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Halloween Happenings!

Family Fun Events from 10/26 - 11/01

By Natalie Sanchez - Macaroni Kid Upland-Claremont-La Verne October 20, 2023

It's just 12 days until Halloween, and our event calendar is LOADED with Halloween and Fall festivities. We know you are looking for some fall fun, so we have lined up some of the best events in our area that you can enjoy with the family. 

Enjoy some family time! 


🎃 Cal Poly Pumpkin Fest - 40,000 pumpkins, two corn mazes, and a sunflower field and brings a petting farm to the festival. Visitors can also play games, enjoy hay rides, listen to live music and observe displays and demonstrations from Huntley College student clubs and agriculture-related organizations. Food and drinks are available to purchase from vendors. 

👻Monster Bash (Upland Library) - Join the library for the monster bash! The library will be crafting, trick or treating and playing spooktacular game. Ages 0-12

👻Summer Spook Nights - Sleepy Hollow - Family Friendly Event celebrating the The Classic Tale of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman, short story by Washington Irving. For the 1st time EVER with a dinner show component, All guests have a chance to see our Grand Finale as it happens outdoors. 60+ Halloween & Horror Vendors, Food, Spirits, Activities, DJ & live Music.

🎃👻Graveyard Get Down (Ontario) - Tricks, treats, games and more. Enjoy some snacks, refreshments and a spooky haunted walk. Kid-Friendly Haunted walk 4 PM – 6 PM. Scare-Tastic Haunted walk 6 PM – 8 PM.

🎃Dunkin' For Pumpkins - Plunge into the floating pumpkin patch and pick out the perfect pumpkin to decorate! Enjoy a spectacular face painting booth, costume contest, crafts, games, and more. Boo-licious drinks and treats will be available for purchase at the snack bar.

🍺Fairplex Presents Oktoberfest (Adult) - Fairplex Presents Oktoberfest is in its 10th year celebrating Bavarian music, authentic German food and Der Ententanz (the Chicken Dance). With the addition of games and prizes, tribute bands and a live DJ, Oktoberfest is a month-long celebration that brings a drop of Germany to Los Angeles County. It’s a night of good grub, dancing and cold beers.

🎃 Carved at Descanso Gardens - Stroll through the captivating displays, you'll be amazed by luminous jack-o’-lanterns, fallen tree sculptures and whimsical installations, including Tom&Lien Dekyvere’s glow-in-the-dark Rhizome installation in the Rose Garden Labyrinth and giant carved pumpkins under the Rose Pavilion. Don’t miss the expanded Día de los Muertos ofrenda altar, providing guests with a place to meditate and remember loved ones. The pumpkin house, hay maze, and fall food offerings will all be back to round out the fun, making Carved the perfect family-friendly adventure, bringing joy and wonder to visitors of all ages.

👻Fearplex Presents Lights Out - Welcome to Fearplex, where everything your imagination doesn’t desire is unfortunately within reach – the dead become the undead, monsters are real and the giddy effervescence of a county fair morphs into a gory carnival of carnage! Meander through mazes, enjoy interactive frights, scare zones, vendors and food 

💀🎃Halloween Movie In The Park (Glendora) - Enjoy a movie in the park, Disney's Coco, with the city of La Verne.  

⚡Imaginarium (at Ontario Mills) -Dive into a mesmerizing experience tailored for all ages. Wander through our radiant rose garden, boasting over 35,000 LED Roses, or lose yourself in the infinite mirror rooms. Venture deeper into the enchanted forest and marvel at over 25 majestic, larger-than-life storybook creatures, each bathed in a cascade of lights.

🎭The Addams Family: A New Musical Comedy - The award-winning Inland Valley Repertory Theatre brings this weird and wonderful family to devilishly delightful life in The Addams Family. This magnificently macabre musical comedy is a visually satisfying, rib-tickling, lunatic musical that will entertain you to death! With an enchantingly evil score, ghoulish effects and garish costumes, The Addams Family is sure to be fun for all ages. Come meet the family. 



👻Boo at the L.A. Zoo - The Halloween spirit will be in full swing for two frightfully fun weekends at the L.A. Zoo, with trick-or-treating stations featuring premium Mars candies, plus animal pumpkin feedings, themed photo ops, story readings, and an extinct animal graveyard. Costumes are encouraged!

🚒🧯👮‍♂️🚓La Verne Public Safety Open House and Touch A Truck - Join La Verne Police and Fire forLive Demonstrations, Station Tours, Public Safety Vehicles, Vendors, Kid's Fun Zone, Free Kid's Fingerprinting, Pancake Breakfast by the La Verne Firefighter's Association, Food Trucks, And our first ever Touch-a-Truck event hosted by La Verne Public Works. 

