Halloween & Fall Family Fun in Ontario

Beyond the pick-your-own pumpkin patches, Ontario celebrates pumpkin season with pumpkin-inspired cuisine, pumpkin fests and carved Jack-o-lantern displays leading up to Halloween. Embark on a guided haunted walk or dare to enter a haunted house or scare park.

Greater Toronto Area & Golden Horseshoe

Fun Fall Festival at Brooks Farm

Let the little ones loose in the Barnyard Playground and treat yourselves to homemade pumpkin pie, before selecting that winning pumpkin for your jack-o’-lantern carving. Fun Fall Festival is open every weekend in September and October.

Location: 122 Ashworth Road, Mount Albert

Pumpkins After Dark at Country Heritage Park

Jack-o’-lanterns come alive at this 2.5-kilometre audio drive-through exhibit with thousands of hand-carved pumpkin sculptures, including an awesome tunnel of lit pumpkins and live carving demonstrations. Event runs September 23 to October 30, book tickets online.

Location: 8560 Tremaine Road, Milton

Halloween Haunt at Canada’s Wonderland

Canada’s largest theme park transforms into a nighttime scream park this haunting season with monsters, scare zones, thrilling night rides and live shows and music. Make reservations in advance, best for kids 13 year and up, select nights between September 23 and October 30.

Location: 1 Canada's Wonderland Drive, Vaughan

Camp Spooky at Canada’s Wonderland

Family friendly daytime Halloween activities and attractions like trick-or-treating, fun rides, a costume parade, live performances and more are offered each weekend between September 24 and October 30. Get tickets in advance.

Location: 1 Canada's Wonderland Drive, Vaughan

Legends of Horror at Casa Loma

Casa Loma, the fabled gothic mansion atop the city, opens its doors again this season for Legends of Horror, an hour-long, self-guided sleuth through the mansion, including nooks and crannies not usually open to the public. Look out for their 2022 dates.

Location: 1 Austin Terrace, Toronto

Nature’s Bounty Farm

This beautiful orchard sits on the rolling hills of the Oak Ridges Moraine. Enjoy picking the high-quality apples, pumpkins, squash and sunflowers, and tour the farm to meet their flock of sheep and friendly llama. Nature’s Bounty Farm will be open for visitors beginning September 6th.

Location: 651 Scugog Line 2, Port Perry

Pingle’s Farm Market

Pumpkins, strawberries, apples, asparagus and much more are available at this pick-your-own farm market. Multiple events are hosted here, such as Berry Days, Sunflower Experience and Pingle’s Harvest Festival. Pingle’s is open seven days a week, all year round.

Location: 1805 Taunton Road, Hampton

Pumpkinfest at Downey’s Farm

With activities such as wagon rides, farm animals, pedal racetrack, a goat mountain slide and an eight-acre corn maze, there’s no shortage of entertainment for kids and parents alike at Pumpkinfest. This event runs from September 17 to October 31,.

Location: 13682 Heart Lake Road, Caledon

Spooktacular Light Show

Drive your family along a two-kilometre route featuring millions of custom lights in a Halloween-themed interactive light show featuring familiar characters and the perfect music to put everyone in the Halloween mood.

Location: Meadowvale GO station in Mississauga and Richmond Hill GO station in Richmond Hill

Halloween at the Village

Black Creek Pioneer Village in Toronto gets a menacing makeover for Halloween, with spooky-season activities and a scary spectacle. Put your mad scientist to work in the Slimy Science Show, try your hand at witchcraft and wizardry, and learn all about the grisly history of 19th-century medicine from the Village’s doctor. And don’t miss the bone-chilling puppet show! Takes place October 15, 22, 29 & 30, 2022.

Location: 1000 Murray Ross Parkway, Toronto

The Original Haunted Walk of Toronto

For some fresh and freaky insights into the history of Toronto, join the tour that starts at the Hockey Hall of Fame and walks you through the earliest days of the city to its many haunted theatres, unsolved mysteries, spooky graveyards, and frightening events at Mackenzie House. Runs daily until October 31, 2022.

Location: departs from the courtyard in front of the Hockey Hall of Fame, 30 Yonge Street, Toronto

Screemers

This single-ticket event grants you access to seven haunted walk-through mazes that feature more than 120 live actors, poised and ready to give you a Halloween fright. Also enjoy unlimited rides on the Midway of Madness and calm jangled nerves at the food truck eatery and fully-licensed Vampire Lounge. Formerly held at Exhibition Place, Screemers has now moved to Assembly Park in Vaughan. Takes place October 6–9, 13–16, 20–23, 26–31, 2022.

