Everyone Else Drives To Venetucci Farm. Security-Widefield Residents Are Already Home.

How many of the people loading kids into minivans on Highway 85 every October know they've stopped driving before they ever left their own zip code?

Venetucci Farm sits at 5210 South U.S. Highway 85/87, and its mailing zip is 80911. That's not a Colorado Springs zip code that happens to be nearby. It's one of the three zips that make up Security-Widefield itself, alongside 80913 and 80925. Every fall, a good share of the metro treats this farm as a destination worth a twenty-minute drive from downtown or the north side. If you live in Security-Widefield, you're not making that drive. The farm everyone else circles on their calendar is already inside yours.

That distinction matters more this year than it used to, because the farm has changed how it runs its season. It used to be one long stretch of weekends that all looked roughly the same. In 2026, it isn't. The calendar has split into five distinct weekends, each with its own personality, which means "just go sometime in October" is no longer good advice, even for the people who live five minutes away.

A Farm Older Than Any Subdivision Around It

Venetucci Farm predates every housing development within sight of it. The land has been worked since the late 1800s, and it's carried the Venetucci name since 1936, when the 200-acre spread bordered by Fountain Creek to the west became known for the family that ran it. Nick and Bambi Venetucci built a decades-long reputation not for selling pumpkins but for giving them away, a tradition that's now stretched past 50 years.

That giveaway program hasn't quietly faded into a marketing tagline. It still runs every fall through a partnership with the Catamount Institute, which buses kindergarten classrooms out to the farm to learn about agriculture and pick a pumpkin of their own. The one rule Mr. Venetucci insisted on for those field trips has stuck around exactly as he set it: you carry your own pumpkin back to the bus.

That's the kind of detail that doesn't show up on a tourism page written for out-of-towners. It shows up because a farm has been doing the same thing, the same way, for two generations, in a neighborhood that grew up around it rather than the other way around.

The Calendar Got More Specific This Year

What has changed is the structure of the public season. Gather Mountain Blooms, which now manages the farm's fall programming, runs the 2026 Pumpkin Fest from October 2 through October 31, but it no longer treats every weekend as interchangeable. Each one has a theme, and the theme changes what the visit actually feels like.

Hours hold steady across every weekend: Fridays run 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., while Saturdays and Sundays stretch to 4 p.m. That two-hour gap on Fridays is easy to miss if you're used to treating the whole month as one continuous open house, and it's the kind of detail that only matters once you've already decided which weekend fits your plans.

If you're bringing young kids for a straightforward pumpkin-picking afternoon, the first weekend of October or the finale on the 30th and 31st reads very differently than the middle two weekends, which are built around beer and cider tastings for the adults doing the driving. Neither version is wrong. They're just no longer the same event wearing different dates.

What Didn't Change

For all the new structure layered on top, the economics of an actual visit stayed put. General admission runs $8 per person, with kids three and under free, and that ticket still covers the same baseline it always has: the farm grounds and picnic tables, the farm store and concession stand serving Pikes Peak Lemonade and Josh & John's Ice Cream, the spooky trail and hayride, the Makers Market inside the farm's red barn, and a rotating run of food trucks and coffee vendors.

Pumpkins themselves are still priced flat, at $10 each regardless of size, a detail that hasn't budged even as the weekends around it got more specialized. Cut flowers run $15 for 10 stems for anyone who wants to walk out with more than a pumpkin. Wagons for hauling your haul back to the car are limited, so the standing advice to bring your own stroller or wagon still holds exactly as it has in past seasons.

That's the actual shift worth understanding if you already live here. The farm didn't get more expensive or more complicated to visit. It got more curated. Five different versions of the same 200 acres now exist depending on which weekend you show up, and the constants underneath, the price of a pumpkin, the hours, the barn, the giveaway program that still sends kids home carrying their own pumpkin, are exactly what they've always been.

Knowing that distinction is the difference between treating Venetucci Farm as a seasonal errand and treating it as what it actually is for Security-Widefield: a working farm inside your own zip code that happens to run five different Saturdays this year instead of one.

If you're weighing which weekend fits your family's plans, our earlier look at weekend routines around Security-Widefield covers the rest of how locals spend a Saturday between Widefield Community Park and the trails nearby. And if a season of pumpkin patches and neighborhood routines ever turns into a bigger question about where you want to put down roots here, Pulse Real Estate Group knows this stretch of Fontaine Boulevard as well as anyone. Get a Free Home Valuation whenever that question is worth asking, or just browse the Security-Widefield neighborhood page to see what else is close to home.