Halloween Day 2026: 30+ Kid-Friendly Events in LA & Orange County
Halloween Day 2026: 30+ Kid-Friendly Events in LA & Orange County
Updated: October 2026
Halloween lands on a Saturday this year, and Southern California has plenty happening from morning until night.
We rounded up kid-friendly events on October 31 across Los Angeles County and Orange County, from trick-or-treating and costume contests to skating sessions and museum fun. Many of them are free.
Featured events come first, followed by events grouped by county. Details can change, so check each event’s website for current times, tickets, and registration before you go.
🚨 Know Before You Go!
The Kidsguide team does their best to get every detail right at the time of posting, but changes, cancellations, and mistakes can happen! Wild weather may shake up more events than usual this year, so double-check details with the organizer before heading out.
🎃 Old Pasadena Halloween Celebration
📍 Old Pasadena, Pasadena
🗓️ October 31, 2026 • 4-8pm
Bring your costumed ghosts and ghoulies to trick-or-treat store-to-store in Old Pasadena. 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 Map of 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!
♻️ Organics Recycling Doesn’t Have to be Scary!
This Halloween, the only scary thing should be your decorations. Before you toss that jack-o’-lantern or clean up after trick-or-treating, remember: pumpkins and other food scraps belong in the organics bin, but plastic decorations and candy wrappers don’t! Visit ggcity.org/organics to learn more about what belongs in the organics bin.
Plus, Garden Grove residents receive free access to the Scrapp App, a mobile and web app that identifies exactly where a household item belongs. All you have to do is scan or search your Halloween items, and Scrapp will tell you where each one belongs.
Make this Halloween a happy one for our community and our planet. Thank you, Garden Grove, for doing your part!
Brought to you by the City of Garden Grove Organics Recycling Program. Funded by CalRecycle.
⛳️ Fall Fest & Halloween Fair
📍 Golf N’ Stuff, Norwalk
🗓️ Saturdays in October • 2-6pm
Visit Golf N’ Stuff on Saturdays in October for free balloon art and free face painting for kids (12 years and under). Don’t miss the Halloween Fair on October 31 for costume contest, karaoke, and carved pumpkin contest.
Los Angeles County
🎠 Halloween Carnivals
📍 Lakewood Parks
🗓️ October 31, 2026 • 6-8:30pm
✅ FREE!
Celebrate Halloween at eight Lakewood parks, each transformed with its own theme and filled with carnival activities for kids. Select locations also feature haunted houses, with inflatable attractions available at Mayfair Park for an additional fee. Carnival activities at Biscailuz, Bloomfield, Bolivar, Boyar, Del Valle, Mayfair, Palms, and San Martin parks.
🕸️ Trick or Treat & Spider Fang Mines Haunted House
📍 The Promenade PV, Palos Verde
🗓️ October 31, 2026 • 3-6pm
Trick-or-treat with a costume contest, face painting, games, treats, and Halloween activities. Brave the Spiderfang Mine haunted house from 3–6 p.m., plus enjoy carnival rides throughout Halloween weekend.
🪦 Historical Cemetery Tour
📍 Sunnyside & Municipal Cemeteries, Long Beach
🗓️ October 31, 2026 • 9am – 3pm
Enjoy graveside performances by community theater actors portraying the life of the person lying at rest. Actors perform in period-appropriate costumes. The tour is self-guided. First-person performances last 10 minutes and are repeated every 20 minutes. Tours are for families and all ages.
🚉 Boonion Station
📍 Union Station, Los Angeles
🗓️ October 31, 2026 • 11:30am – 3:30pm
✅ FREE!
Trick-or-treat along Treats-on-Track, enter the costume contest, and enjoy face painting, balloon artists, crafts, dancing, and family-friendly music. The free event also features stilt walkers, photo ops, a Make a Monster activity, and Monster Poetry Booth.
⚓ Halloween STEMebration
📍 Battleship USS Iowa, San Pedro
🗓️ October 31, 2026
✅ FREE!
Halloween STEMebration combines Halloween excitement with engaging Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) experiences aboard a real battleship. Families can enjoy trick-or-treating aboard the ship, interactive STEM experiences, Halloween-themed games and activities, and plenty of surprises. Come dressed in your favorite costume and enjoy a unique Halloween celebration filled with candy, costumes, science, and maritime adventure on the LA Waterfront!
