What to Know
- Anaheim Fall Festival & Halloween Parade
- Festival: Center Greens in Anaheim; Parade: The starting point is Anaheim Boulevard and Broadway
- Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026
- Festival: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Parade: 7 p.m.
- Free
- A classic car show is one focus during the festival; head to Center Street Promenade and admire the cool wheels
- Costume contests for kids and pets are on the schedule, too, and a caboodle of art and cultural activities
If a lot of your social media suggestions this October have focused on how to shop around your own home for a Halloween costume, taking inspiration from the vintage, on-the-fly ensembles people put together decades ago, you might simply need to gaze in the direction of Anaheim, where a famous fall festivity is still rocking the nostalgic and nifty get-ups.
It’s the Anaheim Fall Festival and Halloween Parade, a glad-and-gleeful gathering that started in the ’20s — that would be the 1920s — with plenty of community spirit in tow.
That spirit still shines in the Orange County city each year when the two-parter starts to party, which will happen Saturday, Oct. 24…