Halloween in Atlanta: Haunts, festivals, events going on around town

Sunday, Oct. 23

Goblins within the Backyard

Be part of the Atlanta Botanical Backyard for a day of fall, household enjoyable! This festive occasion will provide music performances, pumpkin adorning, a ride-on-train, and extra. Costumes inspired.

Saturday, Oct. 25

Scare on the Sq.: Little Monsters Bash in Atlanta

Colony Sq. is internet hosting a particular Halloween-themed version of its month-to-month Colony Children playdate. The Plaza will likely be activated with spooktacular experiences, together with visits with costumed characters, balloon artwork, face portray, stay DJ leisure from Yvonne Monet, candy treats, spooky arts and crafts, and extra.

Thursday, Oct. 27

Nice Pumpkin-Carving Pageant in Atlanta

Rejoice all issues autumn on the Atlanta Botanical Backyard’s newly expanded annual occasion. Take pleasure in thrilling leisure, stay music, crafts, a restaurant chili competitors – and, in fact, groups of beginner pumpkin carvers competing for excellent prizes.

Friday, Oct. 28

A Stranger Halloween in Cobb County

Issues are getting turned the other way up with A Stranger Halloween at The Battery Atlanta this October with giveaways, video games and a fancy dress contest with $6,000 in money and prizes. Patrons will begin off within the Tavern.

Trick-or-Drink in Alpharetta

Gown in your Halloween greatest and make your technique to The Plaza at Avalon for a spooktacular celebration that includes BOO-zy cocktails from the bar, stay music carried out by Higher Than The Beatles, photograph alternatives with frightfully festive roaming leisure, and different surprises.

Scare on the Sq.: Hallows Eve Get together in Atlanta

Gown in your supernatural greatest, name your gals and ghouls, and head to Colony Sq. for a spine-chilling soiree in The Plaza that includes stay music by Legends Tribute band, BOO-zy drinks offered by Serena Pastificio and Bar Politan, a spell-binding tarot card reader, and a photograph wall to snap costume pictures.

Homicide Thriller dinner at Maggiano’s in Dunwoody

That is each detective’s fantasy come true — a possibility for folks with a ardour for homicide mysteries… slippery pink herrings… diabolical clues… and ingenious detective work to get plunked smack-dab in the midst of a hilarious murder investigation. Benefit from the environment and fabulous delicacies of Maggiano’s Little Italy however bear in mind… you may change into the main suspect!

Trunk or Deal with in Faculty Park

The Metropolis of Faculty Park and the Faculty Park Police Division current their annual Trunk or Deal with occasion at Tracey Recreation Middle on Friday, October 28, 2022.  From 6 pm to 9 pm the neighborhood will collect at hand out treats to the neighborhood whereas the police division hosts their well-known haunted home within the recreation heart.

Spirits and Spirits in Lawrenceville

Company can seize a cocktail and settle in for a real crime panel dialogue as Spirits & Spirits returns with this particular Halloween deal with for adults solely at Lawrenceville Arts Middle. This bone-chilling dialog will function true tellings of native instances from consultants within the subject acts will begin at 8 pm. Present up early for stay pumpkin carving by Jeremy Smith, runner-up on Meals Community’s tv present, Halloween Wars for pre-main occasion festivities at 7 pm. There may also be a not-to-be-missed Halloween occasion to conclude the night full with a stay DJ, costume contests and pumpkin adorning contests.

Saturday, Oct. 29

Wild Rumpus in Athens

Generally known as Athens’ personal Mardi Gras, the much-anticipated occasion will begin at 8 p.m. on October 29 and have native bands performing alongside the parade route. Residents and guests are inspired to decorate up in distinctive and elaborate costumes to march by means of the streets of downtown Athens as a part of the parade. The massive-scale crowd-participation Halloween vacation, music and humanities celebration is free to attend and open to all.

Dia de Muertos Pageant in Roswell

Día de Muertos Pageant is returning for its third yr to Roswell Metropolis Corridor for a full of life day and night stuffed with enjoyable, neighborhood spirit, remembrance, meals, drinks, stay leisure and a lot extra. Festivities embody a fancy dress contest.

Trick-or-Treating in Alpharetta

Head to Avalon for an evening of enjoyable trick or treating. Further thrilling activations embody a bounce home, balloon artist, and creepy crafting stations offered by sponsors.

Chattahoochee Meals Works: Halloween Costume Contest in Atlanta

Be part of Chattahoochee Meals Works for the annual costume contest! There will likely be thrilling prizes and surprises for individuals and a particular prize for greatest costume. All individuals should be current on the meals corridor on the time of the competitors

Boo Bash in Marietta

Head to the Avenue East Cobb Entrance Lot for Trick of Treating, a fancy dress contest, complimentary face portray, balloon artwork, and roaming leisure.

Spooktacular Saturday in Atlanta

Dad’s Storage is worked up to announce their latest addition to their lineup of household programming: Spooktacular Saturday, a day household pageant October twenty ninth, 1-4pm. The pageant will embody improv reveals for youths, Halloween actions, and a Reverse Haunted Home, whereby Dad’s Storage Improvisers, dressed as monsters and casually having fun with their day, let the youngsters scare them.