🐶 Haute Dog Howl’oween Parade
📍 Marina Vista Park, Long Beach
🗓️ October 31, 2026 • 2:30pm
✅ FREE!
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.
🎃 Trick-or-Treat on 2nd Street
📍 Belmont Shore, Long Beach
🗓️ October 31, 2026 • 4-6pm
✅ FREE!
Trick-or-treat at participating businesses along 2nd Street, marked with jack-o’-lantern signs in their windows. Stop by the Halloween photo op to snap a costume picture and enter the Instagram photo contest.
🍬 Halloween Spooktacular & Trunk or Treat
📍 Artesia Park, Artesia
🗓️ October 31, 2026 • 8-9pm
✅ FREE!
Trick-or-treat from decorated vehicles, play laser tag, and enjoy music, food trucks, and plenty of candy. Come dressed for costume contests for babies, kids, teens, adults, families, and pets, plus see which decorated vehicles win the trunk contest.
🎃 Pumpkin Patch Halloween Event
📍 Downey Adult School, Downey
🗓️ October 31, 2026 • 5-8:30pm
✅ FREE!
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.
👻 Celebrate Halloween
📍 Lakewood Mall, Lakewood
🗓️ October 31, 2026 • 1-3pm
Dress up for trick-or-treating throughout the center, plus a live DJ, balloon twisting, face painting, and a costume contest. Available while supplies last.
🏰 Halloweenfest at Neff Estate
📍 Neff Estate, La Mirada
🗓️ October 31, 2026 • 4:30-8pm
Visit the historic Neff Estate for an all-ages spooktacular time with a haunted maze, costume contest, games, crafts, trick-or-treat area, and more.
✈️ Trick-or-Treat at the Museum
📍 Flight Path Museum & Learning Center, Los Angeles
🗓️ October 31, 2026 • 12-4pm
Families can visit trick-or-treat stations, follow a spooky scavenger hunt, and explore historic aircraft and displays near LAX. There are fun photo ops, too. Costumes are encouraged, and kids should bring their treat bags.
🏴☠️ Halloween Spooktacular: A Pirate’s Adventure
📍 C. Robert Lee Activity Center, Hawaiian Gardens
🗓️ October 31, 2026 • 6-8pm
Set sail for a pirate-themed Halloween with games, activities, treats, and spooky scare zones. Come in costume to compete for prizes in categories including funniest, scariest, DIY, and best pirate.
🏛️ Frightful Fun
📍 Natural History Museum, Los Angeles
🗓️ October 31, 2026 • 9:30am-5pm
🎟️ Free with Museum admission
Create monsters during Mary Shelley storytimes, examine bizarre bones from bats to snakes, and meet live arachnids at a 3pm meet and greet. A self-guided Haunt and Hunt scavenger hunt leads to the Museum’s most iconic spooky residents. Costumes are encouraged, and the Museum has guidelines for props, masks, and uniforms.
🍬 Halloween Candy Crawl
📍 Citadel Outlets, Commerce
🗓️ October 31, 2026 • 4-7pm
Dress up in a favorite costume and trick-or-treat at participating stores throughout the center. Collect Halloween treats while exploring festive displays and photo opportunities. Bring a treat bag, and note that adults are not permitted to wear masks during the event.
🎃 Halloween Festival
📍 Paramount Park, Paramount
🗓️ October 31, 2026 • 6-9pm
✅ FREE!
Collect candy, enter costume contests, play at game booths, and get your face painted. The Inflatable Zone offers unlimited use with a $5 wristband purchase.
✈️ Halloween Celebration at Proud Bird
📍 The Proud Bird, Los Angeles
🗓️ October 31, 2026 • 12-4pm
✅ FREE!
Dress up for a family Halloween celebration with a costume contest in three categories (Cutest, Scariest, and Most Creative), plus Halloween and fall coloring activities and photo moments. Mini foam pumpkin painting is available for $7. Free admission; please RSVP for each person in your party.
