Halloween In Yorkshire Spooktacular events for all ages
Over 50 Halloween events across Yorkshire, plenty of wonderful family fun, pumpkin festivals and picking and special events for teens and grwon ups - definitely not for the smaller family members.
Halloween For Families
Pumpkin Carving, Ghost Trains, Haunted Houses and Spooky Crafts are among some of the Yorkshire great family fun events this Halloween half term.
Halloween For Tweens and Teens
Blase, too-cool-for-school teens and tweens in your family, you'll get a reaction and have great fun with them at Yorkshire's scary Halloween events. Please not minimum ages listed.
Halloween For Grown Ups
Just for over 18's! Prepare to be scared or have fun at a Halloween club night.
Pumpkin Patches and Festivals
Pick Your Own Pumpkin Patches in Yorkshire, what could be more fun than finding your special pumpkin out in the field and bringing it back ready to carve.
Halloween In Yorkshire
For Families
Whitby Abbey Illuminated
24th October to 1st November 2025
Cast light on a dark history this Halloween! See Bram Stoker's inspiration in a new light as Whitby Abbey is bathed in dramatic illuminations once again. Have your camera at the ready as you explore the gothic splendour of the ruins lit up with all the colours of the rainbow.
The Forbidden Corner - Halloween Days
25th to 31st October 2025
Put your detective skills to the test with our special Halloween Trail. As you explore, look out for hidden clues and ghoulish riddles waiting to be solved, a perfect adventure for families to enjoy together.
Creepy and Kooky at Mother Shipton's Cave
25th October to 2nd November 2025
Inspired by the world’s most delightfully dark family. Explore themed displays, take haunting photos, and meet live actors portraying a gruesome grandma, a mysterious mother, a dashing darkly-dressed gentleman, and their gothic daughter with a stare that chills…
Burton Agnes Halloween Trail
25th October to 2nd November 2025
Alongside the Halloween Trail, romp in the spine-tingling woodland adventure playground with its nine fabulous swings, tower with corkscrew slide and double zip wire and enjoy refreshments in the Stableyard.
William's Den Trick or Treat Street
24th to 31st October 2025
In the shadows of Trick or Treat Street, a new mystery has emerged. Strange things are happening and a series of spooky characters have appeared, each with their own story to tell.
Betty's Halloween Treats and Gifts
As the nights draw in, spooky things are lurking in the darkness. Cobwebs crafted from cocoa. Frogs forged from the finest chocolate. The mischievous cackling crunch of that most dastardly of biscuits, the Lebkuchen Witch. We're almost too terrified to eat them. Almost...
The Halloween Adventure At Stockeld Park
4th, 5th, 11th, 12th, 18th 19th October Daily from 25th October to 2nd November 2025
Join us for spooky adventures when Stockeld Park comes alive for the Autumn Half Term! The witches will be here to guide you as you follow the new skeleton trail! Every paying child will also get to pick a free pumpkin from our pumpkin patch!
Swithen's Farm Pumpkin Festival by Night
24th, 25th and 26th October 2025
Spooky adventures await this October, as Swithens Farm comes alive at night! With eerie lights, glowing pumpkins, and a spooktacular atmosphere at the Pumpkin Festival by Night, it’s one spooky evening you won’t want to miss!
Halloween Ghost Train at Whistlestop Valley
31st October and 1st November 2025
Are you brave enough to take a ride on the Whistlestop Valley Ghost Train?!
On the evening of your visit, you will be booked onto a specific train departure time which will transport you from Clayton West Station to... Who Knows Where?!
Age 5+
Magic Mike's Halloween Show
29th October 2025
A magical panto style show full of ghostly fun for the whole family. Help Magic Mike & Count Chuckula keep an eye on the Spookometer just in case anything un-toward should happen.
Halloween Party at Graves Park
24th and 25th October 2025
The spooky evening for a kids Halloween Party like no other! Included in the price - UV disco in our barn, party games, dance competitions brought to you by Sheffield Kids Parties, pumpkin picking in the moon light, and if you dare to take the woodland walk up to see Wilma the Witch in the haunted woods.
Glowalk at Sandall Park
24th October 2025
For one night only - join the glowalk, discover the gloomy woods, play ont eh inflatables, browse the stalls and enjoy the food and drink.
Free Days Out in October Half Term
Free and low cost events and days out for families in October half term school holidays, autumnal fun, halloween fun and just great memory making days out.
