This October, the River Region is bringing the creeps, shrieks, thrills, and chills.
Ok, we’ll admit there may be more thrills than shrieks and chills this year, but the Halloween vibes are very much alive across Montgomery and the River Region.
So don't hesitate to go all in on costumes or simply soak up the fall fun; there’s something for every kind of Halloween fan. We’ve divided the guide by the kind of fun you’re looking for, making it easy to skip ahead or explore it all.
Pick your kind of spooky and start planning your Halloween adventures around the River Region.
Little Boos & Fall Fun
Spooky season isn’t just for the grown-up ghouls. Halloween is even more fun when the whole family joins in. Calling all caped crusaders, mini witches, and pint-sized pumpkins, Montgomery and the River Region offer plenty of ways to make the most of the season together.
A LITTLE MESS, A LOT OF IMAGINATION
Halloween is one of those times of year when creativity gets to run a little wild. It’s the perfect excuse to find your style and lean into the spooky, silly, colorful, or completely unexpected. Around the River Region, there are plenty of ways to put your own spin on the season and let your imagination take over.
Add a new member to your crew by adopting a skeleton, giving it a name, dressing it up, and turning it into the funniest, spookiest, or most unexpected member of the family. Or plan an unconventional fall night out with dinner and a guided pumpkin-painting experience designed for all ages and skill levels.
For the littles, Halloween Day Camp turns a full day into a celebration of imagination. Kids ages 7–14 can make pumpkin gut slime, textured ghosts, skeleton art, haunted houses, trick-or-treat bags, and other festive creations that help set the scene for Halloween. If a full day doesn’t fit the schedule, the evening slime experience delivers plenty of ooey-gooey, hands-on fun in a shorter outing.
However you join in, these activities are an easy way to get everyone ready for Halloween, let imaginations run wild, and add a few personal touches to Halloween along the way.
Adopt a Skeleton: Kick off Spooky Season | October 1 | Millbrook
Art to Work: TJ’s Pumpkins | October 5 | Prattville
Halloween Day Camp | October 13 | Prattville
Pumpkin Gut Slime Night | October 13 | Prattville
RUN, WALK & DRESS THE PART
Pumpkin Run and Lots O’ Fun | October 10 | Cloverdale Bottom Park | Montgomery
Make this one a family affair, furry members included. Pumpkin Run and Lots O’ Fun takes families through scenic Old Cloverdale for a morning of running, walking, costumes, and a little friendly competition. Everyone who completes the 5K or Fun Run earns a medal, with additional awards for top finishers and overall winners. The costumes get their own moment, too, with prizes for adult, teen, fun, and dog categories. Yes, people-friendly pups are welcome to join the fun run. Rain or shine, lace up, get into character, and go for the gold.
MAKE IT A FALL FESTIVAL DAY
October brings cooler days, colorful landscapes, and plenty of reasons to spend a little more time outside. Some fall days are simply made for wandering a festival, picking up something local, and soaking in the sights, sounds, and flavors of the season. Around the River Region, one Saturday brings three different ways to do just that.
Start the day with your pick of two fall festival experiences around the River Region. In Pike Road, enjoy an easygoing outing filled with seasonal favorites, family activities, and local vendors, all with free admission. If you have access to Maxwell, the family-friendly side of Doppel Fest offers kids’ crafts, a trackless train, music, food, and a pumpkin patch. Doppel Fest also includes a separate adults-only experience, which we’ll save for Halloween After Dark.
Later in the day, head to Montgomery for a little more Halloween mischief and an early start on the candy collecting at The NewSouth Bookstore, where trick-or-treating, games, witch’s brew, spooky reads, and a few ghostly surprises keep the fun going.
SweetCreek Farm Market Pumpkin Festival | October 17 | Pike Road
Doppel Fest: Family Event | October 17 | Maxwell AFB | Base Access Required
The NewSouth Booookstore Harvest Festival | October 17 | Montgomery
FILL THE CANDY BUCKETS
Coosa Candy Crawl | October 26 | Wetumpka
Costumes on, candy buckets ready. Wetumpka is getting an early start on trick-or-treating with an evening built for families to enjoy Halloween together. Follow the candy crawl for safe trick-or-treating, then stick around for bounce houses, face painting, free photos, and plenty of community fun along the way. Make a night of it without worrying about dinner, too. Hot dog dinner bags will be available for purchase while you crawl, making this an easy Monday night Halloween outing for the whole family.
GO WILD ON HALLOWEEN
HOWL-O-WEEN BASH | October 31 | Montgomery Zoo
Back by popular demand, the Montgomery Zoo is turning Halloween into a wildly fun day out. HOWL-O-WEEN BASH fills the Zoo with hayrides, face painting, crafts, music, food trucks, animal ambassador encounters, and special enrichment activities that bring even more excitement to the day. Come dressed for the occasion; costumes are highly encouraged because the costume contest gives little ghouls, superheroes, and storybook favorites a chance to show off their Halloween looks. With animals, costumes, and a full day of festive fun, HOWL-O-WEEN is one of the wildest ways to spend Halloween in Montgomery. Grab your tickets now, round up your crew, and make October 31 a Halloween adventure at the Montgomery Zoo.
Seasonal Thrills
Not every October thrill has to be terrifying. Sometimes the fun is in the mystery, the mischief, the music, and the stories that feel just right for October.
