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For 27 years: The Milford Pumpkin Festival Begun in 1992, the Milford Pumpkin Festival began as a small fundraiser for the Town Hall Auditorium. In 2000, the Milford Improvement Team took over the role of coordinating all aspects of the Milford Pumpkin Festival. It has now grown to become one of the most highly anticipated festivals in New England each Fall!

The Milford Pumpkin Festival is a family friendly, community event that Celebrated its 27th year in 2016! Attracting visitors from all over New England, attendees enjoyed Free live entertainment all weekend , Spectacular fireworks & so much more! In 2016, the Milford Pumpkin Festival had a record-breaking 45,000 attendees over the 3 day weekend!

Festival details! Traditionally held over Columbus Day Weekend, the festival takes place in And around historic Downtown Milford. Friday night of the Pumpkin Festival includes our opening ceremony, the lighting of town hall, our very popular Beer Tasting Tent, and of course our exciting fireworks display put on by Atlas Pyrotechnics! Signature Festival events include: the Great Pumpkin Weigh-in, Pumpkin Painting, Pumpkin Sales, The Pumpkin Catapult, top Arts & Crafts vendors , Scarecrow Making, Great Food, The Haunted Trail, Face Painting, two stages of LIVE Music and Entertainment all weekend, Food Vendors galore, the Talent Show ,bounce houses, Carnival rides by Fanelli Amusements, and a scholarship contest. Truly a community event, The Milford Pumpkin Festival also provides the opportunity for forty+ community groups and non-profit organizations to run events during the weekend in order to raise funds for their programs.

The Award- winning Milford Pumpkin Festival “Best Community Event” by Hippo Readers in 2010-2014, 2016! Best Local Event at the Souhegan Valley “Best of” Awards in 2014, 2015 & 2016!

the Milford Pumpkin Festival as the Expedia.com just named the Milford Pumpkin Festival as the #1 best thing to do in NH!

Opening Night Of the Festival

Tim Finan 2016 Citizen of the Year Pumpkin Festival Scholarship Winners Carley Holtshouser & Karen Jorgensen

Hundreds Of kids Dared!

Beer Tasting Tent!

Fantastic Fireworks! And the Lighting Of Town Hall!

S A T U R D A Y & S U N D A Y Around the festival…

Giant Pumpkins on the Oval! 2066 pounder!

Around the Oval!

Busy Middle Street….

….Day & Night!

Pumpkins, pumpkins, everywhere!

Milford Historical Society’s Historic Sites Tour! And Cemetery Tours!

Bands, bands, bands!

Community House Lawn Face Painting Pumpkin Painting

& Scarecrow Friends!

Town Hall

Emerson Park

Boys and Girls Club & Masonic Lodge

Pumpkin Festival Talent Show!

We LOVE Kids!

…and pets!

Free parking at Milford High School and Milford Middle Schools with complimentary shuttle buses running through out the weekend! Free admission!

Festival Promotion! The Milford Pumpkin Festival produces extensive media exposure & publicity for the Town of Milford on both the state and regional level. Here are a few examples of where MIT promotes the Milford Pumpkin Festival….

The Milford Pumpkin Festival was covered by State and Regional television stations

Nashua Telegraph PF Guide Print media Nashua Telegraph PF Guide Total circulation 31,000 homes IN New Hampshire 25,000, distributed in New Hampshire to 14 Rest Areas and to 100+ towns region-wide. Also, Boston Globe, Lowell Sun, Union Leader, The Hippo, Amherst Citizen, Cabinet Press, NH Business Magazine, Yankee Magazine, & many more!

Plus Radio, Social Media & many State & Regional Travel & “Things to Do” websites

But where the marketing really adds up exponentially, is through Earned Media. What exactly is Earned media and why is it important? Earned media is the new PR ! It means a 3rd party mentions you, therefore introducing you to a whole new audience! This can be a mention on a website, a share or a retweet on Social media, or anything else!

Why is this big? Studies show that Earned Media: …has value. $1 for every time it reaches someone new. …and, is what is the most likely to move the consumer into action! Why is this big?   Because Earned Media is worth $6 trillion annually  according to KellerFay Research!

When you Google the Milford Pumpkin Festival, you get a true sense of how much publicity the festival gets via “Earned Media.” There were so many that included info on the Festival that we stopped counting websites after 12 pages of Google! These websites were from NH, the Northeast Region, the US and Canada, and several International travel sites!

Many thanks to our prestigious corporate sponsors for their generous support f our events and projects in 2016!

Oct. 6th-8th, 2017 www.milfordpumpkinfestival.org For sponsorship opportunities And vendor information for the 2017 Milford Pumpkin Festival: www.milfordpumpkinfestival.org   Wendy Hunt, Executive Director Milford Improvement Team/Milford Pumpkin Festival One Union Square Milford, New Hampshire 03055 Ph: 603-249-0676 F: 603-249-0677 director@milfordimprovementteam.org