Many in-person Halloween traditions are not feasible this year (such as door-to-door trick-or-treating, packed parties, and goblin embraces), but there are still ways to get out of your house and go about your day in a spooky manner without contracting or spreading a deadly virus. In addition to our guide to the best things to do from home this week Like List (like the Fisherman's Village Music Fest Past Event Like List and Hocum Pokem: The Return of the Manderson Sist Past Event Like List ers Past Event Like List ) and the best Halloween weekend movies Like List , we're hitting you with some recommendations for IRL, socially distanced ways to spend your weekend, both Halloween-related and otherwise. See them all below, from last-minute pumpkin patches Like List to places to celebrate Fig Week, and from the grand opening Past Event Like List of a dispensary partially owned by former Seattle Supersonics power forward Shawn Kemp to Liberation Hallows' Eve Past Event Like List in Cal Anderson Park with local Black Lives Matter organizers. Just remember to wear a mask (a cloth one, not a costume one, as the CDC advises!), keep your distance, and vote if you haven't already! 

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HALLOWEEN

Catch a killer view of the rare blue moon on Halloween—it deserves to be fawned and howled over without obstruction. If you can get yourself to a national park, by all means do so, but there are also some great spots for optimal moon-gazing and supernatural transformations within the city. Wallingford's Gas Works Park, with its Tim Burton-like industrial structures and panoramic view of Lake Union, and Queen Anne's Kerry Park, with its sloping view of downtown, are both good options, as are—and we hope we're not ruining a neighborhood secret here—the stone steps on Capitol Hill's Bellevue Avenue East that boast a view of the Space Needle. For some supplemental eye candy from the Olympic Mountain and Elliott Bay, stake out a spot at Ballard's Sunset Hill Park. Fun fact: This moon is particularly special because it will be visible to the entire world, rather than just parts of it, for the first time since World War II. (FYI, the moon won't actually be blue in color, the name just refers to the occurrence of a second full moon within the span of a month.)

Pick the last crop of pumpkins at your nearest patch. We've rounded up Like List the best Seattle-area options, ranging from straightforward, kid-centric spots like Carpinito Brothers and Carleton Farm Like List  to others that offer full-on fall festival experiences with plenty of adult-friendly options, like Bob's Corn and Pumpkin Farm Like List  and Craven Farm Like List . This weekend is your last chance! 

Get thoroughly spooked at a haunted attraction before they crawl away into the darkness until next season. Our roundup Like List of online ghost tours, haunted drive-throughs, and other COVID-safe experiences, from the Georgetown Morgue Past Event Like List to Stalker Farms' Drive-Thru Haunted Attractions Past Event Like List , will thrill and chill you.  

Take your kids trick-or-treating safely. While “trick-or-treat, smell my hand sanitizer, give me candy but stay six feet away from me” doesn’t have the same ring as the standard doorbell chant, candy-craving costumed kids won’t have to completely forgo the sweetest part of the holiday this year. Local businesses like the Duwamish Longhouse Past Event Like List and Bellevue’s Crossroads Mall Past Event Like List are putting on drive-through candy grabs and other socially distant options on All Hallows’ Eve. See them all on our trick-or-treating calendar, or check out the family-friendly section of our Halloween calendar.

Get your own tricks and treats. Whether you want to indulge your sweet tooth with Salt and Straw's "Spooktacular" ice cream flavor series, take part in a campfire tale-themed evening Past Event Like List  at Mountaineering Club Like List , or order Paragon Supper Club Like List 's Le Dîner Noir Past Event Like List  for takeout, there's no excuse for a dull Halloween this year—even if parties are canceled. Read on Like List for details on the spookiest food and drink events and specials.

Rip open a family-sized bag of assorted bonbons for a Halloween movie night. We've rounded up all the Halloween-appropriate movies showing at drive-ins and select theaters—as well as plenty of streaming picks for at-home movie nights—into "scary" and "spooky" categories here Like List , from a Nocturnal Emissions screening of The House on Haunted Hill to a Rocky Horror livestream fundraiser.

