NoVA, DC Weekend Events: Halloween Parades, Bar Crawls, Haunted Trail

VIRGINIA — It's the last weekend before Halloween, which means there will be frights and other fall fun around Northern Virginia and Washington, D.C.

If you dare, brave local haunts like Clifton Haunted Trail, Haunted Trail at Salamander Resort & Spa, Haunt: Game Over, Frights At Height, Cox Farms Fields of Fear, Haunted Historic House & Cemetery Tour and ScreamLoco.

For not-so-scary fall fun, visit fall festivals like Cox Farms Fall Festival, Pumpkin Village at Leesburg Animal Park, Fall Pumpkin Harvest Festival, Temple Hall Farm Pumpkin Patch And Sunflower Fields, Reston Farm Garden Market Fall Fest and Braehead Farm Fall Festival.

This weekend only, top seasonal events include Annandale Parade, Del Ray Halloween Parade, Purcellville Halloween Party in the Woods, Halloween Beer Crawl, Carlyle Halloween Stampede, Trick-or-Treating at Mount Vernon, Town of Dumfries Fall Festival, Bat Festival, Trick or Treat on Market Street and much more.

Below is a full roundup of local events from Friday, Oct. 27 to Sunday, Oct. 29.

Friday, Oct. 27

• Trick-or-Treat at the Animal Shelter, Leesburg
• Pink & Purple Brunch, Dumfries
• Fridays at the Fountain, Arlington
• Artloween Bash, Washington, DC
• Halloween Bar Crawl, Alexandria
• Pumpkin Plunge & Pumpkin Plunge After Dark, Herndon
• Mystery of Carlyle's Mummy, Alexandria
• Spooktacular 2023, Springfield
• Movies on the Pitch - Trunk or Treat, Leesburg
• Dulles South Trick or Treat Trail, South Riding
• Village at Leesburg Monster Mash, Leesburg
• 2023 Haunted Trail at Salamander Resort & Spa, Middleburg
• Halloween Costume Contest Friday The 27th, Vienna
• Halloween Murder Mystery At Maggiano's Springfield, Springfield
• Halloween Beer Crawl, Leesburg
• Frights At Height, Springfield (select days through Oct. 28)
• Halloween On The Farm, Herndon (through Oct. 28)
• Haunted Historic House & Cemetery Tour, Dumfries (through Oct. 28)
• 39th Annual Ghostwalk, Fredericksburg (through Oct. 28)
• Halloween House & Trick- Or- Treat Trail, Reston (through Oct. 28)
• Hauntings at Loudoun Museum, Leesburg (through Oct. 29)
• Halal RIBFEST North America Tour, Springfield (through Oct. 29)
• Reston Farm Garden Market Fall Fest, Reston (select dates through Oct. 29)
• Braehead Farm Fall Festival, Fredericksburg (select dates through Oct. 29)
• Superfine Art Fair, Washington, DC (through Oct. 29)
• DC's LGBTQ+ Film Festival - Reel Affirmations, Washington, DC (select days through Oct. 29)
• McLean Community Players presents "Proof," McLean (select days through Oct. 31)
• Halloween Hunt at Mansion on O, Washington, DC (through Oct. 31)
• “Sights and Sounds of Early Herndon,” Herndon (through Oct. 31)
• Fall Pumpkin Harvest Festival, Bluemont (through Oct. 31)
• Old Town Haunt - Fairfax City Ghost Tour, Fairfax (through Oct. 31)
• Brick-Or-Treat: Monster Party Kid’s Halloween Event at LEGO Discovery Center Washington, D.C., Springfield (through Oct. 31)
• Meadowlark's Halloween Scavenger Hunt, Vienna (through Oct. 31)
• ScreamLoco, Dulles (select days through Nov. 4)
• Cox Farms Fall Festival, Centreville (select days through Nov. 7)
• Cox Farms Fields of Fear, Centreville (select days through Nov. 4)
• Pumpkin Village at Leesburg Animal Park, Leesburg (through Nov. 7)

