2011 Harvest Festivals &
Halloween Events
** Due to possible last minute changes to times & locations to the events below, we encourage you to click on the link of the event holder to get the most updated information.

Central Pumpkin Co Events - Terrebonne
Corn Maize opens October 1, 2011

Harvest market, corn maize, rides, petting zoo and pumkin patch. Pumpkin patch is open October 1st through October 31st.

This year they have a Star Wars Maize - fun for the whole family!

LOCATION:
Central Oregon Pumpkin Co.
1250 NE Wilcox Ave.
Terrebonne, Oregon

INFORMATION:
541-504-1414

Sisters Harvest Faire - Sisters
Oct 8-9, 2011
10 am - 4 pm

Over 200 juried vendors selling quality handcrafted items. Pottery, metal art, photography, painting, jewelry, clothing, furniture, home décor and much more. Live entertainment,food, Kid's Zone and free admission.

LOCATION:
Downtown Sisters

INFORMATION:
541-549-0251

Pumpkin Funland - Hood River
October 1 - mid November, 2011

Visit a wonderful, unique world created with pumpkins, gourds, squash and from items conjured up by our staff.

An elaborate cornstalk maze features a new theme every year. This year's theme will be The Princess & the Pear. U-pick pumpkins, fall deco, and, of course, fall vegetables and fruits. Pumpkin bowling and our covered picnic area. Sunset Magazine noted Pumpkin Funland as a "must see" for fall.

LOCTION:
Rasmussen Farms
3020 Thomsen Road
Hood River, Oregon

lINFORMATION:
(541) 386-4622

Annual Hood River Valley Harvest Fest
October 14-16, 2011
Hood River - The Gorge

Each fall, Hood River Valley hosts an old-fashioned harvest festival with local produce and food products, arts and crafts, wine- and beer-tastings: all the best this County has to offer. There will also be a kid zone, art vendors, a pie eating contest, horse drawn carriage rides and live music.

LOCATION:
Hood River Event Site (overlooking the Columbia River)
110 Portway Avenue

INFORMATION:
1-800-366-3530

Corn Maize
September 3rd - October 31st, 2011
Sauvie Island - Portland Metro

Great Fun! With hay rides, pumpkin patch and more. See their new 'Portland Timbers Maize'.

There is also a separate Haunted MAiZE open on weekend nights. See website for schedule.

LOCATION:
The Pumpkin Patch - Sauvie Island
16525 NW Gillihan Rd.
(Only 15 minutes from downtown Portland!)

INFORMATION:
(503) 621-7110

Fazio Farms "Corn Maze in The City"
Open September 23-October 31, 2011

"Corn Maze in The City" is 6.5 acres (over 283,000 square feet!) of confusing corn maze. The corn is double planted so you CANNOT see through the 20' (twenty feet) thick corn maze walls! It's freaky. We look forward to your confusion and you WILL get lost! Please Visit our website for additional Corn Maze details and pictures.... Call 503-289-2020 for school packages.

We offer an amazing corn maze, pony rides, food booths, 22' Bouncy Slide, tractor hay rides, pumpkin and gourd painting, mechanical swing, and a ferris wheel. Visit "HayLand" our covered kids facility for a parent's break, hay bale maze, and hay bale pyramid.

LOCATION:
Fazio Farms Corn Maze
8433 NE 13th Avenue
Portland, OR 97211

INFORMATION:
(503) 289-2020

Halloweentown - St. Helens
October weekends
Fridays at 3pm until Sunday at 3pm

St. Helens becomes Halloweentown every weekend in October! Visitors will feel like they too have traveled to this magical place as they walk down decorated streets, see townspeople in costume and participate in themed events. Tour the Houlton District and Olde Towne to see all the scarecrows on display and contribute to the festive atmosphere by visiting in costume!

LOCATION:
St. Helens, OR

Halloween Fantasy Trail - Oregon City
Open: Oct 1 - 30, 2011
(closed Oct 2)

Take a Halloween walk through a lighted, wooded, "Fantasy Trail", decorated with spooky sights and sounds. Walk through a 40 foot castle with Halloween scenes. Also, walk through a tunnel, maze, crooked house and suspension bridge.

LOCTION:
19754 South Ridge Road
Oregon City, Oregon

lINFORMATION:
(503) 631-2047

West Coast Giant Pumpkin Regatta - Tualatin
Saturday, October 22, 2011

In addition to the regatta races, entertainment includes balloon artists, clown show, a costume contest, live music, a pumpkin pie eating contest, pumpkin decorating, pumpkin golf, bouncy houses, model boats, canoe rentals, face painting, and more!

LOCATION:
Tualatin Commons
8325 SW Nyberg Street
Tualatin, OR

Annual Squishing of the Squash & 'Howloween' at the Zoo
Portland

Environmental Enrichment - Annual Squishing of the Squash
Friday, October 28, 2011
10:30 am
In preparation for our “Howloween” event, the Portland Zoo elephant herd will receive a HUGE pumpkin to pulverize. Great photo opportunity — bring your camera!

