Edmonton goes all-in for Halloween, and the last weekend of October is packed with enough spooky events to fill a whole city break. Whether you want full-on scares or something gentler, there's a lot happening between October 30 and November 1.

For serious fright fans, Deadmonton is the city's flagship haunted house, running three new haunts this season until November 7 at 9300 47th St NW — pricing varies by date and time. Out in Vegreville, about an hour east, The Haunted Hike stacks 20 themed rooms with live actors, and it splits its nights into a tamer Kids Hour (3 to 5 p.m.) and a full Scare Hour (6 to 11 p.m.) on October 30 and 31. Also east of the city, K3 Corn Maze and Family Farm in Tofield hosts its sixth annual Field of Screams on October 30: scare actors hidden through the corn maze, bonfires and hot food, all for $12 a head.

Prefer your scares seated? Horizon Drive-In is running a Halloween edition at the Edmonton Valley Zoo, screening nine horror and family-friendly Halloween films across 7 p.m., 9:30 p.m. and 11:45 p.m. slots until October 31, with tickets from $10. And if you'd rather investigate than be startled, Fort Edmonton Park runs Fall Paranormal Tours ($67 plus tax) with actual ghost-hunting kit — Spirit Boxes and EMF readers — plus the park's best ghost stories. Two routes are on offer: the 1885 Street Venture or the Fort Featured Investigation through Rowand House.

Not everything is terrifying. The Cabinet of Curiosities Halloween Night Market takes over the Alberta Aviation Museum on Friday, October 30 (7 to 11 p.m., free entry), with more than 85 vendors, local brewers, food trucks, flash tattoos and henna artists. Farmers-market lovers are well served too: Bountiful Farmers Market has over 120 vendors, more than 80 per cent local, open all weekend; Old Strathcona Farmers Market remains the city's original year-round market, running Saturday and Sunday; and Queen Mary's Market packs 130-plus vendors and five restaurants into one spot.

If Halloween night means drinks, the Fright Crawl hits multiple bars along Whyte Avenue on October 31 from 7:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. — one wristband ($79.56) gets you into the club events up and down the strip.

Why it matters for travellers: Edmonton makes an easy autumn city break, and late October is when the whole city leans into the season — drive-in cinema at the zoo, ghost tours in a historic fort, corn mazes and night markets all within reach. It's a solid pick for groups of friends, couples after a different kind of date night, or families who want the kids' hours before the scarier stuff starts.

Via Curiocity