Spooks at Thornton Hall Country Park
11th, 12th, 18th, 19th, Daily from 25th October to 2nd November 2025
New for 2025: The Ringmaster’s Challenge, A circus mystery awaits… will YOU unlock the secret word and join the spooky troupe? Mischief Manor – Creepier than ever. Trick or Treat Street is back, Pumpkin Patch Magic + Pumpkin Carving Mayhem
Trick or Treat at Ryedale Folk Museum
31st October 2025
Visit the museum’s historic homes, knock on the doors and enter if you dare. With treats for everyone, plus the odd little trick along the way, there’s plenty of fun to be had this Halloween.
Halloween Half Term at Brodsworth Hall
25th October to 2nd November 2025
Gather your little monsters for a ghoulishly good day out at Brodsworth Hall this half-term. Follow the quest to solve creepy clues, and gather round to listen to spooky stories.
Halloween Spooktacular at Piglets Adventure Farm
Selected Dates from 11th to 31st October 2025
Brand new for 2025, Spooktacular is bursting with spooky fun for little ones! From petrifying portraits and a frightfully fun stage show to the all-new spooky Build a Teddy Bear experience, there’s magic around every corner.
Halloween Trail at Thorp Perrow Arboretum
4th October to 2nd November 2025
Follow the Halloween Trail to uncover tombs, skeletons & plenty of spooky surprises.
Cloaks on, broomsticks ready… are you brave enough?
Vampire Hunter at Murton Park
30th and 31st October 2025
New for 2025. Do you have what it takes to find the Vampire? Join the Head Vampire Hunter and meet the villagers, to see if you can work out who is actually batty about blood! Cryptic stories, misleading tales, and a whole lot of fun!
Free Days Out in October Half Term
Free and low cost events and days out for families in October half term school holidays, autumnal fun, halloween fun and just great memory making days out.
Web'oween 2025 at Web Adventure Park
Selected Dates from 11th October to 2nd November 2025
Watch Dazzling Darren’s Halloween-themed shows, whiz around unlimited fairground rides, dive into our award-winning indoor play, hop across giant bouncing pillows, battle it out in Laser Lightyear, meet our adorable animals, and feast on fresh handmade pizzas.
Yorkshire Halloween Festival
23rd October to 31st October 2025
Hosted by Made in Yorkshire, The Yorkshire Halloween Festival is a celebration of creativity and interactivity suitable for all the family! Local artisans and workshops all with an autumnal and halloween feel in York.
Spooky Sewerby
25th October to 2nd November 2025
Visitors can enjoy spooky magic shows, autumnal crafting , face painting , and interactive storytelling adventures with Rusticus Theatre, including ghost hunting , wizarding quests and magical trick-or-treat trails.
Spooky Story Walk at Scampston Hall
30th and 31st October 2025
Completely family friendly, join us after hours and listen to a fabulous fun story in various locations round the grounds of Scampston. You might even run into a ghost or two!
Gentle Halloween At Dreamery Gardens
18th October to 2nd November 2025
Enjoy the Dreamery Gardens and museum into dusk and dark as the nights draw in. we celebrate the season with lanterns, lights, and torches in the gardens, and our autumn grottos.
Shriek Week at Boston Park
18th to 31st October 2025
Enjoy the Halloween pumpkin hunt around the Maize Maze and pumpkin carving. Make a witches potion and enjoy the Halloween disco.
Out Of This World Sheffield
25th October 2025
Now in its 11th year, Sheffield's Out of This World is a free city centre event that celebrates all things otherworldly.
Expect a host of street entertainment, demonstrations, comic con characters, fancy dress, family activities, fairground rides, street food stalls and more.
Halloween at WX
25th October to 2nd November 2025
Enter behind the curtain if you dare…and step into a spooky graveyard experience with photo opportunities galore! Bring the kids down and enjoy some free family fun: Crazy Golf, Spooky Cinema, Craft Activities.
Halloween Outdoor Cinema at Harewood House
24th to 26th October 2025
Three Halloween Films over three nights hosted outdoors at Harewood House, grab your camping chairs and blankets.
Halloween at Agility York
31st October 2025
Halloween Spooktacular Family Party! Halloween games and ninja session with our resident ghouls and ghosts! Halloween jelly mocktail for every child.
Huddersfield Pumpkin Trail
27th to 31st October 2025
Calling all little monsters and their grown-up ghouls! Join the spooktacular adventure! Download the Hello Huddersfield App to get started and set off on a creepy quest to discover carved pumpkins hidden around town!
Wizard Spectacular - Bradford
31st October 2025
The city centre will be transformed with enchanting performances and interactive adventures for all ages. Cheer on heroes in the Battle of the Wizards, a thrilling showdown of good versus evil packed with comedy, illusions, and audience fun.