🎃 Trick-or-Treat at Carved
📍 Descanso Gardens, La Cañada Flintridge
🗓️ October 31, 2026 • 6-10pm
Spend a festive Halloween evening at Carved, an immersive world of light installations and hand-carved pumpkins. From 6–8pm, forage for treats on the Mushroom Trick-or-Treat hunt, pick a mini pumpkin, and decorate a trick-or-treat bag, then dance at the DJ party from 8–10pm. Included with Carved admission; space is limited, so buy tickets in advance.
🦸 Indoor Trick-or-Treating at L.A. Comic Con
📍 Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles
🗓️ October 31, 2026 • 12pm
Kids can trick-or-treat at participating exhibitor booths on the show floor, starting at noon and continuing while candy supplies last. Costumes are encouraged, from superheroes and anime characters to Jedi, witches, and original creations. Included with Comic Con admission.
🌺 Downtown Día de los Muertos
📍 Gloria Molina Grand Park, Los Angeles
🗓️ October 24 – November 2, 2026
✅ FREE!
View community ofrendas honoring loved ones, and experience a weeklong program rooted in Indigenous Mexican traditions through art, music, ritual, reflection, and cultural connection throughout the park. The Opening Celebration is Saturday, October 24, from 11am – 4pm, features family-friendly activities, including face painting, sugar skull workshops, and live performances.
💃 Día de los Muertos Festival
📍 Olvera Street, Los Angeles
🗓️ October 25 – November 2, 2026
✅ FREE!
Join nightly processions with Mayan blessings, Aztec dancers, and costumed “Living Muertos,” view community altars, watch a theatrical performance, and share sweet bread and beverages.
🏃 Los Muertos 5K
📍 Olvera Street, Los Angeles
🗓️ October 31, 2026
Run or walk a 5K through historic Olvera Street, including a kids’ 5K for ages 12 and under, with music along the course and a post-race celebration.
🎉 Día de los Muertos Cultural Festival
📍 Plaza Mexico, Lynwood
🗓️ October 31, 2026 • 12-4pm
✅ FREE!
View colorful altars, watch cultural performances, listen to live music, browse artisan vendors, and enjoy traditional food while learning about Mexican heritage and remembrance traditions.
🎡 Día de los Muertos
📍 Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica
🗓️ October 31 – November 1, 2026
✅ FREE!
View altars inside the historic Merry Go-Round, contribute to a community altar, see installations by local artist Sylvia Sanchez, and take part in family-friendly cultural programming.
Orange County
🎄 Once Upon a Nightmare Before Christmas
📍 Once Upon a Christmas, Newport Beach
🗓️ October 16-17, 23-24, 30-31, 2026
Jack Skellington and Sally take over Christmas in this live, theatrical Halloween adventure on Balboa Island. Kids and grown-ups journey through Santa’s North Pole, meet Jack, Sally, and Zero, and help set Christmas right. It’s playful and a little spooky, never scary.
⛳️ Spooky Mini Golf
📍 Camelot Golfland, Anaheim
🗓️ October 1 – November 1, 2026
Camelot Golfland’s mini golf course undergoes a spooky transformation for Halloween! Play 18 haunted holes filled with family-friendly frights all October. Included with standard admission.
🏄 Spooktacular
📍 Downtown Huntington Beach
🗓️ October 31, 2026
A spook-tacular celebration where Main Street transforms into a Halloween extravaganza.
🦉 Halloween Boo-Nanza
📍 Anaheim Hills Festival, Anaheim
🗓️ October 31, 2026
✅ FREE!
Trick-or-treat throughout the shopping center and enjoy a live DJ, face painting, balloon twisting, photo ops, and more.
👻 Boo Bash
📍 Yorba Linda Ice, Yorba Linda
🗓️ October 31, 2026 • 11:30am-1pm
🎟️ $18 general admission • $8 skate rentals
Skate through a Halloween session on the ice. Wear a costume to receive a free skate rental.
⛸️ Trick or Treat Skate
📍 KHS Ice, Anaheim
🗓️ October 31, 2026 • 6:15-7:45pm
🎟️ $18 general admission • $8 skate rentals
Lace up for a Halloween skate session on the ice. Wear a costume to receive free skate rental.
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