50+ Free Halloween Events Near Long Beach & Orange County – 2025

Updated: October 2025

Don’t lose an arm and leg trying to have Halloween fun! There’s plenty of free (or almost free!) events waiting for you. Check out festive parades, fun trunk-or-treats, even special events happening at museums, animal centers, and local attractions — all without the scary price tag!⁠

Editor’s Note: We’ve only included events that specifically mention being free, but there are likely more out there — like those hosted by your city or other events that are usually free but don’t always advertise it. Be sure to check out our full HalloweenGuide for even more options.

Know Before You Go: Details can change. Confirm all details with organizer before making plans. You can visit their website, check their social media, or give them a call directly to confirm.

Día de los Muertos Festival: RESILIENCE

Museum of Latin American Art | Long Beach
Sunday, October 26, 2025
🟣 FREE!

Join the Museum of Latin American Art for their annual Día de los Muertos Festival! This year’s theme, RESILIENCE, celebrates our community and our capacity to endure and overcome hardship and difficulties. In doing so, we recognize and honor the endurance and legacy of our ancestors.

Enjoy live folklorico performances, DJ entertainment, face painting, a children’s sugar skull workshop, and more! Come dressed in your best Day of the Dead attire and enter their Catrina/Catrine costume contest for a chance to win prizes.

The event is free, and parking is $15. Don’t miss out on this fun and meaningful celebration!

Old Pasadena Halloween Celebration

Old Pasadena
Friday, October 31, 2025
🟣 FREE!

Come out for a frightfully good time with the whole family! On Friday, October 31, from 4-8 pm, bring your costumed ghosts and ghoulies to trick-or-treat store-to-store in Old Pasadena. Nearly 100 businesses will offer treats to costumed children! It makes for a safe and festive evening along Colorado Boulevard and adjacent streets. Look for the orange Treat Stop signs in the windows to find the goodies.

Check out the Treat Stop Google map of nearly 100 participating businesses in every corner of Old Pas. Visit www.oldpasadena.org for more ways to celebrate Halloween at One Colorado and other venues!

🟣 FREE!
Halloween at Redondo Pier
Redondo Beach | October 24, 2025
Enjoy prizes for the best costumes, a Halloween selfie station, sponsor giveaways, and trick-or-treating on the pier and boardwalk!

🟣 FREE!
Witches Paddle at Ventura Harbor
Ventura | October 24, 2025
Watch witches paddle and kayak through the harbor. Plus, enjoy food, drinks, and live music in Ventura Harbor Village.

🟣 FREE!
Haunted Harbor Trunk or Treat
San Pedro | October 24, 2025
Join LAPD Harbor Division for a family-friendly night of treats, costumes, and community spirit. Meet your neighborhood officers, enjoy a haunted jail tour, and collect candy and goodies.

🟣 FREE!
Fullerton PD Trunk or Treat
Fullerton | October 24, 2025
Kids can trick-or-treat among decorated police vehicles, meet local officers, and show off their costumes while enjoying a safe community celebration.

🟣 FREE!
Trunk or Treat
Los Alamitos | October 25, 2025
This spooktacular event features trunk-or-treating, pumpkin patch, costume contest, and more.

🟣 FREEish!
Haunted Jail
Cerritos | October 25, 2025
Visit Cerritos Sheriff’s Station for the haunted jail, car show, safety expo, boo-tique, inflatables, Kidz Zone with Paw Patrol activities, music, food and drinks. $5 donation for entrance to haunted jail.

🟣 FREE!
Boo Bash at Bella Terra
Huntington Beach | October 25, 2025
Meet favorite characters, get your face painted, and snap festive photos while enjoying giveaways from community partners. Guests in costume can enter a raffle for fun prizes.

🟣 FREE!
Howl-O-Ween with Cal Heights Music
Long Beach | October 25, 2025
Join Cal Heights Music for an afternoon of family-friendly spooky fun. Enjoy music performances by the Halloween Kids Choir and Kids Indie Bands: The Howlers and The Coyotes. Plus, enjoy free face painting, photo booth, and lots of fun.

