Napa Valley Wine Train

Photo courtesy of the Napa Valley Wine Train.

You can have a classy AND spooktacular Halloween onboard the Napa Valley Wine Train. You will have dinner and drinks in the Vista Dome car before joining the party featuring the musical styling of DJ Tommy Fullove, dancing, and a costume contest in the station.

Montréal Botanical Garden

Photo courtesy of Montréal Botanical Garden (Michel Tremblay).

Check out wacky carved pumpkins at the Great Pumpkin Ball, a one-of-a-kind exhibition in Montréal. Or, dress up as a witch or warlock and come meet Esmeralda. You'll get a membership card signed by her, along with a small gift from Esmeralda, and you can have your picture posted on the bewitched celebrities' wall on the Botanical Garden website!

October 22 - Main Exhibition Greenhouse - 10:30 a.m. and noon

Canada's Wonderland

Camp Spooky

Located in Kidzville within Canada's Wonderland, there are rides, spooky kid-sized mazes, a pirate themed treasure hunt, Charlie Brown’s Trick or Treat live show, and other events for the entire family. Camp Spooky runs every Saturdays and Sundays in October from 10:00am until 5:00pm and is included with Park admission.

Halloween Haunt

There are ten chilling mazes, over 500 monsters, and blood pumping rides in this dark playground of terror. New this year is the Terror of London, where folks are transported back to Jack the Ripper’s murderous reign in not-so-merry England. Other showstoppers comprise Clowns at Midnight, The Asylum and Mother Noose. Halloween Haunt gates run every Friday, Saturday and Sunday night in October, plus Halloween night from 7:00 p.m. until midnight.

Las Vegas Halloween Parade

Inspired by the Halloween Parade in New York City, Las Vegas is presenting the parade for the second year in the Arts District on Halloween night. The parade starts at the staging area located on 4th St. and Hoover, just North of Charleston beginning at 6 p.m. The downtown parade route is 4th Street from Charleston Ave, Northbound to the disband location at Ogden (one block North of Fremont Street)

San Francisco city-wide tag game

Photo by Sam Lavigne

Journey to the end of the Night is a free city-wide street game that started in San Francisco and is now played in cities around the world like New York, London, Los Angeles, Berlin, Chicago, Washington DC, and Vienna. Avoid being caught as you hit all six checkpoints, on foot, from one end of the city to the other.

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