Spellbound Downtown: Your Saint Paul-O-Ween Guide

Gambit Brewing is your place for adult Halloween fun with live comedy and music, a costume contest and of course, their signature brews! 

For those who just can't wait for the Halloween season! An exciting stroll behind-the-scenes in Saint Paul's Iconic railway station! The ghost stories continue out across Lowertown! Free tote bag for all guests!

Minnesota's largest Muslim-owned market returns to Union Depot for one night. Bundle Fall Market brings together 105 Muslim-owned vendors selling food, fashion, fragrance and more, most of them young local entrepreneurs without a storefront. Our May market drew about 5,000 people. Alcohol-free and all ages, a family option for Halloween night. Tickets from $20.

• 8:00 PM – Midnight | Halloween Dance Party (21+): Head to the DoubleTree Hotel Ballroom for music, dancing, a cash bar, and a costume contest! 👉 Buy Tickets Here

An event by the Friends of the Skyway

Sponsored by the Saint Paul Downtown Alliance and the Saint Paul Art Collective. A night in the skyway, reimagined. Come in your best (or scariest) costume and dance until midnight. Register by Oct 25! 

BOOnion Depot is an annual favorite for families. With a variety of Halloween-themed activities like trick or treating, crafts, a dance zone, face painting, character meet-and-greet, food vendors, and more, it’s easy to see why. This free event takes place in the Waiting Room at Union Depot and costumes are encouraged.

The Great Pumpkin Halloween Festival is back—and bigger than ever! This year’s festivities include all the favorites: a lively costume parade, face painting, crafts, a DJ spinning dance tunes, and, of course, plenty of candy. Carnival-style games like Plinko, fishing for prizes, ring toss, bag toss, a cake walk, and more make this event one you don't want to miss! Join us on

Sunday, October 25, from 1–3 pm in the Musser Cortile at Landmark Center. The costume parade begins at 2 pm, and all attendees are encouraged to show off their Halloween best.

Don’t miss this chance to experience Halloween fun throughout Landmark Center—where history meets haunt!

The Science Museum of Minnesota has Halloween fun down to a science! Grab your ghostly crew, come dressed to kill, and join us for a 21+ night full of tricks, treats, and plenty of boo-ze and brews. Tickets include museum exploration, live performances, food buffets, and one signature cocktail/mocktail or a glass of wine/beer, with additional drinks available for purchase.

Event features:
• Live DJ: DJ OMGIGI is an artist, show producer, local luminary and icon originally from Atlanta but calls Minneapolis home now. She is best known for her Disconcé & Yeehawoncé parties, Flip Phone events, 613 Day, and selling her pop culture inspired enamel pins & croc charms at events around the city.
• Real-time dissection by museum biologists
• DIY Slime Bar
• Chilling performances from theatrical scientists
• Exclusive Shark Kingdom Omnitheater showing
• Costume contest, with prizes!

1:00 PM – 4:00 PM | Skyway Trick-or-Treat (Free & All-Ages):
Enjoy weather-proof fun, treat stations, and entertainment through Wells Fargo Place and Town Square. 

Round up your crew and show of your best costumes during this night of creepy cocktails and bar-hopping fun around over 9 downtown/West 7th establishments. The evening begins at Alary's Kitchen + Bar or The Eagle Street and ends at Patrick McGovern's and includes complimentary drinks, epic DJs, food specials and more.

Alary's Kitchen + Bar
Camp Bar & Cabaret
The Bulldog Lowertown
Smorgie's
Eagle Street
Zamboni's On 7th
Patrick McGovern's
Burger Moes
Grand Seven

Join a one-hour guided tour of the restored State Capitol through the shadowy rotunda, corridors, and chambers lit with the original early-1900s lighting as history lingers round every corner. Along the way, visitors will encounter historical "spirits" who tell stories of the Capitol's past.

Put on your best costume and join us for a night of kid-friendly Halloween fun including trick-or-treating, a dance party with live DJ, costume parade, activities, crafts, games and more! Plus, the entire museum will be open for play during the event.

Price includes museum admission, a trick-or-treat bag and a night of not-so-scary Halloween fun. 

It’s time for the yearly Gravezig Halloween Bash, and we want YOU to woah your souls out with us! We have a killer line up of support with us from Too Late, but Still, All The Pretty Horses, VVolf Mask, and Protolith! We have a little something for everyone, and it is guaranteed to give you all the Halloween scares you need. Come dressed up, and ready to sing/yell/dance your ghouly little faces of with us at our big Halloween festivity 🎃

Haunted, spiritual works for voice and orchestra. This collaboration with Liquid Music offers meditations on the liminal space between life and death with music by American composers, including multiple premiere performances and the SPCO debut of Roomful of Teeth vocalist Eliza Bagg. Experience the Ordway in a new light on the threshold of All Hallows Eve.

This Halloween, the separation between worlds is crumbling and the multiverse is colliding – creating a spectacular masquerade and burlesque experience.

Join us for a gloriously strange night that brings together an all-star cast of performers from the Midwest and beyond. Multiverse Masquerade celebrates all heroes and villains, monsters and magical beings, fantastical characters, and pop-culture nightmares through a reality-smashing evening of performances.