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A Halloween parade at dusk — costumed characters and giant pumpkin inflatables in a town square under orange string lights with a crowd in silhouette.
Parades, haunted houses & fright nights near you

Halloween events across the country

A hand-picked lineup of well-known Halloween happenings from coast to coast — search above to find the ones nearest you.

The Village Halloween Parade in Greenwich Village — giant glowing skeleton and dragon puppets marching down a Manhattan street lined with costumed marchers under orange string lights and a full moon.Parade

Village Halloween Parade

New York, NY

One of the world's largest public Halloween celebrations — a mile-long puppet parade winding through Greenwich Village.

📅 October 31

The Headless Horseman on a rearing black horse in silhouette holding a flaming jack-o'-lantern head, riding along the autumn Hudson River Valley under a full harvest moon.Festival

Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Sleepy Hollow, NY

Tours, horseman reenactments, and jack-o'-lanterns along the Hudson in the real Headless Horseman's hometown.

📅 October weekends

Salem Haunted Happenings — a historic New England waterfront town decked with witch hats, brooms, and carved jack-o'-lanterns, a costumed crowd, orange and purple string lights, and a full moon over the harbor.Festival

Salem Haunted Happenings

Salem, MA

A month-long witch-city festival of parades, psychic fairs, and haunted happenings in America's most storied Halloween town.

📅 All October

Six Flags Fright Fest at night — a tall roller coaster with glowing red track lights threading through a dark amusement park, rolling fog in a scare zone, monster scare actors in silhouette, and a full moon.Theme Park

Six Flags Fright Fest

Jackson, NJ

Six Flags Great Adventure turns after-dark with haunted mazes, scare zones, and roller coasters in the dark.

📅 Select nights, Sep–Nov

The West Hollywood Halloween Carnaval — a packed Santa Monica Boulevard street party with a huge costumed crowd in silhouette, disco and party lights, palm trees, and a full moon.Parade

West Hollywood Halloween Carnaval

West Hollywood, CA

A legendary open-street costume party on Santa Monica Boulevard — one of the biggest Halloween bashes on the West Coast.

📅 October 31

Knott's Scary Farm at night — a weathered Old West ghost town with wooden saloons and storefronts glowing orange from within, heavy rolling fog in the streets, scare actors in silhouette, and a full moon.Theme Park

Knott's Scary Farm

Buena Park, CA

The original theme-park haunt — haunted houses, scare zones, and live shows take over Knott's Berry Farm.

📅 Select nights, Sep–Oct

Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Orlando — a cinematic haunted-house facade with towering searchlights, thick fog, a glowing orange scare-zone archway, scare actors in silhouette, and a full moon.Theme Park

Halloween Horror Nights

Orlando, FL

Universal Orlando's cinematic haunted houses and scare zones from the creators of the genre's biggest scares.

📅 Select nights, Sep–Oct

Howl-O-Scream at Busch Gardens Tampa — a roller coaster silhouette with a howling wolf outline on a hill, rolling fog, searchlights, palm trees, and a full moon.Theme Park

Howl-O-Scream

Tampa, FL

Busch Gardens Tampa turns terrifying after dark with haunted houses, roaming creatures, and coasters.

📅 Select nights, Sep–Oct

The Krewe of Boo parade in New Orleans — a Mardi Gras-style spooky parade float rolling down a French Quarter street, costumed riders throwing beads, historic gas-lamp balconies and wrought-iron, fog, and a full moon.Parade

Krewe of Boo! Parade

New Orleans, LA

New Orleans' official Halloween parade rolls through the French Quarter with throws and spooky floats.

📅 Mid-October

The Anoka Halloween parade — a small-town main street with a marching band and floats carrying carved pumpkins, townsfolk in costume in silhouette, a glowing town clock tower, orange string lights, and a full moon.Parade

Anoka Halloween Parade

Anoka, MN

Anoka calls itself the Halloween Capital of the World — its parades have run since 1920.

