Fall is our favorite season and we pack our weekends with trips to the Pumpkin Patch, Apple Picking, Fall Road Trips and of course Trunk-or-Treat events! They offer a great way to dress up in costume and have fun with our family in a laid back way!
If you haven’t participated in a Trunk-or-Treat event, you are really missing out! Mix together creatively decorated cars, daylight, candy and minimal walking from car to car and you’ve got the best parts of Halloween. Most of these events are FREE and children come dressed in costume.
Here’s a list of the best Trunk-or-Treating and Trick-or-Treating locations in Columbus! Be sure to click on the link for each event to view more details and updated information as things may change.
Trick-or-Treating Locations
*Trunk-or-Treating and Trick-or-Treating locations are listed by date!
LEGOLAND Discovery Center Columbus
Date: October 1-October 30, 2024
Location: LEGOLAND Discovery Center Columbus at Easton
Details: This not-too-spooky event is perfect for families looking for some indoor fun. Check out a haunted MINILAND, daily costume contests, mascot meet and greets, an ultimate pumpkin house and more. Ages 3-10.
Upper Arlington Fall Fest
Date: Sunday, October 6, 2024
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Location: Fancyburg Park
Details: Pick a pumpkin to carve into a spooky jack-o-lantern, dip your own caramel apple and create your own scarecrow! Additional attractions: games & live music, shelled corn pit, farm animal petting zoo, old-fashioned apple cider pressing, food vendors, and more.
Boo at the Zoo
Dates: 3 weekends in October this year! 13 candy stations around the zoo with lots of festive fun. A great event for your little ones!
Friday, October 11, 2024 – Sunday, October 13, 2024
Friday, October 18, 2024- Sunday, October 20, 2024
Friday, October 25, 2024- Sunday, October 27, 2024
Time: Friday: 5:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m., Saturday: 10:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m., Sunday: 10:00 a.m – 8:00 p.m. (included with zoo admission).
Location: Columbus Zoo and Aquarium
Details: Be sure to check the zoo website here for times and details. Don’t forget to check out Jessis’s Jack O Lantern Journey with a self guided tour of the enchanted path that includes all things pumpkin! This is located in Asia Quest.
Oakland’s Nursery Fall Specials
Date: Saturday, October 12 and 13, 2024 and Halloween Trick or Treat Costume Contest on Saturday, October 19, 2024. (This is for Columbus location only)
Time: See the website for updates on times!
Location: Oakland Nurseries
Details: Events include: Sales, door prizes, all-you-can-carry pumpkins, pig racing, musical entertainment, tractor-pulled hay rides, kids’ games, special guests, Oakland’s Fall Fair Forest, petting zoo, bounce house, gourmet food sampling, concessions, pumpkin & face painting and more!
Spooky Stockhands Trick or Treat with the Horses 2024
Date: Saturday, October 12, 2024
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Location: Trunk or Treat with the horses! There are four time slots available: 11 am to Noon, Noon to 1 pm, 1 pm to 2 pm, 2 pm to 3 pm.
Dublin Spooktacular
Dates: Thursday, October 17, 2024 – Friday, October 18, 2024
Time: 4:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. on Thursday and 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. on Friday
Details: The two-day event will be spread out in Coffman Park providing even more fun for everyone. Ghosts and goblins will enjoy returning favorites like the Trunk or Treat Trail, hay maze, crafts, and live performances.
Hilliard Trunk-or-Treat Car Show
Date: Saturday, October 19, 2024
Time: 11:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Location: Hilliard Presbyterian Church (3600 Leap Road, Hilliard)
Details: Trick or Treat: 1:00 – 3:00
Spectators & Trick or Treaters Free. Awards: 3:00
50 Awards including Best Costumes & Best Decorations
Boo & Brew
Date: Saturday, October 19, 2024
Time: 2:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Location: At Polaris Fashion Place – outside in the Polaris Lifestyle Center near The Cheesecake Factory.
Details: Enjoy live music, food, beer, family-friendly Fall activities and so much more. All for a great cause!
