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Pumpkin Nights 2017: Auburn, CA

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Pumpkin Nights: the highly anticipated Most Delightful Halloween Tradition! Pumpkin Nights captures the essence of Halloween through eight immersive lands created with over 3,000 hand-carved pumpkins.

Pumpkin Nights: the highly anticipated Most Delightful Halloween Tradition! Pumpkin Nights captures the essence of Halloween through eight immersive lands created with over 3,000 hand-carved pumpkins.

Pumpkin Nights: the highly anticipated Most Delightful Halloween Tradition! Pumpkin Nights captures the essence of Halloween through eight immersive lands created with over 3,000 hand-carved pumpkins.

Pumpkin Nights: the highly anticipated Most Delightful Halloween Tradition! Pumpkin Nights captures the essence of Halloween through eight immersive lands created with over 3,000 hand-carved pumpkins.

Pumpkin Nights: the highly anticipated Most Delightful Halloween Tradition! Pumpkin Nights captures the essence of Halloween through eight immersive lands created with over 3,000 hand-carved pumpkins.

Pumpkin Nights: the highly anticipated Most Delightful Halloween Tradition! Pumpkin Nights captures the essence of Halloween through eight immersive lands created with over 3,000 hand-carved pumpkins.

Pumpkin Nights: the highly anticipated Most Delightful Halloween Tradition! Pumpkin Nights captures the essence of Halloween through eight immersive lands created with over 3,000 hand-carved pumpkins.

Pumpkin Nights: the highly anticipated Most Delightful Halloween Tradition! Pumpkin Nights captures the essence of Halloween through eight immersive lands created with over 3,000 hand-carved pumpkins.

 

Pumpkin Nights: the highly anticipated Most Delightful Halloween Tradition! Pumpkin Nights captures the essence of Halloween through eight immersive lands created with over 3,000 hand-carved pumpkins.

Pumpkin Nights: the highly anticipated Most Delightful Halloween Tradition! Pumpkin Nights captures the essence of Halloween through eight immersive lands created with over 3,000 hand-carved pumpkins.

Pumpkin Nights: the highly anticipated Most Delightful Halloween Tradition! Pumpkin Nights captures the essence of Halloween through eight immersive lands created with over 3,000 hand-carved pumpkins.

Pumpkin Nights: the highly anticipated Most Delightful Halloween Tradition! Pumpkin Nights captures the essence of Halloween through eight immersive lands created with over 3,000 hand-carved pumpkins.

Pumpkin Nights: the highly anticipated Most Delightful Halloween Tradition! Pumpkin Nights captures the essence of Halloween through eight immersive lands created with over 3,000 hand-carved pumpkins.

Pumpkin Nights: the highly anticipated Most Delightful Halloween Tradition! Pumpkin Nights captures the essence of Halloween through eight immersive lands created with over 3,000 hand-carved pumpkins.

Pumpkin Nights: the highly anticipated Most Delightful Halloween Tradition! Pumpkin Nights captures the essence of Halloween through eight immersive lands created with over 3,000 hand-carved pumpkins.

A few weeks ago we got to attend a pre-showing of the very first Pumpkin Nights in Auburn CA.  We took off from work a bit early, fed the kids, changed them into their Halloween costumes and headed to a very much anticipated evening! All of us were not sure what to expect! We arrived a little after 7 and quickly made our way through all of the perfectly displayed “worlds.”

This was such a cool and special experience for us. Because it was a pre-show of the Pumpkin Nights events, we weren’t fighting any crowds. It was as if we had the whole place to ourselves which was awesome since we had never experienced anything like this as a family before.  We were wide-eyed the entire way through! It reminded me a bit of the excitement around Christmas time, when all the neighborhoods are lit up with Christmas lights, except these were lit up, hand-carved pumpkins! Pretty unreal! Despite it being a school night and the kids being out late, it did not stop them from running around in awe of everything displayed!

At the end of the walk through there was a station where a man was hand carving more pumpkins in preparation for the opening night (pictured above).  There was also craft stations set up for the kids, hot cocoa and free snacks! It felt like an early Christmas combined with being at the fair! SUPER fun for both the kids and the adults! Seeing as this is the first year, I can see the event growing every season!

Pumpkin Nights is essentially an outdoor festival where you walk a half-mile path of over 3,000 hand-carved synthetic and 1,000 fresh pumpkins.  These are literally larger-than-life displays as you can see in some of the photos above. Pumpkin nights held their first festival in 2016 at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds. They had so much success that they decided to continue the festival this year and add two cities, Salt Lake City, UT and Auburn, CA. We are SO glad they came here!

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All Photos By: Nicole Quiroz

 


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  2. Jordan | Read. Eat. Repeat. says

    How fun! It looks like they put a lot of effort into the details of how everything looks. Also, i dig the free snacks ?

  3. Laura || Walking in Memphis in High Heels says

    I love this! I’ve been to something similar and had so much fun! The details and hard work they put into these pumpkins is amazing!

  6. Jen Temcio says

    We got to go to a similar LIGHT EVENT IN DETROIT AT CHRISTMAS A FEW YEARS AGO AND i LOVED IT. tHIS HALLOWEEN THEME LOOKS EVEN BETTER. wISH i COULD GO.

  11. Kelly Reci says

    Wow! What a fun and cute event you’ve experience! I’ll make sure to bring my kids there soon!

  12. Gladys parker says

    That looks so awesome! My grandchildren, heck even I would enjoy going through there. I wondered how they were dressed so light then I seen IT WAS ca. wE HAVE NOTHING LIKE THAT AROUND US HERE IN ny. i CAN IMAGINE THE KIDS HAD A GREAT TIME WITH THE CRAFTS, GAMES AND SNACKS!

  15. Alexandra says

    I remember when the extent of Halloween was just the kids going trick or treating. sure has grown into a much bigger , more extravagant “holiday”. I’m waiting for reformation day (also Oct 31st) to take off. ?

  18. Ana@CelebratingSunshine says

    Wow, that looks magical! I wish I was there. Your pictures are beautiful! 🙂

  19. Harmony, Momma To Go says

    we have something similar around here, rise ofthe jack o lanterns, its super expensive though we havent been. these displays look really cool! I love outdoor fall events!

  20. Heather ♥ thedomesticdiva says

    It looks like ya’ll had so much fun. My boys would love to visit this place.

  21. Nicole Green says

    Oh my goodness this looks so cool and like it would be so much fun! I’m sure the kids loved it!

  23. Annette Dattilo says

    Oh wow – I bet that really was a magical time with your family. I wish we had something like that here in Houston. So glad you guys had some good family time.

  24. Heather says

    Halloween is my favorite time of year! This looks like such a wonderful way to experience the fun of the season! I’m sure it would make for a wonderful family tradition.

  26. Stephani says

    This looks sUper fun and festive! I wish we had something like this nearby! Something cool to do with The kiddos!

    Xo, steph

  28. Calleigh Keibler says

    This looks so much fun!! my kiddo would love to go there.. I love the ambience and of course the lights…

  37. jcrewismyfavstsore says

    This looks like SO much fun! This post is making me want to head to a pumpkin patch now!!!!

  47. Carissa says

    This did remind me of christmas!! And i love these types of things – especially that it’s about halloween! I wish florida had something like this – we generally do more festivities for christmas but it would be nice to do more engaging activities that focused on halloween (where kids could dress up!)

  50. Meghan says

    This looks like SO much fun. I might have to make a trip to Auburn sometime to check this out!

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