Spooktacular Halloween Activities in New Jersey
Our recommendations for the best New Jersey Halloween events and Shows: Features "scary" and "not so scary" frightful shows, events, and parades.
Halloween in New Jersey has many "scary" and "not so scary" frightful shows, events, attractions, and parades that can be enjoyed by the whole family.
We have put on our costumes and headed into the dark of night with a full moon to search haunted houses, cemeteries, and pumpkin patches for ghosts, goblins, and skeletons to come up with the best Halloween events for families with kids. Caution: many of these events are Soooo scary that they are not recommended for children under 10. Suggest you call ahead to confirm age appropriateness.
Stay tuned --- we will be updating our New Jersey Halloween Events list as the event sponsors confirm this year's events.
North Jersey 2024 Very Scary Halloween Events
Not recommended for children under 10
Brighton Asylum
2 Brighton Ave
Passaic, NJ
Weekends Events begin Friday, September 13, Incuding Halloween Thursday, October 31, and end on Saturday, November 2, 2024
Brighton Asylum is a massive walk-through dark attraction filled with terrifying live actors, horror movie style scares, and Hollywood quality special effects. This horror show takes place in a 4,000 sq.ft complex that housed the sick and mentally disabled back in the mid 1940's.
Tickets can be purchased online
The 13th Hour Haunted House & Escape Rooms
Open weekends beginning Saturday, September 21st, on Halloween Thursday, October 31, and ending on Friday November 1st, 2024.
105 West Dewey Ave,
Wharton NJ
During days the haunted house is open all the escape rooms also have live actors to add to the immersion. Their escape rooms offer this uniqueness to the escape rooms. Experience 13th hours Haunted Hatchets! Throw hatchets at our custom targets in an exciting and thrilling way. They will kill the lights with their glow in the dark hatchets and targets. Must be 13 years of age or older. Under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. No open-toed shoes.
Haunted Wild West Fest
Selected days starting Friday, October 4th and ending on Sunday, October 27th, 2024
Wildwest City
50 Lackawanna Drive
Stanhope, NJ
Visit their site to learn more
Wild West City will feature a Halloween adventure, both day for younger cowpokes and at night for folks with a stronger constitution! The day program features our classic Wild West City shows with a Halloween twist. But when the sun goes down the fear goes up with haunted walk through of our western ghost town and a haunted train ride through the badlands on the outskirt of town.
Wagner Farm Arboretum's Brite Nites
Fridays & Saturdays only: October 11-12, 18-19, and 25-26, 2024
Wagner Farm Arboretum
197 Mountain Ave.
Warren Twp, NJ 07059.
Halloween-themed "Brite Nites" event features a spectacular display of intricately and creatively hand-carved and LED-lit pumpkin scenes.
North Jersey 2024 Not So Scary Halloween Events
Trap Door Escape Room
34A Speedwell Ave.
Morristown, NJ
Open seven days/week
Unlock the mystery of the Day of the Dead holiday with a fun and interactive experience for all ages. Solve puzzles, and light candles on the Ofrenda to complete the family tribute. Day of the Dead is designed for all ages.
Jack O' Lantern Experience
Selected dates, From September 20th to November 3rd, 2024
Skylands Stadium
94 Championship Place
Augusta, NJ
Experience Pure Halloween Madness, Skylands Stadium will be transformed with over 6,000+ Jack-O-Lanterns, for an Original 45-minute Walk-Thru Spectacular. Sussex County's Family Entertainment Destination is set ablaze with spectacular visuals, and a thrilling Fall Festival. Perfect for families, date nights, and lovers of Halloween spirit.
AddamsFest Windows of Westfield
Town wide
Westfield, NJ
Throughout the month of October 2024 Westfield will be transformed to all things Charles Addams with family themed events, movie screenings, exhibits and much more -- all re-imagined for a pandemic-friendly approach that allows for distancing With something for everyone, AddamsFest promises to be a whimsy-filled festival honoring the man, his legacy and the town where it all started.
Annual Pumpkin Patch Train
Weekends, October 5th, 6th, 12th, and 13th, 2024
Whippany Railway Museum
1 Railroad Plaza
Whippany, NJ
Join in the Halloween fun at the Whippany Railway Museum onboard "The Pumpkin Patch Train" ! The 10-mile, 45-minute round trip from Whippany to Roseland and return is the perfect way to spend a Fall afternoon with the family. Your ticket entitles you to pick your own pumpkin after the ride at our Pumpkin Patch and enjoy the seasonal fun. Ticket also includes a pumpkin decorating kit. Children of all ages are encouraged to come dressed in their Halloween costumes, where they can mingle with our zombies and ghosts, helping to make the train a spooky sight.
"Dinosaurs After Dark"
Friday and Saturday Evenings, October 4 through October 26, 2024
Field Station Dinosaurs
40 Fort Lee Road
Leonia, NJ
A spooky, funny and thrilling adventure for the whole family featuring a lantern lit tour of the park, games and activities where everyone is a winner, and new for 2024, The Dinosaur Seance, a mysterious thrill ride into the shadowy realm of dinosaur ghosts. America's only Mesozoic medium and Cretaceous conjurer will be our guide as we journey into the Jurassic (Spirit) World and summon the long-lost spectres of the prehistoric dearly departed. Sometimes scary, sometimes funny but always surprising, the show features new puppets created by the acclaimed fabricators at Palmieri Puppets.
Happy Haunts
Saturdays, October 5, 12, 19, 26, 2024; 10am - 1pm
Red Mill Museum Village
56 Main Street
Clinton, New Jersey
Cost: $30 per family
A spooky fun and family-friendly abbreviated Haunted Red Mill experience especially for "Kids" of all ages.
A child friendly Haunted Red Mill experience. Includes less frightening haunted tour, hay ride, cider and donuts and one pumpkin per family. Rain Date is the Sunday after each dated ticket.
Jefferson Township Haunted House
October 19, 20, 2024
Camp Jefferson
81 Weldon Road
Lake Hopatcong, NJ
Jefferson Township Haunted House is an annual community-run Halloween event that began in 1988 and is held in Lake Hopatcong, NJ. The original "Haunted House" was an abandoned structure located on Prospect Point and was formerly a favorite attraction for summer visitors at the Lake. It was destroyed by fire in the Spring of 1909.
The "new" Jefferson Township Haunted House in Camp Jefferson returns and is open for two nights The Spooktacular spirits will inhabit the completely transformed Community Lodge where eerie scenarios will unfold in dark and scary rooms causing you to laugh and scream your way through a diverse gathering of ghosts, ghouls, serial killers, random creatures, and things that go bump in the night! Spirits will be roaming the outside grounds.
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