This is not the farm’s first time in the USA Today’s 10 Best Reader’s Choice Travel Award Contest but it is the first time the farm has been nominated for the pumpkin patch category. (File photo).
UPSTATE — Go big or gourd home! Denver Downs Farm in Anderson, a fourth-generation century farm, has been nominated USA Today’s 10 Best Reader’s Choice Travel Award Contest. The family-owned and operated farm was selected by an expert panel as a Top 20 Pumpkin Patches and contender for the 10 Best Pumpkin Patches, squashing thousands of farms in the country.
“We are thrilled and honored to be nominated for the Top 10 Pumpkin Patches in the country and are asking all our readers and guests to help push us to the top of the list for 2025,” said Catherine Garrison Davis, Co-Owner of Denver Downs. “With 70 tons of the most beautiful pumpkins and gourds on the farm this year, we are hoping for a bumper crop of guests for the fall festival!”
Voting takes place until September 8th at this link. This is not the farm’s first time in the USA Today’s 10 Best Reader’s Choice Travel Award Contest but it is the first time the farm has been nominated for the pumpkin patch category. During the past 10 years, the corn maze at Denver Downs Farm in Anderson, SC, was selected seven times and voted to be among the USA Today’s 10 Best Corn Mazes Readers’ Choice travel award. Denver Downs has placed on the Top 10 list in 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 and they are among only four corn mazes nominated in the Southeast.
“Agritourism is at the heart of what our farm now provides for not only our own community in Anderson and the Upstate of South Carolina but for the entire region. We have guests that come from dozens of states to share in our family’s 150-year farming heritage and make wonderful memories with their own families,” said Catherine. “It’s a joy to provide guests with the experience of having fun on the farm but also to see where food and fiber comes from. We appreciate our visitors and our community so very much!”
Denver Downs Farm will open their 2025 fall season on September 26, which includes the best selection of pumpkins in the state and a delightful pumpkin lights walking trail in the evenings. Guests will also enjoy acres of u-pick sunflowers and zinnias, and jumbo mums. There are food and beverage options, live music, pig races, and more than 35 barnyard activities. The Fall Festival runs through November 9 Fridays-Sundays.
More information is available at www.denverdownsfarm.com.