New Albany Parks and Recreation Trunk or Treat
Date: Saturday, October 19, 2024
Time: 3:00-6:00 pm
Location: Bevelhymer Park
Details: Come out in your best costumes and enjoy this free community event at Bevelhymer Park. There will be over 60 trunks to visit, inflatables, performers, pumpkin carving demonstrations, food trucks and MORE!
CC Church Fall Festival 2024
Date: Saturday, October 19, 2024
Time: 4:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Location: Christian Community Church
Details: Come join in the fun with inflatables, hayrides and more!
Date: October 24, 2024
Time: 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Location: Old Pickerington
Details: Halloween fun for all ages. Ghost tours, story-telling, hayrides, trick or treating through the Olde Pickerington Village businesses, haunted museum, haunted house, food, and more.
Great Goblin Festival
Date: October 25, 2024
Time: 5:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Location: Academy Park in Gahanna
Details: Back by popular demand, this event includes all of your favorite Halloween and fall activities including a trick-or-treat trail, light shows, live entertainment, and lots of fun surprises!
Halloween on The Green, Worthington
Date: Friday, October 25, 2024
Time: 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Location: Old Worthington Green
Details: Come trick or treat on the green with various vendors! Arts and Crafts Stations and more! See details on page 3.
Scarysville in Marysville
Date: Saturday, October 26, 2024
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Location: Uptown Marysville
Details: The streets of Uptown “Scarysville” come alive with Halloween fun! Kids can wear their costumes and visit Uptown merchants for candy and other goodies. Sponsored by the Historic Marysville Business District Association.
Boo Off Broadway
Date: Saturday, October 26, 2024
Time: Noon – 3:00 p.m.
Location: Grove City- in the Park Street Promenade
Details: The event kicks off with the costume parade and continues with games, activities, food and some special guest.
Genoa Fall Festival
Date: October 26, 2024
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m
Location: Located at the fire station, adjacent to the Township facility.
Details: Formerly known as “Trick or Treat Village”, a re-imagined Fall Festival will continue on beloved community traditions and add a few fun new elements too:
-
- Genoa Township Firefighters will host a haunted (fire) house.
- Bring a bucket or bag for kids to collect candy from “Halloween Town” and exhibitor booths
Trick or Treat Trail Prairie Township
Date: Saturday, October 26, 2024
Time: 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Location: Westland High School Parking Lot
Cost: Free
Details: This is a free walk-up event where families can receive candy from local businesses. Food trucks will be onsite and the special guests are the Central Ohio Ghostbusters.
Trunk or Treat at Grace Polaris Church
Date: Sunday, October 27, 2024
Time: 4:00-6:00 pm
Location: Main Campus
Details: This event is free for the community to attend. A live DJ (courtesy of 104.9 The River) will be playing tunes, there are games, lots of candy, a real firetruck, bounce house, hot dogs, refreshments and more!
Candy by the Carload in Powell
Date: Sunday, October 27, 2024
Time: 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Location: Seldom Seem Park
Details: The parking lot will be transformed into a trick-or-treater’s treasure chest as local businesses and organizations set up booths and car trunks filled with candy, toys and other Halloween goodies. Must register for 15 minute spot!
Hilliard Trunk-or-Treat: With Movement Church
Date: Sunday, October 27, 2024
Time: 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Location: New Location- 2881 Walker Road in Hilliard
Details: It is a safe, easy environment for young kids to dress up, have fun, and get a lot of candy. Participating cars back into parking spots and pass out candy from their trunks. Young children can walk just a few hundred feet and fill their bags in a quick, safe trip.
Tots Trick or Treat, Pickerington
Date: October 31, 2023
Time: 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Location: City Hall
Details: Children 2-5 years old accompanied by an adult may wear their favorite costumes as they walk through the decorated City Hall to see staff dressed in costumes while receiving a few goodies.
Hello,
Please correct the location of the October 21st Trick or Treat Trail event with Preservation Parks of Delaware County. The event does not take place at Deer Haven Park this year, the correct location for the Trick or Treat Trail is at Gallant Woods Park located at 2151 Buttermilk Hill Road in Delaware, Ohio 43015.
We love that you are advertising events to your amazing moms. Please make this correction so everybody wins. Thanks!
Thanks so much for letting us know! We got it updated!
Thank you for the update, is it 20th or 21st?