Costume Parties & Late-Night Fun
United We Dance: Halloween Rave
$23.29 | October 30 | 9:00 PM – 11:59 PM | The Signal
Doors: 8:00 PM | THIS EVENT IS 18+ ONLY | MEZZANINE 21+
United We Dance is a high-energy rave built for nonstop energy from start to finish. Our DJs blend house, techno, bass, festival anthems, and original remixes with quick transitions and back-to-back drops—so the energy never lets up. Expect a mix of songs you know and love alongside today's biggest dance tracks, all seamlessly woven together to keep the dance floor moving all night. No slow songs. No awkward downtime. Just a packed dance floor, huge singalongs, massive drops, and a crowd that's there to rave.
Inspired by the likes of: FISHER, Chris Lake, Dom Dolla, John Summit, Matroda, James Hype, Crankdat, Knock2, Subtronics, Skrillex, Martin Garrix, David Guetta, and Tiësto.
Halloween attire is encouraged. United We Dance is for everyone — come as you are.
PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING COSTUME GUIDELINES:
• No weapons (including fake swords, hammers, etc.)
• No spikes or chains
• No prop guns
• No full masks — masks must be removable, and guests must be identifiable for ID and/or alcohol service
• Gloves cannot impede 21+ wristbands
• Full face paint is permitted, but eyes must not be covered
Gravedigger's Ball
$18.90 - $24.95 | October 30 | 9:00 PM - 11:59 PM | Barrelhouse Ballroom
Doors: 8:00 PM | Show: 9:00 PM | 21+
Chattanooga’s ultimate Halloween Party with Hits 96 is back for its 5th Annual Gravedigger’s Ball on Friday, October 30th, 2026 at Barrelhouse Ballroom!
Get ready to dance the night away with DJ Scuba Steve, and don’t forget to dress to impress for a chance to win one of the biggest costume competitions in town. The Best Couple/Group costume wins $1,000, while Best Solo costume takes home $500!
Plus, we’ll be giving away tickets to see Olivia Rodrigo, Doja Cat, and more with a FREE raffle throughout the evening! So grab your costume, bring your crew, and get ready to party at the Gravedigger’s Ball!
There will be a sign-up station at the event for all costume contests. FREE to enter with ticket!
Each person may only enter ONE CONTEST. All sign ups MUST be done before 10:30pm.
All participants will be asked to "pose" for a picture when they arrive and will be judged by an ANONYMOUS PANEL.
The judges will pick the Top 5 participants in each contest and the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners will be decided by a "round of applause" vote! More details at hits96.com
Frights & Pints
$25.95 - $75.95 | October 30 | 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM | Chattanooga Zoo
Frights & Pints is our 21+ Halloween party at the Zoo!
Enjoy a DJ, dance floor, costume contest, wild decorations and plenty of beer and wine as you explore the Zoo! This 21+ event also includes fire performers, lots of candy and an exclusive VIP lounge with an open bar and specialty cocktail. Get ready for a scary good night at Frights & Pints!
Guests will enjoy
- 5 drink tickets for beer and wine included with admission (additional drink tickets will NOT be for sale)
- Costume contest with great prizes like Zoo memberships and experiences
- DJ and dance floor
- Fire performers from Crystalline Entertainment
- Access to the whole Zoo which will be decorated for Halloween including special enrichment activities for animals
- Trick-or-treat stations
- Devilishly delicious dinner options (not included in the cost of admission)
- Exclusive Frights & Pints 16 ounce cup included with admission
- Proper ID will be required in order to receive alcoholic beverages. Those without IDs will not be served.
- Guests are encouraged to dress up! We kindly advise against bringing any weapons, real or fake, and we request that all visitors dress appropriately.
- This event is rain or shine. We have a backup plan in case of rain that will ensure a good night, even if the weather doesn't cooperate!
- Designated Driver tickets will not be served alcoholic beverages and are not allowed to drink alcohol during Frights & Pints. Water and soft drinks will be available.
Rocky Horror Picture Show Live!
$60 | Oct 31 | 8:00 PM - 12:00 AM | Walker Theatre
Rated R | 1h 40m
Featuring Shadowcast by Kaleidoscope Entertainment (18+ Show)
A newly-engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must seek shelter at the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-n-Furter.
Step into a world of hypersexual hijinks and Transylvanian thrills with Chattanooga's original Rocky Horror Picture Show LIVE event at the Memorial Auditorium, November 1st, 2024. Come watch as our fabulous cast of costumed performers takes the stage, bringing the iconic songs and outrageous characters to vivid reality while you enjoy the original film playing in the background.
We will allow prop sales at the door and once inside the venue!
Drink & Discover: Camp Fear
$25 - $35 | Oct 23 | 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM | Creative Discovery Museum
Figure out who done it, or you're next.
The Museum transforms into Camp Fear for one night only as adults become campers in an after-hours experience featuring drinks, games, puzzles, and a mystery inspired by classic ‘80s summer camp adventures.
