The harvest festival featured a hula hoop contest.

The Hurricane Harvest Festival, held on Saturday, October 14, featured fall fun for everyone at Hurricane City Park. The event featured local craft and artisan vendors, games and inflatables for children, and various family friendly activities throughout the day.

One of the highlights of the festival was a pumpkin pie eating contest sponsored by Truist Bank. Participants competed with each other to see who could eat an entire pie in the shortest amount of time. The winner of the youth division was Paxton Fannin of Barboursville, and the winner of the adult division was James Minx of Cross Lanes.

Festivalgoers could interact with a Sulcata tortoise, a kunekune pig, llamas, a miniature calf, a giant dewlap goose, and lots of goats at the petting zoo hosted by by Mountaineer Safari of Jackson County.

The Guyan River Cloggers of Lincoln County and Appalachian blues band Creek Don’t Rise provided entertainment on the festival stage.

Other upcoming events in Hurricane include the annual pumpkin carving contest starting at 3 p.m. on Sunday, October 22, and Main Street Trick or Treat from 6 to 8 p.m. on Saturday, October 28.