Thornton Family-Friendly Fall Activities 2026

Assorted festival eats from hotdogs to funnel cakes with picnic seating.

Features live Mexican wrestling, music, a marketplace, and pumpkin decorating.

Illuminated paths with real, hand-carved pumpkins and live performers.

Timed trick-or-treating experience featuring cryptid creatures and nine candy stations.

Costume fun run and kids' candy hunt benefiting community recreation.

Haunted Mansion-themed trick-or-treat street with inflatables and trunk-or-treat cars.

Free fall festival featuring a hot air balloon glow and drone show.

Community Halloween parade featuring creative floats along South Broadway in Denver.

One of northern Colorado's oldest pumpkin patches with three corn mazes.

Features three different corn mazes to explore on a working farm.

Themed Halloween race series featuring costume contests and hidden course prizes.

Annual celebration featuring Touch-A-Truck, a pumpkin patch, and inflatables.

Pumpkin carving with seasonal beers, spooky movies, and stein hoisting.

Pumpkin carving with pumpkin beers on tap and a stein hoisting contest.

Free family festival with live music, car show, and artisan market.

Fall festival featuring an accessible pumpkin patch, historic demonstrations, and live entertainment.

LoHi neighborhood trick-or-treating and costume contest for dogs.

Roll, smash, and launch pumpkins into compost down the sled hill

Pumpkins and carving tools provided with prizes for the best designs.

Pumpkin carving with pumpkin beers on tap and a stein hoisting competition.

Fall gathering featuring farm animals, artisan vendors, pumpkin beers, and live music.

Carve pumpkins using provided tools while staff handle all the messy cleanup.

Paint spooky Halloween decor while enjoying pizza and craft beer.

Decorate six Halloween cookies with pastry chef Mayra Garcia.

Hands-on beginner cake decorating workshop with BYOB permitted.

Lord of the Rings-themed Autumnal Equinox celebration with crafts and costume contests.

Pumpkin decorating with provided supplies, stencils, food, and drinks.

Paint a 4-to-8-inch pumpkin with acrylics and guided techniques.

Hands-on harvest sugar cookie decorating class led by pastry chef Mayra Garcia.

Hands-on class decorating a candy corn striped cake with pumpkin accents.

Beginner sheetcake decorating workshop taught by Pastry Chef Mayra Garcia.

Live big band music performance

After-dark trick-or-treating featuring candy stations and elusive cryptid characters.

Mysterious cryptid characters and weekend pumpkin carving

Pumpkin patch, petting zoo, and ninja course for kids

Trick-or-treat at up to 60 decorated trunks hosted by local businesses.

Annual trick-or-treat parade at historic Union Station.

A safe, street-based trick-or-treat event with community involvement.

Festive pet parade with costume contest

Community trick-or-treating with a charitable donation component.

Halloween 5k fun run with a free craft brew

Family-friendly concert with spooky classical and film music

Walk among hundreds of free-roaming orb-weaving spiders.

Curated market with 40+ unique vendors and Spooky Sweets Stroll