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10/29/2026

If your family hasn't done a corn maze yet this fall, this is the week. Maize in the City in Thornton (10451 McKay Road) closes for the season on Halloween.

What I like about it is that admission is free. You pay only for what you want to do (roughly $5–$20 per activity), which makes it an easy outing for grandparents with toddlers or a big group of cousins. The main maze covers 20 acres and takes about 40 minutes. There's a mini maze for small legs, plus a petting zoo and pony rides.

It's open Thursdays through Sundays, so tonight, Friday, or Saturday morning before trick-or-treating all work. I'd check their website for hours before heading out.

Who's your family's designated maze navigator? 😄

10/28/2026

Olde Town Arvada has a story most of us have never heard.

In October 1940, a man named Jack Carleton ran the Columbine Cafe at 7512 Grandview Avenue. One night he shot his business partner. When Jefferson County Deputy Sheriff C.B. Fugate came to investigate, Carleton shot and killed him too. Another officer eventually stopped Carleton, and he was convicted of first-degree murder the next year.

The story resurfaced because Joel Chirhart, who has run ghost tours in Morrison and Golden for more than 20 years, went digging through old newspapers to build Olde Town Arvada's first ghost tour. He calls himself "sort of a skeptic," but his point stuck with me: even if you don't believe in ghosts, a tour like this teaches you the real history under your feet.

Olde Town has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1998. It's a small district between Ralston Road, Teller Street, Grandview Avenue and Yukon Street, and it's had a lot of life in it.

If you want the full walk, check coloradohauntedhistory.com for current tour dates.

Did you know this one? What other Arvada stories should I dig into? 👇

10/27/2026

Halloween lands on a Saturday this year, so the NW Metro is stretching it into a whole weekend. Here's my short list:

Friday night in Olde Town Arvada: Trick or Treat Street runs 5–7 pm, with a costume contest and trunk-or-treating out of classic and unusual cars. It's a good one for little kids who are done by bedtime.

Saturday, Westminster has two easy options. Butterfly Pavilion's Crawl-O-Ween is indoor trick-or-treating (9–5, $5–$25), which helps if the weather turns. The Crossing Church on W. 104th has a free trunk-or-treat from 2 to 5.

For the brave: Frightmare in Westminster runs through Nov 7.

Sunday: Thornton's Día de los Mu***os celebration turns 10 this year. It's free, noon to 5 at McAllister Park Center (750 W. 96th Ave), with a low-rider car show, storytelling, food trucks and a community ancestor altar where you can honor someone you've lost.

Quieter pick: the Broomfield Library has a Hmong storycloth exhibit, "Inherited Stories," up through Nov 24.

What's your family's Halloween plan: neighborhood trick-or-treating or an event? 👇

10/26/2026

Here's the number I keep thinking about this month: 80%.

In September, about 80% of homes sold across the seven-county Denver metro had a price reduction, a seller concession, or both (Colorado Association of REALTORS®). Nearly half had their asking price cut. Almost two-thirds included concessions, which can mean help with closing costs or buying down a rate.

Prices haven't crashed. The metro median was $565,000, down 1.7% from last year. What changed is how deals get done. Closed sales fell 18.7%, so the buyers still out there have more room to negotiate than they've had in years.

The catch is rates. Freddie Mac's 30-year average was 7.32% last week, compared with 6.19% a year ago. That's why concessions matter so much right now. A seller credit toward a rate buydown can change a monthly payment more than a small price cut can.

The CAR report says Broomfield prices are holding flat since January, while condos and townhomes there are down about 7%. Different neighborhoods are acting like different markets.

If you've been waiting for "the right time," let's look at your actual numbers together. Call or text 303-921-1084, or message me here.

Jessica Cress, Broker Associate, Your Castle Real Estate

10/25/2026

Looking for a Halloween day trip that isn't a haunted house? Georgetown might be the move.

It's roughly an hour from the NW Metro up I-70 — an old silver-mining town full of Victorian buildings, with the Georgetown Loop Railroad running between Georgetown and Silver Plume through mining-era country.

Two things on the railroad calendar: 🍺 Autumnfest Train — runs through today, Oct 25. Adults 21+ get b**r samples from Tommyknockers (the Idaho Springs brewery). 🎃 Trick or Treat Train — Friday and Saturday, Oct 30–31, 10 AM to 3:50 PM. Costumes encouraged, every ticketed kid gets candy at the end, plus face painting at the Devil's Gate Depot.

Prices are online at georgetownlooprr.com, and Halloween weekend trains are worth booking early.

For the spooky-history fans: Georgetown's Hamill House is known for paranormal investigations, and local guides point to the old hotels and miners' homes as some of the town's most "active" spots.

