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Halloween 2026 · October
Haunted attractions, corn mazes, trick-or-treat times, trunk-or-treats, ghost walks and costume parades across Loudoun, Fairfax, Fauquier, Clarke & Frederick Counties.
🎃 Haunted · 🍬 Times · 🚗 Trunk-or-Treat · 👻 Ghost Walks · 🎭 Parades · 🗺️ Beyond · 💡 Resources
📅 View the full Halloween Events Calendar (map + month grid) →
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🎃 After Dark
The region's signature nighttime frights — haunted hayrides, corn-maze scares, and Halloween-only programming from the same farms fall.joyinnova.com covers by day.
20+ acres of haunted attractions after dark — The Firegrounds, Dark Side Hayride, Cornightmare and The Forest: Back 40. 7:30–11pm, last entry 10pm. Not recommended for kids under 12; everyone under 14 must be with an adult.
Looking for Great Country Farms' Flashlight Corn Maze Nights? Those run in September, before this site's October window — find them on fall.joyinnova.com.
🍬 The Practical One
All five counties leave trick-or-treat hours up to towns and neighborhoods rather than setting an official countywide time. This list fills in as towns confirm their 2026 hours — typically late September into October.
Recent-year town times above are reported patterns, not confirmed 2026 hours — most towns announce in late September or October. We'll update this list as they do.
🚗 Candy Without the Walking
Parking-lot candy, farm animals in costume, and Halloween without any scares — built for the littlest trick-or-treaters.
Trunk-or-treat in the parking lot, a safari wagon ride, a pumpkin painting contest, and full access to NOVA Wild's animals — capybaras, cheetahs, kangaroos and more. Local businesses and families decorate trunks; costumes encouraged.
Trick-or-treat around the farm, seasonal crafts and games, and visits with the farm animals dressed for the season. Free admission to Kidwell Farm; some special event days may charge.
A non-scary costume trail through the nature center — meet costumed characters and animal-interaction stations along the way, then find the fully decked-out Halloween House at the end. Non-scary costumes only.
Loudoun County Parks, Recreation and Community Services' annual free Halloween night — pumpkin decorating, trick-or-treat candy, games, face painting, live animal interactions, inflatables and a big Halloween inflatable display lighting up the park after dark.
An annual trunk-or-treat with a costume parade down Main, Filbert and Germain streets, police-escorted in recent years. Free and open to the community.
Loudoun's shopping centers and local businesses run their own trick-or-treats too — dates below are 2025 patterns; 2026 dates weren't posted as of this writing.
Confirm current-year dates directly with each shopping center closer to October.
👻 Local Legends
Guided history tours with a spookier-than-usual edge — real local stories from the region's oldest downtowns.
The Clarke County Historical Association's guided walking tour through downtown Berryville — the Courthouse, the former Battletown Inn, the Crow's Nest, and CCHA's own headquarters, each with its own ghost story.
A guided history-and-ghost-story walk through Old Town Winchester, meeting at the archway near Cork Street and the Loudoun Street Mall.
🎭 Best Dressed
Main Street processions and daytime costume contests — no trick-or-treat bag required.
One of the oldest Halloween parades in the eastern U.S., running since 1957. Starts at Ida Lee Park and proceeds down King Street to Fairfax Street — marching bands, decorated floats, classic cars, and Leesburg's fire, police and rescue units.
A full day run jointly by Warrenton Parks & Rec and the Police Department. Kids gather at 5th Street at 9:45am for a police-escorted costume march to the Courthouse, followed by a costume contest, then trick-or-treating at Old Town businesses until noon.
🗺️ Worth the Drive
A little further out, but well worth the trip if you're chasing bigger scares or a classic DC tradition.
Trick-or-treat through the National Zoo after hours — treat stations throughout the park, animals enjoying Halloween-themed enrichment, and after-hours access to the Small Mammal House, Elephant Community Center and Reptile Discovery Center. Family-friendly, not scary.
Nighttime scare zones, haunted mazes and after-dark rides across the park — intense, and not recommended for young children.
Billed as the oldest ghost tour in America — 52 years running. A lantern-lit, 19th-century-attired walk through about 14 blocks of Harpers Ferry's historic Lower Town, with stories tied to the town's Civil War-era hauntings. Family- and dog-friendly, no jump scares.
The original, locally-owned ghost tour company in Gettysburg — walk the town's most haunted streets and hear Civil War-era ghost stories from professional local storytellers. Family-friendly, with several tour routes and dedicated ghost-hunt options for the more adventurous.
Safety
Reflective clothing, candy inspection, driver alertness — the core trick-or-treat safety checklist, from a national authority.
nsc.org →Expanded List
A broader roundup covering Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William events side by side — useful if you're willing to drive a little further.
funinfairfaxva.com →Crowdsourced
A community-updated board of trick-or-treat hours by town — worth checking in October once more towns have posted.
trickortreattimes.com →Community Displays
Despite the name, this community map and Facebook group also tracks Halloween house displays around Loudoun County, not just Christmas lights.
loudounchristmaslights.com →