Halloween (for Kids!) Weekend Event Picks – Thursday, October 29th thru Saturday, October 31

Halloween.2020 is looking different, to say the least. While everyone’s doing their best just to get through the weirdness of COVID, certain traditions are meant to be kept, and Halloween with our kids is near the top of the list…The MUG has put together a special list of spooky, fun and safe events for the ‘youts for this weekend in the Missoula area. Trick or treat!
For complete event listings, links and details visit The Missoula Underground / Calendar of Events (powered by MissoulaEvents.net)
https://missoulaunderground.com/events-2/ . Please note that events are subject to cancellation or change at the last minute. Be sure to check the event links to confirm your plans.
THURSDAY, October 29

Share the joy with Unleashed MT’s Howloween Costume Contest any time this week for some great prizes.
Monday, October 26 at 7:00 am – October 31 at 8:00 pm
Howloween Costume Contest
Unleashed_MT
2118 S. Reserve Street, Missoula, Montana
Starting Monday, Oct. 26, 2020 show off your furry friends’ best costumes at Unleashed and be entered into our first annual Howloween costume contest.
Winner will be chosen on Oct 31, 2020 by 9 p.m.
Winner will receive a half day of daycare, a custom professional photo shoot and a 1-hour training session with our personal trainer. (Worth over $150!)
Winner will be featured in our December newsletter and receive a special doggy Howloween bucket and have special bragging rights.
Disclaimer, Rules:
Contestants must be canine
Do not have to be present to win
Employees cannot enter
Judges: Owner’s parents and in-laws for objectivity and fairness.
Contestants must be registered, and already has been temperament tested with at least 1/2 day of daycare or in-home sessions.
How to Enter:
Send in a photo to [email protected] or stop by to have your picture taken by our staff.
p.s. Unleashed will donate $5.00 to the animal shelter for each entry.

Monday, October 26 at 8:00 am – Saturday, October 31 at 11:59 pm
Hamilton Downtown Parade of Scarecrows
City of Hamilton Montana
223 S. 2nd Street, Hamilton, Montana
Due to Covid and in the interests of Public Health the Hamilton Downtown Association will not be hosting the Annual Halloween Parade, but we got the next best thing for ya!
We’ve leveraged our experience in knowing how to party with a great idea.
The Hamilton Downtown Parade of Scarecrows!
Here’s the Plan:
- Build a Scarecrow with a basket filled with candy (individually wrapped of course)
- Put it out in front of your business for the entire week of Mon the 26th through Sat the 31st
- Refill the basket with candy as needed
This way we can still show our spooky side without having hordes of zombies come all at once. People can come and go as they please throughout the week and have a little candy.
We can still show our community spirit by handing out treats minus any “scary tricks”.
Bonus! Parents and tots can Trick or Treat on their schedule and we get to see Halloween cheer downtown all week!
So please show your love of community and Halloween by putting out some scarecrow with some candy.
SATURDAY, October 31

Saturday, October 31
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Halloween Spooktacular Barrel Race
5C Arena and Event Center
224 Rusty Spur Way, Corvallis, Montana
More details + entry information: www.5carena.com/events
Downloadable/printable entry form: www.5carena.com/halloween-spooktacular-entry-form
Stall + camping information: (406) 381-8175 or [email protected]
Come have a “scary” good time with us!

Saturday, October 31
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Halloween Monsters
Ravalli County Museum
205 Bedford St, Hamilton, Montana
Shape your own imaginative monster from special squish circuit dough, separating them with insulating dough. Add LED lights to bring your monster to life! Whether scary or silly, once you turn on your lights your monster will be electrifying!

Saturday, October 31
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Howl-O-Ween Pawty
Dee-O-Gee MSLA
3275 N Reserve St, Ste G, Missoula, Montana

Saturday, October 31 – Sunday, November 1
10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Halloween Bash & Costume Contest
Big Sky Arcadia
2901 Brooks St, Missoula, Montana
Happy Halloween! Enter in the costume contest for a chance to win a Nintendo Switch!
*contestants must purchase min. $15 play card, be in costume and wear a mask. Finalists will be posted on our Facebook page November 6th.

Saturday, October 31
11:00 am
Halloween Photoshoot
The Historical Museum at Fort Missoula
3400 Captain Rawn Way, Fort Missoula Missoula, Montana
Hello my ghoulies are you ready to get your spook on? Then join us at our social distance Halloween photoshoot! Possibly super spooky locale is in the works MUHAHAHAHAHAHA

Saturday, October 31
12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Halloween Treasure Hunt
Dunrovin Ranch
5001 Expedition Dr, Lolo, Montana
Bring your family group to Dunrovin Ranch on Saturday October 31st to see what treasures your can find and to have your photo taken with our Bewitching Donkey DIVAS!
Come in costume and be ready to scour the ranch in search of clues for your treasure!
To maintain social distancing, you must register for a specific one hour time slot. Time slot start on the hour every hour from noon until 5PM.
To register, email [email protected] with your top 2 time choices. We’ll get right back to you with directions and when to come.

Saturday, October 31
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Trunk or Treat at the Daly Mansion
Daly Mansion
251 Eastside Hwy-Hamilton, Hamilton, Montana
We want to provide an outdoor, social-distancing conscious space for community kids to show off their costumes and have fun!
Bitterroot families are invited to dress up in their Halloween best and Trick or Treat outside along the main lane leading up to The Front porch of the Daly Mansion!
We will have designated areas on our North and South Lawns for cars to park to provide adequate distancing between each vehicle.
Those who want to participate are encouraged to decorate their trunks and/or wear costumes!
We will ask that any who are handing out candy wear face coverings and gloves and that only pre-wrapped candy be distributed.
This is a FREE event for the community, but we do ask that those who would like to bring their cars make a reservation so we can properly space out the parking areas
Please call 406-363-6004 ext. 2# or email [email protected]
if you would like to reserve a space for your Trunk!

