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2008 Pumpkin Festivals & Weighoffs

Important Note: We are constantly in the process of updating this list. If the date for the weighoff you are looking at does not state "2008", then the weighoff has not been verified......yet.

They save the best for last. Pumpkin festivals and weighoffs are the last of the great outdoor festivals for the year. The theme is pumpkins, pumpkins and more pumpkins. Fall is in the air. And for many areas, the snow will soon fall. But for now, it is great to be outdoors touring craft booths, sipping on cider, playing pumpkin games watching the many activities and most of all, observing the giant pumpkin weighoffs.

Here are links to many of the biggest, most organized events and festivities. We have provided dates, locations, and contacts wherever available.

Note: Click on the links to find more information on weigh in and registration, etc.

State, City: Site Name: Dates and Information:
Alaska
Palmer Alaska's Midnight Sun Great Pumpkin Weigh-off Date:

Where: 2075 Glenn Hwy

California
Auburn Auburn Weighoff Date: October 18, 2008

Where: Recreation Park in Auburn, CA

Elk Grove The Great Elk Grove Community Harvest and Pumpkin Festival (GPC) Date: October 4-5, 2008

Where: Elk Grove Regional Park (9950 Elk Grove-Florin Road)

Half Moon Bay World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-off Date: Monday, October 13, 2008 – 7:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

Where: I.D.E.S. Grounds, 735 Main Street, Half Moon Bay,

Morgan Hill Uesugi Farms Inc.

Date:

Where: 14485 Monterey Road

Paso Robles Paso Robles Giant Pumpkin Weigh-Off (GPC) Date: Saturday October 25, 2008, 9:00am - 3:00pm

Where: Paso Robles City Park, 11th Block of Pine Street

Salinas California State Giant Pumpkin Weigh-Off Date:

Where: Borchard Farms Home Ranch, 142 Rodgers Road

Santa Rosa Santa Rosa Harvest Fair Weighoff Date:

Where: Redwood Theater

Shoreline Central Market Weigh-off (GPC) Date:

Where: Shoreline

Ukiah Ukiah Country PumpkinFest & Giant Pumpkin Weighoff Date:

Where: Ukiah Safeway parking lot

Colorado
Colorado Springs Great Pumpkin Commonwealth, Rocky Mountain Giant Vegetable GrowersWeigh-Off! Date: September 27, 2008

Where: Jared's Nursery

Connecticut
Fairfield CT Giant Squash and Pumpkin Grower's Association Weigh-off (GPC) Date:

Where: Penfield Beach in Fairfield, Penfield 1 Pavillion

Delaware
Millsboro Pumpkin Chuckin Festival Date: October 31 - November 2, 2008

Watch 'em "Chuck" a pumpkin thousands of feet.

Idaho
Rexburg Annual Eastern Idaho Pumpkin Pickin Party !! Date: September 27, 2008, Check-In: 2:00pm

Where: 3424 West, 6800 South, Rexburg, Idaho

Illinois
Morton Great Morton Pumpkin Weigh-off (GPC) Date:

Where: corner of First and Jefferson across from National City Bank

Prairie View Didier Farms Great Pumpkin Weigh-Off Date: October 4, 2008

Where: Didier Farms, off 16678 W. Aptakisic Rd. (2 miles east of Long Grove, Illinois)

Indiana
Indianapolis Indiana State Fair Giant Pumpkin Weigh-off Date:

Where: 1202 East 38th Street

Noblesville IPGA Weigh-off (GPC) Date:

Where: Gatewood Vegetable Farm, 9555 E 206th Street

Iowa
Anamosa Mid-West Pumpkin Growers Association (GPC) Date: October 4-5, 2008

Where: Lawrence Community Center

Kansas
Assaria The Official Kansas Giant Pumpkin Weigh-off Date:

Where: Smoky Hills Visitors Center, 2660 E. Hobbs Creek Road

Kentucky
Somerset Kentucky Giant Pumpkin Weighoff (GPC) Date:

Where: TBD

Maine
Cumberland  Maine State Giant Pumpkin And Squash Contest Date: Where: Cumberland Fairgrounds
Windsor Windsor Fair Date: Sunday, August 24, 2008

Where: Windsor

Massachusetts
Topsfield Topsfield Fair (GPC) Date: September 28, 2007

Where: Route 1 north to the Fairgrounds on right.