Other weekend events worth noting:

13 Days of Halloween Past Event Like List
The Capitol Hill bar will celebrate Halloween by screening a different horror movie every night (except Mondays) until Halloween, along with appropriately spooky drink specials. Their sports bar will also have all-day happy hour. Plus, there's an Instagram costume contest: You can come in and snap a photo of yourself at Olmstead in full Halloween regalia on Fridays or Saturdays, post it on Instagram, and tag the bar for a chance to win a $100 gift card.
Olmstead, Capitol Hill (Friday-Saturday)

Bainbridge Gardens 27th Annual Pumpkin Walk Past Event Like List
Every day until Halloween, this Bainbridge Island garden is open for pumpkin-painting, pumpkin walks, Great Pumpkin sightings, a bounce house, live music, and more family- and social distancing-friendly fall activities.
Bainbridge Gardens (Friday-Saturday)

BLOODY DELICIOUS: A Dinner in Hallowonderland Past Event Like List
Chef Erin Brindley has conjured up a special prix fixe menu of dark and spooky delicacies—including housemade fettuccine with uni butter and black lime caviar allegedly brewed in a witch's cauldron, Silkie Bantam black chicken and roasted pepper coq au vin with fingers fingerling potatoes, and Tres Leches with sherry pomegranate molasses and pomegranate arils that looks like blood splattered on snow—for a limited number of lucky diners on the week of Halloween. For the setting, they're making use of the Alice in Wonderland-inspired sets from their Curiouser and Curiouser show, which was canceled early on in the lockdown. 
Cafe Nordo, Pioneer Square (Friday-Saturday)

COVID House of Horrors Past Event Like List
Part haunted house and part art exhibit, this experience sounds kind of like exposure therapy, as it highlights installations by artists like Seattle Design Nerds, Totally Legit, Kerstin Graudins, Paul Nunn, Simon Shaw, Wyly Astley, Vic Deleon, and Angie Hinojos Yusuf with Carlos Jimenez that bring our worst nightmare to life in the context of the current nightmare of 2020.
Art Saves Me, Capitol Hill (Friday-Sunday)

Dock and Drink Just Got Spooky! Past Event Like List
Feast your eyes on the stunning view at a special Halloween edition of the Hyatt Regency Lake Washington restaurant's lakeside Dock and Drink. The event will feature spooky cocktails, socially distanced trick-or-treating, and a Halloween costume contest to win a complimentary staycation package.
Water's Table, Renton (Saturday)

Halloween Brunch Past Event Like List
Start your Halloween off right with a Mediterranean-influenced brunch with limited indoor seating at Capitol Hill's artsy neighborhood bar. The menu includes overnight oats with orange blossom lassi yogurt, stuffed pumpkin French toast, red shakshuka, a seitan vegan hash, and a baked omelette with sage and goat cheese.
Corvus & Co., Capitol Hill (Saturday)

Halloween Weekend Grand Opening for Brewing Savage Co. Past Event Like List
Prefer microbrews to Milky Ways? This new Kirkland brewery will have its grand opening during Halloween weekend, with treats for kids and beer and wine for adults, plus new releases, food trucks, Halloween music, and Halloween movies. Wear a costume to get $1 off your beer.
Brewing Savage Co., Kirkland (Friday-Sunday)

Harvest Fest 2020 Past Event Like List
Your favorite parts of the West Seattle Junction's annual Harvest Fest—the scavenger hunt, the pumpkin walk, the Haunted Hot Cocoa and Cider Trail—will get a socially distanced regrade this year. In addition, they'll have Harvest Fest boxes with treats and musically-themed crafts to enjoy at home, a virtual trivia night with Pegasus Book Exchange, and a spooky School of Rock online concert.
West Seattle Junction (Friday-Saturday)

Hillside Cemetery Tour Past Event Like List
The ghosts of this storied Issaquah cemetery, whose earliest burials date back to 1890, will be hiding in their graves during this daylight tour on Halloween.
Lower Hillside Cemetery, Issaquah (Saturday)

Kraken Halloween Past Event Like List
Seattle's new hockey team invites you to wear a costume and head to their team store at Chandler's Cove for trick-or-treating and a scavenger hunt.
Chandler's Cove, South Lake Union (Saturday)

Le Dîner Noir Past Event Like List
Pick up a three-course menu from Paragon to linger over by candlelight at home, with dishes like stuffed acorn squash and cocktails like a Pumpkin and Vanilla Old Fashioned and a Spiced Pear and Apple Brandy Martini. While you dine, you'll be treated to a virtual Halloween cabaret performance by the local burlesque collective Mod Carousel.
Paragon, Queen Anne (Saturday)

