Autumn is an extra special season on the fertile Coast around Half Moon Bay, California. Stunning vistas of seaside farm country with rolling fields of orange, scare crows and pick-your-own pumpkin patches. It’s the perfect time of year to celebrate the bountiful fall harvest and Half Moon Bay does it like nobody else. Every year, a quarter-million visitors make the trek to the “Pumpkin Capital of the World” for the world-famous Half Moon Bay art & Pumpkin Festival. Massive Volkswagen-sized pumpkins, the amazing “Picasso of pumpkin carvers”, harvest-inspired crafts, the tastiest pumpkin pie on the planet, three stages of blockbuster entertainment, everyone’s favorite home-spun parade, enchanting events and contests for the whole family, the never-ending search for the Great Pumpkin.

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