📅 October

A Savannah ghost tour at night — a historic square draped in Spanish moss, old brick cemetery with moss-covered tombstones, a guide with a glowing lantern, wrought-iron fences, cobblestones, drifting mist, and a full moon.Ghost Tour

Savannah Ghost Tours

Savannah, GA

Walk America's most haunted city past cemeteries and historic squares, lantern-lit through the moss and mystery.

📅 Year-round, busiest in Oct

A St. Augustine ghost tour at night — a narrow colonial Spanish street beside a stone fortress and a historic cemetery, glowing lanterns along coquina walls, drifting fog, gnarled trees, and a full moon.Ghost Tour

St. Augustine Ghost Tours

St. Augustine, FL

The oldest city in the U.S. opens its cemeteries and colonial streets for haunted lantern tours.

📅 Year-round, busiest in Oct

Castro Halloween in San Francisco — a crowded hillside city street packed with a costumed crowd, colorful party lights, historic storefronts, cable car tracks, and a full moon over the hills.Festival

Castro Halloween

San Francisco, CA

A sprawling, costumed street party in the Castro that's been a San Francisco Halloween tradition for decades.

📅 October 31

Chicago Halloween — the city skyline and riverfront with a haunted-house facade and a striped circus tent glowing orange, a costumed crowd in silhouette, orange string lights, and a full moon.Festival

Chicago Halloween Events

Chicago, IL

Costume balls, haunted houses, and Midnight Circus round out a busy Halloween season across the city.

📅 October

Austin Halloween — an outdoor live-music stage with a costumed crowd, a glowing guitar, the Austin skyline behind, warm orange and purple stage lights, fog, and a full moon.Festival

Austin Halloween

Austin, TX

From haunted houses to costumed runs and live music, Austin keeps the Halloween weird and wonderful.

📅 October

Día de los Muertos at Hollywood Forever Cemetery — a Day of the Dead celebration with glowing marigolds, sugar skulls, decorated ofrenda altars, rows of candles, a costumed crowd with painted faces, and a full moon.Festival

Día de los Muertos at Hollywood Forever

Los Angeles, CA

A vibrant Day of the Dead celebration with altars, art, and music at Hollywood Forever Cemetery — Halloween weekend adjacent.

📅 Late October

Terror Behind the Walls at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia — a massive gothic stone prison with arched cell-block windows glowing orange from within, rolling fog, searchlights, bare trees, and a full moon.Haunted House

Terror Behind the Walls

Philadelphia, PA

A massive haunted house inside the historic Eastern State Penitentiary — one of the country's most acclaimed.

📅 Sep–Nov

The Darkness haunted attraction in downtown St. Louis — a brick warehouse facade with eerie glowing windows, a glowing neon sign, rolling fog at the entrance, bare trees, and a full moon over the city.Haunted House

The Darkness

St. Louis, MO

An award-winning multi-level haunted attraction in downtown St. Louis.

📅 Sep–Nov

The Georgetown Morgue haunted house in Seattle — a spooky industrial brick building under a railroad overpass with rusty tracks, red and orange glow from the windows, heavy fog, and a full moon.Haunted House

Georgetown Morgue

Seattle, WA

A long-running immersive haunted house in Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood.

📅 October

Fear Farm haunted attraction in Phoenix — a sprawling outdoor haunt with a weathered barn, a cornfield maze, scarecrows, carved jack-o'-lanterns, rolling fog, desert scrub, and a full moon.Haunted House

Fear Farm

Phoenix, AZ

A sprawling outdoor haunt with multiple mazes on the west edge of Phoenix.

📅 Sep–Nov

Terror on the Fox in Green Bay — a historic brick train depot at night with a vintage locomotive in silhouette, railroad tracks, carved jack-o'-lanterns along the platform, fog off the Fox River, and a full moon.Haunted House

Terror on the Fox

Green Bay, WI

A haunted attraction inside a historic train depot alongside the Fox River.

📅 October

The Denver Zombie Crawl — a huge crowd of zombie-costumed people shuffling through a downtown Denver street, the City Hall dome lit behind them, orange and purple street lights, fog, and a full moon.Festival

Denver Zombie Crawl

Denver, CO

Thousands of 'zombies' crawl through downtown Denver each October in a costumed mob.

📅 Mid-October

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