It's the Great Pumpkin, University of Portland

By The Beacon | October 28, 2012 9:00pm
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Learn how to make festive treats and find frightening haunts around Portland

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By Hannah Kintner, Staff Writer kintner13@up.edu

The Pumpkin Patch on Sauvie Island

Whether you're looking for the perfect pumpkin, want to get lost in one of their two corn mazes or simply love farm animals The Pumpkin Patch is a great fall attraction relatively near campus.

Located: 16511 NW Gillihan Rd. Portland

Open: Daily- hours vary

 

Cinnamon Maple Pumpkin Seeds

If you're carving a pumpkin this year, save those goopy seeds for a delicious snack. In a bowl combine:

2 cups cleaned and fresh pumpkin seeds

2 T Maple Syrup

Cinnamon to Coat

1/2 tsp. salt

Once pumpkin seeds are coated, spread them in a single layer on lined cookie sheet sprayed with cooking oil, bake for 40 minutes at 300 degrees and enjoy!

 

Beyond Bizarre Ghost Tour

If you're interested in the unexplained and paranormal, this may be the perfect Halloween experience for you. On this walking tour through downtown Portland guests are equipped with "real ghost hunting equipment just like that used by professionals and on TV" and visit sites believed to be haunted.

Fright Level: Eerie

Open: Fridays, and Saturdays and Sundays year round, plus every night between now and Nov. 4, at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. The tours have been selling out lately, so purchase Tickets ahead of time at: www.portlandwalkingtours.com

Admission: $21-$29 (depending on when you buy)

 

Roloff Farms

Have you ever seen "Little People Big World" on TLC? The Roloff Family from that reality TV show live only 30 minutes from campus and a visit to their farm is one you don't want to miss. Buy a pumpkin, see the exotic animals in the petting zoo, enjoy some BBQ and bring a camera because you might get a chance to meet one of the family members!

Located:23985 Northwest Grossen Drive, Hillsboro

Open: Oct. 26 through 28 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

 

Halloween Oreo-Stuffed Cookies

While this recipe could be used any time of the year, I find it especially fun to include for the holidays. Buy your favorite cookie dough, or use your favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe. Rather than baking them as they are, form the dough around a Halloween oreo cookie so that the cookie is totally sealed inside. Take about 5 minutes off of the original baking time and you're good to go!

 

FrightTown

Get into three haunted houses for the price of one at the Memorial Coliseum in the Rose Quarter. Run for your life from clowns and mad scientists in Baron Von Goolo's Museum of Horror, find your way in the dark at The Black Box, and survive the zombie apocalypse at The Contagion.

Fright Level: Extreme

Open: 7p.m. Every night until Halloween

Price: $20

Tip: go to their website to print out a $5 coupon!

Located: The Rose Quarter

Attractions:

Whether you love the thrill of a haunted house or prefer to enjoy decorations instead, Portland's got you covered.

 

Glowing Greens Miniature Golf

Have you ever played a round of pirate themed, glow-in-the-dark, 3D miniature golf? Glowing Greens in downtown Portland may be the only place in the world to do it.

Fright Level: Wimp friendly

Open: Sunday - Thursday noon to 10 p.m.

Friday and Saturday noon to midnight

Located: 509 Sw Taylor St., Portland

Admission: $9


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