The Giant Pumpkin Regatta & Festival |
Sunday, October 10, 2010
10-3 Burlington Waterfront Park
This event is hosted annually by LLL and the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce to help raise funds for their youth leadership program, PILOT.
So what happens? Different teams of people (pumpkin sponsors, local celebrities, media personalities, PILOT students, etc.) race in giant hollowed out pumpkins (1,000lbs. +) on Lake Champlain. There is also a fun-filled family festival that includes local food vendors providing yummy fall treats, craft vendors, kids' activities, pie eating contests, and a fall inspired pet costume contest!
You need to see it to believe it!
Watch Seven Days' 'Stuck In Vermont' Pumpkin Regatta video
Watch ESPN's 360 video
Check out other 2009 headlines!
Last year, we raised $15,000 with the help of our pumpkin sponsors and those that came out to watch all the crazy folks race in hollowed out ghords on Lake Champlain.
2009's Winner:
New England Federal Credit Union took home the giant steel pumpkin trophy! Congrats NEFCU!
Special thanks to NEFCU for being our title sponsor and the VT Giant Vegetable Growers Association for supplying the pumpkins.
We are recruiting for 2010 pumpkin sponsors & vendors!
Click here for the sponsorship registration packet.
Click here for the vendor registration packet.
2010 Sponsors:
In-Kind Sponsors:
1st Annual Scarecrow Contest & Auction!
