The Great Fruitcake Toss celebrates 30 years

The Great Fruitcake Toss celebrates 30 years

By Jon McMichael Click here for updates on this story     MANITOU SPRINGS, Colorado Springs (KOAA) — The first weekend of February saw the skies above Memorial Park (in Manitou Springs) fill with a flurry of far-flung fruitcake as those longing to launch loaves celebrated the 30th annual Great Fruitcake Toss. The event, typically hosted in late January but this year delayed to the beginning of February due to weather, started in 1996 and has sin…

Manitou Springs celebrates 30 years of tossing fruitcake

(MANITOU SPRINGS, Colo.) — Those who found themselves wondering what to do with that one fruitcake they'd been avoiding since the holidays, had the chance to toss it at the 30th Annual Great Fruitcake Toss in Manitou Springs on Saturday, Feb. 1. This quirky competition gave hundreds of people the perfect way to let out those post-Christmas-season frustrations and support a good cause. Courtesy: FOX21 News Photojournalist Cora MitchellCourtesy: F…

Fruitcakes take to the skies in 30th edition of the Manitou Springs Fruitcake Toss

MANITOU SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) - Fruitcakes were flying in Manitou Springs today for the 30th annual great fruitcake toss after the event was delayed multiple weeks due to bad weather. Organizers say lots of other places have adopted fruitcake tosses, but Manitou Springs was the first. The tradition started in 1996 with locals tossing fruitcakes in Memorial Park. Today, it's grown into a 30-year tradition and even inspired a national holiday for …