Michigan
Berlville Berlville Lion's Club Weighoff Date:

Where: Lion's Club Building

Dundee Harnica Farm Giant Pumpkin Weigh-off (GPC) Date:

Where: 12406 Bigelow Road

Monroe Pumpkin Weighoff Date:

Where:

South Lyon South Lyons Giant Pumpkin Weigh-off Date: October 4-5, 2008

Where: Millennium Middle School, corner of Nine Mile Road and Pontiac Trail.

St. John's Great Central Lakes Pumpkin Weigh-off (GPC) Date:

Where: St. John's

Minnesota
Austin Southern Minnesota Giant Pumpkin Weigh Off Date:

Where: Jim's Super Fresh Produce, 4th Street exit off I-90 and the location is several blocks north.

Osakis 1st Annual Giant Pumpkin Contest Date:

Where: Erickson's Petting Zoo and Pumpkin Patch, Osakis, Mn.

Missouri
Republic "Pumpkin Daze" Weigh-off (GPC) Date:

Where: Main Street Republic, Missouri

Montana
Hamilton Big Sky Giant Pumpkin Growers Weigh Off Date:

Where: 5 miles north of Hamilton, on Hwy 93, hosted by the Cornfield Maze.

New Hampshire
Contoocook Hopkinton State Fair Date:

Where: Hopkinton Fair Ground

Goffstown NHGPGA State Weigh Off Date:

Where: Goffstown Common, Rt. 114, Main Street

Keene Pumpkin Festival Date:October 25, 2008

Note: The official 2007 count was 25,644 lit jack-o-lanterns. Will it be more this year!?

Milford Milford Pumpkin Festival Date: October 10-12, 2008

Where: Milford Oval

New Boston Hillsboro County Fair Date:

Where: Rt. 13, Boston, N.H.

Rindge Rinde Festival Date:

Where: Rindge Center

Rochester Rochester Fair Date:

Where: Lafayette Street

New Jersey
New Jersey South Jersy Pumpkinshow Date: October 18-19, 2008

Where: Cumberland County Fairgrounds, Carmel Road Millville NJ

New York
Clarence(Buffalo) World Pumpkin Conferderation (WPC) Date:

Where: The Great Pumpkin Farm, Rte 5, Main Street

Cooperstown Cooperstown Weigh-off (GPC) Date:

Where: In the parking lot of Doubleday Field

Elmira The Great Pumpkin Festival (GPC) Date:

Where: Bradley Farms

Oswego Great Pumpkins Weigh-off (GPC) Date:

Where: Washington Square Park

Long Island Long Island Weigh Off (GPC) Date:

Where: Hicks Nurseries

Poughkeepsie Poughkeepsie Weighoff

Date:

Where: Secor Farms, 63 Robinson Lane, Wappingers Falls

Wheatfield Wheatfield Weigh-off Date:

Where: Wheatfield, NY

North Carolina
Yadkin Vally Annual Pumpkin Festival and Weighoff Date: September 27, 2008

Where: Main Street, Elkin

Ohio
Barnesville Barnesville Pumpkin Festival

Date:  September 25-28, 2008

Where: 300 East Church Street

Canfield Ohio Valley Giant Pumpkin Growers (GPC) Date: October 4, 2008

Where: Parks Garden Center

Chillicothe SOGPG Weigh-off (GPC) Date:  October 11, 2008

Where: 867 North Bridge Street Chillicothe

Circleville Circleville Pumpkin Show Date: October 15-18, 2008

Where: At the intersection of Court St. & Main St.......Right smack in the middle of the town.

Columbus Oakland Nursery Pumpkin Weigh-off Date: October 10-13, 2008

Where: 1156 Oakland Park Ave.

Okalhoma
Newcastle The Great Pumpkin Fest Date: October 25, 2008, 9:00 a.m.

Where: Newcastle, OK

Oregon
Canby Canby Giant Pumpkin Festival  (Independant) Date: October 4, 2008

Where: New Location: Fir Point Farm, just 1 mile up the road from Hoffmans!

Lincoln City Terminator Weighoff Date: October 18, 2008

Where: Chinook Winds Casino, Lincoln City, Oregon

Portland Pacific Northwest Pumpkin Growers Date:

Where: 16511 NW Gillhan Road, Sauvies Island

Pennsylvania
Altoona PGPA Weigh-off (GPC) Date:

Where: Sam's Club Parking Lot

Rhode Island
Warren Frerichs Farm Weigh-off Date: October 10

Where: Frerich's Farm, Connecticut Ave.