HOWLOWEEN AT THE ZOO
October 29-30, 2011
Time: 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Kids love trick-or-treating, and the Oregon Zoo provides a fun and safe setting for this Halloween tradition. Trick-or-treaters in their various costumes will participate in an exciting scavenger hunt leading them to activity stations around the zoo. Goodie bags filled with candy and prizes will be given out for completed hunts at the zoo's exit. Free with zoo admission.

LOCATION:
Oregon Zoo
4001 SW Canyon Rd
Portland, Oregon

INFORMATION:
503-226-1561

Canyonville Pumpkin & Music Celebration - Canyonville
October 8, 2011

This festival feature an Antique and Classic Car Show, Games & Activities for Adults & Kids plus Lighting and display of hundreds of Jack O Lanterns. Other activities include Live Animal Shows with Wildlife Safari, Free Hay Rides and live music. At dusk, the jack-o-lanterns are lit to provide a silly/spooky ambience to wrap up the day.

LOCATION:
Pioneer Park, Downtown Canyonville
Canyonville, Oregon

lINFORMATION:
(541) 825-3855

Meet The Pioneers Cemetery Tours - Jacksonville
Friday, October 14 and Saturday, October 15, 2011
4 pm - 7:30 pm

Join us for one of these special evening walking tours where you will be greeted by the Spirits of Jacksonville's early pioneers and settlers. Meet these early "movers and shakers" up close and personal, and hear their interesting and fascinating stories of life in and around Jacksonville during the mid to late 1800's.

Dress for fall weather and be sure to wear comfortable walking shoes. May not be appropriate for small children and please, no pets. Tours will depart every 15 minutes and take approximately one hour to complete.

LOCATION:
Jacksonville's Historic Cemetery
North Oregon and D Streets
Jacksonville, Oregon

INFORMATION:
541 826-9939

Trick or Treating in Grants Pass - Grants Pass
October 31

On Halloween of each year the merchants of downtown Grants Pass usually stay open a little bit longer than usual as they entertain trick-or-treaters, the youth of Josephine County Besides providing an especially safe trick-or-treating environment for the children of Grants Pass, the kids from surrounding rural areas are especially enthusiastic—glad to have anywhere to trick or treat at all

Depoe Bay Halloween Festivities - Depoe Bay
October 30, 2011

Fun games and food for children 0 – 12. Sponsored by the teens.

LOCTION:
Depoe Bay Community Center
Depoe Bay, OR

lINFORMATION:
541-765-2889

French Prairie Gardens Harvest Festival - St. Paul
September 24-October 30, 2011

During this 5 week event, people travel from all over to enjoy a day out in the country and have the opportunity to enjoy one of the main attractions - Pigtucky Derby!

Other activities include: Pumpkin Patch, Hayrides, Mazes, Farm Animal Display, Obstacle Course, Toddler Hay Maze and Two 20 Foot Hay Slides.

LOCTION:
French Prairie Gardens & Family Farm
17673 French Prairie Rd
St Paul, OR

lINFORMATION:
503-633-8445

Pumpkin & Harvest Festival - Aurora
Every weekend Sept 24-Oct 30

Pony rides, hayrides & horse-drawn buggies, kiddie hay maze & the pitch-black Hay Maze Slipping, games and rides. Activity Tickets available for purchase. Shop for your pumpkins, corn stalks and hay bales! Free admission and parking.

LOCTION:
Fir Point Farms
14601 Arndt Road
Aurora, Oregon

lINFORMATION:
(503) 678-2455

Colonial Harvest Days - Pleasant Hill
October 1-31, 2011 (weekends only are open to the pubic)

Celebrate the harvest season with a unique fall experience at the annual Colonial Harvest Days. Live music, face painting, hayrides and a pie eating contest are some of the fun you find here.

LOCTION:
Northern Lights Christmas Tree Farm
36777 Wheeler Road
Pleasant Hill

lINFORMATION:
(503) 746-5161

Wooden Shoe Pumpkin Fest - Woodburn
October 1 through 30, 2011
10am to 6pm

The 2nd annual fall Pumpkin Fest will celebrate the harvest season with the following activities - Ducky races, Horse swings, Paintball gallery, Archery, Corn Maze, Tube Slide, Hay Pile & Slides, Activity Tables, Hay Wagon Rides, Cow Train rides, Giant Spider Web and Much More!

For braver souls, Halloween Hauntings will take place in the corn maze the last 3 Friday and Saturdays of October - 7-10PM!

LOCATION:
Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm
33814 S. Meridian Rd
Woodburn

lINFORMATION:
503-634-2243

Annual Harvest Festival & Pumpkin Merriment - Salem
October 15, 2011

Don’t miss this face-paintin’, cider-pressin’, pumpkin-lightin’, pony-pettin’, foot-stompin’ good time! Festival entertainment includes a bilingual performance by singer/songwriter Clare Norelle, a costume fashion show for pets from Willamette Humane Society and a music performance by LuAnn Ritts.

$3 for members (including ASTC & OMSI)/$10 for nonmembers. Bring a carved pumpkin and save $3.

LOCATION:
A.C. Gilbert's Discovery Village
116 Marion St., NE
Salem, OR 97301

lINFORMATION:
503-371-3631