🎃 Cal Poly Pumpkin Fest - 40,000 pumpkins, two corn mazes, and a sunflower field and brings a petting farm to the festival. Visitors can also play games, enjoy hay rides, listen to live music and observe displays and demonstrations from Huntley College student clubs and agriculture-related organizations. Food and drinks are available to purchase from vendors. 

🎃Glendora's Pumpkin Festival - This event features a Hay Jump, Pumpkin Patch, Petting Zoo, Games, Archery, Food and More. A free shuttle at City Hall will drive eventgoers over to Centennial Heritage Park since there is limited parking. Admission is $3, and Children under 4 are free. Pumpkin Festival is hosted by the Glendora Preservation Foundation and co-sponsored by the Glendora Community Services Department. This event features a Hay Jump, Pumpkin Patch, Petting Zoo, Games, Archery, Food and More. A free shuttle at City Hall will drive eventgoers to Centennial Heritage Park since there is limited parking. Admission is $3, and Children under 4 are free.

🎃 Pumpkin Palooza Festival at Discovery Cube - Get ready for another thrilling adventure as Discovery Cube Orange County proudly presents the return of the highly anticipated Pumpkin Palooza for its second year! This year promises to be even more ghoulishly delightful and captivating for visitors of all ages with an interactive dance party, bumper cars, spellbinding science activities, trick-or-treating and so much more. 

🐶🎃Howl-O-Ween Yappy Hour & Costume Contest - Come to the bark side and let's get this paw-ty started!   Bring your four-legged friends and let's have a howling good time with canine-friendly activities, a photo booth, a DJ, and family fun! Don't forget to dress your pup up in their favorite Halloween costume for the 2:00 p.m. canine costume contest with prizes awarded for Best Costume! 

👻Haunted Haven Festival @ New Haven Marketplace (Ontario) -Have some fun right before Halloween!
Face painting, pumpkin painting, trunk or treats, kid spooky movies, and a lot of other treats!

🎃Shaqtoberfest - A Halloween Festival- (Long Beach) Returning for a second year to the notoriously haunted Queen Mary, Shaqtoberfest is an immersive Halloween festival featuring haunted trails, live entertainment, themed bars and lounges, carnival rides, and more! Family Fun and Trick or Treating during the day and a frightfully fun Halloween Festival at night! 

👻🎃Tom's Farms Haunted Train Ride & Pumpkin Patch - Join Tom's Farms and explore their haunted grounds from 7 pm to 9:30 pm! Haunts run from Friday to Sunday until Sunday, October 29th. The Haunted Train Ride is back for its 5th year with even more scares! The haunted train ride is family-friendly but does have some scare actors, so it is up to the parent's discretion

🎭The Addams Family: A New Musical Comedy - The award-winning Inland Valley Repertory Theatre brings this weird and wonderful family to devilishly delightful life in The Addams Family. This magnificently macabre musical comedy is a visually satisfying, rib-tickling, lunatic musical that will entertain you to death! With a enchantingly evil score, ghoulish effects and garish costumes, The Addams Family is sure to be fun for all ages. Come meet the family. 

💀Making an Ofrenda: Celebrating Día de Muertos - Celebrate Day of the Dead at the library and make various crafts to decorate your own Ofrenda. Or help us to make decorations for a community ofrenda to be displayed in the library Oct 24 - Nov 4. 

👻City of Claremont Halloween Spooktacular! - This free event will celebrate Halloween with carnival-style games, costume contests, spooky stories, food trucks and more!  

🎃Spooktacular 2023  (Rancho Cucamonga) - Spooktacular is Ranchos Halloween themed community event that has activities for children and adults alike, such as carnival games, a fun zone, and, of course, a Trunk-or-Treat area for the children to get their candy fix.

🍭🍬🚗 Trunk or Treat at Community Church Rancho - Join Community Church Rancho for a festive, fun fall night for the entire family. Plenty of trunks will overflow with candy and family games for the kids. They will also be joined by the Family Market Co. featuring craft vendors and food for sale.

👻Boo At The Zoo (Santa Ana Zoo) - Boo at the Zoo is one of the safest places for young children to trick-or-treat for Halloween taking home goodies from 10 toys/treats stations. It’s a “Merry not Scary” family fun event, and everyone (young and young at heart) is encouraged to come in costume! Our exciting “Boofari” Express Train, Conservation Carrousel, and Fifty Monkey Ferris Wheel rides will entertain little ghouls and goblins all night. Parents, don’t forget your cameras! Boo at the Zoo provides great photo opportunities that will last a lifetime. 

🎃👻Halloween Spooktacular (San Dimas) - Join the City of San Dimas for their Annual Halloween Spooktacular. This event features a Trunk or Treat, a Haunted Hall, Games, Food Vendors and a Costume Contest!

