I also love the pumpkin carousel spinning to spooky music. Then under the pumpkin planetarium, this is one of my favorite parts. This fire breathing pumpkin dragon is one of our favorites. The Museum of Pumpkin Art is always a crowd favorite. Some of the highlights include this cool functioning windmill complete with hundreds of pumpkin flowers. It’s the perfect way to feel some spooky spirit! The setup was the same as the prior year, but we thoroughly enjoyed the 7,000 carved pumpkins nonetheless. This year wasn’t as crowded as last year and it was really nice being able to take in the pumpkins without bumping into people or having to slowly shuffle along the path. We parked, and then walked right in to start our tour. The event parking and logistics is some of the smoothest I’ve ever experienced, and I remember being impressed last year. I bought ours at the end of July because the weekends sell out and you can’t buy tickets on-site.

The event is open Sep 16 th – Nov 20 th and tickets are $48 per person. If we hadn’t moved the same weekend, I would’ve planned a whole day out of the trip and visited a cider mill or go out to dinner like we did the prior year. It’s about an hour and fifteen minute drive from NYC, so we put on a Halloween playlist and were on our way. Hi friends, welcome back! Jon and I took a break from unpacking and headed to The Great Jack O’ Lantern Blaze in the Hudson Valley this past weekend.

Blaze pumpkin festival