Drink & Discover is a 21+ event. Valid ID required at the door.
Ruby Falls Lantern Tour: Ghost Walk Edition
$42.95 | October 8, 22, 25, & 31 | Ruby Falls
This after-hours special edition Lantern Tour features ghost stories from the 98-year history of Ruby Falls and eerie Chattanooga legends. On the way to the waterfall, hear the tales and visit the sites of peculiar encounters, mischievous mayhem, and tragedy while exploring the cavern with a guide by the light of handheld lanterns.
Check online for times and availability. This popular experience sells out fast, advance online ticket purchase is required, and not appropriate for children under the age of 12.
Participants should be comfortable walking, standing, and keeping pace with the group for up to 120 minutes in a low light environment.
Family-Friendly Frights & Fall Festivities
Rails, Wizards, & Spells: Chattanooga Wizard Train Ride
$35+ | Select Dates Oct 2 - 25 | 3:30 PM - 9:00 PM | Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum
Step into a world of magic and imagination at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s Rails, Wizards & Spells experience. This family-friendly fall event combines immersive wizarding fun, themed entertainment, enchanted village activities, and a magical vintage train ride through Chattanooga.
Guests begin their adventure by exploring the Enchanted Forest and Wizards Way Village before boarding at Platform 4½ for a memorable train ride filled with wizard professors, storytelling, magical surprises, and a live potions demonstration at Chamberlain Crossing Station.
Ages: All Ages
Duration: 1–1.5 Hours
Departure Location: Chattanooga (4119 Cromwell Rd, Chattanooga, TN)
Food: Seasonal treats and themed beverages available for purchase
Boo in the Zoo
$11.95 - $20.95 | Select Dates Oct 9 - 31 | 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM | Chattanooga Zoo
It's spooky season at the Zoo! Our iconic Halloween event includes:
- Candy stations around the Zoo so you can trick-or-treat as you explore
- Fun, family-friendly decorations
- Your favorite Zoo animals and a special "Creepy Crawly" exhibit just open at Boo in the Zoo
- Meet and greets with Elsa, Spider-Man, Ariel, HUNTR/X and many other characters (exact character roster changes each night and can be viewed on our website. Every character is NOT present each evening of the event)
Grab your Halloween costume and get your tickets! Tickets are limited, so don't wait!
Frazier Festival
Free | Oct 24 | 12:00 PM - 7:00 PM | Frazier Ave in Northshore
Celebrate fall on Frazier Avenue! Frazier Festival returns to Chattanooga’s NorthShore on Saturday, October 24, from 12-7pm, bringing an afternoon of local makers, artists, shopping, food, and fall fun to our neighborhood. Vendor tents will line Frazier Avenue while Northshore’s shops, restaurants, and businesses join in the festivities.
Aquascarium 2026
$45 (Toddlers 3 and under get in free) | Oct 30 | 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM | Tennessee Aquarium
Presented by Pediatric Dentistry & Orthodontics Collective
Get ready to make a Spook-tacular Splash at Aquascarium 2026! Come in costume and join us for a family-friendly night of and yummy treats and spooky fun!
Make friends with mermaids, lounge with lemurs, and beware of pirates as you Trick-or-Treat at candy stations throughout both buildings. Don’t miss an unforgettable photo op with some of your favorite characters as they SCUBA dive with hundreds of fish. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Please plan ahead as this event sells out each year. Tickets will not be available at the door. This event is also supported by Food City.
Truck-or-Treat
Free | Oct 31 | 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM | International Towing and Recovery Museum
A spooky good time for the whole family! A great, safe place to come trick-or-treat while also seeing some amazing tow trucks! We will have trick-or-treating, pumpkin-painting, games, giveaways, face-painting, free "haunted" museum admission and decorated tow trucks on display! Power-Up Pizza will have their food truck her selling sourdough pizza!
Boo on the Block
Free | October 31 | 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM | First Things First (Southside across from the Choo Choo)
Join us for Boo On The Block, a FREE, family-friendly Halloween block party! Bring the kids for face painting, inflatables, activities, giveaways, candy, a DJ, and more. Whether your little ones are dressed as superheroes or princesses, there's something for everyone. No tickets, no cost, just a fun community celebration for the whole family!
Stop by for FREE:
• Face painting
• Fall crafts & activities
• DJ
• Candy
• Giveaways
• Inflatables
• And more!
Lake WinnepeSPOOKah
$43.95 | Fridays & Saturdays in October | 6:00 PM – 11:00 PM | Lake Winnepesaukah
Lake Winnepesaukah, the South’s favorite family amusement park, takes on a hauntingly surreal feel during Friday and Saturday evenings in October— WinnepeSPOOKah! It’s hair-raising, Halloween fun for boys & ghouls of all ages. Enjoy an atmosfear of haunted rides, eerie edibles, and screaming thrills throughout the SPOOKtacular Halloween event. Lake WinnepeSPOOKah scares up creepy delights and frightening fun, including the new Monster Parade, haunted train ride, as well as hourly magic shows, and Thriller parade. And don’t miss the lake illuminated by a mesmerizing choreographed light show.