Location: 80 Interchange Way, Vaughan, across the street from Vaughan Metro Subway Station

Southwest Ontario

Screampark at Bingeman’s

Experience bone chilling terror in the six horrifying and haunted themed mazes and trails. Recommended for kids 12 and up. Tickets and packages are available online. Watch out for their 2022 dates.

Location: 425 Bingemans Centre Drive, Kitchener

Fall Fun and Fear Farm Snyders Family Farm

Pick out your perfect pumpkins, then stick around for a sunset campfire with your family and friends on weekends in September. Stock up on pumpkin spiced cinnamon buns and pumpkin cutie pies from the bakery.

Scare up even more fun at legendary Fear Farm with wandering zombies, fire eaters, illusionists, fortune tellers and a haunted house. (Note that the haunted house is recommended only for visitors aged 16+.)

Location: 936685 Blenheim Road, Bright

PéPé’s Pumpkin Patch

Enjoy hayrides, a corn maze and pumpkins of all sizes and shapes to choose from. Plus, pick up a super cool PéPé's Pumpkin Patch face mask this year. Watch for their 2022 dates.

Location: 2651 Front Road, LaSalle, Windsor

Warner Ranch and Pumpkin Farm

Warner’s famous pumpkin patch is open from September 3 to October 31. In addition to pumpkins of all shapes and sizes, they also have corn stalks, hay bales, apples, squash and everything you need to decorate your home for the fall season. Kids will love the petting zoo and horse drawn hayrides.

Location: 7705 Schisler Road, Welland

Howells Farm

Purchase the best pumpkin from the pumpkin patch and spend a day of family farm fun with the young ones at Howells Farm. Visit the adorable farm animals, navigate through challenging corn mazes, experience a scenic ride around the farm on a wagon or enjoy the playground. There are even activities the smallest ones will appreciate.

Location: 2878 Holland Road, Fonthill

Fall Festival and Artisan Market at The Fieldstone Barn 

The farm has many activities and entertainment that the entire family will enjoy on Thanksgiving Weekend (October 8 & 9, 2022). Pumpkin Spiced Lattes, hot chocolate, pumpkin pie ice cream and other delicious goodies are at the Artisan Market. Say hello to the adorable farm animals, decorate pumpkins or test your puzzle-solving skills in the corn maze. Enjoy the toe-tapping live music performances, entertaining games or roasting marshmallows by the campfire. Stay longer to experience glamping on the farm over the weekend. Admission is $15 for adults and $10 for kids. 

Location: 7450 Middlebrook Road, Elora

Eastern Ontario

Pumpkinferno at Upper Canada Village

Returning with new and revived exhibits, this award-winning spectacular exhibit features over 7,000 carved pumpkins lit up along a one kilometre long nighttime tour. Times vary between September 30 and October 30.

Location: 13740 County Road 2, Morrisburg

Pumpkin Season and Frightfest at Saunders Farm

Saunders Farm continues the Halloween tradition with its epic mazes, pumpkin picking and other daytime activities like hayrides during the Haunting Season, and Frightfest at night. Book in advance, no walk-ins. Watch out for their 2022 dates.

Location: 7893 Bleeks Road, Munster, Ottawa

Pumpkinferno at Fort Henry

You’ll be mesmerized by spectacular handcrafted, glowing artificial pumpkins set up along a curated self-tour path against the backdrops of the fort’s historic walls. Running September 30 to October 31, 2022 tickets are available online. Note: accessibility nights with an accessibility shuttle run October 6 to 13.

Location: 1 Fort Henry Drive, Kingston

The Haunted Walk

Do you dare to uncover what lurks in the dark? Embark on a spine-tingling guided tour in downtown Kingston, Ottawa or Toronto, while listening to morbid, paranormal and other unsettling tales from the past.

Locations: Ottawa, Toronto and Kingston

Ghost and Mystery Trolley with Kingston Trolley Tours

Take a 90-minute ride through Kingston’s mysterious past to haunted spots like the Rockwood Asylum, the Cataraqui Cemetery and the grave of Sir John A. Macdonald.

Location: 248 Ontario Street, Kingston

Pumpkin Season at Hugli’s Blueberry Ranch

Take a wagon ride to the wide assortment of pumpkins, gourds and squash featured at Hugli’s. Round out your day by racing against your family in pedal carts, sliding down the Blueberry Hill Tunnel Slide and playing tag in the 6-acre corn maze. Open from September 14 to October 31.

Location: 2139 Greenwood Road, Pembroke

Georgian Bay & Central Ontario

Fall Festival at Chappell Farms

Pick out your pumpkin and say hello to the host of farm animals during the Fall Festival at Chappell Farms. Attempt the hay bale run, explore the corn maze and ride the tricycle track. Operating September 10 to October 31.

