The Best 2023 Halloween Events for KIDS around Salt Lake City

BooLights is Salt Lake City’s destination for not-so-spooky friends, frights, and lights.

Families with kids will enjoy the zoo after dark with themed light displays and animalized Halloween entertainment and activities.

Location:
Utah’s Hogle Zoo

DATES:
October 4-7, 11-14, 19-21, 25-29 (after-hours 6:30-9:30 PM) | BooLights Neurodiversity Celebration: October 11 | BooLights Dia de los Muertos: October 29

Want more Halloween fun for all ages at your BooLights visit?

BooLights will add trick-or-treating and more activities to your BooLights ticket every Monday.

Location:
Utah’s Hogle Zoo

DATES:
October 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 (after-hours 6:30-9:30 PM

The Haunted Halloween Haven is a free, family-friendly haunted attraction that welcomes visitors of all ages.

Regardless of the weather conditions, the spirits will be attuned to your presence!

Location:
Haunted Halloween Haven

DATES:
Daily in October, 7:30 PM- 10:30 PM

Join Captain Wobbegong in his hunt to repair his wrecked ship, or will you join Lieutenant Jaqueline Smasher in her mission to destroy all pumpkins and squash the pirate plague on the seas?

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Location:
Loveland Living Planet Aquarium

DATES:
Fridays-Mondays | October 6-30 | 12 -6 PM

Nature Storytime is a member-only program that includes a special storybook reading and activity. This is a fun moment, especially for your toddler, before the aquarium opens.

Don’t miss the Halloween special: Spooky Storytime, featuring the book Captain Starfish.

by Davina Bell and Allison Colpoys.

Location:
Loveland Living Planet Aquarium

DATES:
October 31

During the Scarecrow Festival, families will enjoy the beautiful autumn colors in the expansive 50-acre gardens and dozens of imaginative scarecrows built and submitted by the community. 

Location:
Thanksgiving Point

DATES:
October 16 – 21, 9 AM – 6 PM

It’s everyone’s favorite time of year! Walk through a spooky-themed 8.5-acre outdoor sculpture park and indoor museums.

There will be goodie bags for each child who attends.

Location:
Ogden’s Eccles Dinosaur Park

DATES:
October 16, 19, 20, 21, 23, 26, 27, 28, 30.

Get spooky and celebrate Halloween with the whole family at the annual Witches Breakfast!

Guests will enjoy a delicious breakfast, fall activities, and meet some witchy visitors.

Make Witches Breakfast a Halloween tradition that your family will treasure for years to come!

Location:
Thanksgiving Point

DATES:
October 21

Kids will enjoy an afternoon filled with bewitching brews, spellbinding treats, and a dash of mystery.

Make sure they grab their broomsticks and don their finest wizard robes to create unforgettable memories!

Location:
Discovery Gateway Children’s Museum

DATES:
October 21, 11 AM

Halloween Hoot is a spooktacular night with the birds!

This family-friendly event is great for all ages and will have different crafts and activities.

Location:
Utah’s Hogle Zoo

DATES:
October 27, 28.

Get ready for two thrilling evenings of outdoor entertainment, minus the scares!

The agenda features a variety of engaging activities, such as embarking on an early evening walk called the “Crepuscular Creep” along the trails of Ogden Nature Center. During this walk, you’ll encounter Ogden Nature Center teacher-naturalists who have transformed into native Utah animals, each with a captivating story to share. You’ll also have the chance to meet live owls, spiders, and snakes, participate in games, crafts, and campfire storytelling, explore the Spider Web Crawl up close, encounter a mad scientist and a fortune teller, take a flashlight-guided “Squeak-n-Sneak Walk,” and much more!

Location:
Ogden Nature Center

DATES:
October 27, 28.

During the October PNO, kids will conduct “boo-tacular” experiments that include racing ghost balloons, misty dry ice, and glowing pumpkin eruptions.

Each PNO includes approximately 2 hours of hands-on science plus dinner (pizza, juice pouches, and fresh veggies). This is a drop-off class; parents and children not enrolled are not permitted to attend.

Location:
Little Beakers – Sandy, UT

DATES:
October 27, 6 PM- 8:30 PM

During this event, kids will play games on the Play Patio (weather permitting) and find the characters throughout the museum.

They will also make a fun art project and then join a Treehouse Troupe production of “Ananse the Spider” in the Storybook Theater at 6:30 or 7:15 p.m. A gift bag will be provided for each child at the end of the event!

Location:
Treehouse Children’s Museum

DATES:
October 27, 6 PM- 8 PM

Make sure to pack your comfiest blanket or camping chair and dress in costume for a Halloween-themed light show on the EECO stage!

This event includes Aquarium Access from 6:30–8:30 PM, trick-or-treating, illuminated stomp lights, and food trucks on the plaza, ending with a musical light show at 9:00 PM.

Location:
Loveland Living Planet Aquarium

DATES:
October 27. 6:30- 10 PM

Families can join the Latin American holiday Día de Muertos at Thanksgiving Point!

Members of the community are invited to build an altar (or ofrenda), inviting a loved one to enjoy the fragrance of marigolds and delicious pan de muerto (bread of the dead). A community ofrenda will be available at the event to write notes or share mementos in celebration of souls no longer on Earth.

Location:
Thanksgiving Point

DATES:
October 28, 10 AM- 8 PM

Make sure you and your family seize the opportunity to enjoy a delightfully eerie and fun-packed Halloween day at The Leonardo!

You’ll find a range of engaging, interactive activities taking place throughout the museum all day long. These activities include crafting sticky slime and witnessing pumpkins that seem to “barf.” Be sure not to overlook the enigmatic performance by J & J Magic and the fascinating presentation by HawkWatch International! Plus, there’s a thrilling trick-or-treat scavenger hunt within the museum where you can collect treats. Don’t leave out the chance to showcase your coolest, spookiest, or most creative Halloween costumes!

Location:
The Leonardo

DATES:
October 28, 10 AM- 7 PM

Phyllis and the On-Track Lads will be singing everyone’s favorite Halloween songs, with an on-stage theater activity in the mix. There will also be Halloween games!

On Track to Reading is a school readiness program just for preschoolers and their grown-ups.

Location:
Treehouse Children’s Museum

DATES:
October 30, 10 AM- 12 PM

Halloween sheds new light on the Dinosaur Trail!

Visit Moab Giants after dark to walk through the shadows with the Giants, and brave the ferocious New Megalodon if you dare!

(Bring a flashlight if you want an even better look at the Giants.)

Location:
Moab Giants

DATES:
October 30, 3 PM- 7 PM