West Chicago Family-Friendly Fall Activities 2026

Scare-free family mini golf featuring costumes, tricks, and treats.

Classic carnival with a Halloween twist

Autumn treats, colorful tree collections, and trails across 1,700 acres.

Features trick-or-treating, costume parades, inflatables, and themed treats.

Children collect candy after completing each individual activity during the event.

A complete fall makeover with pumpkin patches, mazes, and amusement rides.

Over 8,000 one-of-a-kind glass pumpkins and live glassblowing demonstrations.

Free autumn celebration featuring a pumpkin patch, candy hunt, and games.

Half-mile trick-or-treat trail past historic farm buildings and woods.

Free community Halloween festival with costume parades, trick-or-treating, and character meet-and-greets.

Costume party featuring a flashlight scavenger hunt and model train demonstration.

Features a costume contest, bounce houses, Mad Scientist, and hayrides.

Free Halloween fest with activities and goodies for kids ten and under.

Petting zoo, unlimited rides, pumpkin patch, and fresh apple cider donuts.

Visitors can launch pumpkins and explore a prairie maze at Eaton Preserve.

Fall festival featuring guided garden tours, live music, and family activities.

Autumn celebration with garden tours, live music, and 60+ local vendors.

Features over 30 farm attractions, a corn maze, and apple picking.

Thousands of pumpkins line the zoo lawn alongside daily scavenger hunts.

Costume parade, downtown trick-or-treating, and a haunted art gallery.

Farm festival featuring a corn maze, jumping pillow, and petting zoo.

STEAM-powered Halloween play, pumpkin hammering, and science shows for families.

Side-by-side single-elimination pumpkin races, costume contests, and awards.

Free admission festival featuring live music, farm activities, and artisan vendors.

Downtown Westmont costume contest featuring seven age and group categories.

Features trick-or-treating throughout the zoo and daily costume parades.

All-ages celebration featuring carnival games, touch-a-truck, and a life-size Candyland game.

Trick-or-treat trail and pumpkin patch for kids ages 2–10.

Not-so-scary Halloween fun with Disney tribute concerts and historic trick-or-treating.

Festive autumn fun fair for children with games, inflatables, and hayrides.

Downtown celebration with trick-or-treating, bounce houses, and costume contests.

Annual community festival featuring live music, hayrides, games, and food trucks.

Experience 19th-century farm life demonstrations and seasonal harvest activities.

Safety Town trick-or-treating, inflatable corn maze, and carnival games.

Free admission U-pick patch with pumpkins fresh off the vine.

Carnival rides, live bats and skunks, and pumpkin carving demonstrations.

Fall festival featuring hayrides, a petting zoo, inflatables, and Scarecrow Lane.

Costume walking tour featuring candy stations, entertainment, and teal pumpkins.

Evening zoo stroll featuring seasonal decorations and pumpkin decorating.

Spooky games, ghoulish treats, and costumes to celebrate Halloween.

Costumed trick-or-treating featuring a best-decorated trunk contest.

Hunt for floating pumpkins in the pool and decorate them afterward.

Costume-themed 5K run/walk and Kids Dash benefitting the Boys & Girls Club.

Stroll a nature path illuminated by over 100 lighted pumpkins.

A 1.1-mile trick-or-treat trail featuring games, candy, and a bouncy house.

Unlimited indoor attractions and free parkwide trick-or-treating in costume.

Half-mile trick-or-treat woodland walk featuring haunted wagon rides and bounce houses.

Free family block party with Halloween displays and train rides

Community fall celebration with games, inflatables, petting zoo, and live music.

Canine costume contest featuring treats, prizes, and owner-pet coordination.

Festive 5K run or walk with or without your dog.

Features live music, a beer tent, trunk-or-treat, and hayrides.

Halloween party with crafts, games, pizza, and trick-or-treating for preschoolers.

You carve the pumpkin and park staff handles the cleanup.

Family event featuring pumpkin painting and live music.

Create a scarecrow display or vote along Dellwood Park's path.

Outdoor nature play, crafts, and family activities celebrating fall's arrival.

Free trick-or-treating among creatively decorated themed car trunks.

Free family games, crafts, and silly fun with Wacky Drac.

A low-sensory Halloween event designed for neurodiverse children and families.

Geneva farm festival featuring a corn maze, petting zoo, and rides.

Fall farm trip for teens featuring a corn maze and entertainment.

Free community celebration featuring a petting zoo, live music, and foam party.

Family fall festival with pony rides, hayrides, and costume contests.

Giant pumpkin competition hosted by the Illinois Giant Pumpkin Association.

Spooky games, crafts, and stories for kids in costume.

Family Halloween games and activities along the refuge walking path.

Kids and adults cook festive savory bites and sweet treats together.

Autumn celebration featuring cider tastings, crafts, apple treats, and seasonal games.

Halloween bowling with crafts and costume contest

Annual fall festival with magic, monsters, and mythical entertainment.

Fall celebration with special event days

Family-friendly Halloween celebration with crafts and games.

Trick-or-treat at the police department

Iconic 'Happy Jack' fiberglass pumpkin landmark

Swim through a pumpkin patch to find your own pumpkin.

Trick-or-treating from decorated car trunks

Celebration of Illinois oaks with family activities

Evening zoo stroll with pumpkin decorating