Pumpkins, apples and fall fun abounded in the south metro area this month with nearby communities hosting festivals to celebrate the season.

Ali Loomis, of Centennial, brought her two sons to pick pumpkins at the Schweiger Ranch Fall Festival in Lone Tree, which came complete with a petting zoo, live music, food trucks, hay-wagon rides and a pumpkin patch.

We came last year,” Loomis said. “Just love it.”

The City of Lone Tree and the Schweiger Ranch Foundation hosted the Oct. 6 event.

In Littleton, the popular Littleton Museum held its annual Harvest Festival, which drew children and families to the farms at 6028 S. Gallup St. Besides pumpkin-picking, activities included storytelling, horse-drawn wagon rides and snacks.

But even after the harvest, there’s still fun to be found at the living-history farms that replicate life in the 1860s and 1890s, longtime volunteer Barbra Miller said. “We’re open from 8 until 5 on business days and 1 to 5 on Sundays,” she said, “and the best part about it is, it’s free — it’s always free.”