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Keene, New Hampshire Hotel near Pumpkin Festival
Come celebrate fall in Keene, New Hampshire, home to the annual Keene Pumpkin Festival. This annual event is one mile from the Holiday Inn Express-Keene, an entirely smoke-free Keene, New Hampshire hotel.
Keene Pumpkin Festival. If you like pumpkins, you’ll love the Keene Pumpkin Festival. Since 1991, the Keene Pumpkin Festival has attracted thousands of fun-loving families, friends, volunteers, visitors, and performers from across the Monadnock Region and around the world. Each fall, the city of Keene, New Hampshire, comes alive with the sights and sounds of this annual celebration of unity and community. Thousands contribute to the spectacle by bringing their own hand-carved pumpkins. The sight of more than 25,000 brightly lit jack-o-lanterns lining Keene’s Main Street and towering over the square is an unforgettable experience. For more information, visit www.pumpkinfestival.org/. [Top]
Holiday Inn Express-Keene near Pumpkin Festival. Discover lodging at its finest at the Holiday Inn Express-Keene. Our entirely smoke-free Keene, New Hampshire hotel delivers well-appointed accommodations, friendly service and distinctive amenities, including indoor swimming pool, hot tub, fitness room, business center and complimentary high-speed Internet access, both wireless and wired. Centrally located in the heart of New England and just one mile from historic downtown, the Holiday Inn Express-Keene offers easy access to popular attractions like the annual Keene Pumpkin Festival. [Top]
Keene Pumpkin Festival Activities. Engage in a wide variety of activities at the Keene Pumpkin Festival. Enjoy everything from the Pumpkin Seed Spit Contest and Arts & Crafts Fair to the Pumpkin Climbing Wall and Museum of Pumpkin Oddities. There’s also the Children’s Costume Parade-with 6,000 dressed-up kids, it’s the largest Halloween costume parade in New England. And stick around until it gets dark. That’s when the fireworks light up the sky above all those lit jack-o-lanterns. For more information, visit www.pumpkinfestival.org/. [Top]
Keene Pumpkin Festival’s World Records. The Keene Pumpkin Festival is well-known for setting world records for the most jack-o-lanterns lit at the same time in one place. Below is a list of the eight different world records it has set.
- 1st World Record (1992) - 1,628
- 2nd World Record (1993) - 4,817
- 3rd World Record (1994)- 10,540
- 4th World Record (1996) - 13,044
- 5th World Record (1997) - 13,432
- 6th World Record (1998) - 17,693
- 7th World Record (2000) - 23,127
- 8th World Record (2003) - 28,952
Holiday Inn Express–Keene, New Hampshire(NH)
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