10 spooktacular ways to celebrate Halloween 2024 in & around Las Vegas

From candy and costumes to tricks and treats, here are 10 spooktacular ways to celebrate Halloween 2024 in Las Vegas.

Las Vegas is getting into the spirit for Halloween 2024. A favorite of kids and adults alike, it’s a time for decorations and dress up, for facing your fears and carving pumpkins.

From candy and costumes to tricks and treats, here are 10 spooktacular ways to celebrate this haunted holiday in Sin City.

1. Harvesting pumpkins at a local orchard

What: Gilcrease Orchard Fall Harvest
When: Sept. 24-Oct. 31, 7 a.m.-2 p.m.
Where: 7800 N. Tenaya Way
Cost: Entry from $3; Pumpkins, 75 cents per pound

Buying pumpkins at a store is easy and convenient. Hand-picking your future jack-o’-lantern from a local pumpkin patch is a Halloween memory. 

Locals have flocked to Gilcrease Orchard for the pick-and-pay farm produce for more than half a century. Seasonal produce from this Las Vegas landmark is as fresh as it gets because you harvest it yourself. Along with fruits and veggies, the property has a chicken coop, a desert tortoise habitat, and concessions.

To celebrate the fall pumpkin harvest and welcome Halloween, the 60-acre orchard will host a month of family-friendly activities like scenic wagon rides, a corn maze, live music, and photo ops. There will also be plenty of treats, like caramel apples and apple cider,  available for purchase. 

Tickets must be purchased in advance on the Gilcrease Orchard website.

2. Getting lost and afraid inside a corn maze

What: Moapa Valley Corn Maze
When: Thursdays-Sundays in October
Where: 3715 N. Pioneer Road in Logandale, NV
Cost: From $12

The Moapa Valley Corn Maze is a highly popular event with tons of tricks and treats for people of all ages. 

Located less than an hour from Las Vegas, this fantastic fall fair includes a wheelchair-accessible haunted maze, haunted hay rides, non-haunted day mazes, a pumpkin patch, kids rides, zombie paintball, pig races, and a haunted house. There are also plenty of activities for little kids, like a bounce pillow, corn pit, cow train, playground, and pedal carts. 

While the fair’s haunted attractions aren’t designed to be gory, there will be many jump scares, scarecrows, and chainsaws. Comfort your nerves with some hot apple fries, a funnel cake, and other concessions (for purchase).

Tickets must be purchased for individual attractions. For more information, visit the Moapa Valley Corn Maze website.

3. Riding the rails

What: Boulder City Halloween Express
When: Oct. 11-12, 18-19, 25-26, 6-9 p.m.
Where: Nevada State Railroad Museum, 601 Yucca Street
Cost: $35 adults, $30 children

Grab your whole family and hop aboard the Halloween Express for a spooky train ride at the Nevada State Railroad Museum in Boulder City.

The 30-minute train ride will be followed by a Monster Mash dance party with games, treats, and a costume contest. Your kids will have so much fun they won’t even realize they’ve taken an enriching journey through Nevada’s railroad history.

For more information, visit the Nevada State Railroad Museum website.

4. Exploring a haunted forest

What: HalloVeen
When: Oct. 4-6, 11-13, 1-31, 5:30-9 p.m., Sunday-Thursday; 5:30–9:30 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays
Where: Opportunity Village Magical Forest, 6300 W. Oakey Blvd.
Cost: From $20

The Magical Forest at Opportunity Village will become a family-friendly Halloween theme park in October. Friendly ghosts and wacky witches of all ages are invited to enjoy fun, games, tricks, and treats on the 25-acre property.

From a ghostly walk through a cemetery filled with trees and jack-o-lanterns to a round of 8-hole golf, there’s plenty to do and see. There will also be nightly entertainment, midway carnival games, shopping kiosks, trick-or-treat stations, and food outlets. On weekends, adults get an extra treat: a Beer Garden.

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit the Opportunity Village website.

5. Cheering at a parade

What: Halloween Parade of Mischief
When: Fridays and Saturdays in October, 6 p.m.
Where: Downtown Summerlin, 1980 Festival Plaza Drive
Cost: Free

Everyone loves a parade, so put on your favorite costume and head to Downtown Summerlin for the Halloween Parade of Mischief, presented by Tempo Solar World.