🎃 Carved at Descanso Gardens - Stroll through the captivating displays, you'll be amazed by luminous jack-o’-lanterns, fallen tree sculptures and whimsical installations, including Tom&Lien Dekyvere’s glow-in-the-dark Rhizome installation in the Rose Garden Labyrinth and giant carved pumpkins under the Rose Pavilion. Don’t miss the expanded Día de los Muertos ofrenda altar, providing guests with a place to meditate and remember loved ones. The pumpkin house, hay maze, and fall food offerings will all be back to round out the fun, making Carved the perfect family-friendly adventure, bringing joy and wonder to visitors of all ages.

🍺Fairplex Presents Oktoberfest (Adult) Fairplex Presents Oktoberfest is in its 10th year celebrating Bavarian music, authentic German food and Der Ententanz (the Chicken Dance). With the addition of games and prizes, tribute bands and a live DJ, Oktoberfest is a month-long celebration that brings a drop of Germany to Los Angeles County. It’s a night of good grub, dancing and cold beers.

👻Fearplex Presents Lights Out - Welcome to Fearplex, where everything your imagination doesn’t desire is unfortunately within reach – the dead become the undead, monsters are real and the giddy effervescence of a county fair morphs into a gory carnival of carnage! Meander through mazes, enjoy interactive frights, scare zones, vendors and food 

⚡Imaginarium (at Ontario Mills) - Dive into a mesmerizing experience tailored for all ages. Wander through our radiant rose garden, boasting over 35,000 LED Roses, or lose yourself in the infinite mirror rooms. Venture deeper into the enchanted forest and marvel at over 25 majestic, larger-than-life storybook creatures, each bathed in a cascade of lights.

🎃Magic of the Jack O'Lanterns - The Magic of the Jack O’Lanterns in Los Angeles, California, delights all ages on a glowing trail of thousands of magnificent, hand-carved pumpkins. A magical light show illuminates larger-than-life displays. A nautical sea-scape, a pirate ship, dinosaurs, dragons, and much more softly aglow throughout the event. You’ll find magic around every corner!

👻LA Haunted Hayride (Teens/Adults) Within the foothills of Midnight Falls, the leaves turn brown and the veil between the living and the dead is at its thinnest. The Witch of the Woods has cast her spell to summon the spirits of the underworld to cross over and assimilate into form. The Hayride leads to a thrilling adventure of horrors afflicting the town. Dazed within the spell cast upon them, the Witch commands her army of crops and flesh to seek revenge on the people who cast her out. The Spirit of Halloween comes to life surrounding helpless victims brave enough to board The Hayride. 

🎃Halloween Spooktacular (Get Air, Pomona) - Join Get Air for their Halloween Spooktacular on October 21 from 7 to 10 PM! Be prepared for a night full of jumping, games, prizes, candy and spooky music! And don’t forget to dress up for our costume contest!

🎭The Addams Family: A New Musical Comedy - The award-winning Inland Valley Repertory Theatre brings this weird and wonderful family to devilishly delightful life in The Addams Family. This magnificently macabre musical comedy is a visually satisfying, rib-tickling, lunatic musical that will entertain you to death! With an enchantingly evil score, ghoulish effects and garish costumes, The Addams Family is sure to be fun for all ages. Come meet the family. 

🎃🌲 Pumpkins in the Pines - Pumpkins in the Pines is Back for another Festive Fall Season! -Pumpkin Patch
-Pumpkin Painting, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Puppet Show, Saturday Night Costume Skate Party 7-9pm, Trick or Treating, Fall Entertainment, Magic Shows, Fantom Forest Haunted Hike and MORE. - Sky Forest 10:00 am



👻Boo at the L.A. Zoo - The Halloween spirit will be in full swing for two frightfully fun weekends at the L.A. Zoo, with trick-or-treating stations featuring premium Mars candies, plus animal pumpkin feedings, themed photo ops, story readings, and an extinct animal graveyard. Costumes are encouraged!

🎃🌲 Pumpkins in the Pines 2023 - Pumpkins in the Pines returns to SkyPark at Santa’s Village. Join us for a parkwide pumpkin patch, trick-or-treating, seasonal food & beverages, costume contests, pumpkin painting, the Legend of Sleepy Hollow Puppet Show, and more! Celebrate the fall season with family-friendly outdoor activities and abundant photo ops. And don’t forget to stop by Kringle’s Coffee & Gifts for the best pumpkin spice latte on the mountain!

🎃 Pumpkin Palooza Festival at Discovery Cube - Get ready for another thrilling adventure as Discovery Cube Orange County proudly presents the return of the highly anticipated Pumpkin Palooza for its second year! This year promises to be even more ghoulishly delightful and captivating for visitors of all ages with an interactive dance party, bumper cars, spellbinding science activities, trick-or-treating and so much more.

