Trick or treating with downtown merchants in Port Angeles, Sequim and Port Townsend, haunted houses and other treats, chills and spooky thrills are planned for Halloween.
In addition to dances and costume parties listed in the Peninsula Spotlight entertainment guide in today’s PDN, the following events will keep your weekend busy:
Port Angeles
* Children are invited to trick-or-treat at downtown Port Angeles businesses from 2 p.m. until stores close today.
Children and parents should look for orange pumpkin posters in the window indicating that a business in participating.
Free photos will be taken of children in costume at the downtown fountain between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m.
Trick-or-treaters are also invited to The Landing mall, 115 E. Railroad Ave., for a costume contest from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Prizes and treats will be available.
* A free event — “Haunted Hollow: Domain of Darkness” — will open at dusk and promises to take participants on a creepy, spooky and haunted adventure.
Haunted Hallow is at the home of Joel and Amy Frick, 816 S. Cedar St.
Flashlights and glow sticks are discouraged from being used.
* The annual Queen of Angels Carnival offers a raffle, bouncing house, a cakewalk, face painting, tattoos, bingo, food, picture taking and more.
The event will be held from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the Queen of Angels school gymnasium, 209 W. 11th St.
The public is welcome to attend. Admission to the event is free. Tickets for games and activities are three for $1.
* Ghosts, goblins and witches will be on hand at the Dry Creek Grange to greet trick-or-treaters.
Children dressed in costumes will receive a free hotdog, witches brew and a bag of candy.
A costume contest will be held at 6:15 p.m., followed by games including a Tombstone Dessert Walk, “Apple Biting,” haunted house and much more, according to grange members.
The event will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the grange, 3520 W. Edgewood Drive.
For directions or more information, phone Patti Morris at 360-452-3289.
* Crestwood Convalescent Center officials will host a Halloween party featuring games, prizes and safe area for children to trick-or-treat.
The free public event will be held from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the center, 1116 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
* At Saint Andrew’s Place Assisted Living, 520 E. Park Ave., residents and staff will take a moment during the noon Halloween party to read scary stories to children from local day care agencies — part of “an intergenerational literacy moment, in honor of Saturday’s National Literacy Day — before the children trick-or-treat at residents’ doors.
Carlsborg
* For people looking for that last-minute pumpkin, a cornstalk maze, a petting zoo and a chance to launch pumpkins for prizes, the Sunny Farms Pumpkin Patch and Corn Maze will not disappoint.
For the fourth year, the pumpkin patch and maze, located at the corner of Kitchen-Dick Road and U.S. Highway 101, offers Halloween-goers a full fall-festival experience complete with hot cider, kettle corn and other sweet treats for sale.
Entrance to the maze, a rectangle of green corn stalks more than 10 feet tall covering about six acres, with 1.5 miles of hay-covered trails, costs $7 for those 16 years old and older, and $4 for children 15 years old and younger.
Group rates are available.
The maze stays open until 9 p.m. Bring a flashlight.
Younger children can wander through a straw maze, made of hay bales for $2. Parents can accompany children for free.
This year, organizers are extending opportunities for exploring the maze.
The facility will be open Saturday from noon to 9 p.m. and from noon to 6 p.m. on Sunday before closing up shop for the season.
Sequim
* Participating downtown Sequim business owners and employees will hand out candy to children from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Cookies and apple cider will be served at Bank of America, 114 S. Sequim Ave.
In addition, Sequim Town Partners is sponsoring a trick-or-treat event from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Children can dress up and start at any West Washington Street business to seek treats.
Artwork by children from Helen Haller Elementary School and scarecrows by Sequim Middle School students will be on display throughout downtown.
Live entertainment will also occur at the Stitching Heron 126 E. Washington St., between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.
* An evening for families of preschool through middle school-age children will be held at King’s Way Foursquare Church, 1023A Kitchen-Dick Road.
The church’s Pumpkin Patch Bash, held from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., will offer booths, prizes, pony rides, activities, mini-carousel rides, an inflatable bouncer and plenty of candy.
Hot dogs and soda are also available for $1.
Organizers of the free event describe it as “an evening of family fun,” and ask that children be dressed in friendly costumes.
* Members of the Sequim Valley Lions Club will handout Halloween treat bags to youngsters in the McDonald’s parking lot starting at 5 p.m.
Organizers of the annual event say they will remain in the parking lot, 107 S. Seventh Ave., until they run out of treats.
* The Boys & Girls Club, Caroll Kendall Unit, 400 W. Fir St., is throwing a Halloween party from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
The event is for members only, but all members are encouraged to bring a guest for free.
Memberships are $25 per year. For more information call 360-683-8095.
* A child-friendly haunted house will be open from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. at 983 N. Sequim Ave.
Halloween goodies will also be available for children.
Forks
* A Halloween party for children 12 years old and younger will be held at Sunshine & Rainbows Child Development Center, 945 S. Forks Ave.
The party will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. and is free of charge, but children must be accompanied by an adult.
Various activities including breaking of candy-filled pi^pbatas at 6:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. and a “not so scary” haunted house.
Port Townsend
* Downtown Port Townsend Trick-or-Treat on Water Street begins today at 4 p.m.
Merchants on Water and Washington streets and in between invite children accompanied by parents to trick-or-treat at their stores from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
People wanting to participate in the annual Halloween parade should assemble at Bank of America at 3:45 p.m. The parade starts at 4 p.m.
Water Street is closed to traffic from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. from Adams to Polk streets.
* A youth -oriented costume dance party entitled “All My Relations’ All in All Animal Ball” will be held at the Palindrome, 1891 S. Jacob Miller Road, starting at 2 p.m.
Participants are encouraged to dress as their favorite animal.
* The old Port Townsend jail will be transformed into a haunted jail from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
There is no cost to tour the jail, located in City Hall, 540 Water St.
