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Reno area pumpkin farm celebrates official opening

  • 10/03/2019 11:50 PM
Reno area pumpkin farm celebrates official opening

Robert Perea, The Fernley Reporter

Owner Richard Schmitt shows some of this season's pumpkins.

Silver Valley Farm, A Reno pumpkin farm with several other attractions that opened last year, is celebrating its official opening fall season.

The farm, located about halfway between Spanish Springs and Pyramid Lake at 3995 Bacon Rind Road, will be open Thursday-Sunday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. through Oct. 27.

The farm has a 5-acre pumpkin patch with more than 45 varieties of pumpkins, a 5-acre corn maze, hayrides, a giant tire jungle, a mining flume for gold panning, an inflatable obstacle course, a giant slide, and bounce houses and a train on tracks.

For more information contact Richard Schmitt at [email protected] or (775) 225-7952.

Visitors pan for gold in the mining flume.
Part of the 5-acre pumpkin patch.
An aerial view of the corn maze.
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