Haunted Hall at Barley Hall
27th to 31st October 2025
an evening of spine-tingling storytelling as part of York Ghost Week. Step into the shadows of history and gather in the Haunted Hall for an unforgettable night of spooky tales and haunted folklore.
Spooky Halloween Trail at Austerfield Mosaic Trust
26th October 2025
As Halloween approaches head to Austerfield Mosaic Trust for the Spooky Halloween Trail. Follow the lit woodland trail with a few surprises on the way
Refreshments included and a goody bag for children
Hallowscream Express at North Bay Railway
29th to 31st October 2025
Designed to be spooky, not terrifying, your journey begins at Scareborough (Peasholm) Station, the resident storyteller will weave a frightful tale of mystery and mischief to set the scene. Beware—every legend has a grain of truth…
Halifax Halloween Trail
20th to 31st October 2025
Grab your FREE trail map from the Discover Halifax Hub and see if you can spot all the spooky surprises across town.
Pumpkin Trail at East Riddlesden Hall
25th October to 2nd November 2025
Creaking floorboards and shadowy corridors make the Hall the perfect setting for a spooky Halloween hunt! Outside in the gardens, real pumpkins are hiding, can you brave the chilly weather to find them all and uncover the hidden word?
October Half Term Family Days Out
Yorkshire is packed full of events in October half term, halloween and autumnal adventure and plenty of options which are not halloween related.
Spooky Skeleton Scarytales at Lotherton
25th October to 2nd November 2025
Follow the twisted fairytales trail through the haunting grounds. Come face-to-face with a series of mischievous skeletons – making themselves at home and reimagining classic tales with a Halloween twist.
Frightwater Valley at Lightwater Valley
11th, 18th, 19th, Daily from 25th October to 2nd November 2025
Head to the Valley of the Clowns for scare mazes and creepy clown trails to trick-or-treat fun and spooky shows, there’s fun for the whole family!
Star Walk Halloween
31st October and 1st November 2025
Star Walk is back this Halloween! Heroes and villains will swap the big screen for Trinity Walk’s malls in Wakey this half term as the massive, free cosplay event
Witch and Wizard Magical Trail at Tropical Butterfly House
18th October to 2nd November 2025
Look out for spellbinding creatures and characters lurking along the Witches and Wizards trail. Conjure up your inner witch or wizard to crack the code hidden amongst the five colourful potion bottles and graduate from the School of Magic (and Mischief)!
Halloween at Yorkshie Wildlife Park
25th October to 2nd November 2025
A spook-tacular scarefest in the heart of South Yorkshire! Packed with fearful family fun, live Halloween shows, colourful costumed characters and plenty of things that go bump in the park.
Spider Festival at Askham Bryan Wildlife Centre
25th October to 2nd November 2025
Get tangled up in a web of fun this October half term at Askham Bryan Wildlife Park’s Spider Festival – a week-long celebration packed with eight legs of excitement for the whole family!
October Half Term Family Days Out
19th to 31st October 2025
With something for every member of the family; witches, coffin, skeletons (just why is one in a pot?) and some poor soul whose punishment is to spend forevermore in the stocks, are scattered around the castle ready to make you jump!
Free Days Out in October Half Term
Free and low cost events and days out for families in October half term school holidays, autumnal fun, halloween fun and just great memory making days out.
What's On in November
Mad March Days Out in Yorkshire. Ideas for great days out in March in Yorkshire, discover springtime in Yorkshire, plan a mothers day for everyone to remember and the start of festival season.
Halloween For Teens and Tweens in Yorkshire
Doncaster Fear Factory
Selected Dates between 10th October and 1st November 2025
The multi award winning Doncaster Fear Factory returns in 2025 for 6 Years of Fear. With seven scare areas, including three which are new for this year. It is The Fear Factory!
Age 13+, parental discretion advised.
Frightmare Trail at Leeds Scare Trails
25th October 2025
The Frightmare Trail at the Leeds Scare Trails - One night only, using live and un-dead actors, this interactive Halloween House of Horrors comes to life.
Age 13+
Hallowtween at York Maze
25th to 31st October 2025
Calling all fearless 10-15 year olds, and adults of a more nervous disposition...Venture into a new dimension of spine tingling fun this Halloween, as we invite you to explore 4 of our farm's most mysterious buildings, each with its own twisted history you will discover for yourself once you step inside...
Age 10+
Yorkshire Scaregrounds
Selected Dates between 10th October and 2nd November 2025
The YSGSP is designed to thrill, scare and entertain you with live actors, authentic sets, atmospheric lighting and sound and static and moving props.
