South Dakota Halloween Events

From spellbinding parades, eerie-sistible pumpkin trails and elaborate corn mazes, to trick-or-treating in costume at the zoo, scarecrow festivals and other harvest celebrations, plan any weekend throughout the month of October for a wicked good time — ranging from sensory-friendly to spooktacular throughout local communities and cities across the state!

And if you're the kind of person who especially loves scary stories and frightfully-fun sites during the Halloween season, then South Dakota is your ticket to some seriously spooky and ghostly experiences. See if you have the courage to check off all these haunted outdoor experiences within our state parks, hiking trails and cemeteries. Contribute to a paranormal investigation of an iconic haunted house. See what led one journalist to theorize South Dakota as perhaps "the most haunted state in America" — from the most legendary haunted towns of the west side of the state to the most chilling haunted spots of the east side of the state.