October is here! Time for Philly’s Top Halloween Events in 2022
The City of Brotherly Love hosts some of the US’s biggest parties, festivals and parades.
There’s plenty of ways to celebrate the spooky season this year Liberty Bell Land, from family friendly fun to adult-level screams and scares.
We’re listing them all out for you, and updating them as we discover more.
Halloween Nights at Eastern State Penitentiary
Halloween Nights at Eastern State Penitentiary
Fairmount’s historic prison gets divided into five separate haunted house experiences: Delirium (in 3D), Machine Shop, The Crypt, Big Top Terror and Nightmares. There’s also a vampire-themed Bloodline Lounge for Halloween cocktails, live dance performances by the Skeleton Crew in the Gargoyle Gardens, a beer garden, tours and more.
$34; September 23rd-November 12th, Eastern State Penitentiary, 2027 Fairmount Avenue.
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This Halloween pop-up bar is located in an abandoned jewelry store. Imagine skeletons, a giant smoke-breathing dragon, creepy baby dolls and more. Of course, the drink menu does not disappoint either. The Blood Bag (filled with cranberry juice), skull-shaped specialty shots (take the skull home with you), and more served up in Halloween spirits.
Open now through October 31st, 116 South 12th Street.
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Fright Factory
Fright Factory
Venture into the basement of this 120+ year old factory split into three different frightening themes to explore, complete with scare-actors, special effects, and elaborate set design.
$30-$45; select dates through October 31st, 2200 South Swanson Street.
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Bates Motel
Bates Motel
This haunted motel is worth the drive out to Delco. The Philly favorite known for production design has a 25-minute haunted hayride through Arasapha Farm. Plus, a haunted corn maze called Revenge of the Scarecrows!
$40-$125; September 23rd-October 31st, 1835 Middletown Road, Glen Mills.
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Founding Footsteps ‘Bad Things’ Philly Tour
Taking place on a haunted BYOB trolley with live music and performances, Founding Footsteps is a locally inspired true crime tour of Philly! The tour runs Thursdays through Saturdays all October long (and the first weekend of November), and your $48 ticket also includes one cocktail from PJ Clarke’s, where the tour begins. Tickets available online.
$48; weekends through November 4th, begins and ends at Curtis Building, 6th and Walnut streets.
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Uptown Upside Down
The Uptown Beer Garden is getting spooky this year with a Stranger Things-themed experience! Step inside a circa-1983 Hawkins, Indiana, with plenty of photo ops based on the show (Demodogs! Demogorgons! Vecna!), plus themed cocktails in take-home souvenir glassware.
September 30th-October 31st, Uptown Beer Garden, 1500 John F. Kennedy Boulevard.
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Trick or Treat (adult version) at Chaddsford Winery
Join a Chaddsford Wine Guide on a walking tour to visit five Halloween-themed pairing stations.
You’ll get a keepsake Halloween wine glass, plus plenty of wine and snacks, in a one-of-a-kind trick-or-treat experiences that’s 21-and-up only. After the 45-minute spooky walk, return back for more wine (or beer) by the glass, plus food from the Common Good Food Truck.
$35; Saturdays and Sundays in October, Chaddsford Winery, 632 Baltimore Pike, Chadds Ford.
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Laurel Hill Cemetery Tours
Take a scary October spooky tour through this historic graveyard, including their classic Halloween flashlight tours.
See their whole calendar of events and choose a perfectly macabre tour here.
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