Age 12+
Mad Alice's Ghost Train
19th and 26th October, 2nd November 2025
Join Mad Alice as she takes you on a spine-tingling ghost train ride through the haunted heart of the North York Moors. Step aboard a one-of-a-kind journey and experience an unforgettable hour of eerie adventure.
Age 14+
Once Upon A Nightmare at Lotherton Hall
24th to 31st October 2025
Brave enough to enter Lotherton after dark?What if your fairy tales weren’t so ‘happily ever after’? Thrills and chills for fearless 8 to 15 year olds and apprehensive adults.
Leeds Scare Maze
23rd October to 2nd November 2025
New for 2025, Leeds first city centre scare maze. It’s a fully immersive journey through darkness, suspense, and fear, featuring live actors, cinematic sets, and carefully crafted scares designed to keep your heart racing from start to finish.
Age 12+
Screams at Thornton Hall
10th, 11th, 17th, 18th, 24th, 25th, 31st October and 1st November 2025
Three live scare attractions, one scare zone, live entertainment, bar and street food.
Grab your mates for a twisted night of terror.
Halloween Cellar Tours at Temple Newsam
25th October to 2nd November 2025
Dare you venture into the cellars of Temple Newsam House?! Explore the dark and scary route below the creaking floorboards, what horrors will await you?! (Cellar Tours are an add-on to regular entry)
Age 12+
Rainy Days Out Guide
Where to go when the rain is pouring down, it's cold or you just feel like being indoors.
Scream Time at Wentworth Woodhouse
20th October to 2nd November 2025
Screamtime is an immersive 1km scare trail for ages 15+, winding through castles and historic houses—inside and out—packed with terrifying live actors and chilling effects. Halfway, discover our ‘scare village’ with tasty food, drinks, games, and rides.
Age 15+
Halloween In Yorkshire
Events for ages 16+
The Forgotten Corner
Selected Dates between 17th October and 1st November 2025
This Halloween, the Forbidden Corner will be transformed into a terrifying labyrinth of twisted trails, lurking shadows, and spine chilling surprises.
Venture into the heart of darkness and confront the unknown, if you dare.
Age 16+
Hallowscream at York Maze
Selected Dates between 10th October and 1st November 2025
Hallowscream at York Maze is a terrifyingly entertaining night of fear and fun with 5 separate live-action haunted house attractions.
Age 16+, under 18's must be accompanied by an adult
Ghost Tales at Scarborough Castle
30th October to 1st November 2025
Do you dare explore Scarborough Castle in the dark this Halloween? Join our storytellers as they guide you on a journey through the past, with tales of ghosts, supernatural sightings and horrors from history.
Age 16+
The Scare Train at KWVR
31st October 2025
Will you have the courage to face your fears head-on? How many will escape the clutches of the nightmarish entities that haunt every corner? Prepare for an evening of intense frights and thrills that will test the limits of your bravery.
Age 16+, under 18's must be accompanied by an adult.
Celluloid Screams
2025 Dates TBC
Celluloid Screams is the Sheffield Horror Film Festival offering four days of the best in classic and contemporary horror cinema... the festival takes place at the Showroom Cinema.
Dungeon Lates at York Dungeon
Every Saturday
Running Saturdays from 6.30pm and lasting for 60 minutes, you and your despicable group will be led through our Dungeon Shows, but this time with even more twists and turns and saucier jokes than usual, you won’t know whether to laugh or scream!
Age 18+
Psycho In concert
31st October 2025
See Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho along with Bernard Herrmann’s chilling soundtrack performed live by the Orchestra of Opera North, if you dare…
Age 15+
Thackray Lates Frights At The Museum
30th October 2025
This Halloween, Thackray Lates return with an evening takeover exploring the history and science behind our fears. From peeing in public to being buried alive, being scared of spiders to being horrified by heights, find out the effect phobias have on our bodies.
Age 18+
Dark Saga Tours at Jorvik Saga Tours
30th and 31st October 2025
Norsemen were ferocious in battle, and many of their legends were bloodthirsty and brutal, too. We’ve picked the bloodiest and scariest sagas featuring Gods and monsters for our Halloween special adult-only tours. Are you brave enough to join us?
Age 16+
Free Days Out in October Half Term
Free and low cost events and days out for families in October half term school holidays, autumnal fun, halloween fun and just great memory making days out.
What's On in November
Mad March Days Out in Yorkshire. Ideas for great days out in March in Yorkshire, discover springtime in Yorkshire, plan a mothers day for everyone to remember and the start of festival season.