Brave guests of Lake WinnepeSPOOKah can be immersed in the dark surprises that await. With four new haunts, the Feargrounds have been transformed into the haunting remains of Ward 13 home to the diabolical Dr. Payne and his patients, and the Mortuary Maze. Daring souls are in for screams of delight and terror. “When walking through any of our expanded haunts, the paranormal is all around you,” warned Talley Green of Lake Winnepesaukah. “There are four separate and unique haunted experiences awaiting the brave, with The Clown School and The Monster Haunt also rising from the depths of the macabre in the picnic grove.”
ODDtober
$24.95 - $39.95 | October 1 – 31 | 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM | Tennessee Aquarium
Celebrate the weird and wonderful side of nature this October at the Tennessee Aquarium! Look for “eerie” animal programs inside the Aquarium as well as some not-so-spooky fun on our social channels. Don’t miss underwater pumpkin carving on Saturdays at 2:00 pm in the River Journey building.
Visit throughout the month and mention “ODDtober” in the gift shop to receive a free sticker (while supplies last)!
Underwater Pumpkin Carving
Every Saturday at 2 p.m., don’t miss our fan-favorite Underwater Pumpkin Carving show! Watch in awe as SCUBA divers turn ordinary pumpkins into aquatic jack-o’-lanterns — all while fish swirl curiously around them.
Below is the schedule:
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October 3 (TN River)
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October 10 (River Giants)
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October 17 (TN River)
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October 24 (River Giants)
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October 31 (TN River)
Terrifying Trails & Haunted Thrills
Hell's Bar Dam
$25 - $75 | Select days September 26 – November 1 | 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM EST | Hales Bar Marina & Resort
Hales Bar Marina & Resort’s haunted house isn’t your average haunted house, it’s located at the historically registered Hales Bar Dam that is well known for paranormal activity and has even been featured on Ghost Adventures and Kindred Spirits on the Travel Channel.
The staff at Hales Bar Dam spare no expense in creating a creepy eerie atmosphere, filling the Dam with scare actors, fog, dim lighting, and a few surprises that will keep you on edge. Don’t forget to check out Dam Whiskey while you’re visiting!
Dread Hollow
$21 | Thursday – Sunday in October through November 1 | Times vary | 321 Browns Ferry Rd
Chattanooga's nationally ranked haunted house returns with three new nightmares, each one more horrific and immersive than the last. The haunted house and escape rooms are open for the fall season Thursday through Sunday nights, October 1 through November 1.
Upon entering Dread Hollow, visitors must survive monstrous horrors, navigate a cursed battlefield, and face the witch whose centuries-old plan threatens to consume the town forever.
Immersive escape rooms offer all new horror-themed challenges. Escape rooms are seperately ticketed.
Due to the intense, graphic, and often loud nature of the haunted houses and escape rooms, parental discretion is advised. Timed-entry tickets available online only; walkup tickets not available at the door.
Fort O Fright
$10 - $22 | Weekends in October 2 - 31 | 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM | Stable 41
From lost loves to soldiers who never surrendered to death, several spirits make their presence known in what remains of Historic Fort Oglethorpe.
A night of thrills, chills, and unforgettable fun at Stable 41 in Fort Oglethorpe!
A haunted stable, black light skating, and a guided ghost tour of Barnhardt Circle.
Stable 41 ~ 214 First Street ~ Fort Oglethorpe
Letsgoforto.com for more details.
Haunted Grounds
$7 - $20 | October 28 - 31 | 4:00 PM – 12:00 PM | McDonald Farm
ENTER… IF YOU DARE.
Step into a terrifyingly unforgettable Halloween experience at McDonald Farm, where dark folklore, haunted grounds, and harvest horrors awaken after dusk. This spine-chilling, family-friendly event transforms the historic farm into a realm where fear lurks around every corner and the magic of fall takes a sinister turn.
4 Nights of Frights & Fall Delights
Indulge in the flavors of the season while the shadows grow long. Warm apple cider, caramel-dipped apples, pumpkin-inspired treats, and more await—served alongside a curated lineup of food trucks, dessert trucks, and a specialty coffee truck brewing wickedly good creations to keep your nerves steady.
Bring the whole family for an afternoon of Halloween fun at our Haunted Grounds Trunk or Treat on Saturday, October 30th from 3pm-5pm at beautiful McDonald Farm!
Our Trunk or Treat will take place in the open field beside the historic McDonald Farm home, where families can stroll from trunk to trunk collecting plenty of candy, treats, and fun surprises from our participating vendors and community members. Children are encouraged to wear their favorite Halloween costumes and enjoy a safe, festive afternoon filled with fall fun, photo opportunities, and Halloween excitement.
After you’ve finished trick-or-treating, keep the excitement going by experiencing everything Haunted Grounds has to offer. Bring the kids along or return later with friends for an evening of thrills and unforgettable Halloween entertainment.
Some attractions may be intense. Parental discretion advised.