🎃 Cal Poly Pumpkin Fest - 40,000 pumpkins, two corn mazes, and a sunflower field and brings a petting farm to the festival. Visitors can also play games, enjoy hay rides, listen to live music and observe displays and demonstrations from Huntley College student clubs and agriculture-related organizations. Food and drinks are available to purchase from vendors. 

🎃SeaWorld Spooktacular - Family Halloween Fun in San Diego. Kids love trick-or-treating during this daytime event as they explore our decorated trail and meet all sorts of colorful characters. And that’s just the beginning! From a Halloween dance party to a pumpkin scavenger hunt and more, this is engaging family fun you’ll only find here. 

🎃Shaqtoberfest - A Halloween Festival- (Long Beach) Returning for a second year to the notoriously haunted Queen Mary, Shaqtoberfest is an immersive Halloween festival featuring haunted trails, live entertainment, themed bars and lounges, carnival rides, and more! Family Fun and Trick or Treating during the day and a frightfully fun Halloween Festival at night! 

👻🎃Tom's Farms Haunted Train Ride & Pumpkin Patch - Join Tom's Farms and explore their haunted grounds from 7 pm to 9:30 pm! Haunts run from Friday to Sunday until Sunday, October 29th. The Haunted Train Ride is back for its 5th year with even more scares!

🎭The Addams Family: A New Musical Comedy - The award-winning Inland Valley Repertory Theatre brings this weird and wonderful family to devilishly delightful life in The Addams Family. This magnificently macabre musical comedy is a visually satisfying, rib-tickling, lunatic musical that will entertain you to death! With an enchantingly evil score, ghoulish effects and garish costumes, The Addams Family is sure to be fun for all ages. Come meet the family. 

🧹 Witch Silhouette Painting-Sunday Makebreak @ Michaels - Come in store and make a Witch Silhouette Painting for free!

👻Boo At The Zoo (Santa Ana Zoo) - Boo at the Zoo is one of the safest places for young children to trick-or-treat for Halloween taking home goodies from 10 toys/treats stations. It’s a “Merry not Scary” family fun event, and everyone (young and young at heart) is encouraged to come in costume! Our exciting “Boofari” Express Train, Conservation Carrousel, and Fifty Monkey Ferris Wheel rides will entertain little ghouls and goblins all night. Parents, don’t forget your cameras! Boo at the Zoo provides great photo opportunities that will last a lifetime. 

🎃 Carved at Descanso Gardens - Stroll through the captivating displays, you'll be amazed by luminous jack-o’-lanterns, fallen tree sculptures and whimsical installations, including Tom&Lien Dekyvere’s glow-in-the-dark Rhizome installation in the Rose Garden Labyrinth and giant carved pumpkins under the Rose Pavilion. Don’t miss the expanded Día de los Muertos ofrenda altar, providing guests with a place to meditate and remember loved ones. The pumpkin house, hay maze, and fall food offerings will all be back to round out the fun, making Carved the perfect family-friendly adventure, bringing joy and wonder to visitors of all ages.

👻Fearplex Presents Lights Out - Welcome to Fearplex, where everything your imagination doesn’t desire is unfortunately within reach – the dead become the undead, monsters are real and the giddy effervescence of a county fair morphs into a gory carnival of carnage! Meander through mazes, enjoy interactive frights, scare zones, vendors and food 

🎃Magic of the Jack O'Lanterns - The Magic of the Jack O’Lanterns in Los Angeles, California, delights all ages on a glowing trail of thousands of magnificent, hand-carved pumpkins. A magical light show illuminates larger-than-life displays. A nautical sea-scape, a pirate ship, dinosaurs, dragons, and much more softly aglow throughout the event. You’ll find magic around every corner!

⚡Imaginarium (at Ontario Mills) -Dive into a mesmerizing experience tailored for all ages. Wander through our radiant rose garden, boasting over 35,000 LED Roses, or lose yourself in the infinite mirror rooms. Venture deeper into the enchanted forest and marvel at over 25 majestic, larger-than-life storybook creatures, each bathed in a cascade of lights.

👻LA Haunted Hayride (Teens/Adults) - Within the foothills of Midnight Falls, the leaves turn brown and the veil between the living and the dead is at its thinnest. The Witch of the Woods has cast her spell to summon the spirits of the underworld to cross over and assimilate into form. The Hayride leads to a thrilling adventure of horrors afflicting the town. Dazed within the spell cast upon them, the Witch commands her army of crops and flesh to seek revenge on the people who cast her out. The Spirit of Halloween comes to life surrounding helpless victims brave enough to board The Hayride. 


Want to learn about more events and activities?
📅Check out our event calendar here, where you can find activities by date.
🍁You also won't want to miss our updated Fall Family Fun Guide filled with activities and events to create wonderful memories for your family.

Enjoy your weekend!
Your Macaroni KID publisher - Upland/Claremont/La Verne

🧡Natalie Sanchez