Halloween happenings: Scare up big fun with Ocean City, Salisbury events and more

Keith Demko, Salisbury Daily Times
Updated ·8 min read

Halloween season is upon us, so it's time for family-friendly fun all around with trunk-or-treat and trick-or-treat events on the Lower Shore.

Here's a guide to events to scare up big fun this season, and if you have an event you'd like included, please email it to us at newshub@delmarvanow.com.

Salisbury events

Wor-Wic Treat Street

Time and date: 5:30-7:30 p.m. Oct. 26

Wor-Wic Community College will hold a family-friendly trick-or-treat event at the campus on the corner of Route 50 and Walston Switch Road in Salisbury. Treat Street will be held rain or shine; bring the whole family.

More info: www.worwic.edu.

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Emmanuel Salisbury Trunk or Treat 2023

Time and date: 6:30-8:30 p.m. Oct. 29 at the church, 217 Beaglin Park Drive, Salisbury

A walk-through event filled with family fun, food trucks, music, decorated trunks and, of course, candy.

More info: Emmanuel Salisbury on Facebook

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Halloween Happenings at the Salisbury Zoo

Time and date: 1-4 pm. Oct. 21 and 28.

Tickets will be for sale online through Oct. 13, and those who purchase online will have early entry beginning at noon. Tickets will also be for sale at the gate.

This year’s events will have a different layout, with games spread throughout the candy trail and a more open feel. A family costume contest will be held at 3 p.m. on each Halloween Happening date.

Tickets for Halloween Happening are $10 for children in advance, by Oct. 13, or $15 at the gate. Adult tickets are $2. The Zoo is also seeking volunteers before and during Halloween Happening. To sign up as a volunteer or purchase tickets, visit www.salisburyzoo.org/events.

The Zoo will be closed to the public on Oct. 21 and 28 as staff prepares for and hosts these events.

SU hosting Halloween celebration for community

Time and date: 5:30=7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 31

Salisbury University hosts a community Halloween celebration on Camden Ave.

Candy will be available to trick-or-treaters, while supplies last, at select houses from SU’s Scarborough Student Leadership Center (1200 Camden Ave.) to the University’s Bosserman Center for Conflict Resolution (1100 Camden Ave.). Costumes are encouraged during this rain-or-shine event.

In addition, SU’s Richard A. Henson School of Science and Technology hosts a “Spooky Science Spectacular” from 5:30-7:30 p.m. in Henson Science Hall. The drop-in event will feature chemistry-, physics- and biology-related activities including mixing potions to create spooky slime, solving a mystery using pumpkin DNA, writing secret messages with “magic” paper and creating ice cream in a “smoking” cauldron.

Admission is free and the public is invited. Designated parking for all activities will be available at the Scarborough Center and in Camden Avenue Parking Lot F, adjacent to Blackwell Hall.

TidalHealth “Trunk or Treat”

Time and date: 6-8 p.m. Oct. 26

It will be a sweetly ghoulish evening when TidalHealth’s Behavioral Health division hosts its second annual “Trunk or Treat” night on the TidalHealth Peninsula Regional Salisbury campus.

In the hospital’s pervious parking lot on the corner of Waverly Drive and Vine Street, TidalHealth team members will decorate their vehicles and fill their trunks with Halloween treats for a safe, supervised and family-friendly candy collection. The rain date is Friday, Oct. 27.

New this year is a kid’s costume fashion show, music, a Maryland Twisters tumbling demonstration, and food and shaved ice trucks. Trunk-or-treaters can also vote for the best-designed trunk.

All kids are invited, and costumes are encouraged. Parents are responsible for the supervision of their children.

Parking will be available on Old Vine Street in the gravel lots directly across from the TidalHealth Foundation Giving House. No public vehicles will be allowed in the Trunk or Treat area for the safety of participants.

More info: Contact Dee Copeland at demetra.copeland@tidalhealth.org.

Ocean City events as part of Sunfest

More than 200 pets and their owners joined in Ocean City’s “Howl-O-Ween Pet Parade" on Saturday, Oct. 23, 2021, on the Boardwalk. Donations were collected to benefit the Worcester County Humane Society.
More than 200 pets and their owners joined in Ocean City’s “Howl-O-Ween Pet Parade" on Saturday, Oct. 23, 2021, on the Boardwalk. Donations were collected to benefit the Worcester County Humane Society.

Howl-O-Ween Pet Parade and Pageant

Octoberfest’s most popular event is back at Sunfest. Bring your pet and your costume creativity to compete for prizes (you can even dress up too!). Parade along the boardwalk with activities around N. Division Street. Registration available online and on-site.

