Plainfield Halloween 2025

See all Plainfield Halloween happenings this year!

Plainfield lights up Halloween 2025 around the main district and Van Wyck Brooks Historic District, with spooky adventures and haunted happenings downtown. Festivities feature spooky happenings, fall entertainment and Halloween gatherings, plus neighborhood trick-or-treat routes, pumpkin fairs and family costume events.

Find the best Plainfield Halloween happenings this year!

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

Plainfield Halloween

Plainfield Family-Friendly Fall Activities

Spookfest Market 2.0 in Piscataway

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Spookfest Market 2.0 (Piscataway, NJ)

Saturday, October 18, 2025

📍 Arbor Hose Co. #1 Fire Department

1780 West 7th Street, Piscataway, NJ 08854

(2.6 mi from Plainfield)

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⚡ Energy: Moderate

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Get ready for the Second Annual Outdoor Spookfest Market 2.0, a frightfully fun family-friendly Halloween celebration. Enjoy a DJ, unique vendors, inflatable games, a spooky fun house, photo booth, ghost scavenger hunt, face painting, and safe trick-or-treating. Don't miss the costume contest and delicious food and drinks!

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⭐ Best For: Families and children

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A man in a witch hat holds out a small pumpkin towards the camera, surrounded by carved jack-o'-lanterns and blurred figures in the background during a Halloween gathering.

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Wagner Farm Arboretum's Brite Nites Lite (Warren, NJ)

Friday, October 10, 2025

📍 Wagner Farm Arboretum

197 Mountain Ave, Warren, NJ 07059

(5.2 mi from Plainfield)

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⚡ Energy: Low to medium

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Wagner Farm Arboretum presents its 13th annual Brite Nites Lite, a family-friendly Halloween spectacle. Wander a quarter-mile path adorned with thousands of hand-carved, LED-lit pumpkins. Enjoy classic games like Pumpkin Bowling and Witch Hat Ring Toss, and explore a special 'spooky section' for a touch of fright. Delicious offerings from local food trucks add to the festive atmosphere.

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⭐ Best For: Families with young children, halloween enthusiasts

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Westfield Halloween Family Fun & Parade in Westfield

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Westfield Halloween Family Fun & Parade (Westfield, NJ)

Sunday, October 26, 2025

📍 Mindowaskin Park

385 E Broad St, Westfield, NJ 07090

(4.5 mi from Plainfield)

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💰 Budget: $

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⚡ Energy: Low to medium

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Get ready for a spooktacular Halloween celebration in Westfield! The 'Cops & Goblins' event features fun for all ages with candy, face painting, and exciting giveaways. Following that, join the festive Halloween Parade, led by Chase Paw Patrol and the Westfield High School Marching Band, for a memorable community experience.

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Halloween Near Plainfield

Bridgewater Halloween

A terrifying monster with glowing purple eyes and sharp teeth lunges towards a man in a dimly lit room with purple and blue lighting.

Hillsborough

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Newark Scare Farm at Norz Hill Farm (Hillsborough)

📍 Norz Hill Farm

Sep 26, 2025

(15.6 mi from Plainfield)

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A smiling young Asian couple rides a red ATV through a cornfield decorated with festive pennant banners. In the background, two people ride an orange tractor, and three large yellow rubber ducks are scattered on the ground.

Chester

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Stony Hill Farms Maze Fun Park (Chester)

📍 Stony Hill Farms

Aug 31, 2025

(18.2 mi from Plainfield)

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Parsippany Halloween

Two smiling people, one holding a carved jack-o-lantern, walk through a pumpkin patch with rows of pumpkins and Halloween decorations in the background.

Augusta

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

📍 Skylands Stadium

Sep 26, 2025

(38.3 mi from Plainfield)

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A terrifying robot with glowing red eyes chases three people down a dark, graffiti-covered hallway illuminated by eerie blue and red lights.

Wharton

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13th Hour Haunted House (Wharton)

📍 13th Hour Haunted House

Sep 20, 2025

(21.7 mi from Plainfield)

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Jersey City Halloween

A group of four friends in cartoon style are celebrating, possibly at a party or event, with bright neon lights in the background. The person on the far left is holding a glowing science-like device, the person in the center is wearing a tiara and holding a glowing orb, and the person on the far right is holding several glowing sticks. Another person with devil horns is visible behind them.

Jersey City

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

📍 Liberty Science Center

Oct 30, 2025

(20.0 mi from Plainfield)

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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

(20.8 mi from Plainfield)

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Financial District Halloween

A diverse family is picking pumpkins in a pumpkin patch with houses and autumn trees in the background.

New York

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Governors Island Pumpkin Point 2025 (New York)

📍 Governors Island

Oct 25, 2025

(22.0 mi from Plainfield)

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A young woman wearing a fedora and red scarf, and a young man wearing glasses and holding a newspaper, stand on a city street with a waterfront and skyline in the background.

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Sinister Secrets of the Seaport Walking Tour (New York)

📍 South Street Seaport Museum

(22.5 mi from Plainfield)

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Middletown Halloween

Two cartoon children, a boy and a girl, sit in the open trunk of a car filled with pumpkins and autumn leaves, smiling happily.

Leonardo

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Middletown Day 2025 (Leonardo)

📍 Croydon Hall

Oct 19, 2025

(23.8 mi from Plainfield)

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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

(35.1 mi from Plainfield)

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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

(23.0 mi from Plainfield)

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Haunted Carousel in Brooklyn

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Haunted Carousel (Brooklyn)

📍 Prospect Park Carousel

Oct 25, 2025

(24.0 mi from Plainfield)

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East Village Halloween

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New York City Village Halloween Parade (New York)

📍 Sixth Avenue

Oct 31, 2025

(23.5 mi from Plainfield)

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Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade 2025 in New York

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Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade 2025 (New York)

📍 Tompkins Square Park

Oct 18, 2025

(24.3 mi from Plainfield)

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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

(23.8 mi from Plainfield)

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New York

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Monster Ball NYC @ HK HALL (New York)

📍 HK Hall

Oct 25, 2025

(24.3 mi from Plainfield)

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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

(27.3 mi from Plainfield)

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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

(27.8 mi from Plainfield)

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Trenton Halloween

A terrifying werewolf chases two children and an adult through a dimly lit library with red lighting and tall bookshelves.

East Windsor

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Field of Terror Haunted House & Hay Ride (East Windsor)

📍 Field of Terror

Sep 18, 2025

(27.1 mi from Plainfield)

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Two cartoon children with big eyes lean out of a train window, smiling joyfully as the train travels through a scenic autumn landscape with yellow trees and mountains.

New Hope

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New Hope Railroad Fall Foliage Excursion (New Hope)

📍 New Hope Train Station

Oct 1, 2025

(33.1 mi from Plainfield)

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