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Things to do for Halloween in Phoenix

Scottsdale Halloween Bar Crawl

Oct. 26

Ever wondered what a Haunted Bar Crawl would be like? Look no further because this is perfect for those who love to drink and enjoy a spooky atmosphere. The Scottsdale Halloween Bar Crawl is back and just in time to freak the night away. The bar crawl consists of visiting several bars in the city, each with its unique Halloween drink specials, decor, and spooky surprises. From ghostly cocktails to pumpkin beer, each bar offers a special drink to fit the Halloween theme. One of the most exciting parts of the event is the costume contest. Participants come dressed in their scariest or most creative costumes, and the winner receives a prize. 

50 Shades of Rosé

The Walter Halloween Costume Party

Oct. 26

It's time to clear the cobwebs from the halloween costume closet because the 15th Annual Walter Halloween Costume Party is here soon! Bolstered by Yamagucci and local enchantress Nikita Rising, this Walter Signature Party promises a bewitching journey through house music in all of its deep, technical, grooving, and global incarnations. It's going to be a spooktacular night.

Walter Where?House

Spooky Cinema at Skysill Rooftop

Oct. 4 - Oct. 25

Backdropped by panoramic views of downtown Tempe, guests will enjoy Skysill’s shareable small plates and cocktails, popcorn and a specialty holiday menu at each week's spooky cinema on the Skysill Rooftop Lounge. 

Westin Tempe

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Oct. 15

See the original unedited movie alongside Barry Bostwick, the original 'Brad Majors' with a live shadow cast and audience participation! Plus a memorabilia display, costume contest, and more!

Celebrity Theatre

Artists Assemble Horror Fest

Oct. 11-13

Horror Fest will feature artists, exhibitors, celebrity sightings, photo ops, and panels. Don't miss the costume contest or the trick-or-treat event on Saturday and Sunday!

Sheraton Hotel at Wrigleyville West

National Theatre Live: Frankenstein

Oct. 20

Bewildered and alone, Frankenstein’s creature is cast out into a hostile universe. Faced with cruelty everywhere he goes, the increasingly desperate and vengeful creature is determined to track down his creator. Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller bring this thrilling and disturbing classic tale back to life, captured live on stage in 2011. Rated R. Estimated runtime: 2 h.

Phoenix Art Museum

Spooktacular Hot Air Balloon Festival

Oct. 27-29

Spooktacular offers a safe and memorable trick-or-treat experience where there is family fun for everyone. Enjoy over 20 glowing hot air balloons acting as trick-or-treat stations that will be passing out over 4,000 lbs. of candy to the kids. Kids of all ages will love the free Kids Zone, with over 30 unique inflatables. Guests can also stroll the free Spook Trail if they dare, which is a fan favorite featuring surprises around every corner!

Salt River Fields at Talking Stick

Cave Creek Wicked

Oct. 26

The town of Cave Creek is celebrating Halloween with the return of their Wicked Bar Crawl & Costume Contest. Guests can enjoy a spooktacular evening featuring drink specials and activities at participating bars and restaurants. A complimentary party bus will be offered to take guests to and from each venue.

Cave Creek

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari at Orpheum Theatre 

Oct. 20

Just in time for Halloween, catch a unique showing of "The Cabinet of Dr Calligari," featuring a live performance from the Tetra String Quartet. Tetra String Quartet will be providing an authentic 1920s movie going experience, accompanying the film of the Orpheum's monstrous Wurlitzer Theatre Pipe Organ.

Orpheum Theatre

Visit a Historic Haunted Building

Ghosts are said to roam in bars, hotels, theatres, and museums around the Phoenix area — are you brave enough to find them? Many of these "haunted" places, such as The Rosson House, are still offering tours, with social distance and cleaning procedures in place. Check to verify hours before you go. Check out our favorites here. 

Four Peaks Brewing Co. Haunted Brewery Tours

Select Days, Sept. 15 - Oct. 31

Weird noises echo from the rafters. Tools left in one section of the brewery at the end of a shift mysteriously move elsewhere overnight. And several employees have even encountered - and in one case, conversed with - ghostly apparitions. Haunted Brewery Tours start at 7 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, September 26 – November 2, plus a special tour on Sunday, Oct. 30. Each ticket includes your tour, a small pitcher of Pumpkin Porter, and a commemorative T-shirt.

Four Peaks Brewing Company

AZ Field of Screams

Select Days, Oct. 4 - Oct. 31

Haunted corn mazes with new spine chilling scenes every year. According to legend, the mazes were plant over an old forgotten cemetary.

Tolmachoff Farms

Sanctum of Horror

Select Days, September-October

Enter the twisted mind of Lenore, and relive her violent past. Navigate the decaying walls of her childhood home, and witness the brutal murders of her kin. As you weave your way through an ancient graveyard filled with the undead, you will arrive at St. Charlotte Asylum. The inmates have taken over the compound, and experiment on the doctors who tried to help them. The only way out is through Lenore’s cell and into the basement where she tortured her victims. But be warned, Lenore will sense your presence. She will not take kindly to those who don’t belong in her memories.

Superstition Springs Center

Terror Nights Haunted House

Oct. 25-30

Terror Nights is your Fun and Safe place to be for your Halloween Scares. Come see Michael Myers and Dr. Loomis, and the Clowns won't be that far away. However, The Nun and Scarecrows will be looking for you too.