Trick-or-Deal with at Youngsters’s Museum of Atlanta in Atlanta

Get your costumes prepared for a ghoulishly good time with Youngsters’s Museum of Atlanta’s annual Trick-or-Deal with occasion. Households can count on enjoyable, hands-on play, sweet galore, a stay DJ to play all of the Halloween hits and to trick-or-treat all through the Museum! Advance ticket buy required. Tickets is not going to be bought on the door.

Trick-or-Treating in Peachtree Corners

Head to the Discussion board at Peachtree Corners for an evening of enjoyable trick or treating. Further experiences embody complimentary face portray, balloon artwork, and roaming costume characters.

Sunday, Oct. 30

Hoots n’ Howls in Cobb County

Want an excuse to decorate up your pet? Rock for Rescues is bringing the Halloween enjoyable of Hoots n’ Howls to the Plaza Inexperienced on the Battery Atlanta. Company and their furry associates can take pleasure in stay music, varied distributors and an opportunity to win this yr’s Halloween Canine Costume Contest. A $5 entry payment is required to take part within the costume contest and all proceeds will profit animal rescue organizations.

Monday, Oct. 31

Boo Bash in Dawsonville

North Georgia Premium Shops will host trick-or-treating, the place dad and mom can carry their youngsters ages 12 and below of their spookiest costumes to take pleasure in free sweet and enjoyable. Make sure you test every retailer’s window for a Boo Bash signal to find out participation within the occasion. Trick-or-treaters could have a bounce home and different kid-friendly actions to take pleasure in.

A number of Nights

Now-Oct. 31 (and past)

The Village Haunted Home in Fairburn

The Village Haunted Expertise is a singular, two-part occasion that includes a carnival-style halfway with video games, meals, drinks and music in an space referred to as The Courtyard, and a ticketed walk-through out of doors hang-out titled The Village – all positioned on the grounds of the Georgia Renaissance Pageant.

Netherworld Haunted Home in Stone Mountain

The Stone Mountain attraction is yearly voted as one of many prime haunts within the nation. There are two haunts, a halfway with video games, escape video games and extra.

Nightmare’s Gate in Douglasville

It has been a long time for the reason that doorways to the hospital have been open. What mysteries lie inside. You will see that out has you enterprise by means of the chilling hallways in the dead of night. That’s proper no lights aside from 1 finger gentle that will likely be given to every group. Hope your not afraid of the darkish.

13 Tales Haunted Home in Newnan

Legend has it that there’s a 13 Story tall haunted home so horrifying that it’s important to signal a waiver to get in. They are saying you get your a reimbursement in the event you make all of it the way in which to the tip. They are saying they’ve rats, spiders, snakes, roaches and even clowns. They are saying the monsters contact you and have been recognized to throw you out of home windows. They are saying it’s an expertise so terrifying many individuals don’t make all of it the way in which by means of…A few of these are solely myths, easy city legends. Some usually are not. Head to Newnan for one of many Atlanta space’s hottest haunted points of interest.

Containment Haunted Home in Lithia Springs

Containment Haunted Home is Atlanta’s most unusual haunted attraction. Containment will get its title from being constructed out of 26 delivery containers.  Inside the containers laid a group of paranormal and macabre artifacts that may instill their horrors on anybody who entered.

Worry the Woods in Stockbridge

-Please be aware, per the corporate’s Fb web page, it’s closed this yr.

Scarecrows within the Backyard in Atlanta

The Atlanta Botanical Gardens are full of greater than 100 scarecrows created by artists, designers, faculties, companies and households October 1 – 30. Contributors compete for prizes within the classes {of professional}, nonprofessional or enterprise.

Oct. 29-31

Faculty Soccer Corridor of Fame in Atlanta

Expertise the spooky sights and sounds of Halloween throughout Haunted Corridor of Fame on the Faculty Soccer Corridor of Fame on October 29-31. Children 12 and below obtain free admission after they arrive in costume. Youngsters can trick-or-treat all through the Corridor and fill their luggage with sweet all day. Trick or deal with luggage and sweet will likely be distributed on a primary come first serve foundation, till stock is depleted.

Oct. 21, 22, 28, 29

Halloween Hikes

Again for its thirty seventh yr, for 4 nights solely, Halloween Hikes on the Chattahoochee Nature Middle gives the right non-scary family-friendly vacation occasion. A novel Halloween journey that may take you on a well-lit hike by means of the forest to satisfy woodland creatures and listen to about how they stay. Halloween Hikes lets visitors join with nature and expertise the thriller of a guided evening hike.

Oct. 22, 23, 29, 30

Boo on the Zoo in Atlanta

Boo-goers of all ages will take pleasure in seasonal enjoyable at Zoo Atlanta within the house of greater than 1,000 animals all over the world, spectacularly adorned for Halloween. Company can pattern candy treats on Trick-or-Deal with Lane; take a look at a Magic Phantasm Present; meet strolling characters; and revel in carnival video games and crafts. Actions will happen from 9 a.m. to three p.m. Household-friendly costumes are welcome and inspired.

Oct. 22, 29, Nov.5

Ghost looking in Eatonton

Are ghosts actual? For those who ask Ebenezer Scrooge, Hamlet, or Invoice Murray’s group of Ghostbusters you’ll most likely get a powerful “YES! And a few usually are not as pleasant as Casper.” Some say ghosts are in all places, and it’s confirmed. They’re in Eatonton! Denise Rolfe and her group from the Southeastern Institute of Paranormal Analysis will lead a mystical investigation in a number of areas throughout downtown Eatonton this October.

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