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Halloween in South Florida 🎃
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items Family-friendly Halloween events from Ft. Pierce to Miami — trick-or-treating, fall festivals, pumpkin patches and spooky fun. Mom-of-6 approved! 🎃👻
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Kiddo-Ween at the Coral Gables Museum is our perfect Saturday plan — Sat Oct 24, 11am–4pm, and it's FREE to get in (rides and activities need a wristband). Safe trick-or-treating, character meet-and-greets, a pumpkin patch and a costume parade — brin...
Coral Gables Museum
Track or Treat at Evelyn Greer Park is the sweetest little Pinecrest tradition — Fri Oct 23, 5–7pm, totally FREE, with a free outdoor movie at 7:30pm after. The kids trick-or-treat around the track (safe, well-lit, zero scary stuff) and then we crash...
Evelyn Greer Park
Zoo Boo is back Sat–Sun Oct 24–25, 10am–3pm — included with zoo admission, so you're basically getting candy AND the animals. Trick-or-treat stations, costume contests, magic shows and live music… ¡mis hijos se vuelven locos! 🦁
Zoo Miami
Spook & Slam at the South Dade YMCA is Fri Oct 23, 5–8pm and completely FREE — trunk-or-treat, a not-too-scary haunted house, games and food trucks. This is the one I recommend to every mamá: big fun, small effort, and those decorated car trunks ...
South Dade YMCA Family Center
The Lincoln Road Halloween Block Party on Sat Oct 31 is Miami's big one — FREE, with kids' trick-or-treating from 5–7pm before the grown-up party takes over till 1am. Fifty thousand people in costume, live music, a vibe like nowhere else — go early w...
Lincoln Rd
Bonnet House Halloween Fest on Sat Oct 31, 11am–4pm is spooky meets fancy — trick-or-treating through a real historic estate and gardens. Tickets are $25 adults, $8 kids 6–17, and free for 5 & under — ¡los chiquitos entran gratis, gracias a Dios!...
Bonnet House Museum & Gardens
The Riverwalk Fall Festival at Esplanade Park is Sat Oct 17, 12–4pm and FREE — pumpkin painting, pumpkin bowling (sí, bowling con calabazas 🎳), games and food trucks right on the river. A perfect lazy Saturday with the kids before Halloween-week cha...
Esplanade Park
Boo Bash at ArtsPark in Hollywood is Fri Oct 23, 5–9pm, FREE — with a costume fashion show at 6pm (my kids LIVE for the runway 💃) plus a trick-or-treat village, games and a free outdoor movie at 8pm. Come early, stay for the movie, thank me later.
ArtsPark at Young Circle
Deerfield Beach Fall Festival at Pioneer Park is Sat Oct 10, 4–8pm and FREE — and yes, one free large pumpkin per family, which with six kids is basically a miracle. 🎃 Trunk-or-treat, hayrides, bounce houses and a costume contest — go early, the pum...
Pioneer Park
Spookyville at Yesteryear Village runs Oct 17–18, 23–25 & 30–31 — tickets from $7.50, and little ones 1 & under are free. Old-fashioned Halloween in a historic village with trick-or-treat trails, carnival games and a costume parade — like ste...
Yesteryear Village
Clematis by FRIGHT in downtown West Palm is Thu Oct 29, 6–9pm and FREE — the famous Trick-or-Truck with first responders (los bomberos hand out candy, my kids lose their minds 🚒), plus hayrides and games. A weeknight party that somehow doesn't wreck...
Nancy M. Graham Centennial Square
The Witches of Delray Ride + Kidsfest at Old School Square is Sat Oct 24 and FREE — the 15th annual witches bike ride (hundreds of brujas on bikes, it is GLORIOUS 🧹) plus a Kidsfest with trick-or-treating, costume contest and bounce houses. Equal pa...
Old School Square
Fall Fun Fest at the MIDFLORIDA Event Center in Port St. Lucie is a whole weekend — Fri Oct 30 (5–10pm), Sat Oct 31 (12–10pm), Sun Nov 1 (1–6pm) — with FREE admission (rides cost extra). A 'Street of Treats' for trick-or-treating, carnival rides and ...
MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Event Center
Fall-O-Ween at Tradition Square in Port St. Lucie is Sat Oct 24, 1–7pm — FREE admission AND free parking, which this mom of six appreciates deeply. 🙏 Market-wide trick-or-treating, costume contest, pumpkin patch, bounce houses and live music — an ea...
SW Tradition Square
Spooktacular Night at the Park in Stuart's Memorial Park is Fri Oct 16, 6–8pm and FREE — the city's sweet little Halloween evening for families with a costume contest and games. Small, safe, done by 8pm so everyone's in bed on time — peak mamá-approv...
Memorial Park
Hamilton Farms Fall Festival in Fort Pierce runs Sat–Sun Oct 17–18 & 24–25, 10am–4pm — check their site for pricing. A real working farm with u-pick pumpkins, hayrides, animals and the cutest photo ops — the most auténtico fall morning you'll get...
Hamilton Farms
A haunted house inside a historic theatre — spooky AND gorgeous, ¿qué más quieres? This is the perfect Halloween night out or date night with tu amor. Four nights only, so grab your tickets early, amigas! 🎃
Sunrise Theatre,
Okay, a ghost mystery through the galleries PLUS trick-or-treating in a sculpture garden?? This might be the most unique Halloween outing on the whole list, amigos. Heads-up: this one was Oct 8, so mark your calendars to catch it next year — your lit...
Boca Museum of Art: Halloween Family Night
A Halloween musicale at the art museum?? Such a perfect low-key spooky outing for the little ones, mamas — all the magic, none of the scary. Check bocamuseum.org for time and tickets. 🎶🎃
Boca Museum of Art: Family Halloween Musicale