Have you ever ridden the Georgetown Loop? Kids-in-costume ride or adults-only b**r train — which are you picking? 👇

10/24/2026

One week until Halloween! Here's a fun one for the comments.

What's your non-negotiable October tradition in the NW Metro? Corn maze? Pumpkin carving on the porch? A specific trick-or-treat street everyone in your neighborhood knows about? The one house that does full-size candy bars?

I'll start: My kids and I go to a pumpkin patch every year. Our favorite is Rock Creek Farms.

Let's build the ultimate local list. 👇🎃

10/23/2026

Westminster weekend edition! 🍁

Westy Fest wrapped last Saturday, so this weekend is about slowing down and getting outside before the cold settles in.

Start at Standley Lake Regional Park. The cottonwoods are gold right now, and early morning or sunset is when the lake really shows off. Bring binoculars — bald eagles and hawks are common there in fall. There are about 14 miles of trails; the south-side trailhead off 86th Parkway is the easy starting point. (No swimming — it's drinking water for the area.)

Want a longer ride or walk? The Big Dry Creek Trail runs roughly 12 mostly flat miles from Standley Lake toward I-25. There's been stream-restoration work along it, so check for closures first.

Then see a piece of old Westminster: the Bowles House on W. 72nd Ave. Edward and Mahala Bowles started building there in 1871, finished the brick Italianate house in 1876, and raised nine kids in it. Bowles is credited with bringing the Colorado & Southern Railroad to the area. It's run as a museum by the Westminster Historical Society — check hours before you go.

Save-the-date: Westminster's Holiday Lighting Ceremony is Saturday, Dec 5, 5:30–8 PM at City Hall.

Westminster folks — what's your favorite Standley Lake spot? 👇

10/22/2026

Holiday gift season is about five minutes away, so here's a local shop I'd love more NW Metro folks to know about.

Balefire Goods on Grandview Ave in Olde Town Arvada is part jewelry shop, part gallery. Owner Jamie Hollier is a metalsmith who makes her own line and personally chooses every artist the shop carries — jewelry artists, ceramists, fine artists. They host gallery shows and workshops, and the shop has been a community gathering spot since it opened in late 2017.

What I like most: Hollier has a reputation for lifting up other small businesses. During the 2020 shutdowns, the shop donated to the Arvada Tavern down the street to help keep it going. That's the kind of neighbor you want on Main Street.

Check their hours before you go, then make an afternoon of Olde Town.

Who's your favorite local maker in the NW Metro? Let's build a gift list together in the comments. 🎁

10/21/2026

Here's a Wheat Ridge story for spooky season — not a ghost, but something almost as eerie: a house that swallowed another house.

James Baugh built a log cabin in 1859, the same year gold fever was pulling thousands of people toward the Rockies. He didn't chase gold. He farmed. By the 1870s he had more than 70 acres of wheat, oats, potatoes and garden produce, and he helped dig the irrigation ditches that made it possible — including the Baugh-Brown ditch, which still runs through Wheat Ridge Historic Park today.

Then in 1904, a Late Victorian clapboard farmhouse went up… around the cabin. The original 1859 walls are still inside it.

Wheat Ridge kept growing things long after Baugh. By the 1960s there were 32 carnation farms here, producing tens of millions of blooms a year — which is why the city still throws a Carnation Festival in Anderson Park. The farms are gone, but the ditches and the Baugh House are still here.

Have you ever been inside the Baugh House or walked Wheat Ridge Historic Park? Tell me what you'd want to see. 👇

10/20/2026

Okay neighbors, here's your Halloween-week-minus-one game plan. 🎃

Kids in costume already? Arvada has a trunk-or-treat Friday, Oct 23 at 4 PM at 3700 W 58th Pl, and the Arvada Fall Festival kicks off Saturday at 11 AM out at 15550 Highway 72 (it's the 4th year for this one).

If you haven't done a corn maze yet, Maize in the City in Thornton runs through Halloween — the big maze takes about 40 minutes, which is exactly the right amount of lost.

Grown-up night out? Dirty Side Down is playing Trailside Saloon in Thornton (104th & Colorado Blvd) Friday from 8 PM to midnight.

For something quieter: this is the final weekend to see CarolAnn Wachter's collages and oil paintings at Foothills Art Center's Astor House in Golden (closes Oct 25), and the Broomfield Library's Community Ofrenda is up through Nov 1 if you want to see it before Día de los Mu***os.

And mark your calendar for next Friday — Trick or Treat Street in Olde Town Arvada, Oct 30, 5–7 PM.

What's on your list this week? Drop it below so we all have more options. 👇

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