Candy for the kiddos, drink chip for you!
Saturday, October 31
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Trick or Treat
The Silver Slipper
4055 Brooks St, Missoula, Montana

Drive Thru Trunk R Treat Experience
Saturday, October 31
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Drive Thru: Trunk R Treat Pumpkin Patch Bash
New Life Church Polson
1414 2nd Street W, Polson, Montana
Bring the entire family to the 2020 Pumpkin Patch Bash Drive Thru Trunk R Treat Experience on October 31st from 2pm-4pm at New Life Church in Polson. Free Candy, Food, Big Giveaways, and Much more!

Saturday, October 31
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Trunk or Treat
AMC Missoula
3640 Mullan Rd, Missoula, Montana

Saturday, October 31
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Pumpkin Decorating
VFW Post 3596
201 West Lynch Street, Plains, Montana
Bring your kids to the VFW and join the Plains Women’s Club on Halloween day to decorate pumpkins! There will be markers available to decorate the pumpkins however they want.
Don’t forget to stop in the bar area to Trick or Treat! The VFW will be handing out candy all day!

Saturday, October 31
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
CANDYFEST
Christian Assembly Foursquare Church
1001 Cleveland St, Missoula, Montana
Join us for FREE event on Saturday, October 31st from 4-6 PM. This year CANDYFEST will be outside and Trunk or Treat style. Bring the family and enjoy free food, costume contests, raffles, photo booth, candy and more!
Social distancing and precautions to help stop the spread of COVID in place to keep you family safe.

Candy Crawl on Halloween!
Saturday, October 31
4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Halloween: Candy Crawl
Southgate Mall
2901 Brooks St, Missoula, Montana
Come dressed in your best costume and ready to collect all your favorite treats.
**Located inside the former Lucky’s Market Building (enter via Brooks Street entrance)
*CDC-approved masks required
COVID-19 Precautions: masks required · limited capacity · socially distanced · hand sani stations · contactless trick-or-treating

Saturday, October 31
4:00 pm – 8:00 pm
HALLOWEEN PARTY FOR YOUTH!
Westside Lanes
1615 Wyoming, Missoula, Montana
$20.00 per person. Includes: Thunder Alley Bowling, Halloween videos on big screens, 2 games of bowling, 2 slices of pizza, or hot dog and chips, medium soda, each child receives trick or treat candy! Best costume contest! No more than 5 per lane, masks must be worn the whole time.

Saturday, October 31
4:00 pm – 8:00 pm
GLOW IN THE DARK AT THE PARK
E L Johnson Memorial Pool Park
104 E Oak St, Plains, Montana
We will have a booth set up with premade bags for the kids with candy and glow-in-the-dark goodies. Drive up or walk up. COVID guidelines will be followed. We hope to see you there !
https://gem.godaddy.com/s/bb84611

Saturday, October 31
5:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Halloween Carnival
The 1776 Club
103 River St, Superior, Montana

Saturday, October 31
6:00 pm
Annual Fall Festival
Clinton Community Church
9635 Clown Ln, Clinton, Montana
- Indoor Trick-or-Treating
- Masks Required
- Hot Dogs
- Pop Corn
- Root Beer
- Cotton Candy

Trunk-r-Treat/Carnival in the parking lot.
Saturday, October 31
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Trunk-r-Treat/Carnival
Pablo Church of the Nazarene
42653 Old Hwy 93 S, Pablo, Montana

Saturday, October 31
6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Tamaracks Resort Tricks & Treats
3481 Hwy 83 N, Seeley Lake, Montana
Please come to the Tamaracks Resort on Halloween for some fun! We will be going from 6-10 pm.
Cabin to cabin trick or treating, play a game & win a prize, listen to some spooky music around a fire, and vote on your favorite cabin. Kids bring your decorated pumpkins for the pumpkin contest.
Check in at the Pavilion by office to get a map & a FULL SIZED candy bar!!

Saturday, October 31
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
TRUNK OR TREAT DRIVE-THRU
Bootown (Zootown) Church
3623 Brooks St, Missoula, Montana
We know how hard this season has been on our families, friends, community, and children and we want to do something about it!
If you have little ones please “drive-thru” our parking lot of 20 socially distanced and decorated automobiles!
Candy will be distributed by masked and gloved volunteers who have come together with one purpose, to make your evening with your family extra special, and a little bit easier.
We’re currently looking for people who would like to decorate their car, truck, SUV, horse-drawn buggy, etc, and hand out candy to families who attend.
If you would like to get involved but don’t want to decorate and park a car, we’re looking for help with guide traffic flow and or donations of SEALED party-sized bags of candy to help ease the burden on volunteer automobiles.
We cannot wait to see y’all there!

Saturday, October 31
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Trick or Treat 2020
Waypoint Church
1100 S. Higgins Ave, Missoula, Montana
With so many concerns surround the idea of safety and trick or treating this Halloween, Waypoint Church is hosting a trick or treating event for families in our community. From 6:00 – 8:00 pm on Halloween, kids can register to come down to our building on Higgins Ave and trick or treat at our seven entry doors. Kids will receive bags of candy at each door. Waypoint volunteers will use safety precautions to give parents peace of mind in regards to Covid concerns. Kids will be allowed to trick or treat at the building in groups of ten every fifteen minutes in order to allow for social distancing and prevent overcrowding. Please fill out our registration for at:
http://waypointmissoula.com/home