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🟣 FREE!
The Anaheim Fall Festival & Halloween Parade
Anaheim | October 25, 2025
A beloved event, now at its new home in Center Greens Park! Enjoy costume contests for kids and dogs, live entertainment, crafts, food vendors, and the return of the classic car show. Join the parade float scavenger hunt for a chance to win Disneyland tickets, then stay for the legendary Halloween Parade.

🟣 FREEish!
Shipley’s Enchanted Trail
Huntington Beach | October 25, 2025
Join Shipley Nature Center for trick-or-seed and trail activities, ghost stories in the redwoods, and a costumed animal scavenger hunt. Suggested donation of $5 per person.

🟣 FREE!
Boo at the Bay: Family Halloween Party at Upper Newport Bay
Newport Beach | October 25, 2025
Visit the Peter and Mary Muth Interpretive Center for a fun family Halloween party featuring spooky stories, crafts, science experiments, animals, and games. See booths and exhibits from the OC Bird of Prey Center and Environmental Nature Center. Costumes encouraged.

🟣 FREE!
Halloween Spooktacular
Newport Beach | October 25, 2025
Enjoy trunk-or-treating, bounce houses, games, live music, and food trucks, plus pumpkin decorating and a haunted walkthrough. Don’t miss the costume contest for kids, families, and pets at 4:45 p.m.

🟣 FREE!
Downtown Fright Fest
Downtown Long Beach | October 25, 2025
It’s an all-day Halloween takeover where families can enjoy kid-friendly activities, face painting, balloon twisting, pumpkin patch, vendors, and car display.

🟣 FREE!
Halloween Spooktacular & Trunk or Treat
Dana Point | October 25, 2025
Join the City of Dana Point and Dana Point Police Services for a special trunk or treat, games, spooky maze, and entertainment. Meet the Bloodhounds, Bomb Squad, K-9 Unit, Mounted Patrol, and enjoy a kids costume parade with prizes.

🟣 FREE FOR KIDS IN COSTUME!
Hangar Halloween at Yanks Air Museum
Chino | October 25, 2025
Family-friendly Halloween trick or treating and fun-filled activities throughout the museum. Kids in costume receive free admission.

🟣 FREE!
Trick-or-Treat at the Whittier Museum
Whittier | October 25, 2025
Trick or treat for free at the Whittier Museum where staff and volunteers will pass out candy to all visitors.

🟣 FREE!
Boonion Station at Union Station LA
Los Angeles | October 25, 2025
Join Los Angeles Union Station for a frightfully fun Halloween village filled with balloon artists, face painting, scaricature drawings, trick-or-treating, dancing, costume contest, crafts, candy and more.

🟣 FREE!
Spookysburg at Smorgasburg
Los Angeles | October 25, 2025
Kids can join the costume parade and storytime, while families enjoy art activities, trick-or-treating, and DJ sets—all alongside bites from 60+ top food vendors.

🟣 FREE!
Halloween Treat Street at Anaheim Plaza
Anaheim | October 25, 2025
Trick-or-treat along with a DJ playing popular Halloween tunes, enjoy a balloon artist, face painting, photo ops, prize, and goodie bags for the first 100 kids ages 12 and under dressed in costume.

🟣 FREE!
Corgi Beach Day – Howl-o-ween Edition
Huntington Beach | October 25, 2025
Join hundreds of corgis for a fun beach day with vendors, food trucks, Halloween-themed selfie stations, corgi kissing booth and meet and greets, giveaways and goodie bags.

🟣 FREE!
Autumn in the Garden at the Fullerton Arboretum
Fullerton | October 25, 2025
Enjoy fall festivities, discovery stations, composting workshop, u-pick bouquet event, and trick-or-treating.

🟣 FREE!
Festival of Frights & Kartober in Historic Downtown West Covina
West Covina | October 25, 2025
Cruise into Halloween fun with a car show, haunted maze, and costume contests.

🟣 FREE!
Pumpkins by the Sea
Redondo Beach | October 25, 2025
Join the City of Redondo Beach at Seaside Lagoon for a day of games, prizes, treats, costume parade, photo ops, and fun for the whole family.

