Halloween Events in Hamilton: Family & Adults – 2019

Things to do in Hamilton this Halloween 2019

A list of family Halloween activities, haunted houses & adult Halloween events/parties in and around Hamilton.

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Trick or Treat

• Safe Trick or Treat at Eastgate Square on Thursday, October 31, 2019 | 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM | $2
• FREE trick-or-treating at Downtown Burlington on Saturday, October 26, 2019 | 10:00 AM – 01:00 PM

Bizarro’s Factory of Fear 2019

Hamilton’s scariest haunted house park, built inside two 40 foot tractor trailers, The Factory of Fear combines live actors, pneumatics, high quality set design and crazy special effects to give you an immersive in your face horrifying experience like never before! Details

$15

Halloween Ho-Down

Live Entertainment, Children’s Village, Food & Wind/Cider pairings, Halloween Train Rides, Campfire & Marshmallow Roast, Kids Bouncy Fun, Trick or Treat around the farm, Halloween Craft and more! Pick~Your~Own Pumpkins Available. Details

Pay as You Play

Lego Club – Halloween

Trick or treat! Build your own Halloween treats and creepy characters out of Lego. We will also get creative, making paper Jack O’ Lanterns, and spooky spider webs. Details

$10 per child. Space is limited, and preregistration is required

Halloween at the Library

From Halloween themed games, crafts, storytime to family Halloween party there is something for kids of all ages at Hamilton Public Library. Details

Few programs require registration

Concession Fallfest

Join us for a day of Fallfest family fun. Celebrate the start of our autumn solstice with free live music, horse and wagon rides, a fundraising corn roast (and other Fall treats), shopping and much more! Details

Free

Scarecrow Walk

The scarecrow invasion returns to Waterdown Village. Walk the streets of the core to spot scarecrows decorated and displayed by local Village businesses. A fun way to spend a fall day or evening to see if you can spot them all. Watch for details of special prizes tied to the hunt. Details

Halloween Spooktacular

Come on out to The Apple Orchard for a special Halloween event with Blossom Musik! A morning of musical fun & a spooky adventure. This event will involve a family friendly Halloween music time with Miss Amy, a spooky scavenger hunt around the orchard, a hayride around the pumpkin patch and access to all of the facilities including the corn maze and corn & grain bins and a visit to the ponies. Details

This ticket is for one child admission and an accompanying adult. Any additional adults will have to pay an admission fee at the door ($3.99 plus HST). Siblings under one are free.

Spooktacular Stroll

This family event invites you to bring your kids in full Halloween Costume so they can enjoy a night of Trick or Treating around the Binbrook Fairgrounds track. Food Vendors and other family friendly entertainment will also be offered. Details

Free

PumpkinFest

Enjoy a beautiful fall day at this 176 acre farm with a long winding laneway and rolling hills. It is truly spectacular! Take a hay wagon ride to the pumpkin patch and search for the perfect pumpkin. Details

September 28-29: General admission $9, October: General admission $12/person; Under 2 years old are free

Ghost Tours

Ian Thompson leads brave souls through Caledonia’s historic downtown on guided, lantern-lit walking tours. Details

All Ages $5; Children under 3 free

Haunted Evening at Dundurn

A Haunted Ghostly Tour Event & Victorian Death and Mourning Traditions with Haunted Hamilton. Join your host “Spooky Steph”, Founder/Owner of Haunted Hamilton, and the HH Spooky Misfit Crew for a very rare and first-time ever Event almost 20 Years in the making. Details

$40/person

Stories in the Stones

Many of Hamilton’s colourful characters and history lie buried in our cemeteries. The cemetery tour – The Stories In The Stones – tells their fascinating stories through free guided walking tours at Hamilton Cemetery. Details

Free

The 6th Annual Kate Andrus Pumpkin Prowl

The Kate Andrus Pumpkin Prowl starts at Belview Park where kids come in costume to play games like Body Part Hockey and Pumpkin Bowling, bounce on bouncy castles, sip hot chocolate from Gage Park Diner, and do activities. After the games and activities, at around 6:30pm the kids go trick-or-treating to neighbourhood homes who have agreed to hand out candy. Details

Free

Harvest Festival

Springridge Harvest Festival fun for the whole family! Details

$13.00 (includes HST) per person, ages 2-92; Optional Pony Rides $5 per ride

Ghost

Ultimate Tour named Death. Details

$39.50

Ghost Walks: Hamilton

Details

Varies with the tour

Stoney Creek PumpkinFest

Live music & entertainment, Artisans and vendors, farm market vendors, Costume Contest – all ages, food trucks, free children’s activities, free face painting and more!! Details

Free admission

Pumpkin Sunday

A fun event for the whole family, especially the little ones! Featuring pumpkin-themed games, demonstrations, crafts and activities. Bring your camera!!! Details

Regular admission

4th Annual Great Pumpkin Stroll

Bring the whole family for some spooky fun in Fieldcote Memorial Park and savour the flavours of local food trucks. Everyone is encouraged to wear Halloween costumes and to submit a pumpkin for display. Deliver your carved and decorated pumpkin to the band stand at Fieldcote on October 24 from 10 am to 1 pm. Details

Cash donation (suggestion of $10 per family). All proceeds will go to the Ancaster Community Services and Frank Panabaker Home & School Association.

