Hackensack Halloween 2025

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Hackensack unveils Halloween 2025 around its historic downtown and Bergen County landmarks with ghostly attractions and frightening festivities. Activities include haunted events, costume festivities, seasonal attractions, community parades, and family-friendly evening shows.

Find the best Hackensack Halloween happenings this year!

Last updated: 11/11/2025 by HalloweenLocal.com editorial team

Hackensack Halloween

Hackensack Family-Friendly Fall Activities

Annual Children's Halloween Party in Hackensack

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Annual Children's Halloween Party

Saturday, October 25, 2025

📍 Hackensack Recreation Department

116 Holt Street, Hackensack, NJ 07601

(1.0 mi from Hackensack)

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💰 Budget: FREE

🎃 Family Friendly: 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃

⚡ Energy: Low

Event Description

Families in Hackensack can look forward to a FREE Annual Children's Halloween Party. This spooktacular morning event features a fun-filled variety show, delicious sweet treats, and a festive costume parade. Costumes are highly encouraged for all attendees.

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⭐ Best For: Young children and families

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Two young girls dressed as witches, holding a bucket of popcorn and a pumpkin, sit on a train with a Halloween-themed background featuring jack-o-lanterns and a full moon.

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Zoo Boo (Paramus, NJ)

Friday, October 17, 2025

📍 Bergen County Zoo

216 Forest Avenue, Paramus, NJ 07652

(3.1 mi from Hackensack)

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👻 Scare Factor: 👻👻👻👻👻

💰 Budget: $$

🎃 Family Friendly: 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃

⚡ Energy: Moderate

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Get ready for a frightfully fun time at Zoo Boo, the annual Halloween fundraiser at the Bergen County Zoo. This event features a decorated zoo with trick-or-treat stations and exciting shows. Attendees can opt for a spooky haunted train ride with scare actors or a friendly, Halloween-themed day train. A family-friendly carousel ride is also available. Tickets are online only and sell out fast, so plan ahead for this memorable Halloween adventure.

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⭐ Best For: Families, halloween enthusiasts

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St. Peter's Carnival in River Edge

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St. Peter's Carnival (River Edge, NJ)

Thursday, September 25, 2025

📍 St. Peter the Apostle Roman Catholic Church

445 Fifth Avenue, River Edge, NJ 07661

(2.8 mi from Hackensack)

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👻 Scare Factor: 👻👻👻👻👻

💰 Budget: $

🎃 Family Friendly: 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃

⚡ Energy: Low to medium

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Get ready for the 14th Annual St. Peter's Carnival, a four-day celebration packed with fun, food, and community spirit. They offer rides for all ages, exciting games with prizes, and delicious carnival treats. Don't miss the chance to win big in their 50/50 Raffle, with proceeds supporting St. Peter's parish.

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⭐ Best For: Families and community members

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Halloween Near Hackensack

Hells Kitchen Halloween

New York Comic Con 2026 in New York

New York

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New York Comic Con 2026 (New York)

📍 Javits Center

Oct 8, 2026

(9.3 mi from Hackensack)

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Three friends in costumes are dancing at a Halloween masquerade ball. A man in a white tuxedo and black bowtie smiles as he dances with two women, one in a red dress with devil horns and the other in a purple witch costume with a mask.

New York

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Monster Ball NYC @ HK HALL (New York)

📍 HK Hall

Oct 25, 2025

(8.9 mi from Hackensack)

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Astoria Halloween

Halloween Harvest Festival in Queens

Queens

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Halloween Harvest Festival (Queens)

📍 Socrates Sculpture Park

Oct 25, 2025

(10.1 mi from Hackensack)

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Halloween on Steinway Street at Connect Sports Lounge in Astoria

Astoria

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Halloween on Steinway Street at Connect Sports Lounge (Astoria)

📍 Connect Sports Lounge

Nov 1, 2025

(11.1 mi from Hackensack)

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Jersey City Halloween

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Jersey City

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LSC After Dark: All Hallows' Eve (Jersey City)

📍 Liberty Science Center

Oct 30, 2025

(12.4 mi from Hackensack)

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The Official Halloween Bar Crawl - Jersey City in Jersey City

Jersey City

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The Official Halloween Bar Crawl - Jersey City (Jersey City)

📍 The Ashford

Nov 1, 2025

(11.5 mi from Hackensack)

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East Village Halloween

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New York

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New York City Village Halloween Parade (New York)

📍 Sixth Avenue

Oct 31, 2025

(10.7 mi from Hackensack)

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Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade 2025 in New York

New York

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Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade 2025 (New York)

📍 Tompkins Square Park

Oct 18, 2025

(11.8 mi from Hackensack)

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Financial District Halloween

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New York

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Governors Island Pumpkin Point 2025 (New York)

📍 Governors Island

Oct 25, 2025

(12.9 mi from Hackensack)

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New York

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Sinister Secrets of the Seaport Walking Tour (New York)

📍 South Street Seaport Museum

(12.7 mi from Hackensack)

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Greenburgh Halloween

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Croton

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The Great Jack O'Lantern Blaze (Croton)

📍 Van Cortlandt Manor

Sep 12, 2025

(22.9 mi from Hackensack)

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Washington Irving's 'The Man Behind the Legend' at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow

Sleepy Hollow

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Washington Irving's 'The Man Behind the Legend' at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (Sleepy Hollow)

📍 Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

Oct 28, 2025

(17.5 mi from Hackensack)

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Park Slope Halloween

Park Slope Children's Halloween Parade in Brooklyn

Brooklyn

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Park Slope Children's Halloween Parade (Brooklyn)

📍 Old Stone House/JJ Byrne Playground

Oct 31, 2025

(15.2 mi from Hackensack)

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Haunted Carousel in Brooklyn

Brooklyn

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Haunted Carousel (Brooklyn)

📍 Prospect Park Carousel

Oct 25, 2025

(16.0 mi from Hackensack)

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Parsippany Halloween

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Augusta

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Skylands Stadium Jack-O'-Lantern Experience (Augusta)

📍 Skylands Stadium

Sep 26, 2025

(38.4 mi from Hackensack)

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Wharton

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13th Hour Haunted House (Wharton)

📍 13th Hour Haunted House

Sep 20, 2025

(28.2 mi from Hackensack)

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Hicksville Halloween

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Bayville

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Bayville Scream Park (Bayville)

📍 Bayville Scream Park

Sep 13, 2025

(24.4 mi from Hackensack)

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Restless Souls Haunted House Complex in Huntington Station

Huntington Station

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Restless Souls Haunted House Complex (Huntington Station)

📍 West Hills United Methodist Church

Oct 3, 2025

(32.8 mi from Hackensack)

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Middletown Halloween

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Leonardo

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Middletown Day 2025 (Leonardo)

📍 Croydon Hall

Oct 19, 2025

(32.9 mi from Hackensack)

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Jersey Devil Fable Fest Cryptid Commons in Asbury Park

Asbury Park

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Jersey Devil Fable Fest Cryptid Commons (Asbury Park)

📍 600 block of Mattison Avenue

(46.4 mi from Hackensack)

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