Lake Forest Family-Friendly Fall Activities 2026

Tour decorated historical grounds with a straw maze and scavenger hunt.

Laguna Hills harvest festival with rides, petting zoo, and Oktoberfest beer garden.

Free community celebration featuring decorated cars, an obstacle maze, and games.

Family Halloween evening featuring games and a Charlie Brown movie screening.

After-hours Disney Halloween party with villain treat trails and entertainment.

Family-friendly Halloween fun with trick-or-treating and costume contests.

Features 10 trick-or-treat stations, rides, and supports primate habitats.

Features train rides, a hay maze, and a kid-friendly haunted house.

Downtown celebration featuring costume contests, craft activities, and a scavenger hunt.

Features a trunk-or-treat, haunted walkthrough, carnival games, and costume contests.

Grassroots youth basketball tournament featuring pool play, playoffs, and certified officials.

Family pumpkin patch featuring carnival rides, games, and a petting zoo.

Trackside carnival with family games, costume contest, and live horse racing.

Community celebration with a trunk-or-treat display and haunted maze.

Halloween festival featuring dance parties, bumper cars, and spooky science activities.

Trick-or-treat at local businesses displaying a purple balloon outside.

School carnival featuring a haunted house, petting zoo, and foam obstacle course.

Free family celebration with trick-or-treating and characters in the promenade.

Features inflatables, games, and a police-partnered Trunk or Treat.

Pick pumpkins off the vine, cut flowers, and meet barnyard animals.

Costa Mesa festival featuring a scarecrow contest and kids costume parade.

A family-friendly 1.2-mile Halloween trail hike featuring game booths.

Features adoptable rescue animals, kids' crafts, and wildlife education.

Poolside Halloween fun with inflatable obstacle courses and trick-or-treating booths.

Community trunk-or-treat featuring creatively decorated car trunks, costumes, and candy.

Spooky stories, creepy crafts, wacky science, and bizarre animal encounters.

Trick-or-treating among decorated trunks with a DJ, games, and prizes.

Trick-or-treat through historic museum grounds, tour a mansion, and meet villains.

Library Halloween celebration featuring hero and villain costumes, STEM, and treats.

Trick-or-treating, magic shows, crafts, and stiltwalkers across the shopping center.

Features a children's costume parade, trick-or-treating, and community booths.

Community trunk-or-treat gathering with decorated vehicles, music, and trick-or-treating.

Early costume release featuring a meet-and-greet with creator Garrett Sander.

Market with over 50 local vendors and a scavenger hunt.

Inclusive Halloween gathering with games, crafts, and costume prizes.

Community fall festival featuring live classic rock music, food, and games.

Paint Día de los Muertos-inspired art pieces at the library.

After-school crafting session for kids ages 6 to 11.

Parent-and-me fall celebration with seasonal crafts, activities, and snacks.

Supervised drop-off kids event with crafts, games, and a costume contest.

No-carve craft session transforming artificial mini pumpkins for children.

Search for hidden friendly ghosts to earn a prize.

Halloween tales and craft activities for children ages 3 to 8.

Free pumpkins, donuts, and family activities in Yorba Linda.

Costume competition awarding trophies and prizes across all types of pets.

Craft a whimsical scarecrow seed starter with all supplies provided.

Southern California’s newest Halloween tradition open to all ages.

Plant a Halloween-themed succulent garden

Library Halloween celebration featuring crafts, storytime, and trick-or-treating.

Craft a not-so-scary ghost peeking through a window.

Features themed weekends, corn mazes, hay rides, and a petting farm.

Costumes, demonstrations, and themed farm activities wrap up PumpkinFest.

A weekend celebrating all things pumpkin with interactive student-led activities.

Community potluck picnic, live band music, and harvest games in Long Beach.

Pumpkin patch with free family shows, photo ops, and kids' activities.

Halloween market with local vendors and festive activities.

Three weekends of spooky vendors and live music

4th annual Monster Bash with costume parade and treats

Month-long Halloween celebration with themed activities and treats.

Festive fall celebration with pumpkins and carnival games.

Marine-themed Halloween event with laser tag and haunted ship tours

Free candy and decorated trunk contest

Community-wide trick-or-treating event

Family pickleball and pumpkin carving combined event

Halloween-themed soap making for teens