Columbus Halloween fun is just around the corner. What are some of the fun things you can see and do? You’ll find plenty of fun things for the kids and adults listed below.
For your convenience these events are listed by date first and then name.
All Hallow’s Eve
More Columbus Halloween Fun…
Look out for the Headless Horseman! Come join the Columbus Halloween fun at this 19th Century Halloween celebration!
You’ll find a children’s activity area, Halloween traditions, fortune telling, a Museum of Oddities, games and crafts are among the many activities featured this evening. A reading by the bonfire of Washington Irving’s Legend of Sleepy Hollow and an appearance by the infamous Headless Horseman finish this fun-filled evening.
Date: October 15 and 22, 2011 from 5:30-9:30 p.m.
Location: Ohio Village, 1982 Velma Avenue, Columbus, Ohio – Phone: (614) 297-2266
Admission: $12/adult, $9/youth (6-12), $10/Ohio Historical Society adult member, $7/Ohio Historical Society youth member (6-12) and FREE/child (5 and under)
Boo on Broadway 2011
Grove City’s Town Center will be transformed into a spooky destination. This annual, family-friendly alternative to Trick or Treat allows children to dress in costume and safely collect candy and other goodies from area business owners. A fortune teller and other spooky surprises will also be offered.
Broadway will be closed from Grant Street to Grove City Road; Park Street will be closed from Arbutus Avenue to the first driveway west of City Hall. There will be no parking on these streets beginning at 3PM. Streets will close to traffic at 5PM and will reopen at 9PM.
Date: Monday, October 31, 2011 from 6PM to 8PM
Location: Grover City Town Center, Grove City, Ohio
Parking: Free
Broadview Bloodbath – Home Haunting For Charity
You are invited to visit the Broadview Bloodbath this October. The Bloodbath is a Columbus, Ohio home haunt (Halloween performance art event held at a private residence). This haunted yard has all the elements of a professional haunted house, but is a fundraising event for a local dog rescue. The event is free but we welcome your tax-deductible donation. 100% of our proceeds go to charity. The Broadview Bloodbath will scare you! Our crew of trained actors will take you to the edge – and over it.
What will you see in 2011?:
– Serial Killers
– Live Executions
– Human Meat Lockers
– Demented Giant Rabbits
– Bugs n babies
Dates: Friday, October 28, 2011 – from 7PM to 10PM
Saturday, October 29, 2011 from 7PM to 10PM
Location: 5313 Broadview Road, Columbus, Ohio 43230
For more information visit the website.
Creepside Festival
More Columbus Halloween Fun…Put on your costumes for this spooktacular event that’s fun for the whole family! Event activities include a trick or treat trail with Gahanna businesses, Parks & Recreation games & crafts, music, hayrides, a haunted walk, paddle boat rides, and much more!
Date: October 12, 2011 from 5:30PM to 9PM
Location: Creekside Park & Plaza, 123 Mill Street, Gahanna, Ohio
Check out their website for more info!
Fright Night 5K Run
More Columbus Halloween Fun…BOO! Join hundreds of ghosts and gobblins at the 3rd Annual Fright Nite 5K on Saturday, October 29th at 8:00pm. You’re sure to enjoy this unusual night of goulish exercise as you run (or walk) past haunted graveyards leading to the ghostly cart trails and specially illuminated Gahanna Golf Course. You will run along the well paved cart paths and return back to the beautiful Creekside Park and Plaza Old Gahanna for a little post race food and beverage at Signatures (94 Mill Street) directly across from the finish line. No whimps or scaredy cats!
Date: Saturday, October 29, 2011 at 8PM
Location: Creekside Park and Plaza on Mill Street in Old Gahanna. Take the 62 exit off 270.
Information: Visit their website for registration information and more.
Halloween at Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens
Dress up in costume and take part in the following family activities:
– Visit 7 trick-or-treat stations
– Create Halloween hats and bats
– Create spooky spin art ($2) or get a temporary tattoo
– Watch glassblowing demonstrations, 12 – 4pm
– See Gus the Squash Carver, 1:30 – 3:30pm
– Take a guided tour of the ScottsMiracle-Gro Community Garden Campus, 3pm
Date: Sunday, October 30, 1 – 4pm, Free with admission
Location: Franklin Park Conversatory, 1777 East Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio
Haunted Statehouse Tours
More Columbus Halloween Fun…Stroll through the vaulted passageways and haunted marble halls by lantern light in the 146 year old Ohio Statehouse.
You’ll find a reincarted relic room with the legends and spirits of the Statehouse past.
Tall yarns spun with facts will come to life right before your eyes as you’re guided by people wearing strange costumes carrying oil lamps.
Don’t hold your breath… the tour lasts for forty minutes… breathe… breathe… breathe…
Dates: October 14, 2011, October 15, 2011, October 21, 2011 and October 22, 2011 from 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM;
Tour Times: Tours will depart every half hour between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Tour times are: 7 p.m., 7:30 p.m., 8 p.m., 8:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. Tickets are limited to 40 individuals per tour time each night. This event has sold out during the previous six years.
