Halloween 2026 around Salt Lake City: press sheet

A few local picks to check out

Full Salt Lake City guide · Vote in The Boo Awards

30 Halloween events around Salt Lake City are on BooMap, each with its 2026 dates checked on the event's own website.

## What families can find

• 10 pumpkin patches & corn mazes
• 5 family Halloween events
• 2 trunk-or-treats
• 3 fall festivals
• 4 ghost tours
• 6 haunted houses

Pumpkin patches and corn mazes already open by Oct. 1: 10, including Gordon's Family Farm Pumpkin Patch (Spanish Fork); Crazy Corn Maze (West Jordan); Happy Pumpkin Corn Maze & Field of Fear (West Haven); and 7 more.

Not-scary picks for little ones (suggested all ages, 1–2 of 5 ghosts): Cross E Ranch Fall Festival (Salt Lake City); Expedition Superstore Trunk or Treat (West Valley City); Gordon's Family Farm Pumpkin Patch (Spanish Fork); Hee Haw Farms Fall Event (Pleasant Grove); Hogle Halloween: A Boo Lights Experience (Salt Lake City); and 10 more.

Free events: Expedition Superstore Trunk or Treat (West Valley City); Promise South Salt Lake Trunk or Treat (South Salt Lake).

Trick-or-treat hours: no town around Salt Lake City has announced official 2026 hours yet. BooMap adds them as towns announce. (Halloween is Saturday, Oct. 31.)

## The Boo Awards (fan vote, Oct. 1–25)

Fans vote for Salt Lake City's Best Pumpkin Patch, Best for Little Goblins, Boo's Hidden Gem (small, local events only), Most Fun Overall and Most Likely to Make You Scream. One vote per category per day; winners are announced Oct. 27.

Vote: https://boomap.app/salt-lake/vote

## Links

• City guide: https://boomap.app/salt-lake
• About BooMap and the press kit: https://boomap.app/press

## Story ideas

• "We mapped every Halloween event around Salt Lake City": where to go this weekend, by age and scare level.
• Trick-or-treat on a Saturday: what it means for families (and the towns that set official hours).
• Boo's Hidden Gem: the small, local events fans are rallying behind.

## Spokespeople

• Andrew Ward, creator of BooMap (his company, Toronado Entertainment, makes BooMap and Noelly); also SVP of 10 Lives Studios and a film and TV producer. As a 7th grader he built a six-room haunted house in a borrowed tent in his family's driveway, staffed by neighborhood volunteers. Recent work: the Katy Perry Lifetimes Tour concert film, a Peter Frampton documentary, Hollywood Vampires: Unleashed Spirits. producinghollywood.com
• Kristen Moss, reality TV casting director and BooMap spokesperson; a mom of two whose daughter is going as a red raptor dinosaur this year. kmosscasting.com

Media contact: hello@boomap.app