{"id":15723,"date":"2025-10-21T11:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T11:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/15723\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T11:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T11:12:07","slug":"waterfront-park-celebrates-11th-annual-pumpkin-patch-party-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/15723\/","title":{"rendered":"Waterfront Park Celebrates 11th Annual Pumpkin Patch Party | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\tReading Time:  &lt; 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>Children had a chance to dress up and celebrate Halloween early at the Waterfront Park\u2019s 11th Annual Pumpkin Patch party on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The big draw, of course, was a chance to take home a free pumpkin. And there were quite a few. So many, in fact, little ones had their pick of nearly 1,000 pumpkins!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Children customized their personal pumpkins with the decorating supplies on hand\u00a0\u00a0 before taking them home.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-219281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pumpkin-Decorating-IMG_4581-263x350.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"350\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>But not before enjoying the party. The Halloween celebration featured inflatable slides, jumps and an obstacle course, carnival games, a photo booth, face painting and a DJ to pump up the party atmosphere. Food trucks were on hand for anyone who wanted to buy a snack.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kids, and even some parents, dressed up in their Halloween costumes and showed them off in a costume contest in hopes of winning prizes for the funniest, most original or family costume.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>About 3,500 people turned out for the pumpkin patch party.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdparks.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">County Parks and Recreation<\/a> organized the free community event, the San Diego County Parks Society helped sponsor the festivities and First 5 San Diego provided the pumpkins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute Children had a chance to dress up and celebrate Halloween early at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[13530,13531,13529,5471,74,76,75,13532],"class_list":["post-15723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-11th-annual-pumpkin-patch","tag-lueg","tag-parks-and-rec","tag-pumpkin-patch","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-waterfront-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}