511 E La Donna Dr, Tempe

House of Haunts

Oct. 27-31

The House of Haunts is an intense walk-thru haunted house experience. Those who enter must be free of any medical conditions including health, physical, and psychological limitations.

8325 E Lincoln Dr, Scottsdale

13th Floor Haunted House

 Select Days, September-October

Created by nationally-recognized and award-winning haunted house designers, the 13th Floor will transport you to new levels of horror. Prepare to be terrified by several epic haunted attraction walkthroughs for one all-inclusive price. The 13th Floor is an intense, graphic, theatrical show that will take you on a gut wrenching ride of visceral thrills and psychological horror. 

2710 W Bell Rd Ste 1180 Phoenix, 85053

Mount Mayhem Haunted House

Oct. 25-27, 30, 31

One of Phoenix's most revered residential haunted houses is returning this year, with wild and scary monsters lurking around every corner. Make sure to book a reservation. 

1740 E. Purdue Ave., Phoenix, 85020

Fear Farm

Select Days, September-October

Fear Farm is the largest outdoor haunted attraction in Greater Phoenix, with 30 acres of pure terror, six indoor/outdoor haunted attractions and, for the faint of heart, a 10 acre corn maze.  

6801 N 99th Ave, Glendale, 85305

Scarizona Scaregrounds

Select Days, October-November

Inside the park awaits five jaw-dropping mazes that even the bravest of souls can barely make it through. Best not to eat before you go through and best not to drink either. Plus, whatever you drop in the haunt, the monsters get to keep. But try not to drop anything of yours, because they might use it to find you. 

1901 N. Alma School Road Mesa, 85201

Screamin' Green Haunt-O-Ween

Sept. 21-October 31

Creep your way through spooky, family fun! Get in costume at Paint Palette with a Make-Your-Own Monster Mask. Fly over to Activity Studio to craft a Bat Bookmark – never lose your place in your spell book again! Scurry to Modeling Madness to create a Spooky Spider friend. Decorate a paper pumpkin to add to our “Pumpkin Patch." It's a FANGtastic event with so much to BOO! Buy tickets ahead & SAVE $3!

Crayola Experience

Schnepf Farms' Pumpkin and Chili Party

Oct. 3 - Oct. 31

Head down to the farm for this family-friendly festival. Celebrate autumn with seasonal cuisine, hayrides, a petting zoo, corn mazes, kids rides and activities, mini golf, and much more. Don't miss the big fireworks show each Friday and Saturday night.

Schnepf Farms

Spooky Safari

Oct. 23-25

The Phoenix Zoo is hosting three spook-tacular nights featuring: Trick-or-treating, free face-painting, live animals, ghoulish games, creepy crafts, and more! 

Phoenix Zoo

Tempe's Family Boo Bash

Oct. 25

Tempe's Family BOO Bash will include train rides, face painting and a dance party. Children are welcome to dress up and participate in the costume contest and parade. Bring blankets to settle in for the featured flick, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (PG). Food concessions and carnival games will be hosted by non-profits and will be available at a cost.

Kiwanis Parks - North Soccer Field

Boo & Brew

Oct. 26

Boo & Brew has free fun for everyone! Bring family and family pets to celebrate fall at Scottsdale Quarter. Wander the pumpkin patch, and enjoy music, art, crafts, and more!

Scottsdale Quarter

Downtown Mesa's Haunting on Main Street

Oct. 28

All boos and ghouls are invited to float down to Main Street for some Halloween trick-or-treating! Downtown Mesa merchants are handing out individually wrapped treats to costumed children beginning at 11am until all candy is claimed, so families should come early. This is a free event for the whole family to enjoy. After trick-or-treating on Main Street, visit the North side of Macdonald for some kid-friendly activities, food, and music. The fun on Macdonald will go until 2pm.

Downtown Mesa

Brick-or-Treat: Monster Party at Legoland Discovery Center

Sept. 27 - Oct. 31

LEGOLAND® Discovery Center Arizona is throwing a Halloween celebration, featuring a creepy-crawly spider scavenger hunt in miniland, a bone-chilling build that you can take home, and a brand new 4D movie. New for 2024: brew up fun at the Potion Kitchen, a place to create potions of all sorts by combining your building creativity.

Legoland Discover Center

Spooktacular Outdoor Movie & Halloween Party

Oct. 5

Grab a blanket, chair, your family & friends and enjoy the free big screen Halloween themed family movie night featuring "Ghostbusters: Afterlife."

Centennial Plaza Park

Strange Garden at Desert Botanical Garden

Oct. 25-26

Trick or treat yourself to a spook-tacular Strange Garden. Experience jaw dropping performances, encounter mad botanists, peculiar plants and creepy-crawlies of the desert. Stop for a photo-op and take home a free pumpkin from the patch.

Desert Botanical Garden

Trick-or-Treat at the Children's Museum of Phoenix

Oct. 26, 27, 31

Ghosts and ghouls are invited to trick-or-treat through the Museum, monster mash on the dance floor, create a Spooky Tree in the Art Studio, take part in the fashion fright show, and explore three floors of imaginative exhibits.

Children's Museum of Phoenix