FRIGHTFUL FILMS
The Capri Theatre is keeping the scares on the big screen this October with Terror Tuesdays, bringing a mix of Halloween favorites and cult classics to Old Cloverdale throughout the month. And the frightful films don’t stop on Tuesdays. The Capri adds another chilling classic to its Film Class lineup before turning up the scare factor on Halloween night with The Shining. The Capri Theatre isn’t the only place putting Halloween on the big screen. Take movie night outside for an under-the-stars screening of Sinners, adding an open-air twist to your Halloween movie plans.
Outdoor Halloween Movie Night - Under the Stars: Sinners | October 10 | Montgomery
Terror Tuesdays: The Wicker Man | October 06 | Capri Theatre | Montgomery
Terror Tuesdays: The Witches | October 13 | Capri Theatre | Montgomery
Terror Tuesdays: The Lost Boys | October 20 | Capri Theatre | Montgomery
Terror Tuesdays: Hocus Pocus | October 27 | Capri Theatre | Montgomery
Classic Film Class: The Night of the Hunter | October 28 | Capri Theatre | Montgomery
Halloween at the Capri: The Shining | October 31 | Capri Theatre | Montgomery
MISCHIEF, MUSIC & MURDER
October is bringing a little mischief to Montgomery's stages, with murder, dark comedy, music, and just enough twisted fun to fit the season. At Alabama Shakespeare Festival, a murder mystery goes spectacularly off the rails. It is not a scary play, but with a dead body that refuses to stay dead, a mystery unraveling in real time, and a production that seems determined to fall apart, it has just enough mischief to fit the season. For something with a little more bite, Pike Road Theatre Company brings the cult favorite Little Shop of Horrors to Faulkner Theatre. Expect catchy songs, outrageous characters, romance, comedy, and one very hungry plant in a delightfully twisted musical that blends humor and horror. Then at The NewSouth Bookstore, Karren Pell and the Old Alabama Revue lean fully into Halloween with a live program of spooky songs, old favorites, snacks, drinks, and costumes encouraged. One gives you murder with laughs, the other music that raises the spirits; both make for a fun October night out.
The Play That Goes Wrong | October 1–25 | Alabama Shakespeare Festival | Montgomery
Little Shop of Horrors | October 8–25 | Faulkner Theatre | Montgomery
A Halloween Special with Karren Pell and the Old Alabama Revue | October 27 | The NewSouth Bookstore | Montgomery
Halloween After Dark
October nights around the River Region bring plenty of reasons to dress up, head out, and make a night of it. For the adults, Halloween has its own festive ways to celebrate.
A LITTLE TRICK, A LITTLE TREAT, A LITTLE WICKED
Halloween is your excuse to trade the usual night out for something with a little more costume, character, and October mischief. Gather your favorite people, lean into the theme, and make an evening of it around the River Region. In Downtown Wetumpka, throw on your best witchy look for a night of sipping, shopping, strolling, and special offers along the way. In Prattville, give paint-and-sip night a darker twist with skeleton-inspired art, emo music, drinks, and food specials.
At Maxwell AFB, Doppel Fest shifts into an adults-only evening with live music, games, a costume contest, stein hoist, pretzel-eating contest, themed food, German beer, wine, and more. It’s a lively second act to the family-friendly portion of the festival and another fun way to keep the October celebration going.
Broomsticks & Brews | October 8 | Downtown Wetumpka
Doppel Fest: Adult Event | October 17 | Maxwell AFB | Base Access Required
Emo Art Night | October 29 | The Bottom | Prattville
SIP SOMETHING SINISTER
Halloween is taking over the cocktail menu at BB King’s Blues Club, giving Montgomery a little extra flavor after dark. Sip your way through themed drinks like the Vampire Surprise, Grateful Dead, Witches Brew, Hocus Pocus, and Lemon Drop shot specials. Start sampling the spirits early and work your way through the Halloween menu before Fright Night... because that’s when things really get interesting.
Fright Night keeps the celebration going with a live band, a full costume party, and cash prizes. Get creative, dress to compete, and show up for a Halloween night filled with music, food, drinks, and plenty of energy at BB King’s.
BB King’s Halloween Cocktail Series | October 17–31 | BB King’s Blues Club | Montgomery
Fright Night: A Costume Party | October 31 | BB King’s Blues Club | Montgomery
DON’T MISS THE BOO-OAT
Halloween fun hits the water in Montgomery with two ways to take the party off land. Sip-n-Cycle brings back its annual costume boat party, giving your crew a chance to dress up, turn up the music, and celebrate October while cruising the Alabama River.
Then on Halloween night, things get a little creepier aboard Haunting on the Harriott. This costume cruise brings together live entertainment, spooky drink specials, a cash bar, concessions, riverfront views, and a costume contest. Costumes are required, so this is the night to fully commit to the look and come ready to party.
From pedal-powered fun to a haunted riverboat ride, these celebrations put a distinctly Montgomery spin on Halloween after dark. Space on the water is limited, so rally your crew, lock in your costumes, and grab your tickets before these Halloween cruises sail away.
Sip-n-Cycle Annual Costume Boat Party | October 30 & 31 | Montgomery | Tickets Required
Haunting on the Harriott | October 31 | Harriott II Riverboat | Montgomery | 21+ | Tickets Required
Don’t Ghost the Rest of October. There’s More Brewing...
Halloween may be stealing the spotlight, but it’s only part of what’s happening around Montgomery and the River Region this October. The calendar is packed with even more festivals, live music, sporting events, arts and entertainment, and plenty of reasons to get out and explore.
Don’t let the rest of October sneak past you. Check out our Events Calendar for even more ways to experience Montgomery and the River Region all month long.
