Gargantuan Gourd Grower Wins for the Fourth Time

The Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off, in California, is the Super Bowl of Pumpkins. The heaviest pumpkin in North America, named Rudy, won this year’s contest. The new Pumpkin King of Half Moon Bay weighed 2,471 pounds! Travis Gienger traveled 35 hours from Minnesota, refreshing his pumpkin with buckets of water along the way.