🟣 FREE!
Harvest Festival at Los Cerritos Park
Long Beach | October 25, 2025
Enjoy pumpkin decorating, Trunk or Treat, crafts, and country line dancing.

🟣 FREE!
Marina Spooktacular
Marina del Rey | October 25-26, 2025
Celebrate Halloween by the harbor at Burton Chace Park. There’s fun and scares for all ages, but the frights intensify as night falls over.

🟣 FREE!
Haute Dog Howl’oween Parade
Long Beach | October 26, 2025
See 400+ costumed dogs as they parade in front of a few thousand gawkers and panel of judges. Plus, vendor fair and food trucks too.

🟣 FREE!
Halloween Spooktacular at Cerritos Towne Center
Cerritos | October 26, 2025
Celebrate with trick-or-treat stations, character meet and greets, balloon twisters, crafts, and live DJ.

🟣 FREE!
Kidical Mass Zombie Ride in Bixby Knolls
Long Beach | October 26, 2025
Join this spooky neighborhood bike ride starting at Pixie Toys’ back parking lot. Come early to get “zombiefied” by makeup artists before the ride, enjoy spooky tunes by DJ Dave, and compete for prizes for the best costumes.

🟣 FREE!
Kids Seaside Trick or Treat
Ventura | October 26, 2025
Dress up the kids and navigate through the Ventura Harbor Village. Explore vendors, bubble and magician shows, kids dance party, skeleton hunt with prizes, photo ops, and face painting.

🟣 FREE!
Cops ‘N’ Goblins
Buena Park | October 29, 2025
Bring your little goblins out for a trunk-or-treat experience, pumpkin patch, carnival games, costume contest, arts & crafts, and food trucks.

🟣 FREE!
OktoBOOfest at Downtown Fullerton Plaza
Fullerton | October 30, 2025
Stroll the farmers market, browse craft vendors, and enjoy seasonal brews in the beer garden. Kids can join the trick-or-treat parade, play in the bounce house, grab a free tote bag, and even compete in a pie-eating contest. Costumes encouraged for an evening full of spooky fun!

🟣 FREE!
Treats in the Streets Autumn Festival
Orange | October 30, 2025
Local merchants will hand out goodies to all trick-or-treaters. Dress up and join the costume parade, enjoy live entertainment, games, and food and drinks available for purchase.

Halloween Day Events

🟣 FREE!
Trick-or-Treat on 2nd Street
Long Beach | October 31, 2025
Look for jack-o-lanterns signs in the windows of participating businesses that will be handing out treats.

🟣 FREE!
Ghouls Night Out at 2ND & PCH
Long Beach | October 31, 2025
Prepare for an evening of entertainment, music, trunk-or-treat, and costume contest for all ages.

🟣 FREE!
Neighborhood Halloween Carnival
Long Beach | October 31, 2025
Enjoy a free community Halloween carnival at Silverado Park with games, crafts, trick-or-treating, plus costume contests and prizes.

🟣 FREE!
Halloween Carnivals at Lakewood Parks
Lakewood | October 31, 2025
Special carnival activities will be held at Biscailuz, Bloomfield, Bolivar, Boyar, Del Valle, Mayfair, Palms and San Martin parks. “Haunted houses” for little ghosts and goblins to venture inside will be at Bolivar, Del Valle, Palms, and San Martin. Plus, inflatable attractions at Mayfair park for an additional fee. Each park will have a special theme.

🟣 FREE!
Halloween Spooktacular & Trunk or Treat
Artesia | October 31, 2025
Visit Artesia Park for a night of music, candy, costume contests, food trucks, laser tag, and decorated trunk or treat vehicles.

🟣 FREE!
Pumpkin Patch Halloween Event
Downey | October 31, 2025
Carnival games, photo booth, costume parade, face painting, food trucks, creepy crawl maze (no scare zone from 5-5:30pm), inflatables, and more. Located at the Downey Adult School.

