Third Annual Pickle and Grilled Cheese Festival
A full day of pickle and grilled cheese fun at the fairgrounds, with pickle tastings, vendors, food trucks, and a pickle mocktail and cocktail bar.
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A full day of pickle and grilled cheese fun at the fairgrounds, with pickle tastings, vendors, food trucks, and a pickle mocktail and cocktail bar.
FAME Allstars Stafford teams up with The Social FXBG for a Trunk or Treat Festival.
Riverside Center's Children's Theatre programming brings Shrek the Musical to the stage! Dress up in your Halloween costume* and join the fairytale creatures…
Trick-or-treat among decorated trunks at the horse rescue, make a craft, and meet the friendly horses.
Decorated trunks line up at Sealston Sports Complex for a safe evening of trick-or-treating hosted by King George Parks and Recreation.
Redeemer Lutheran Church hosts a free trunk or treat on Saturday evening, October 24, from 6 to 9 pm.
Learn about the owls that call Caledon home, then head out on an evening wagon ride to listen and look for them in the dark.
The Long Family Markets Stafford Farmers Market hosts a "Howl"oween Party with a howling contest, games, and prizes.
X-Golf at Spotsylvania Towne Centre hosts a fall afternoon with face painting, in-store trick-or-treating, pumpkin putt-putt, a photo station, and a costume contest.
The Rouse Center parking lot fills with decorated trunks for an afternoon of trick-or-treating in North Stafford.
The 18-hole mini golf course at Locust Shade gets a spooky makeover for Halloween weekend, Thursday through Saturday.
🎃 TOT TIME PUMPKIN PATCH ADVENTURE! 🍂 Kick off Halloween weekend with a fun-filled morning at Snead’s Farm! Little ones will enjoy exploring…
Enjoy the woods at night with a not-so-haunted wagon ride, a spooky Skeleton Zoo, and trick-or-treat s'mores around the campfire.
Bring the family dog for a Halloween themed, ranger-led hike on the Smoot Trail.
The Fredericksburg Farmers Market goes full Halloween with family games, crafts, a spooky maze, and trick-or-treating among the vendor stalls.
East Coast Card Shows brings more than 300 vendor tables of Pokemon cards, sports cards, sealed products, and collectibles to the Fredericksburg Field House.
Gather at 8:30 am for pre-stroll fun, then parade down Caroline Street in costume starting at 9:30.
Line up at 9:45 am near Great Harvest, then parade down Main Street to the Courthouse with kids and pets in costume.
The city's FXBGO! bus gets a kid-friendly haunted makeover parked at Market Square.
The mayor leads a costume parade down Mill Street to River Mill Park, where judges pick the cutest, scariest, funniest, and most original costumes.