Location: Ohio Statehouse, Broad, High, and Third Streets, Columbus, Ohio
Admission: Tickets for the Haunted Statehouse Tours are $12 per adult and $6 per child under the age of 12. This is a ticketed event. Tickets must be pre-ordered. Tickets go on Sale at 9 a.m. on Sept. 19.
Special activities will be available to participate in before each tour. The Capitol Cafe will have themed food available for purchase and the Statehouse Museum Shop will be open before and after the each tour. Visitors to the Ohio Statehouse are invited to park in the facility’s underground parking garage. This convenient and affordable parking offers direct sheltered access to the Ohio Statehouse for this event.
HighBall Halloween: Masquerade On High
More Columbus Halloween Fun…A celebration of the fabulous side of Halloween… the art of design and the masquerade with a dazzling 60-foot runway built outdoors under the iconic Short North arches.
Entertainment: DJs, Dancers, stage Performances, Theatrical Numbers, Giant Body Puppets, Light Shows, Real-Time UV Mural Painting
Date: Friday – October 28, 2011 from 5:00PM – 1:00AM
Location: On High Street at the intersection of Fifth and High in the Short North Arts District
General admission: $5 at the gate
VIP package: $65 advance purchase includes parking, private bar, backstage pass, preferred runway/stage seating
For more information visit their website.
MAiZE at Little Darby Creek
More Columbus Halloween Fun…Get lost in the Haunted Maize at Little Darby Creek. They have an awesome amount of kid’s activities and you’ll meet the nicest people around!
Trick or Treat weekend: October 29 & 30, 2011 – From 2pm – 4pm, kids through age 12, wear your costumes and trick or treat for candy.
Hours of Operation: Friday – 5PM to 10PM; Saturday – Noon to 10PM; Sunday – Noon to 6PM; Weekdays by Group Reservations
Location: 8657 Axe Handle Road, Milford Center, Ohio
Check out their website for schedules and pricing!
Masquerade Fashion Show
– Talent Competition – Live theater Show!
– Movie Screenings – Video Light Spectacular!
– Food – Drink Tickets
– Games – Entertainment – Dancing
– Giveaways!
Date: October 29, 2011 from 9PM to 2AM
Location: Veterans Memorial Hall, 300 West Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio
Admission: $40.00
For more info check their website!
McDonald’s Greenhouse Corn Maze
Can you defeat the five acre corn maze? Ah haa…. Come join the fun and try it! You’ll also find a huge sand box, hay wagon rides, lasso a longhorn, cute baby farm animals, and choose a cool pumpkin!
You even get to go home with a pumpkin roll or caramel apple and fresh apple cider!
The season runs from the last weekend in August until Halloween. Fall hours are:
Corn Maze and Fall Farm Fun
Saturday: 10AM to 7PM
Sunday 1PM to 6PM
Weekdays and/or Groups: by appointment
Location: 3100 Adamsville Road, Zanesville, Ohio
(Located on State Route 93, just 2.5 miles north of the Adamsville Exit #157)
Information: E-mail: mcdonaldsgreenhouse@columbus.rr.com – Phone: (740) 452-4858
The X-Fest
The X-Fest is a newer style of festival for the Paranormal and Supernatural. It also includes other elements of Halloween that will showcase people with their own personal gifts and abilities, merchants, writers, speakers, live music and much more. There will be free seminars all day with the price of admission. The seminars will range from mystical characters, to the paranormal, to seeing and believing in aliens, to celebrities.
Date: Saturday, October 29th, 2011 from 9AM to 6PM
Location: Veterans Memorial Hall, 300 West Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio
Admission: $12 per adult – Coupons available.
Subjects On
– Aliens – Ghosts
– Is your House Haunted?
– Spirits
– Zombies
– El Chupacabra
– Shape Shifters Poltergeist
– How to Ghost Hunt
– Sci Fi
– Rituals in History Serial Killers
– House Cleansings
– Altered Planes
– Ouija Boards
– Looking for UFOs
– What is Possession/Demonology?
– Candle Burning Rituals Witches
– Stigmata
– Is this a Ghost in my Photo?
– ORBS Apparitions
– Ectoplasm
– Life lines
– Séance
– Obscure Animals
– Aliens and the Government Latest Ghost Shows
– Supernatural History Zombies
– The Paranormal 101 Paranormal Icons
– Tarot Cards
– Crop Circles Voodoo
– Mythical Creatures
– Vampire/Werewolves
– and More!
For more info check their website!
Pumpkin Patches around Columbus, Ohio
If you’re looking for pumpkin patches, here are a few for you.
Circle S Farms
9015 London-Groveport Road
Grove City, Ohio
Phone: (614) 878-7980
Hann Farms
4600 Lockbourne Road
Columbus, Ohio
Phone: (614) 491-0812
Hoffman’s Farm Market
800 Hilliard-Rome Road
Columbus, Ohio
Phone: (614) 878-5161
Schacht Farms
5950 Shannon Road
Canal Winchester, Ohio
Phone: (614)833-1932
If you have a community Halloween party and would like it listed, please use the form on my contact page. You can use the second form, select Holiday in the drop down box, and send the information!
Enjoy the Columbus Halloween Fun!
