Haddonfield's Halloween Parade Is the Last Stop on a Month-Long Calendar

"A parade of ghost and goblins!" That is how the Haddonfield Celebrations Association heads the page for its annual Halloween parade. It sets the evening of October 30 for "hundreds of Haddonfield children in full regalia" to march down Kings Highway behind the Haddonfield Memorial High School Marching Band.

Most mentions of Halloween in Haddonfield stop at the parade. This year's calendar starts much earlier. Between October 8 and October 30, ten different dates carry Halloween programming. Five local groups run them: the Partnership for Haddonfield, the Historical Society of Haddonfield, the Haddonfield Public Library, the Markeim Arts Center, and the Celebrations Association. The big evenings land on Fridays and Saturdays, mostly within a short walk of Kings Highway. The month's one new storefront has picked parade night as its opening day.

The Month on One Page

Several of these listings give the month and day but not the year. That includes the library programs, the Markeim workshop, the Haddonfield.Today parade entry and Four Green Cats' opening announcement. All were posted in 2026, so they read as this season's calendar, but the year is inferred from when they were posted rather than printed beside the date. The Lions Club Fall Festival that filled Tanner Street and Kings Highway on Saturday, October 3, has already taken place.

Thursday, October 8: Morning Crafts, Evening Shops

The first evening event of the season is the Witchy Walk, the Partnership for Haddonfield's girls' night out. It runs from 5 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, October 8. Participating boutiques stay open until 8, and a DJ plays from the Kings Court Gazebo. It sits on the Partnership's published 2026 events calendar alongside the downtown's other seasonal nights.

The library gets there first, though. That morning, the Haddonfield Public Library holds its Halloween Ghost Countdown Craft in the Technology Center from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. So the first day of the season has a children's program in the morning and a shopping night in the evening, and it sets up the split the rest of the month follows: library programs in daylight, downtown events after work.

Six Nights at Greenfield Hall

The Historical Society of Haddonfield sets the weekend rhythm. Its Haunted Haddonfield walking tours, billed as "historic folklore and haunted tales," start at 7 p.m. at Greenfield Hall. They run on October 9, 10, 16, 17, 23 and 24, 2026. Every one of those dates is a Friday or a Saturday.

The details that matter for planning:

1. Tickets are online only, and in advance. The Society says tickets must be bought through its Eventbrite page before the tour.
2. Pricing is $20 for adults and $15 for children 12 and under. All proceeds go to the Historical Society of Haddonfield.
3. Private walking tours are available by phone. That option suits a family or group that would rather not join a public date.

On the first tour weekend, the Markeim Arts Center at 104 Walnut Street adds an indoor choice. Patti Dirscherl's Carved Pumpkin Workshop runs from 7 to 9 p.m. on Friday, October 9, the same hour the first tour leaves Greenfield Hall. A household with split interests could send one group to each and still be home at the same time.

The middle weekend has a non-Halloween anchor. The Haddonfield Lions Club's 5th Annual Octoberfest 5K starts at 9 a.m. on Saturday, October 17, at Maria Greenwald Softball Field. Packet pickup is the evening before, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Haddonfield Running Company. Earlier that Friday, the library's Halloween Dance Party fills a half hour from 9:45 to 10:15 a.m.

Friday, October 23: Where Two Organizers Stack Up

October 23 is the busiest night on the calendar, and two different organizers share it.

The Partnership for Haddonfield's Halloween Night Market Part V runs from 4 to 9 p.m. on Kings Highway and Kings Court. More than 50 vendors and artists are expected. The organizer's list covers "apothecary, oddities, curiosities, hand-art, pop-art, clothing," plus face painting, temporary tattoos and hair tinseling. Live music and a DJ play through the evening.

The Partnership's own description leans on the town's spot in film history. It calls Haddonfield "the fictional hometown of Michael Myers" and notes the market's location steps from the PATCO Haddonfield Station, so it is easy to reach from across the region. It is the one event this month that is openly pitched to visitors from outside town as well as to neighbors. The Roman numeral counts five editions of the market.

Three hours into the market, at 7 p.m., the Historical Society's fifth tour of the season leaves Greenfield Hall. For anyone who wants the full evening, the order works. Shop and eat on Kings Highway after 4, walk to the 7 p.m. tour with a ticket already bought, and come back before the vendors pack up at 9.

Friday, October 30: The Parade and a New Front Door on Tanner Street

The Celebrations Association's parade follows the same plan every year. Lineup is at 6 p.m. at the corner of Chestnut Street and Kings Highway, the parade steps off at 6:30, and it ends behind Borough Hall. The Haddonfield Memorial High School Marching Band leads it. The association's description mentions doting parents and "even a few costumed canines" marching with the children. Haddonfield.Today lists the parade for October 30 in a calendar entry posted in August 2026. The association's page describes its standing annual schedule, and no rain date is posted. The Celebrations Association's Facebook and Instagram accounts are the place to check if the forecast turns. Its page also notes that after the parade, the Historical Society "often" sponsors a haunted house tour with an entrance fee. Nothing on the Society's 2026 listing confirms one for this year.

That same Friday, a few steps off Kings Highway, Four Green Cats Cafe has announced its grand opening at 18 Tanner Street. The cafe is moving from Mount Laurel into the former Sang Tong Thai space. The Inquirer reported in August that the larger flagship will offer full-service dining. The owners' announcement lists more freshly baked European pastries, Czech and European lunches, and an outdoor patio about the size of their entire current cafe. It also describes the space as a Czech cultural and community home for concerts and special events.

The Mount Laurel cafe stays open through the end of the year. South Jersey Food Scene reports that the owners say hours there may be limited in November while they finish the move; the owners will post daily updates on social media. An earlier report had aimed for mid-September, so October 30 is the later of the two dates, and it is the one the owners themselves announced.

The announcement doesn't explain why the owners chose that date. On the calendar, though, the result is plain. Tanner Street's newest dining room opens on the evening the children's parade marches down Kings Highway.

The Weekdays In Between

Not every date on the calendar is built around an evening crowd. The library's final two programs land midweek in the last stretch of the month. Halloween Bingo for ages 7 to 12 runs from 3:45 to 4:15 p.m. on Tuesday, October 27, just after school. Craft-a-Palooza: Halloween!, for ages 3 and up, runs from 1 to 2 p.m. on Thursday, October 29, the day before the parade.

Halloween itself falls on Saturday, October 31, the night after the parade. No organized event is listed for it. The closest record is a Bulldawg Bulletin article from October 2025, in which a Haddonfield Memorial High School student reporter wrote that an estimated 5,000 people came to Washington Avenue for trick-or-treating the year before. The same article reported that officials did not close the street for a block party in 2025.

Before October 9, two things are worth doing ahead of time. Buy Haunted Haddonfield tickets for the Friday or Saturday that fits, since the Society sells them online only, and check registration for the Markeim pumpkin workshop, which has its own sign-up link. Most of the rest of the calendar sits between Greenfield Hall, the Kings Court Gazebo and Tanner Street.

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