: (253) 862-2848.

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