State, City:Site Name:Dates and Information:CaliforniaAuburnAuburn WeighoffDate: October 21, 2006

Where: Recreation Park in Auburn, CA

Elk GroveThe Great Elk Grove Community Harvest and Pumpkin Festival (GPC)Date: October 7-8, 2006

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

Half Moon BayWorld Championship Pumpkin Weigh-offDate: Monday, October 9, 2006 – 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m

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

SalinasCalifornia State Giant Pumpkin Weigh-OffDate: Oct. 21, 2006 Weighoff starts at 9:00 a.m

Where: Borchard Farms Home Ranch, 142 Rodgers Road

Santa RosaSonoma County Harvest FairDate:

Where: Redwood Theater

ShorelineCentral Market Weigh-off (GPC)Date:

Where: Shoreline

UkiahUkiah Country PumpkinFest & Giant Pumpkin WeighoffDate:

Where: Ukiah Safeway parking lot

ColoradoColorado SpringsOld Colorado City Associates Weigh-off (GPC)Date:

Where: Colorado Springs

ConnecticutFairfieldCT Giant Squash and Pumpkin Grower's Association Weigh-off (GPC)Date: Noon, Sunday, October 1, 2006 –

Where: Penfield Beach in Fairfield, Penfield 1 Pavillion

DelawareMillsboroPumpkin Chuckin FestivalDate: November 3-5, 2006

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

IdahoRexburgAnnual Eastern Idaho Pumpkin Pickin Party !!Date: September 30th, 2006, Check-in 2 pm, Weigh-off 3 pm

Where: 3424 West, 6800 South, Rexburg, Idaho

IllinoisMortonGreat Morton Pumpkin Weigh-off (GPC)Date:

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

Prairie ViewDidier Farms Great Pumpkin Weigh offDate: October 7, 2006, 12:00 noon

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

IndianaIndianapolisIndiana State Fair Giant Pumpkin Weigh-offDate:

Where: 1202 East 38th Street

NoblesvilleIPGA Weigh-off (GPC)Date: October 7, 2006

Where: Gatewood Vegetable Farm, 9555 E 206th Street

IowaAnamosaMid-West Pumpkin Growers Association (GPC)Date:

Where: Lawrence Community Center

MaineWindsor FairDate: August 27, 2006; 9AM

Where: Windsor

MassachusettsTopsfieldTopsfield Fair (GPC)Date: September 30, 2006

Where: Route 1 north to the Fairgrounds on right.

MichiganBerlvilleBerlville Lion's Club WeighoffDate:

Where: Lion's Club Building

DundeeHarnica Farm Giant Pumpkin Weigh-off (GPC)Date:

Where: Dundee

MonroePumpkin WeighoffDate:

Where:

South LyonSouth Lyons Giant Pumpkin Weigh-offDate: September 30, 2006

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

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

Where: St. John's

MinnestoaAustinSouthern Minnesota Giant Pumpkin Weigh OffDate: Saturday,

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

MissouriRepublic"Pumpkin Daze" Weigh-off (GPC)Date:

Where: Republic

MontanaHamiltonBig Sky Giant Pumpkin Growers Weigh OffDate: September 16, 2006

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

New HampshireContoocookHopkinton State FairDate: August 31, 2006, Wednesday 12pm – 6pm

Where: Hopkinton Fair Ground

GoffstownNHGPGA State Weigh OffDate: October 14, 2006 - 9am -11am

Where: Goffstown Common, Rt. 114, Main Street

KeenePumpkin FestivalDate: October 21, 2006 10am to 10pm

Note: The official 2004 count was 27,584 lit jack-o-lanterns. Will it be more this year!?

MilfordMilford Pumpkin FestivalDate: October 7, 2006 - 10am -12pm

Where: Milford Oval

New BostonHillsboro County FairDate: September 8, 2006, Friday 6pm

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

RindgeRinde FestivalDate: October 7, 2006 – 9am – 12 noon

Where: Rindge Center

RochesterRochester FairDate: September 16, 2006 10am

Where: Lafayette Street

New JerseySouth Jersy PumpkinshowDate: October 13, 2006 at 6:00pm (free to enter)

Where: Cumberland County Fairgrounds, Carmel Road Millville NJ

New YorkAmagansettLong Island Weigh-off (GPC)Date:

Where: The Bayberry Nursey, 50 Montauk Highway , Amagansett

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

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

CooperstownCooperstown Weigh-offDate: Weighoff - September 30, 2006 Pumpkin Regatta  -October 1, 2006

Where: In the parking lot of Doubleday Field

ElmiraThe Great Pumpkin FestivalDate: October 8, 2006

Where: 1543 Maple Ave. in Elmira

OswegoGreat Pumpkins Weigh-offDate: September 30, October 1

Where: Washington Square Park

PoughkeepsiePoughkeepsie 2006 Weighoff

Date: October 14, 2006

Where: Secor Farms, 63 Robinson Lane, Wappingers Falls

PumpkinvillePumpkinville Weigh-OffDate: October 14, 2006

Where: 4844 Sugartown Road, Great Valley, NY

WheatfieldWheatfield Weigh-offDate: October 15, 2006

Where: Wheatfield, NY

North CarolinaElkinYadkin Valley Pumpkin Festival

Note: We are not sure if there is a weigh-off

Date: October 21, 2006

Where: Elkin Municipal Park Hwy 268 West.

OhioBarnesvilleBarnesville Pumpkin Festival

Note: We are not sure if there is a weigh-off

Date:  

Where: 300 East Church Street

BloomsvilleSOGPG Weigh-off (GPC)Date:  October 7, 2006

Where: Bloomsville

CanfieldOhio Valley Giant Pumpkin Growers (GPC)Date:

Where: Parks Garden Center

CirclevilleCircleville Pumpkin ShowDate: October 18, 2006 - 100th Anniversary!

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

ColumbusOakland Nursery Pumpk

Well, I tried to copy/paste, but it's hard to follow... here is a link that you can go to!!

http://pumpkinnook.com/giants/festival.htm

there's also a pumpkin festival in Romulus, MI- it's this weekend, the 15, 16, and 17.

Awesome!!  We don't have pumpkin festivals in Dallas. LOL  I usually go and buy by pumpkins downtown at the Farmers Market.   So for those of you who have them near by, have a little bit of extra fun for me!