Get ready for Halloween in Anchorage, where festive fun awaits everyone—from kid-friendly activities to spooky, adult-oriented shows. Halloween in Anchorage can work a little different. In years with early snow kids often pick winter gear-friendly costumes to trick or treat (there's even a September event for young trick or treaters that's a 20+ year tradition in Anchorage). And if there's a chunk missing from the pumpkin on your porch, don't blame zombies, it probably got nibbled by a 1,000 pound trick or treater.
Not sure which neighborhood to go door-to-door? There are several long-running community led options for trick or treating, including Trick or Treat Street, Trunk or Treat, Goose Lake's Haunted and Enchanted Trails, and Fish Creek Trick or Treating.
Pick a pumpkin at 49th State Brewing, or wander wooded trails at Zoo Boo or Alaska BOO-Tanical Garden
While kids are welcome too, both the Zombie Half Marathon and Frightening 4K are great fall runs for all ages, costumes encouraged but optional. There's also burlesque at Koots.
Not everything needs to be pumpkin spice and candy corn this weekend. Getting chills could be sitting ice level for the Wolverines hockey game against Kenai, or hearing the Saint-Saëns’ Danse Macabre and Harry Potter tunes with ASO, or even working up to a new height at a climbing event. It's also the finale of Anchorage Restaurant Week - what a treat!