Your whole family will cheer and celebrate as costumed characters and frightening floats fill up the streets at the outdoor mall. This year’s parade will feature an alien pod, a Día de los Muertos float, and an Addams Family float. Plus, you can get in some early holiday shopping.

For more information, visit the Parade of Mischief page on the Downtown Summerlin website.

6. Celebrating all month long

What: Clark County Halloween Events
When: Oct. 4-30
Where: Various locations
Cost: Free

Keep your kids busy all month long! Clark County’s Parks and Recreation is going all out for Halloween with a colorful assortment of Halloween events for kids and their families:

• Dracula-La-La musical!: Winchester Dondero Cultural Center, Oct. 4-5
• Spooky Springs: Aquatic Springs Indoor Pool, Oct. 12
• Hollywood Aquatics Spooky Swim: Hollywood Aquatic Center, Oct. 18
• Monster Mash Movie Bash: Hollywood Recreation Center, Oct. 19
• Paradise Patch Trunk or Treat: Paradise Recreation Center, Oct. 19
• Hall-O-Breeze Trunk or Treat: Desert Breeze Community Center, Oct. 20
• Hollow Harvest Festival, Bob Price Recreation Center, Oct. 24
• Silver Bowl Halloween: Silverbowl Park, Oct. 24
• Haunt the Wetlands: Clark County Wetlands Park, Oct. 25
• Boo-Bridge: Cambridge Recreation Center, Oct. 28
• Wacky World of Walnut: Walnut Recreation Center, Oct. 29
• Wicked Whitney: Whitney Recreation Center, Oct. 30
• Trunk or Treat: Helen Meyer Community Center, Oct. 30 
• Tales from the Dales: Parkdale Community Center, Oct. 31 
• Halloween Safe Night: Doolittle Community Center, Oct. 31

For more information, visit the Clark County Halloween website.

7. Rocking out at a block party

What: Rock of Horror Halloweekend
When: Oct. 27-31
Where: Fremont Street Experience in Downtown Las Vegas
Cost: Free

This Halloween, the Fremont Street Experience is hosting a nonstop, action-packed party that will last all weekend long. 

There will be three days of live music, drinking,  and dancing, plus all the other diversions of Fremont Street Experience, like Slotzilla and the Viva Vision Light Show. Think you’ve got a winning costume? Compete for the $2,500 prize in an epic costume contest at 10 p.m. on Halloween.

For more information, visit the Halloween page on the Fremont Street Experience website.

8. Wandering a haunted house

What: Freakling Bros. Horror Show
When: Fridays and Saturdays through the 25th, 7-11 p.m.; Sunday through Thursday, 7 p.m.-midnight
Where: Desert Breeze Park, 8450. Spring Mountain Road
Cost: TBA

Freakling Bros. Horror Show is back with “Revival Death in the Desert,” including a full cast of ghouls and boys who are sure to scare your pants off. It will be a night of supreme suffering and “unimaginable atrocities.”

For more information, visit the Freakling Bros Horror Shows website.

9. Hitting the dance floor

What: Zouk Nightclub Halloweekend
When: Oct. 25-26, doors open at 10:30 p.m.
Where: Zouk Nightclub inside Resorts World Las Vegas
Cost: From $30

An epic Halloween awaits beyond the velvet rope during Halloweekend at Zouk Nightclub. The over-26,000-square-foot nightclub will host performances by electronic music superstars Deadmau5 (Friday) and Kaskade (Saturday). 

For more information, visit the Zouk website. 

10. Getting freaky

What: Sin City Halloween Ball
When: October 26
Where: The Theater at Virgin Hotels
Cost: From $60

It’s been called the world’s wildest Halloween party, filled with shocking showcases, erotic entertainment, fetishes, and fantasies. If that doesn’t scare you, break out your rubber, latex, lingerie, and leather for an adults-only Halloween bash (a.k.a. the Fetish & Fantasy Halloween Ball).

For more information, visit the Sin City Halloween Ball website.

This article first appeared on Good Info News Wire and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.