{"id":24609,"date":"2017-10-02T16:19:29","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T23:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24609"},"modified":"2017-10-02T16:19:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T23:19:29","slug":"california-pumpkins-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-pumpkins-events\/","title":{"rendered":"California Pumpkin Events &#8212; Festivals, Plunges and Weigh Offs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/pumpy.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pictured left, clockwise: Pumpkin Weigh Off in Half Moon Bay, pumpkin carver, pumpkin plunge,\u00a0\u00a0Lego brick pumpkin at Legoland California, pumpkin pie eating contest and Pumpkin Races in Manhattan Beach<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pumpkin season &#8212; we warned you months ago that if you planned to enter your specimen into a giant pumpkin weigh-off, you&#8217;d need to start back then. In upcoming weeks pumpkin growers around the globe hope to break records for biggest, heaviest pumpkin on the planet. One such spot where you&#8217;ll see the &#8220;big ones&#8221; is Half Moon Bay&#8217;s Giant Pumpkin Weigh Off, part of the city&#8217;s annual pumpkin festival. California doesn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/farms\/pumpkin-statistics.html\">grow the most pumpkins<\/a> of any state (we&#8217;re #2,) but we&#8217;ve had some record-breakers through the years and countless pumpkin events to celebrate our love of the fall harvest crop associated with Halloween and holiday pumpkin pies.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-pumpkin-festivals.html\">California Pumpkin Festivals<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/calabasas-pumpkin-festival.html\"> Calabasas Pumpkin Festival <\/a>\u00a0October 21-22, 2017 (Calabasas means pumpkin)<\/li>\n<li>Manteca\u00a0Pumpkin Fair October 7-8<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/halloween\/elk-grove.html\">Elk Grove Giant Pumpkin Festival<\/a> Oct.7-8<\/li>\n<li>Pomona\u00a0Pumpkin Festival Oct.7-8<\/li>\n<li>Pasadena\u00a0Pumpkin Festival Oct.14-15<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/manhattan-beach-pumpkin-races.html\">Manhattan Beach Pumpkin Races<\/a> Oct.29<\/li>\n<li>Kenwood Giant Pumpkin Festival Oct.14-15<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/half-moon-bay-pumpkin-festival.html\"> Half Moon Bay Art and Pumpkin Festival<\/a> Oct.14-15<\/li>\n<li>Auburn Community Festival Giant Pumpkin Contest Oct. 21<\/li>\n<li>Pismo Beach\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/halloween\/pismo-beach-halloween.html\">Pumpkins on the Park<\/a>\u00a0Oct.28<\/li>\n<li>Oakland\u00a0Pumpkin Festival Oct.28<\/li>\n<li>Hermosa Beach\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/halloween\/hermosa-beach-halloween.html\">Pumpkins in the Park<\/a><b> <\/b> Oct.14<\/li>\n<li>Healdsburg\u00a0Pumpkin Festival Oct.28<\/li>\n<li>Ukiah\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/halloween\/ukiah-halloween.html\">Giant Pumpkin Fest<\/a><b> <\/b>Oct.20-22<\/li>\n<li>Fullerton\u00a0Pumpkin Launch Nov.4<\/li>\n<li>Milpitas\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/halloween\/milpitas-halloween.html\">Pumpkins in the Park<\/a> Oct.28<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured left, clockwise: Pumpkin Weigh Off in Half Moon Bay, pumpkin carver, pumpkin plunge,\u00a0\u00a0Lego brick pumpkin at Legoland California, pumpkin pie eating contest and Pumpkin Races in Manhattan Beach It&#8217;s pumpkin season &#8212; we warned you months ago that if you planned to enter your specimen into a giant pumpkin weigh-off, you&#8217;d need to start [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24609"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}