The Vermont Pumpkin Chuckin’ Festival was awarded USA Today’s best fall festival in the nation. The festival celebrates the sport of “chuckin” pumpkins for distance using a do-it-yourself constructed trebuchet, which is a gravity powered catapult. The event is a great opportunity for individuals, teams, and people of all ages to build something with their hands and engage in some family friendly competition. The current record, set last year, is 792 feet!

The festival features three rounds of competitive pumpkin chuckin’ with awards shortly after the last round. In addition to the flying pumpkins, there will be music, children’s activities, a chili cook-off, and great food from six food trucks.

This event raises critical funding for the Clarina Howard Nichols Center, an organization working to end domestic and sexual violence.