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Pumpkin Rock is a large natural boulder atop a hill in Norco's Ingalls Park, roughly 15 feet tall, that has been informally repainted by unknown local volunteers as a jack-o'-lantern (currently styled after Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas) since the mid-1990s. Previously nicknamed "Elephant Butt Rock" for a gray crack down its middle, it became a pumpkin sometime around 1994 and has been maintained in that painted form -- refreshed especially around Halloween -- by anonymous community members ever since, drawing hundreds to thousands of hikers each year.
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Pumpkin Rock
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Site-level location · 33.9311° N, 117.5177° W
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Reached via a roughly 1.7-mile round-trip hike from Ingalls Park (near the George Ingalls Equestrian Event Center); freely accessible outdoor landmark, no admission.
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Ingalls Park, Norco, CA -- trailhead near the George Ingalls Equestrian Event Center; approximately 1-1.7 miles round trip to the summit rock.
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