🟣 FREE!
Spookywood at Stonewood Center
Downey | October 31, 2025
Store to Store trick or treating, Crafts and More! Plus, bring your furry friends and show off your best pet Halloween costumes.

🟣 FREE!
Halloween Festivals at Norwalk Parks
Norwalk | October 31, 2025
Join in for a spooky good time with games, costume contests, music, food trucks, arts & crafts, and more at Norwalk, Hermosillo, and Lakeside Parks.

🟣 FREE!
Trick-or-Treating Adventure in Downtown Santa Monica
Santa Monica | October 31, 2025
Trick-or-treaters can collect treats from participating businesses throughout the downtown Santa Monica district from 3-6pm. Enjoy a variety of Halloween-themed activities, including pumpkin decorating, free mini pumpkin patch, face painting, fun photo ops, and treats for all.

🟣 FREE skate rental when you wear your costume!
Monster Party at The Rinks
Anaheim | October 31, 2025
Join us for a frightfully fun night at our Halloween Themed Public Skate “Monster Party” — where the monsters come out to skate!

🟣 FREE!
Halloween Carnival
Bell Gardens | October 31, 2025
Play games, grab food, and watch a laser show at Bell Gardens’ Halloween Carnival and Día de los Muertos celebration.

🟣 FREE!
Frights & Flights at Hangar 21
Fullerton | October 31, 2025
Airplane trunk or treat, games, helicopter flights, food trucks and more.

Trick-or-Treat at Heritage Square Museum
Los Angeles | October 31, 2025
Trick-or-treat at your favorite haunted museum with Victorian houses. Enjoy candy, music, and costume parade for all ages. Advance tickets required.

Free Día de los Muertos Events

🟣 FREE!
Día de los Muertos Celebration at MainPlace Mall
Santa Ana | October 25, 2025
Celebrate with interactive activities, live performances, cultural games, live music, plus an immersive altar installation that honors Day of the Dead and Aztec culture.

🟣 FREE!
Día de los Muertos
Mission Viejo | October 25, 2025
Experience the cultural richness and traditions of Day of the Dead with mariachi entertainment, folklorico dance performances, face painting, crafts, artisan market, and authentic food. Located at the Norman P. Murray Community Center.

🟣 FREE!
Día de los Muertos at Forest Lawn
Cypress, Covina Hills, Glendale, Cathedral City | October 25, 2025
Forest Lawn brings traditional Día de los Muertos customs to life with a vibrant celebration of remembrance and culture.

🟣 FREE!
Día de los Muertos Festival
San Pedro | October 26, 2025
Authentic altar displays, live entertainment, food trucks, beer garden, artisan craft vendors, catrina costume contest, face painting for children, free trolley rides, and more.

🟣 FREE!
Día de los Muertos at Heritage Museum of Orange County
Santa Ana | October 26, 2025
Celebrate with live entertainment, food, vendors, community altars, arts and crafts, and more.

🟣 FREE!
Día de los Muertos Festival at Muckenthaler Cultural Center
Fullerton | October 26, 2025
Enjoy festive activities for the whole family, live music, local artisans, and arts and crafts for kids.

🟣 FREE!
Día de los Muertos Family Day
Los Angeles | October 26, 2025
The dead come to life at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes. Enjoy performances that honor the deceased through music, dance, storytelling, procession, and community altar. Families can participate in art, garden, and culinary workshops. The program will be guided by Blanca A. Soto, the voice of the Emcee in Disney/Pixar’s Coco.

🟣 FREE!
Día de los Muertos Festival on Olvera Street
Los Angeles | October 25 – November 2, 2025
The historic Olvera Street hosts the annual Día de los Muertos Festival featuring outdoor altar displays, nightly novenario procession, traditional Mayan blessing/soul cleansing, live entertainment, face painting (separate fee), and Carrera de los Muertos 5K. Don’t miss La Danza de la Muerte, a theatrical performance about the indigenous roots of Día de los Muertos.