Saturday, Oct. 28

• Town of Dumfries Fall Festival, Dumfries
• Clifton Haunted Trail, Clifton
• Annandale Parade, Annandale
• Temple Hall Farm Pumpkin Patch And Sunflower Fields, Leesburg (select days through Oct. 31)
• Purcellville Halloween Party in the Woods, Purcellville
• Halloween Bar Crawl - Washington DC - 6th Annual, Washington, DC
• Carlyle Halloween Stampede, Alexandria
• Halloween Carnival, Falls Church
• Tall Ship Providence presents the Halloween Howl, Alexandria
• Tall Ship Providence presents Ghost Ship Providence, Alexandria
• Halloween Bar Crawl, Alexandria
• Treats on the Streets, Fredericksburg
• Haunted Happenings, Manassas
• Trick-or-Treating at Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon
• Old Town Family Treat or Treat, Alexandria
• Air & Scare At The National Air And Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly
• Día de los Muertos Family Day, Washington, DC
• Big Whiskey Festival, Chantilly
• Old Town Manassas Holiday Crafts and Treats, Manassas
• Halloween At The Boo-Ro, Tysons
• 7th Annual Fall Craft and Vendor Fair, Fredericksburg
• HalloQueen Drag Brunch at King & Rye, Alexandria
• UCP Seventh Annual Fall Art and Craft Fair, Reston
• Beer O Ween, Tysons
• Hope of Christ Fall Festival, Stafford
• Halloween Fairy Folk Trail, Lovettsville
• Trick or Treatment, Woodbridge
• Ghost Town, Fairfax Station (through Oct. 29)
• The Heritage India Festival, Chantilly (through Oct. 29)
• OFC's Festival Of Frights And Trunk Or Treat, McLean
• Washington Wizards vs. Memphis Grizzlies, Washington, DC
• Embrey Mill Hosts Fall Event and Eighth Annual Halloween 5k, Stafford
• Reston Community Players presents Avenue Q, Reston (through Oct. 29)
• Eighties Mayhem: Halloween Dance Party at Black Cat, Washington, DC
• Trunk or Treat, McLean
• Fall Festival, Franconia
• Spooky Skate Night, Leesburg
• Halloween Spooktacular Experience, Dumfries
• Trunk-or-Treat & Costume Contest, Annandale
• BARBIE TRUCK DREAMHOUSE LIVING TOUR, Tysons
• Spirits and Spirits Maze, Occoquan
• Harry Potter Fest, Chantilly
• Fairfax Funky Flea, Fairfax
• Haymarket Art Market, Haymarket
• Halloweekend at the Perch, Tysons
• Oak Marr's Haunted Mini-Golf, Oakton
• Haunted Mini Golf at Locust Shade Park, Triangle
• Trunk or Treat Halloween at Nova Labs, Fairfax
• Spooktacular Fall Festival, Haymarket (through Oct. 29)
• Pumpkins at the Playground, Alexandria
• Community Halloween Carnival, Reston
• 2nd Annual Community Trunk or Treat, Ashburn
• Trunk or Treat, Woodbridge
• Howl-O-Ween Dog Costume Contest, Reston
• Halloween Movie Night Under The Stars, Centreville
• RACSB – Kenmore Club Thrift Sale, Fredericksburg
• Trunk or Treat, Woodbridge
• Trunk or Treat, Reston

Sunday, Oct. 29

• Del Ray Halloween Parade, Alexandria
• Washington Commanders vs. Philadelphia Eagles, Landover, Maryland
• Bat Festival, Vienna
• Trick or Treat on Market Street, Reston
• 2nd Annual Spooktacular Jack O'Lantern Stroll, Fairfax
• Old Town Doggie Trick or Treat, Alexandria
• Fall Festival, Alexandria
• Spooky Brews Halloween Party, Reston
• Trunk or Treat, Vienna
• Trunk-or-Treat at Bunnyman Brewing, Fairfax
• Trunk or Treat, Annandale
• JCC Fall Fun Fest, Fairfax
• Trunk or Treat, Herndon
• Experience the Haunting Thrills of Manassas: Ghost Doctors' Ghost Hunting Tour this Halloween, Manassas

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