Trick, treat, travel: the Halloween events in Queensland you need to know about

Experience horror on the green at Spooky Putt Putt

When: 15 October - 3 November 2024

It’s mini golf… but not as you know it! Victoria Park pulls out all the stops for a month-long Halloween celebration to frighten even the fiercest golfers. Tee off and putt your way around a chilling course featuring zombies, alien life forms and perhaps most terrifying of all, creepy clowns. There’s also boozy slushies for grown-ups to get you around the course with a nice buzz. Golfing never felt so freaky.

Brave a graveyard with a terrifyingly good Ghost Tour

When: 25 October - 3 November 2024

It’s the most wonderful time of the year for the Ghost Tours Australia crew, who are running a bumper schedule of terrifying tours during a 10-day Halloween spook fest.

Join a local guide to furtively lurk in cemeteries across Brisbane – from Toowong Cemetry to Lutwyche – as well as other locations across the state, including historic Ipswich and Charters Towers. Learn about the straggler spirits rumoured to remain, the cemeteries' most famous “residents” and investigate whether Jack the Ripper really is buried in Brisbane soil…

Unleash your inner pirate at Redcliff Festival of Frights

When: 26 October 2024, 4pm – 9pm

Fireworks! Street food! Treasure hunts! The bayside suburb of Redcliffe is putting the “treat” in trick or treat, with a pirate-themed Halloween spectacular. Frock up in your scariest disguise and head to Redcliff Parade (where the Redcliff Markets take place) for the Redcliff Festival of Frights. There you’ll find a treasure trove of entertainment, food and Halloween enchantments. See Redcliff Jetty like never before as it's transformed into a moody, spooky pirate paradise, with street performers, fireworks and live entertainment.

Figure out whodunnit on a True Crime tour

When: Fridays and Saturdays

For the true crime fanatics, choose from three blood-curdling tours to get you in the mood for scary season from the team at Historic Australia. Take your pick from a walk around Brisbane’s oldest streets on a Bloody Brisbane Crime Tour, a skulk around the city’s underbelly on the Valley on Moonlight State Fortitude Valley Crime Tour or if you’re really brave, join the brand new South Brisbane Cemetery Crime Tour. The tour, which launches on Halloween, takes in the graves of some of Boggo Road Gaol’s most infamous inmates who now call the cemetery home.

Channel hell on wheels at Gay Skate

When: Sunday 27th of October 2024, 5 - 7.30pm 

Lace up your skates and make an entrance for a fun-filled night of live DJs, retro music, and club lighting at Gay Skate. The pop-up LGBTIQAP+ party with a cult following will transform Albany Creek Skate Rink into a seriously spooky session that’s inclusive, family-friendly and filled with killer music. Come as you are or dress to impress.

Gold Coast

Fright Nights at Movie World

When: 5 - 31 October 2024

Face your fears at the annual Warner Bros. Movie World Fright Nights with terrifying mazes, scare precincts and horrific fun on your favourite rides after dark. Tickets start at $99 (not recommended for children under 14 years). Costumes and light face makeup are welcome.

Happy Halloween at Dreamworld

When: Select nights in October, 5.30 - 9pm

With spooktacular entertainment, frightfully fun food, rides at night, trick-or-treating and more, it's the perfect way to celebrate the spooky season, after dark at Dreamworld. 

Walk on the wild side at Currumbin Fangtuary

When: 25 - 26 October 2024

For two chilling nights, the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary transforms into a wonderland of frightening family fun, with fancy dress, fire twirling, street performers, a jumping castle and a ghost train. Kids can trick or treat or do the monster mash at the Halloween kid’s dance party. Book ahead – this is an event that always sells out. Tickets start at $21.25.

Take a bite at Dracula's Cabaret

When: Open Monday - Saturday

For grown-ups, Dracula’s is another Gold Coast icon that gets into the kooky, campy spirit of the season. Go all in with your costume for a shot at the best-dressed competition, sip cocktails from a blood bag and ride the ghost train before the main event kicks off. Sup on a three-course dinner while you take in a spine-tingling show of acrobatics, music and ghoulishly good comedy.

Sea World Spooky Nights

When: 12 – 26 October 2024, 5.30 - 8.30pm

Explore Sea World by night at this much-loved October event. With light shows, monster houses, seven spooky precincts, live entertainment and of course, exhibits and rides to experience in the dark, it’s an adrenalin-packed night in a whole new way. Tickets start at $49pp.

The Haunted Passage – Doomsday at Cavill Lane

When: 31 October 2024

Located in the heart of Surfers Paradise, Cavill Lane has designed an eerie and sensory-provoking immersive experience, The Haunted Passage – Doomsday 2024. Not for the faint-hearted (fair warning to those prone to nightmares or younger children) the Haunt Maze is a self-guided tour through a haunted passage of scenes designed to scare and startle. Then, let's bring your nervous system back to earth with market stalls and some killer photo ops.

Sunshine Coast

Trick or treat at The Ginger Factory

When: 28 October - 3 November 2024, 9am - 5pm.

Spice up your spooky season on the Sunshine Coast. For a whole week, Spooktacular Adventures at The Ginger Factory will host a haunted host, graveyard and spooky trail for little monsters to explore. Stop by on Halloween (31 October) for trick-or-treating and a free sweet hunt. All this along with the Ginger Factory’s usual fun including the Bee jumping castle, Little Explorers play space, Moreton the Ginger train and the Overboard ride. 

The Whitsundays

Creepy camping

When: 1 - 3 November 20254

The Whitsundays is always a good idea, but at Halloween, you’d be mad not to. This spooky season, Big4 Adventure Whitsunday Resort is planning a ghoulishly good time for kids, and some frighteningly good deals for parents too.

The Camp and sCare weekend features a slew of games and activities to keep kids of all ages entertained. Plus, all powered sites are just $52 on Friday 1 November with all proceeds made going to charity, with all two-night stays receiving a free 3pm checkout. 

Fraser Coast

Get a fright at the Haunted Doll Museum 

When: Open Friday - Sunday, 9.30am - 1.30pm

This cute-but-kooky experience may scare parents (scarred from Child’s Play and M3ghan) more than children. Maryborough’s Fairies Reborn Magic Nursery and Haunted Doll Museum is filled with curios, oddities and of course, haunted dolls. The museum and doll hospital will be hosting an epic trick-or-treat celebration. Last year the event drew 1000 attendees!

Guests receive free entry into the museum’s “spooky big room” and can peek inside the rest of the collection for a gold coin donation (usually $22 for adults and $11 for children) with proceeds donated to GIVIT – a charity supporting families fleeing domestic and family violence. 

Capricorn

Venture into the darkness at Capricorn Caves

When: Saturday 26 October 2024, 2-9pm

What could be creepier than venturing into the darkness of a prehistoric limestone cave on Halloween? If you’re lucky enough to be in the beautiful Capricorn region, you can do just that with a Haunted Cave tour at Capricorn Caves. It’s a family-friendly fright fest with scary movies, a scavenger hunt, freaky food a best-dressed competition and lots of spooky fun. Grab tickets for $26.50 (kids under 2 are free) or enter their competition here.