The Great Pumpkin Trail

It’s a magical evening on the Pumpkin Trail!
Hundreds of jack-o-lanterns light your way along our garden and South Bridle Trail. Enjoy live entertainment, face painting and pumpkin-themed activities and games. Details

Adult $19, Ages 3-12: $12; Under 3: Free

Spooky Saturday at the Market

Spooky Saturday is a celebration of the Halloween season happening inside the Hamilton Farmers’ Market. Many fun activities planned for the whole family to enjoy. Details

Free; Pumpkin painting: $2 Donation/canned food item

PumpkinSHED

We supply the pumpkin and the carving tools and you supply the creativity! Join us for a day of halloween spookiness and fun. Details

$10

Haunted Halloween: A Dark & Stormy Night

Something curious is happening in the village! Find out what as you explore by lantern, pumpkins and moonlight. Details

Adults $12, Seniors (65+) $10, Youth $6.50, Children 5 and under are free. Family $30

Halloween Spooktacular

Find your way through the hay maze, try your hand at the Halloween prize wheel, personalize your own sugar cookie, and enjoy exploring the Fun House.

Glitterbug Face Painting will be onsite working their magic as well as Urban Zoo’s reptile tent where you’ll find some creepy crawlers. Stop by the free photobooth to capture an instant memory of your adventure. You’ll find costumed stilt walkers that will amaze and enchant you while you explore. All of this happens with a DJ dance party going on all evening to keep the party going. New this year – cotton candy & a Halloween craft station! Details

FREE

A Haunting on Mainway

Community Living “Boo”lington’s “A Haunting on Mainway”is a spooktacular day featuring fun, games, tricks & treats for the whole family!! Details

Minimum donation: $5/person, $10/family; All proceeds with benefit United Way Halton and Hamilton Come support an amazing cause!

Halloween Comicfest

Get Free Comics during Halloween Comicfest. Head to a participating comic shop to get free comics! Also be on the look-out for mini-comic packs that will be available in comic shops which are great to pass out to trick-or-treaters on Halloween! Details

Free

Kids Halloween Party

Calling all boys and girls, ages 4-9! You’re invited to a Halloween party at the Erland Lee Museum. Put on your costume and get ready for a spooky, silly and fun-filled time, including games and activities, crafts, prizes, healthy snacks, and lots more!! Details

$5 per child, accompanying adults are free

2019 Absolute Touch Halloween Masquerade Championships

Details

Halloween Run

Join the spookiest running race in Hamilton! Expect a wonderfully flat course, Medals to all finishers. Chip timing. Free beer and free PAPA JOHNS pizza. Plaques to age group winners. Register today with friends and family. 5km Race & kids 1km. Details

Register

Halloween Costume Parade

Fun for kids and parents. Join us for our annual costume parade – kicking off at the Concession Branch Public Library. Halloween treats along the way. Enter your pre-carved, decorated jack o’lanterns for a chance to win some amazing Concession prize packs!! Details

Free

Monster Bash

5th Annual Halloween Dinner & Dance in support of Golfi Indoor Playroom of Dreams for McMaster Children’s Hospital. Details

Adult $55; Child 12 and under: $30

Celebrating Halloween!

Join us at Ireland House Museum for a special Halloween themed day. Details

Included with regular admission

Marz Homes Family Concert: The Composer is Dead

Spend a musical afternoon with family and friends for a one-hour full orchestra concert. Our Family Concert brings together children and their parents, family and friends in a fun and enriching musical experience.

There’s dreadful news from the concert hall – the composer is dead! Where were the violins on the night in question? Is the trumpet protesting a bit too boisterously? In this perplexing murder mystery, everyone seems to have a motive, everyone has an alibi and nearly everyone is a musical instrument. Hear for yourself exactly what took place on that fateful, well-orchestrated afternoon. Details

Child $10, Adult $20

Horror Movie Trivia

Get into the spirit of Halloween with the spooky edition of Shawn & Ed Trivia!