South Dakota
Sioux Falls Great South Dakota Pumpkin Weighoff(GPC) Date:

Where: Located about 5 miles south of Sioux Falls on Hwy 115

Tennessee
Allardt Great Pumpkin Festival & Weighoff Date: October 4-5, 2008

Where: Allardt, TN

Texas
Floydada Floydada Punkin Day Date: Second Saturday of October

Where:  Downtown Floydada, Tx.

Utah
West Jordan Utah Giant Pumpkin Growers, UGPG(Independant) Date:

Where: Gardner Village is located at 1100 W. 7800 S.,West Jordan

Washington
Coupeville Whidbey Island Weighoff Date:

Where: Coupeville, Wa at the Farmers Market. Unofficial weigh-off only for pumpkins grown on Whidbey Island. Info from Lee at 360-675-5687

Snohomish Snohomish Giant Pumpkin Weigh-off Date: September 28, 2008, check-in at 10:00a.m.

Where: 15505 Westminster Way N.,

Puyallup Western Washington Fair Annual Giant Pumpkin Weigh-off Date:  

Where: Growers should be at Service gate by 4:45, on the S.W. side of the Fairgrounds off 15th Ave. S.W. and 5th St. S.W.

Shoreline Central Market 2nd Annual Giant Pumpkn Weigh-off (GPC)

Date:

Where: 15505 Westminster Way N.,

East Orting Scholz Pumpkin Palace Giant Pumpkin Weighoff Date:

Where: 12920 State Route 162 E.

Wisconsin
Greenleaf GPGA Greenleaf Pumpkin Growers Association Date:

Where:

Stoughton Eugster's Farm Market Giant Pumpkin Weigh-off Date:

Where: 3865 Hwy# 138

Nekoosa Nekoosa Giant Pumpkin Festival (GPC) Date: October 4-5, 2008

Where: Riverside Park, Highway 73 on the east side.

Canada
Barrie, Ontario Cornerstone Landscaping Early Anything Giant Pumpkin Weigh-off

Date:

Where: Exit #85, Hwy# 400 at 10th line Innisfil

Gentilly, Quebec Potirothon

(Independant)

Date:

Where: Salle Yvon Guimond

Nanaimo, B.C. Nanaimo Pumpkin Festival Date: October 18-19, 2008

Where: Shady Mile Market, 3452 Jinglepot Rd

Pembroke, Ontario Hugli's Blueberry Ranch Weigh-off Date:

Where: 2139 Greenwood Rd., Pembroke, Ont.

Port Elgin, Ontario PumpkinFest (GPC) Date:  October 64-5, 2008

Where: Saugeen Shores, Port Elgin

Roland, Manitoba Roland Pumpkin Fair (GPC) Date:  

Where: Roland

Vancouver Island Pumpkinfest Date:

Where: Ladysmith

Windsor, NS Great Atlantic Weigh-off (GPC) Date:

Where: Windsor

Wellington, Ontario Prince Edward County Pumpkin Growers Date: October 18, 2008

Where:

Europe
Virginia, Ireland Granard Pumpkin Growers Association (GPC) Date:

Where: Virginia, County Cavan, Ireland

Ware, Herts, United Kingdom Monster Pumpkin Challenge Date:

Where: Van Hage Garden Centre, Great Amwell, Ware, Herts SG12 9RP

Ludwigsburg, Germany German Championship Weigh off Date:

Where: Ludwigsburg, Germany

Ludwigsburg, Germany European Championship Weigh off Date:

Where: Ludwigsburg, Germany


Even More Informaton: and Sites:

Question: What takes 11 Certified Public Accountants an entire day to do?

Answer: Count a Guinness world record 30,128 pumpkins! More on this record

Here is and interesting Pumpkin Festival held in Keene, New Hampshire. Having lost the world record to Boston in 2007, they are likely fired up to regain the title. Their prior record was 28,952 lit pumpkins.

World Championship Punkin' Chunkin' Here is a real novel one! The Guinness World Book of Records has officially recorded a pumpkin being tossed 4491 feet. That's three quarters of a mile.

World Pumpkin Confederation(WPC) is one of the original and founding groups. They helped make pumpkin weighoff and festivals what they are today.

Greater Pumpkin Commonwealth(GPC) Check out this page as there are over twenty sites listed. Many with information on the weighoff and how to get there.


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