Pumpkin Walk 2014

One event that always peaks my interest, and which I missed greatly while living out-of-state is North Logan's own annual Pumpkin Walk, held at Elk Ridge Park. The amazing creativity of local schools, organizations, families, and businesses began over twenty years ago, when the Beutlers converted their farmland into a temporary masterpiece of pumpkins forming well-known characters.

With the draw of Ida Beutler's homemade cookies and hot drinks, about 200 people attended the walk that first year. But it was such a big hit (and word spread so fast), that during the next year, attendance jumped to around 2,000 attendees. 

"The Beutlers took their apple crop and had them pressed into cider for Ida, in her gracious manner, to serve to visitors," said North Logan resident Nancy Israelson. 

With the help of enlisted friends and neighbors, it grew from there. There was one year when it was just too much for the Beutlers to do, so it was cancelled. The problem was that the Pumpkin Walk had become so loved - it left a void in the Halloween fun - so the next year the city of North Logan asked to help carry on the tradition. (The Utah Statesman, 10/29/03)

My parents moved us to the area when I was still in elementary school, and I remember walking as a class all in a line down the street to the park to see the displays.  I very excitedly got to go with Zak, V, Grandma Hooper, and cousin Jenny and her kids. Some favorites were the Lego Movie, The Christmas Carol, Sword in the Stone, and Robin Williams carvings.