Pumpkin Festival Promises Gourd Time
The Calabasas Days Pumpkin Festival is back, with the same pumpkin contests, pumpkin bowling and rides and with a location that lends an Old West feeling.
The fifth annual festival again brings games, pony rides,pumpkin eating and seed spitting to Paramount Ranch in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.
Expected to draw about 20,000 people over two days, the festival will offer refreshments, crafts and a chance to walk through representations of Native American and pioneer villages.
Co-hosts Calabasas Chamber of Commerce and the city of Calabasas also have arranged for music on three stages, with dancing for attendees and strolling musicians. Animals from local shelters will be available for adoption at the festival through the weekend.
The festival will run from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the ranch off Kanan Road in Agoura.
General admission is $7.50, with tickets going for $6 to senior citizens and teens and $3.50 for children 4 to 12. Off-site parking is available for $3, with free shuttles available on regular schedule.
For more information, call (818) CALABAS.
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