Let’s play a game. Who is the killer in Friday 13th? Did you answer Jason? You’re wrong. Its Mrs. Vorhees. Don’t worry, you won’t have to saw off you foot for wrong answers at this months themed trivia! Grab your ghouls and get into the spirit of Halloween at Shawn & Ed Brewing Company!! Details

Free, register

Andy G and Friends ‘Our Cat Flash’ Children’s music show – Halloween Edition

Canadian Folk-Roots Artist, Andy Griffiths has recently released his upbeat children’s album entitled ‘OUR CAT FLASH’. Featuring mostly songs Andy has written and a couple of classic children’s songs. (I Had A Rooster and Sandwiches). Details

$20; 12 months & younger are Free

Mentalist Ryan Edwards: Truth or Dare?

Truth or Dare? An age old question asked around the world. This show takes that old game to a whole new level. Ryan attempts to use his intuitive knowledge of human behaviour to beat the odds and escape the consequences of a wrong move along the way. Will you win his money or take his pride, only time will tell… Details

$25 – $38 + HST

BIA Treat and Pet Walk

There will be entertainment, photo ops and family activities. Free treats for costumed kids & pets at participating businesses. Look for businesses with purple balloons and/or follow the map. Details

Free

UFE Halloween Mayhem

You will NOT want to miss the most unique and exciting event in fitness & bodybuilding! Featuring Novice & Open levels, plus the UFE 90 Day Challenge! This event will be a special PRO qualifying event! First place winners in categories with 10+ competitors will earn UFE PRO status and a stunning ROSE GOLD UFE PRO card! Details

Halloween Thriller Concert

Acclaimed jazz / hip-hop trumpet player Brownman Ali will lead an all-star quartet through his popular annual Halloween Thriller concert. The Trio + 1 will perform the entire Michael Jackson Thriller recording, interpreted and re-worked in the Miles Davis-esque fashion this multiple National Jazz Award winning improviser has become known for. In addition to the quartet performing Thriller from top to bottom, other MJ classics will be featured through the night for this unique Halloween jazz party series. Details

Advance $15, Door $20

Toddler Days – Halloween

What are you going to be for Halloween? Show off your best costume during our Trick or Treat Costume Parade. We will also play candy corn ring toss, make green monster oobleck, and enjoy a vanishing ghost experiment. Ages 2 – 4. Details

$5.00/child, and accompanying adults are complimentary.

The Rocky Horror ‘Acoustic’ Show

Join talented local musicians Tim Park, Bianca Bernardi , Paul Stewart and Andy Fur as they pay an acoustic tribute to the music of the fabulous cult classic! Sit back, stand up or dance and enjoy as this guitar-slinging Frank-N-Furter and his Sweet Transvestites perform all the songs from the musical in order, from front to back, including some surprise covers along the way. Don’t miss this Science Fiction Double Feature! You can do the Time Warp at BPAC and shake your Hot Patootie for one night only in our intimate Community Studio Theatre. Audience participation is welcome and dressing up is encouraged. No tricks – this is going to be a real treat! Details

$34 – $39

Hamilton Pumpkin House

A neighbourhood favourite, over 200 pumpkins carved and lit for Halloween Night. This year, we are collecting money for An Instrument For Every Child (Hamilton Music Collective). Details

Donations will be accepted online and in person. The first ten donations of $50 or greater will receive a custom carved pumpkin. Donations over $100 will receive a tax receipt special thank you mention on a pumpkin.

Camper Halloween

Join us for a weekend of spooky camping fun in October!

Activities include a spooky hike, a campsite decorating contest and trick or treating. Costumes and decorations are highly encouraged! In order to participate just reserve your campsite through the park reservation system, setup and decorate your site during the day. On Saturday evening enjoy trick or treating and there is a spooky guided hike. Details

For specific questions about Camper Halloween please call campround office at 905-827-3228

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• Spooky Garlic Planting and Fall Harvest Celebration on Thursday, October 24, 2019 @ Hamilton Community Food Centre
• Punk Rock Flea Market: The Halloweener on Sunday, October 27, 2019 | 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM @ The Absinthe

Adult Halloween Events & Parties in Hamilton 2019

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• Candlelight Spirit Walk on Friday, October 25, 2019 on Erland Lee Museum
• Night of the Blood Mannequin by HTC on Wednesday, October 23, 2019 | 8:00 PM
• Mutant Massacre Presented by HTC on Tuesday, October 29, 2019 | 8:00 PM

RBG After Dark: Boos, Brews and BBQ

Dress in your Halloween best and embrace the glorious autumn nightscape of Royal “Boo”tanical Gardens! Creatures of the night are gathering at the historic Rock Garden for a fall-inspired costume party which is sure to send a chill up your spine. Enjoy harvest and Halloween activities and great tunes, sip some local craft brews and satisfy your appetite with bountiful bites of delicious BBQ.