🟣 FREE!
Día de los Muertos Festival at Gloria Molina Grand Park
Los Angeles | October 25 – November 2, 2025
A nine-day celebration featuring 19 community altars honoring loved ones and immigrant ancestors. The festivities kick off October 25 with live music, dance, workshops, and family activities, and conclude November 2 with Noche de los Muertos—a luminous evening of lantern-making, marigold art, mercado artisans, and performances by Lupita Infante and Boleros with Attitude.

🟣 FREE!
Día de los Muertos
San Clemente | November 1, 2025
Join the City of San Clemente at Max Berg Plaza Park for rich cultural celebration. Explore a stunning display of traditional altars, enjoy live performers, Mexican music, folklorico dancing, Mexican cuisine and sweet treats, art contest, and Catrina and Catrin contest.

🟣 FREE!
Día de los Muertos
Dana Point | November 1, 2025
This traditional holiday will be celebrated in La Plaza Park with ofrendas, live bands, dancing, art, great food and delicious beverages.

🟣 FREE!
Día de los Muertos Magic of the Altars
Santa Ana | November 1, 2025
Families can enjoy art making, face painting, games, and interactive activities while honoring loved ones.

🟣 FREE!
Día de los Muertos at The Wallis
Los Angeles | November 1, 2025
Enjoy a colorful afternoon of music, dance, food, and family activities at The Wallis’ first Family Fest of the season.

🟣 FREE!
Día de Muertos at Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum
Rancho Dominguez | November 1, 2025
Watch live performances from mariachi to baile folklorico, enjoy traditional food, and shop vendors.

🟣 FREE!
Día de los Muertos Pop-Up at the Wilmington Cemetery
Wilmington | November 1, 2025
Celebrate with live music and a variety of booths and vendors with foods, crafts, gifts, and more.

🟣 FREE!
Día de los Muertos
Gardena | November 1, 2025
Enjoy live performances, food, games, and a community ofrenda honoring loved ones.

🟣 FREE!
Día de los Muertos Celebration at Santa Monica Pier
Santa Monica | November 1-2, 2025
The historic Merry Go-Round building transforms into a glowing space filled with altars and art by local artists Sylvia Sanchez and Yolanda Medina. Enjoy live mariachi, Ballet Folklórico, and a sunset Aztec procession, plus free face painting and family-friendly cultural activities throughout the weekend.

🟣 FREE!
Día de los Muertos at Kidspace
Pasadena | November 1-2, 2025
featuring live music, dance, art, and a community ofrenda honoring loved ones and pets. Families can create postcards of remembrance, enjoy Aztec dance performances by YANKUITITL on Saturday, and experience mariachi music by Las Colibrí on Sunday.

🟣 FREE!
Day of the Dead in Historic Gaslamp District
San Diego | November 1-2, 2025
Join in for a vibrant celebration of culture featuring free music, delicious food, and exciting activities for the whole family. Experience traditional dance performances, face painting by local artists, and hands-on crafts for kids.

🟣 FREE!
Mexican Day of the Dead Family Festival at Bowers Museum
Santa Ana | November 2, 2025
Celebrate with Bowers Museum during our free family festivals held every first Sunday of the month in the Museum’s beautiful Key Courtyard. Enjoy live performances, art making, face painting and complimentary treats at every festival.

🟣 FREE!
Día de los Muertos Art Festival
Downey | November 2, 2025
Celebrate with local and regional artist, live music, cultural performances, altars, food trucks, beer & wine garden, and family activities, including art alley, mercado, and children’s crafts.

Día de los Muertos at Natural History Museum
Los Angeles | November 2, 2025
Enjoy live mariachi, calavera mask-making, storytime, and a floral altar honoring loved ones.

Still Looking? More Ideas for Free Halloween Events:

• Local Libraries – Check for storytimes, craft activities, and special shows.
• City Recreation Departments – Most cities offer free or low-cost community events.
• Pop-Up Markets – Look for Halloween-themed markets with free entry and activities.
• Shopping Centers/Malls – Most centers host free trick-or-treating from store to store.
• YMCA – Your local YMCA is probably hosting a trunk-or-treat.
• Churches – Many offer trunk-or-treats or family-friendly Halloween events.

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This post was written by Alina Na