Get ready for a spooktacular season! We’ve rounded up the best Halloween events on Vancouver Island to ensure you and your family have a hauntingly good time this October. From eerie mini-golf to haunted houses, costume parties, and family-friendly festivities, there’s something for everyone. Mark your calendars and join all the ghoulish fun!
Featuring the Pumpkin King—Haunted Manor offers a spine-tingling twist on the classic mini-golf experience. Navigate your golf ball through an eerie 18-hole course set in a haunted manor with a ghoulish story to tell.
The third annual Halloween Market is back! Come and get ready for the spooky season! Shop for handmade items ranging from the spooky to the sweet. 50+ vendors, food trucks, and a sip & shop featuring Howl Brewing. Wicked DJs will be spinning a great selection of your favourite tracks with some spooky goodies mixed in throughout the day. Costumes encouraged! A portion of each admission will be donated to the Habitat Acquisition Trust.
Join Esquimalt Recreation and the Esquimalt Firefighters for a spooktacular Halloween evening! Step inside the truck bays for some spine-tingling sights, fantastic activities, and plenty of Halloween excitement.
The Esquimalt Lions will be running the concession, offering tasty treats like hot dogs, chips, and other delicious snacks available for purchase.
This Halloween Passion and Performance Arts Inc. is bringing you into their Haunted Mansion, an immersive horror experience. Haunted Mansion will kick off with an immersive dance spectacle running from 7:00-8:00 PM, with doors opening at 6:00 PM. The show will feature performers in dances of all levels from beginner to professional in an exciting evening filled with mystery and mayhem.
The party will kick off after the show completes at 8:00 PM. There will be dancing with music spun by DJ Marlon, a photo booth, games, a draglesque experience, incredible food and more.
Downtown Sidney will be closed to traffic for little ghosts, goblins, and princesses to enjoy a family trick-or-treating event on Halloween eve! Visit various businesses and treat stations around Sidney as well as many local merchants. Free fun for the entire family! 4:30 pm to 6 pm.
Festival of Fear has two main venues, Corn Maze of Horror featuring a Haunted House for kids in the Old West Town, and the Crazy Train. Family friendly fun during the day, but gets much spookier at night. Carnevil is Victoria’s most amazing 6,000 square foot Haunted House of terror (PG13). It is recommended to book your Carnevil ticket 60 to 90 minutes after your selected time for Festival of Fear.
WICKED WEEK will begin on October 30th with some Spooktacular FUN! Wicked Week is brought to you by our Government Street Partner Merchants and the Greater Victoria Festival Society.
Hauntvilles Horror has partnered with the Vancouver Island Exhibition for the 2024 Halloween Season!
Celebrate Halloween proper in DARK EIGHTIES style at The Dark Eighties Dance Party! The Dark Eighties DJS from Vancouver will be playing your favourite (and some more obscure) DARK 80s anthems until LATE on Halloween night! They’ve done parties in London, Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton NYC, Berlin, and even NZ + Australia. Now it’s finally time to bring this party to NANAIMO!
Enjoy horror themed visuals, vendors including Hexed Hats & Apothecary, free candy, good music, costume prizes, and spooky company. Dark 80’s, dark-rave, electro-goth, post-punk, darkwave, future pop, EBM, industrial, and aggrotech at a place that’s seen over 100 years of history in Nanaimo, BC Costumes are encouraged but not required. Take your photo against stunning black brick.
Dr. Frankenstein has been experimenting in the Museum’s coal mine, and seems to be up to something strange. Visit the Nanaimo Museum to catch glimpses of his lab, and help him find some body parts in a themed I Spy! Costumes are encouraged all month long. It’s Alive!! is fun for all ages and is included with admission by donation.
Join FREE family drop-in events at Country Club Centre from October 18 – 31. Snap your own Halloween photos at their farmyard styled pumpkin patch, view the LEGO® exhibition on Saturday, October 26, or dress up your little ones in costume and visit Country Club merchants for trick or treats this Halloween.
13th Nanoose Bay Halloween Walk at BumbleBees Farm. This Spooky creative event will be held over three nights, with proceeds going to two local organizations, The Ballenas Whalers Football Society and Nanoose Bay Elementary School.
Milner Gardens & Woodland’s all-new Scarecrow Spectacular brings more fall funfair to our community, providing another occasion for families to come together and make memories. Visitors are encouraged to dress up in costume, wander the Scarecrow Lane through the Haunted Gardens and vote on their favourite spooktacular scarecrow! Accompanied by a menu of harvest-themed food and beverage offerings and other festive activities, it’s sure to be a Graveyard Smash!
Halloween magic is happening with an exciting event for family fun and entertainment at the BC Forest Discovery Centre with 11 nights of Halloween fun! Activities each evening include crafts in the schoolhouse, train rides, trick-or-treat stations for the little ones, and live entertainment by Andy McCormack and the popular Kathy White Zombie Dancers.
From all of us at Lemon Tree Housekeeping, we wish you a safe and happy Halloween season filled with thrills, chills, and spooky delights. And when the ghoulish fun is over, let the team at Lemon Tree Housekeeping handle the post-festivity cleanup, proudly serving Victoria and Nanaimo, BC. Contact us today to book your house cleaning appointment.