Halloween 2026 around Miami / Fort Lauderdale / West Palm Beach: press sheet

A few local picks to check out

Full Miami / Fort Lauderdale / West Palm Beach guide · Vote in The Boo Awards

28 Halloween events around Miami / Fort Lauderdale / West Palm Beach are on BooMap, each with its 2026 dates checked on the event's own website.

## What families can find

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

Not-scary picks for little ones (suggested all ages, 1–2 of 5 ghosts): Boo Bash at ArtsPark (Hollywood); Boynton Beach Fall Festival (Boynton Beach); Fall & Spooktacular Event (Homestead); Fall Festival (Boynton Beach); Halloween by the Sea (Boca Raton); and 12 more.

Free events: Hialeah Trunk-or-Treat (Hialeah); Lincoln Road Halloween Block Party (Miami Beach); Safe Streets Halloween (South Miami); Wellington Fall Festival (Wellington).

Trick-or-treat hours: no town around Miami / Fort Lauderdale / West Palm Beach 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 Miami / Fort Lauderdale / West Palm Beach'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/south-florida/vote

## Links

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

## Story ideas

• "We mapped every Halloween event around Miami / Fort Lauderdale / West Palm Beach": 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