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Historic Texas small-town square at dusk in October with a courthouse clock tower, pumpkin displays and costumed families strolling past lit storefronts

Best Halloween Weekend Getaways From Houston: Denton, Galveston, Granbury & the Texas Renaissance Festival

Best Halloween Weekend Getaways From Houston: Denton, Galveston, Granbury & the Texas Renaissance Festival Halloween 2026 falls on a Saturday (October 31), which makes it the best kind of Halloween there is: a full weekend, no school-night curfew, and two nights to spend somewhere that takes the holiday seriously. Houston has plenty of its own […]

A vintage passenger train at a small-town depot at dusk with costumed passengers boarding under warm platform lights and pumpkins by the station door

Halloween Train Rides in Texas 2026: Costume Trains, Night Rides & Colorado’s Ghost Train

Halloween Train Rides in Texas 2026: Costume Trains, Night Rides & Colorado’s Ghost Train A Halloween train ride compresses everything people love about October into one evening: a vintage coach, a costume you finally get to wear twice, and a locomotive doing the driving while the dark countryside slides past the windows. It is also […]

A packed city street at night filled with costumed crowds under neon lights at a Halloween street party

Halloween Events in Austin 2026: Haunts, Family Nights & the Sixth Street Question

Halloween Events in Austin 2026: Haunts, Family Nights & the Sixth Street Question Halloween in Austin peaks on Saturday, October 31, 2026, and the city splits into three Halloweens at once. There is the scare Halloween: a flagship warehouse haunt in northeast Austin and three more attractions ringing the metro. There is the family Halloween: […]