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Circleville Pumpkin Show
Festival
One of America's oldest and largest agricultural festivals, drawing hundreds of thousands to Ohio for giant pumpkin weigh-ins and pumpkin pie.
21 OCT
Circleville, Ohio, United States
Running continuously since 1903, the Circleville Pumpkin Show is one of the oldest festivals of its kind in the United States, and one of the largest — regularly drawing several hundred thousand visitors to a town with a fraction of that population. Giant pumpkin weigh-ins are a genuine highlight, with prize-winning specimens often exceeding half a tonne.
The festival fills the town's streets with food vendors serving every conceivable pumpkin dish, alongside parades, rides and contests — a proper old-fashioned American harvest festival that has kept its character for well over a century.
Highlights
- ✓Running continuously since 1903
- ✓Draws several hundred thousand visitors
- ✓Giant pumpkin weigh-ins
Getting In
🆓No ticket required
Since
📅1903
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