48th Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off, Half Moon Bay
48th Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off, Half Moon Bay

48th Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off, Half Moon Bay

  • Oct 11, 2021
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  • 7:00 AM - 2:00 PM
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735 Main Street Main Street, Half Moon Bay, California, 94019

Main Street, Half Moon Bay, California 94019


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48th Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off, Half Moon Bay

  • 735 Main StreetMain Street, Half Moon Bay, California, 94019
  •  Oct 11, 2021 | 7:00 AM - 2:00 PM
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About this event

WHAT:

Where there's a will there's a weigh!

The excitement is building in Pumpkintown as the World’s Greatest Gourd Growers and their mind-blowing, Volkswagen-sized orange orbs hope to squash the world record on Monday, October 11 at the 48th Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off — the “Super Bowl of Weigh-Offs” — in the World Pumpkin Capital of Half Moon Bay, California and and this year organizers, in association with title sponsor Safeway, are upping the ante big time to celebrate the world’s greatest gourd growers and hopeful revival of live events..

The world’s biggest top prize has been increased to $9/pound (from $7/pound) for the 2021 weigh-off champion. Plus the grower and grand champion pumpkin will play a starring role in this year's one-day HMB Pumpkin Minifest 49.5, Saturday, Oct. 16 featuring a special Grand Champion Pumpkin Photo Booth – the winning grower receives two complimentary nights (Oct. 15 and 16) of lodging at the posh, pumpkin-centric Ritz-Carlton on the stunningly beautiful Half Moon Bay coast.

Also at stake are thousands of dollars in super hefty prize money doled out to the top 20 plus the big carrot: a $30,000 total mega-prize for a new world record pumpkin entered at Half Moon Bay.

The weighing of pumpkins will begin around 7am and anticipate ending the weighing around 11am followed by the awards presentation and luncheon.

Defending champion Travis Gienger's rhinoceros-sized 2,350-pound mega-gourd (named Tiger King) handily won the 2020 Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay CA. It was the heaviest pumpkin weighed in North America in 2020.

Beauty will share center stage with beefy brawn — a special $1,000 prize will be awarded to the “Joe Cotchett Family Most Beautiful Pumpkin”. Additional special bonus prizes include: Biggest California Pumpkin — $1,000; Biggest Coastside Pumpkin — $1,000.

Using forklifts and special harnesses, the gargantuan gourds will be carefully placed on a 5-ton capacity, industrial-strength digital scale under the watchful eye of officials from the San Mateo County Agricultural Commissioner's Office of Weights, Sealers, and Measures. Half Moon Bay’s Weigh-Off will serve as an officially sanctioned Great Pumpkin Commonwealth (GPC) site.

WEIGH-OFF LOCATION:

Organizers plan to bring the weigh-off back to the established IDES Grounds location (735 Main Street, Half Moon Bay CA 94019) this year but in the end the event site will be dictated by COVID-mandated guidelines and the hopeful easing of restrictions in the months ahead.

Location

735 Main Street   Get direction
 Main Street, Half Moon Bay, California, 94019

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