While visiting the month-long fall festival on the 200-acre family farm, families can pick the perfect pumpkin, listen to the singing chicken show, and watch the hillbilly pig races every weekend.

Cousins Jake and Browyn Dishun also enjoyed the pumpkin roll event. “It’s fun and you can win prizes,” said Jake Dishun, a 13-year-old Franklin Junior High student.

The 2024 Harvest Festival runs Sept. 9 through Oct. 28. More than 12,000 pumpkins grown across the east coast call Dollywood home each fall. The tasting pass allows you to enjoy multiple food and ...

Franklin Square's monthlong roster of Halloween events begins with Spooky Mini Golf from Oct. 1-31. New this year at the park is the Boo-zy Bar. There will be a pumpkin patch on Oct. 19, where ...

Jason holds the state record for the heaviest pumpkin, which weighed in at 1,846.6 pounds at the 2023 Allardt Pumpkin Festival. Fun fact: that record-breaking pumpkin has a family tree.

Some of the new foods, treats and beverages at the Harvest Festival include: Spiced pumpkin bisque Everything toasted garlic knots with pumpkin cheese sauce Hickory smoked ribs with pumpkin spiced ...