Halloween Guide for Broward County
Can you smell the candy corn? Halloween is HERE and we’re ready for it! Time to talk costumes, parties, pumpkins and spooky fun. Don’t miss a minute of the action with our 2025 Halloween Guide. We will continue to update this guide throughout October. Be sure to check back OFTEN or subscribe to get our newsletter!
Featured Broward Halloween Events:
Crayola Experience
Screamin’ Green Hauntoween is back at the Crayola Experience. Creep your way through spooky, family fun! Screamin’ Green Hauntoween is back! From Sept. 20 – Oct. 31, come experience SPOOKtacular family fun and WITCHtacular crafts. Creep through our MONSTERific attractions while collecting ghoulish clues for our Scavenger Hunt!
Flamingo Gardens
Harvest Festival Weekends at Flamingo Gardens celebrates the arrival of fall in south Florida. Each Harvest Festival weekend will have a theme of its own and guests are encouraged to dress up to fit the week’s theme. Each weekend will also feature entertainment, fun activities, a costume contest, and specialty foods of fall.
Gatorland
Gatorland® brings back its family-friendly Gators, Ghosts and Goblins™ daytime Halloween event for the seventh year! Enjoy spooky fun, live shows, meet-and-greets, a kids costume parade, and one-of-a-kind adventures across three weekends in October. Halloween fun is for everyone. Click here for dates, details, and all the frightful festivities.
Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science
Come in costume as the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science puts a spin on Halloween! During the 9th Annual Spooky Science Monster Mash on October 25, the whole family can enjoy a day filled with spine-tingling STEM fun. From radical chemistry reactions to live science stage shows and eerie experiments in the Mad Science Lab, there are spooky surprises in store throughout the museum. Click here for info.
Pumpkins, Paws and Protectors at Museum of Discovery and Science
Pumpkins, Paw and Protectors: Halloween takes over MODS with costumes, misty bubbles, selfies with Spooky Spot, Monster Mash music, a Halloween Makerspace, creepy crawly animals, “Frightening Flights,” haunted village creations, pumpkin decorating (Oct. 25 only), community heroes in Touch-a-Truck (Oct. 25 only) and PAW Patrol: Adventure Play. Costumes encouraged; no masks or toy weapons. For details, visit mods.org.
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Other Halloween Events:
- Halloween Costume Party @ Marta-Beth Friedman Stirling Road Branch Library
- Sorta Scary Night @ Saw Palmetto
- Fall Festival @ Tradewinds Park
- Nightmare in the Park @ Synder Park
- LauderBOO @ Synder Park
- Howl-at-the-Moon Halloween Festival @ Humane Society of Broward
- Lauderdale Lakes Halloween Spooktacular @ Vincent Torres Memorial Park
- Pumpkins & Palm Trees @ Las Olas Oceanside Park
- Boo Bash @ ArtsPark
- Trick or Trot 5K @ Sunrise Civic Center Amphitheater
- Oktoberfest @ Coral Springs City Hall
- Thrills & Chills @ Coral Springs Gymnasium
- Haunted Hot Rods Car Show @ Old Davie School
- Night Hike: Things That Go Bump in the Night @ Long Key Natural Area
- Funtober: Spiny Orb Weaver Haunts & Things @ Fern Forest Nature Center