This Temple, Texas, pumpkin patch offers various games and activities for those of all ages, including hay rides, duck races, a kiddie train, a corn maze, a hay maze, bounce houses, and more.

Family-owned Nomad Ranch, about an hour from downtown, has a small herd of cattle and the ultimate goal of selling grass-fed beef. They're hosting their second Pumpkin Patch—where you can choose and buy pumpkins, take a hayride, and feed a cow a banana—through November 6.

There's a pumpkin patch and fun activities for all ages—including a pumpkin sling, corn fishing, hay rides, pumpkin painting, and a petting zoo—at this farm about an hour from Austin.

Evergreen Farms, just up the road in Elgin, is known for selling Christmas trees, but it also holds Pumpkin Hunts every weekend of October. It's like an Easter Egg hunt, except you're riding on a wagon and looking for pumpkins hidden under growing Christmas trees. The business sells larger pumpkins to take home and decorate as well.

Crowe's Nest Farm is an educational nonprofit and 100-acre working farm with more than 250 domestic farm animals and a wide array of Texas wildlife, gardens, and educational exhibits. During Fall Family Fun Days, local vendors sell fresh organic produce, eggs, honey, jam, bread, and a variety of handmade crafts. There are also raptor shows, snake lessons (?!), a corn and potato cannon booth, and more.

The Tarrytown United Methodist Church's Pumpkin Patch is more than 30 years old and still going strong. It's a youth ministry fundraiser as well as a place for the taking of many, many photos. The church claims fall doesn't officially start until its lawn is filled with pumpkins, and it might be right.

Touted as the most scenic in Texas, Barton Hill Farm's Great Pumpkin Patch involves making it through a corn maze, then getting a big Jack O’Lantern or a pie pumpkin for carving, painting, decorating, or all of that stuff. There's live music and food and drinks, too.

You can buy pumpkins at Cross Plants's Pumpkin Patch, of course, but kids can also enjoy visiting animals, painting pumpkins, and having fun in their play area.

A working dairy farm in La Grange, about an hour southeast of Austin, the Jersey Barnyard has had a pumpkin patch for the past 18 years. Tours of the farm are also available.