West Virginia Pumpkin Festival
Fall festival · Milton · West Virginia
Milton's Pumpkin Park spends early October on a full county-fair build-out: a grand parade, a pageant, a vendor marketplace, and contests that run out of the town's performing arts center. It is a Huntington-area tradition built specifically around the pumpkin, not folded into a general harvest theme.
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Color nearby peaks: October 21–October 25
Color builds from October 15 · mostly bare by November 15
Sampled at West Virginia Pumpkin Festival’s own coordinates and elevation (181 m) rather than a regional average.
12 weather points cover West Virginia, and the model needs no correction to land on 1 published peak date from smokymountains.com. Against West Virginia's own climatology, the 2026 weather puts the peak 6 days earlier. How the forecast works
When to go to West Virginia Pumpkin Festival
The color window runs about 17 days, holding until around November 1. Against West Virginia overall, that is 8 days later.
You will find it at Milton, WV, in West Virginia. The venue has not published its 2026 dates yet, so check before you drive out.
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- When does West Virginia Pumpkin Festival peak in 2026?
- Peak color is predicted for October 21–October 25 (best estimate October 23). Color starts around October 15 and is mostly bare by November 15.
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