Location: 617 Penetanguishene Road, Barrie

Drysdale’s Haunted Harvest Village

Search for the Great Pumpkin with your kids while running through corn stalks and hay bales, then take a break with pumpkin picking and decor shopping. Actors will be stationed along the walking trail to enhance your Halloween experience. Drysdale’s is open every weekend from October 2 to 31.

Location: 6635 Simcoe County Road 56, Egbert

Farm Market and Fun Fark Yard at Murphy’s Farm Market

Visit early this season to choose from a selection of small, large and decorative pumpkins to create the perfect jack-o’-lantern for Halloween. Let the kids loose in the fun farmyard playground. And a mouth-watering, made-from-scratch pumpkin pie from the bakery is sure to be a hit.

Location: 5141 Simcoe Road 10, Alliston

Pumpkin Mania at Rounds Ranch

Enjoy the fall season with tractor rides to the pumpkin patches at Rounds Ranch, where you can pick out a free pumpkin of any size and colour. Afterwards, participate in the sack races or compete in a pie eating contest. Open on weekends beginning September 17.

Location: 1922 County Road 22, Elmvale

Halloween Spooktacular Santa’s Village

Come and see Santa’s Village in Bracebridge transformed into a spooky family adventure. Take a ride on the Halloween-themed train, take part in scarecrow decorating, and pick a pumpkin from the patch to take home with you. Be sure to dress up in your Halloween costumes, too. The event runs October 13–14, 20–21, and 26–27, 2022.

Location: 1624 Golden Beach Road, Bracebridge

Howl-o-Ween, Haliburton Forest at the Wolf Centre

Combine a visit to see the incredible wolves at the Wolf Centre with some freaky Halloween fun. View the resident wolf pack through the one-way glass of the observation areas, and then hunt for peanut-free treats throughout the centre. Wear your costume—visitors will have the chance to win a special goodie bag! Also bring your flashlights, to take part in the spooky guided hike through the forest. Takes place October 28, 2022.

Location: 1305 Redkin Road, Haliburton

The Great Pumpkin Trail

If you’re looking for a family-friendly alternative to door-to-door trick-or-treating, this annual community event is great for young kids. Held at Pioneer Village, on the grounds of Muskoka Heritage Place, this Halloween event lets kids run free in a safe, traffic-free and well-lit space. The event takes place on Monday, October 31, 2022.

Location: Muskoka Heritage Place, 8 Brunel Road, Huntsville

Northern Ontario

Pumpkinfest at Gammondale Farm

Come for contactless excitement like Canada’s largest pumpkin catapult, the monster forest maze and barnyard maze, duck races, straw mountain and of course, tons of pumpkins to choose from, all just west of Thunder Bay. Tickets are available online from September 24 to October 30.

Location: 426 McCluskey Drive, Slate River Valley, Thunder Bay

Leisure Farms

Find fresh strawberries, raspberries, pumpkin and corn at this family owned and operated farm. They also offer fun family activities such as outdoor picnics, wagon riding and roasting marshmallows. 

Location: 744 Quesnel Road, West Nipissing

Halloween on Queen

Returning this year is Sault Ste. Marie’s “Halloween on Queen” event, for which businesses will be handing out candy to trick-or-treaters between 2:00 and 4:00 p.m. There will also be a pet costume contest, so be sure to dress up fluffy in his or her Halloween finest! Takes place Saturday, October 29, 2022.

Location: along Queen Street between Pim Street and Dennis Street, Sault Ste. Marie

Halloween at Dynamic Earth

If you’re looking for Halloween family fun, Dynamic Earth has you covered.  Catch a scary story at Strange Storytime, take in a “Creep it Real” Science Show, marvel at the Talon and Bike falconry shows, and creep yourself out at the Creepy Crawly Critter Show. And don’t miss the incredible PumpkinfernoTM, a 30–40-minute spooky, self-guided tour through the outdoor Halloween trail, which features 19 carved pumpkin sets. Reward your courage with a meal or snack at the Copper Cauldron, open until 10:30 p.m.

Runs Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, October 1–30, 2022.

Location: 122 Big Nickel Road, Sudbury

Pumpkinferno

Science North has lots of fun activities, tricks and treats in store for kids of all ages at Pumpkinferno. Take a 30–40-minute spooky, self-guided tour through the outdoor Halloween trail, which features 19 carved pumpkin sets, and reward your courage with a meal or snack at the Copper Cauldron, open until 10:30 p.m. Running every Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening between October 1st and 30th (7–11 p.m.), this year’s event has a new surprise twist!

Location: Science North, 100 Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury

Check out more family attractions to keep your kids entertained all season long and visit Festivals and Events Ontario to discover more kid-friendly fun near you.