The Rise of the Jack O’Lanterns Returns to Long Island

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The RISE will showcase over 10,000 illuminated objects

The Rise of the Jack O’Lanterns, Long Island’s most popular fall event, returns for its 11th season in 2024, bringing its renowned jack o’lantern trail back to Melville. Held at the Usdan Summer Camp for the Arts, the event promises a magical Halloween experience for all ages. Running on 18 select nights between October 4th and October 28th, The RISE will showcase over 10,000 illuminated objects, including 7,000 hand-carved jack o’lanterns and 3,000 specialty lanterns.

What to Expect at The Rise of the Jack O’Lanterns

This year’s event features 80+ new, elaborate jack o’lantern displays, adding fresh excitement to the fan-favorite classics that visitors look forward to each year. The RISE is known for its creativity and continual innovation, ensuring that there is always something new to marvel at. Families can also look forward to the return of the 100+ pound prizewinner pumpkins, meticulously hand-carved and hand-painted on-site by a team of talented artists.

For those who want to carve pumpkins professionally, The RISE is seeking local talent to join their carving team for the season.

Photo Opportunities & More

The Rise of the Jack O’Lanterns is bringing even more excitement this year with a variety of new features. Visitors can capture amazing photos along the trail with unique Instagram-worthy photo ops. Dozens of entertaining videos will play throughout the event, adding an extra layer of fun. One of the highlights includes 20-foot-tall singing jack o’lanterns, a truly impressive sight! Back by popular demand, the Jack O’Lantern Dance Party returns with fresh music, video displays, and Halloween characters. Plus, interactive elements like color-changing jump lights will keep kids and families entertained as they explore the trail.

Ticket Sales for The Rise of the Jack O’Lanterns

Advanced tickets are required, and high-demand timeslots sell out quickly, often several weeks in advance. Discounts are available for early orders, making this a perfect opportunity to experience one of Long Island’s most enchanting fall events. Don’t miss out—sign up for exclusive offers and grab your tickets before they’re gone HERE!

For more Things To Do this Halloween season, click HERE!

Melissa Farrell

Melissa Farrell has a mission to support local business by "Going Local." As a local business owner herself, she understands the struggles entrepreneurs face when owning a business and is always trying to find ways to shine a spotlight onto them. Melissa started Going Local Tours & Experiences back in 2020 during the pandemic in hopes to bring people back into local restaurants and shops. She created food tours in Huntington, NY that would stop at 3-4 local businesses and gave the guests the chance to meet the owner and hear the story behind the business. She soon realized how powerful storytelling is when connecting people to local businesses and created options with local store owners as well to bring them onto the tour to share their story. Melissa wanted to expand out of Huntington to be able to support even more local businesses and started creating luxury picnics where she would bring local to you! She would find local businesses in the area of the picnic set up and deliver it to you offering ways to support over 3 local businesses at each picnic. This wasn't enough. She wanted to find a better way to help spread awareness of local businesses and share their stories. Enter Evangeline Knell...a woman with over 30 years of broadcasting experience who somehow convinced Melissa to host a 3 day live stream from the Huntington Fall Festival. She had never been on camera before, but working alongside Evie to create the 3 shows, gave Melissa the confidence to take on the challenge. The 3 shows produced focused on the local vendors, the food trucks and the events that occurred at the festival and had a much larger reach than Melissa could ever of done on her own. They soon realized a business partnership was needed and combined their two businesses, Identity Digital which is a production company and Going Local Tours and Experiences to form Going Local Media. Evie and Melissa even formed their own distribution outlet by creating Going Local TV, a streaming platform like Netflix or YouTube, that is all about local businesses, events and organizations on Long Island. There are over 200 videos including their podcast series "Let's Get Local" "Long Island Business Minds" and "Local Business Spotlight" that help spread awareness of our local businesses and Long Island Professionals. They are always thinking up new ways to support local, including this site, Going Local Long Island is a directory of articles on how to Go Local on Long Island. We appreciate you taking the time to read this and for supporting local! Thank you!

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