Date and time: 1-2:30 p.m. Oct. 21 along Ocean City Boardwalk

Halloween Beach Maze

The Sunfest fun also includes a beach maze that will offer puzzling fun for the entire family.

Dates and times: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily during Sunfest, Oct. 19-22

The Great Pumpkin Race

Date and time: Registration at noon, race at 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct 22, as part of Sunfest.

It’s a spooky take on Pine Wood Derby. Grab your pumpkin and your wheels of choice for a downhill race unlike anything you’ve ever seen on the eastern shore. Decor matters for some and competitive builders work magic to squeeze out that last drop of speed juice.

Register to race and enjoy the side-by-side racing as a spectator. It’s fun no matter where you choose to enjoy the experience from. Awards will be given out. Participants should register on-line but can join in on-site. North Division Street pit area opens at 11:30 a.m.

Keep trick-or-treating safe and fun by making sure kids are seen.
Keep trick-or-treating safe and fun by making sure kids are seen.

OC Jeep Club Drive in Disguise & Trunk or Treat

The Ocean City Jeep Club brings a new take on Ocean City’s Drive in Disguise with a drive down the beach from 30th Street to the Amusement Pier. Four wheel drives dressed for a scare will parade along the historic Boardwalk for all to enjoy on their way south to form up for a trunk or treat - Ocean City style.

Bring your kids of all ages in costume for candy galore. The parade moves southward beginning at 3 p.m. with a Halloween treat lollapalooza starting around 4 p.m. All are invited to watch the parade and take in the trunk or treat festivities.

Date and time: 3 p.m. Oct. 22

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Snow Hill events

Snow Hill Halloween Parade and Block Party

Date and time: starting at 6 p.m. Oct. 28

The parade will begin promptly at 6pm beginning at the Green Street Extension parking lot, travel down West Green Street and cross the municipal parking lot to make its way down Market Street back to the Green Street Extension parking lot. Trophies will be awarded for first and second place. To register, visit Eventbrite.com. Participants will meet in the Green Street Extension parking lot at 5 p.m. for staging.

Immediately following the parade, Green Street will transform into a Halloween Block Party. DJ Deogee will keep the music pumping and The Bearded Men’s Society of Ocean City will host a beer truck for the 21 and over crowd to benefit Diakonia. There will be a bounce house, Halloween crafts, face painting, and at 7 p.m., an outdoor showing of Disney’s "Hocus Pocus" on Pearl Street. Bring your own chairs and/or blankets. Winners of the costume contest will be announced at 9 p.m.

More info: call Lorissa McAllister at 410-632-2080.

Fruitland events

Trunk-or-Treat presented by City Church

Time and Date: 6-8 p.m. Oct. 27, at Fruitland Recreational Park, 200 S. Brown St.

City church's annual Trunk-or-Treat event will include Touch-A-Truck, decorated trunks, candy, music and entertainment by Salisbury Dance Academy. Event is at the Fruitland Recreational Park.

Hebron events

Rockawalkin Church Family Fun Night

Time and date: 5-7 p.m. Oct. 21, at Rockawalkin Church Crossroads Community Connections, at 6777 Rockawalkin Road.

Featuring games and food, trunk-or-treat.

More info: www.rockawalkin.com

Delmar events

Delmar Moms Club Trunk or Treat Open House

Time and date: 11:30 a.m. Oct. 16, at 510 Bi-State Blvd.

Featuring kid-friendly fun with some candy, games and crafts.

More info: delmarmomsclub@gmail.com

Trunk & Treat at First Baptist Church

Time and date: 6-8 p.m. Oct. 31

The entire community is invited to this Halloween night event at the church at 501 Bi-State Blvd.

Pocomoke City events

Trunk or Treat at Eastern Shore Lanes

Eastern Shore Lanes & Restaurant

Time and date: 3-5 p.m. Oct. 28 at the bowling alley at 1834 Market St., Pocomoke City

Along with trunk or treat, come in costume and get a free game of bowling.

More info: Eastern Shore Lanes on Facebook

Trunk or Treat at Tractor Supply Co.

Time and date: 5:30-7:30 p.m. Oct. 24, Tractor Supply Co., 1701 Market St.

Dress up and come on down to Tractor Supply for its first annual Trunk-or-Treat, filled with family-friendly fun and lots of candy.

More info: Tractor Supply Co.

Ocean Pines events

Trunk or Treat

Date and time: 6-8 p.m. Oct. 29

This family-friendly event takes place inside the Ocean Pines Community Center in the gym.

This article originally appeared on Salisbury Daily Times: Family fun with Halloween events in Ocean City, Salisbury and more