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Contests

family in costume at Howloween

Thank you to everyone who made Howloween a great event! 

We loved seeing trick-or-treaters make their way down zoo paths while wearing their fun and creative costumes. We were thrilled to see such high participation for both our Howloween costume contest and pumpkin-weight guessing contest! 

Winners for the costume contest were selected by the Oregon Zoo Foundation. All winners will be notified by email.

Pumpkin weight: 342 pounds!

Congratulations to the pumpkin-weight contest winners! 

1st place: Nicole Harrison (guessed 340 pounds)
Runner up: Michael Hutchinson (guessed 337 pounds)

Winner of the zoo member Tshirt raffle: Meredith Coogan

Costume contest 1st place winners

A family dressed as Captain Hook, Tinkerbelle, Peter Pan and Wendy stand in front of a window surrounded by wood branches
Cassandra Duboise
A baby dressed as a chicken with an adult on either side dressed as eggs sitting on a hay bale
Carlene Reynolds
A child dressed as Bob Ross standing in front a bale of hay
Courtney Billingsley-Tien
A girl dressed as La Catrina de los Muertos sitting on a bench outside
Kathleen Rees

Costume contest 2nd place winners

2 adults and a child dressed as pirates stand next to a wagon decorated as a pirate ship and in front of a large underwater window with a view of a kelp forest
Stacey Crowley
A child dressed as a dinosaur sitting in a wagon decorated like a claw machine game
Katie Cooper
A child dressed as Cleopatra standing in front of 4 adults dressed as mummies
Richelle Reed
a young child dressed as Oscar the Grouch
Melissa Hankins

Costume contest honorable mentions

Family dressed as characters from Aladdin
Mother and baby dressed as elephants
Baby dressed as Batman
Baby dressed as bear beanie baby
woman dressed as Abby Cadabby holding child dressed as Elmo standing next to Big Bird
Family dressed as various Christmas movie characters
Girl dressed as Carmen Sandiego
Baby dressed as elderly man with moustache sitting next to a pumpkin
Day of the Dead Barbie
child dressed as deer
family dressed as dinosaurs sitting around a pumpkin
Elphaba & Glinda
baby dressed as an Ewok
Family dressed as characters from Peter Pan
Jack Skellington, Zero, and Sally
Jeepers Creepers Bat Girl
Jurassic Park
Lion cub
lion tamer and lions
mario and dry bones
moana and maui
mr and mrs potato head
white witch from narnia
Oscar, Cookie Monster, The Count
owl baby
panda
Pee-Wee, Capt Karl & Miss Yvonne
Pooh and Tigger
Porcupine
Rainbow Unicorns
Raphael -TMNT
Rescue Rangers
Rhino
Rhino
Shaggy Velma and Scooby
Squid
Squirrel with Corn and Peanut
Tiger Tamer
walrus
Wednesday
WonderWoman
Zoo Keeper with Lion
Burt and Mary Poppins
Tiger
Penguin - Mary Poppins
Elvis
Daphne and Scooby
Barbie and Ken
Mom and Baby dressed as bees
Buzz Lightyear