{"id":26321,"date":"2019-10-17T15:02:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T22:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=26321"},"modified":"2019-10-17T15:02:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T22:02:48","slug":"half-moon-bay-pumpkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/half-moon-bay-pumpkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Fest Shall Have Its Day (Weekend)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/hmbpumfes.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are some mighty big pumpkin festivals in California, but none takes the cake (pumpkin pie) quite like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/half-moon-bay-pumpkin-festival.html\">Half Moon Bay Art &amp; Pumpkin Festival<\/a> with a parade, pumpkin weigh-off, contests, and tons of pumpkin fun. Be sure to say hi to Gourdy, the pumpkin festival mascot, and watch Farmer Mike, the Picasso of pumpkin carvers, transform giant pumpkins into art.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-pumpkin-festivals.html\">California Pumpkin Festivals<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>CALABASAS: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/calabasas-pumpkin-festival.html\">Calabasas Pumpkin Festival<\/a> Oct.19-20, 2019. Calabasas means &#8220;pumpkin&#8221; so this city really understands the pumpkin phenomenon. There&#8217;s pumpkin pie eating and seed spitting contests, as well as a costume parade.<\/p>\n<p>ELK GROVE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/halloween\/elk-grove.html\">Giant Pumpkin Festival<\/a>\u00a0will be back again next year!<\/p>\n<p>FULLERTON: OC Discovery Cube Pumpkin Launch at Cal State Fullerton Nov.2<\/p>\n<p>GLENDORA: City Pumpkin Festival is an annual event in early October.<\/p>\n<p>HALF MOON BAY: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/half-moon-bay-pumpkin-festival.html\">Art &amp; Pumpkin Festival<\/a>\u00a0Oct.18-20<\/p>\n<p>HEALDSBURG: Healdsburg Farmers&#8217; Market <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/halloween\/healdsburg-halloween.html\">Pumpkin Festival<\/a> Oct.26<\/p>\n<p>MANHATTAN BEACH: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/manhattan-beach-pumpkin-races.html\">Pumpkin Race<\/a> Oct.27. Ready, set, go!<\/p>\n<p>MANTECA: Pumpkin Fair will be back in early October 2020.<\/p>\n<p>MILPITAS: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/halloween\/milpitas-halloween.html\">Pumpkins in the Park<\/a> Oct.26<\/p>\n<p>OAKLAND: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/halloween\/oakland-halloween.html\">Mountain View Cemetery Pumpkin Festival<\/a> Oct.26<\/p>\n<p>PASADENA: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/halloween\/pasadena-halloween.html\">Kidspace Pumpkin Festival<\/a> Oct.19-20<\/p>\n<p>PASO ROBLES: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/halloween\/paso-robles.html\">Golden Honey &amp; Pumpkin Festival<\/a> Oct.26<\/p>\n<p>PISMO BEACH: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/halloween\/pismo-beach-halloween.html\">Pumpkins in the Park<\/a> Oct.26<\/p>\n<p>UKIAH: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/halloween\/ukiah-halloween.html\">The Great Pumpkin Derby &amp; Festival<\/a> Oct.18-20 includes a parade, haunted house and Scarecrow City.<\/p>\n<p>WINDSOR: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/halloween\/windsor-pumpkin-festival.html\">Farmers Market Pumpkin Jamboree<\/a> Oct.27<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are some mighty big pumpkin festivals in California, but none takes the cake (pumpkin pie) quite like Half Moon Bay Art &amp; Pumpkin Festival with a parade, pumpkin weigh-off, contests, and tons of pumpkin fun. Be sure to say hi to Gourdy, the pumpkin festival mascot, and watch Farmer Mike, the Picasso of pumpkin [&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\/26321"}],"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=26321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26322,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26321\/revisions\/26322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}