This is a 19+ event. Details

General $18, Student $15

Electronic & Industrial Halloween

DJ Nokturne. Rabbit Hole Express, CNTRL Machine, Pulse Code, Grind Abrasion (Live) DJ Nokturne. Details

The Rocky Horror Show

In this cult classic, sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker and a creepy butler. Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named “Rocky.” 19+. Details

Haunted Ghost Tour

$15/person

Drive-In Double Feature

It’s time for our yearly evening of obscure cinema mayhem at the Starlite drive-in. This year’s double feature consists of: Lady Terminator (1989) & Robowar (1988). Details

$15/carload

Big Queer Halloween

On the cursed 19th day, of the month of October, #adamandsteve present the queeriest, spookiest and most out of this world Halloween party Hamilton will be hosting this year!

For your ghostly pleasure we have 3 of the witchiest and bitchiest queens we could find haunting the stage; Seyonce (Trevor Joel Porath), Jacklynne Hyde and Hexe Noire! This drag show is going to leave you spooked! 19+. Details

$10

BOOS & CRUISE: Halloween Party Cruise

Goblins, jackals, and ghouls OH MY! Boos and cruise with the Hamilton Harbour Queen on the Harbour of Horrors! It will be a monsterous mash of a good time. 19+. Details

Adults (19+): $48.00, Seniors (60+): $42.00, Students: $42.00

Ghost Stories & Magic

Looking for a spooky experience to get you in the mood for Halloween? Join illusionist Nick Wallace for a night Ghost Stories and Magic. Fresh off the heels of appearances on America’s Got Talent and Penn & Teller: Fool Us, Nick presents a night of entertainment where things definitely will go bump in the night. Details

$25

Hallowe’en with Will Gillespie & Friends

Details

The Case of the Mysterious Death Escape Room Experience

Join us for a new escape room experience created for you by the Adelaide Hunter Hoodless Homestead and Escape Key. Are you brave enough to enter The Homestead solve the mystery? Details

$50

Small Town Halloween Dance

Just your typical small town Halloween Dance… like Hocus Pocus but with beer. THIS SPOOK-TACULAR NIGHT TO BE REMEMBERED features live music from NIGHTSHIFT AS A SKELETON BAND, a costume contest with bone-shattering group and single prizes, the chance to judge children’s jack-o-lanterns, a one-night only specialty beer, custom Boo-Tine Station and the chocolate covered fingers of A MAN NAMED CLARKE! Details

$25; Bring non-perishable food item for Hamilton Food Share!

Stone House Halloween Party

Join us for a night of Halloween fun in the Stone House Ballroom. Fret Buzz will be performing. Costume Contest and prizes at 10PM. Seasonal food and drink specials. Details

No cover charge

Scaring Up A Few Deadbeats

This will be Robbie’s and Mike’s Night Of the Living Dead themed show, best dressed Zombie gets a prize. Best dress costume. Details

• Tool & Rage Against The Machine (Tribute Night & Halloween Show) on Friday, October 25, 2019 | 9:00 PM @ The Absinthe
• Wicked Halloween on Friday, October 25, 2019 | 10:00 PM @ Club 77
• Raider, Kohlit, Cathartic Demise & Sheep of Lucifer on Friday, October 25, 2019 @ The Atria, Oshawa
• Horrors of the Night, Classic Monsters in Black and White on Friday, October 25, 2019 @ Staircase Cafe Theatre
• 90’s Rager Halloween w/ Take Cover on Saturday, October 26, 2019 | 10:00 PM @ The Absinthe
• Death Perception Presents: Blood Brothers Festival 4 on Saturday, October 26, 2019 @ Doors: Taco Joint & Metal Bar
• Mutant Massacre Presented by HTC on Tuesday, October 26, 2019 @ Hamilton Trash Cinema
• Paranormal (Halloween) w/ Felix Cartal + more on Saturday, October 26, 2019 | 9:30 PM – 4 AM @ Club 77
• THE BEELAYS & KOOPA TROOP HALLOWEEN FREAK SHOW!!! on Friday, November 1, 2019 | 9:00 PM @ Corktown Pub
• THAT’S MY DRAG! DRAG ME TO HELL on Wednesday, October 30, 2019 | Doors 8:30 PM @ This Aint Hollywood
• IN YER EAR, Halloween Edition on Thursday, October 31, 2019 | 8:00 PM @ The Casbah Lounge
• Heavy Halloween III: A Night of Rock and Roll on Thursday, October 31, 2019 | 8:00 PM @ Doors: Taco Joint & Metal Bar

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