The post People Will Race Giant Hollowed-Out Pumpkins Across an Oregon Lake This Sunday, and It’s Free to Watch first appeared on Crafting Your Home.
Oregon has plenty of fall festivals, but only one asks grown adults to kneel inside a gutted thousand-pound squash and paddle for glory while thousands watch from the shore. The West Coast Giant Pumpkin Regatta returns Sunday, October 18, and Tualatin lists admission as free for the 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. festival at Lake of the Commons, 8325 SW Nyberg St.
Races run at noon and 2 p.m. Bring a towel, because the water is only the first thing that will end up on the paddlers.
A suburb outdraws its own population for squash
Portland Monthly reported that the regatta draws as many as 25,000 attendees across five rounds of races, a head count nearly equal to Tualatin itself. The Pacific Giant Vegetable Growers started it in 2004 by hollowing a few giants and paddling them across an artificial pool…