Pumpkin Loop Past Event Like List
Everyone's favorite seasonal gourd will line the cozily-lit one-way paths of the Woodland Park Zoo for your strolling and Instagramming pleasure. Costumes are encouraged.
Woodland Park Zoo, Phinney (Friday-Saturday)

Screamland Costume Contest Past Event Like List
Fremont's recently opened diner will host a costume contest for Halloween weekend, with a $100 gift card for the first place winner and $50 gift cards for second place winner and the best group costume.
Dreamland Bar and Diner, Fremont (Friday-Sunday)

Shoreline Día de Muertos Past Event Like List
Our nearby Shoreline neighbors will celebrate Día de Muertos with a variety of in-person and online events, including a scavenger hunt and sugar skull craft activity at Kruckeberg Botanical Gardens (Sun Nov 1), a virtual community altar, and a virtual Latinx art exhibition (Nov 1-Dec 31).
Various locations, Shoreline (Friday-Sunday)

Snohomish Zombie Walk Past Event Like List
Zombies aren't known for their timeliness, so this monthlong virtual spooky 5K, usually held in-person in Snohomish, will give the undead plenty of time to get dressed up and complete a course of their choosing at their own pace.
Downtown Snohomish (Friday-Saturday)

This is Halloween: A Virtual Drag Show & Movie Past Event Like List
Head to the leather-friendly gay bar in your costume for a prerecorded viewing of Halloween maître d's Kristie Champagne and Klitty Glitter's witchy drag extravaganza with Stacey Starstruck, Old Witch, Londyn Bradshaw, Miss Texas 1988, and other local stars. They'll also have a PPE Mask Contest at 7 with cash prizes (just remember, the CDC says costume masks are not substitutes for cloth masks, but we're sure you can figure out a creative way to incorporate a cloth mask into your costume).
Cuff Complex, Capitol Hill (Saturday)

Museum of Glass Pumpkin Patch Past Event Like List
Not into carving pumpkins but longing for a decorative gourd to display in your home? The Museum of Glass has a slew of hand-crafted pumpkins created by a variety of local vendors and the Hot Shop Team that'll last forever (unless you break it). While you're there, create your own beaded spiders and paper bat silhouettes with guidance from MOG experts.
Museum of Glass, Tacoma (Friday-Sunday)

Nightmare on Wall Street Past Event Like List
As a spooky-season tradition, Belltown’s award-winning tiki bar Navy Strength temporarily transforms into a “fully immersive haunting experience" each October, with libations inspired by classic and modern horror flicks. This year, they're bringing the spine-chilling immersive experience home to you with weekly cocktail kits for you to take home, make, and enjoy while watching the film they're based on, complete with popcorn, snacks, and your very own keepsake zombie glass. This year's lineup includes drinks inspired by Mandy, It Follows, Sleepaway Camp, and more.
Navy Strength, Belltown (Friday-Sunday)

Pumpkin Pop-Up Past Event Like List
Shop for handblown glass pumpkins from Glass Eye Studio and Global Village Glass at this season-long pop-up. While you're there, settle in for a whiskey tasting, fall cocktails, and small plates at the bar. 
Fremont Mischief (Friday-Sunday)

Super Genius Tattoo Halloween Flash Event Past Event Like List
Craving some fresh mutilation of the flesh? Super Genius Tattoo is offering $50-and-up arm and leg tattoos for Halloween weekend. 
Super Genius Tattoo, Capitol Hill (Friday-Saturday)

Zombie Soiree: Dinner + Costume Contest Past Event Like List
You're invited to party like the undead and dine "one coffin's length apart" at this zombie-themed fête at the Hotel Sorrento, which includes zombie punch, a three-course dinner with dishes like squash and mascarpone ravioli and pumpkin cheesecake, a wine pairing, and a digestif. There will also be a zombie costume contest, so pile on the face paint.
Hotel Sorrento, First Hill (Friday)

FOOD & DRINK

Use your extra hour to make an elaborate breakfast. If you’re not using your extra hour from Daylight Saving Time to catch up on sleep this Sunday, why not use the spare time as an excuse to prepare an involved, extra-indulgent breakfast? Stop at the vegetarian mainstay Cafe Flora Like List for take-and-bake frozen cinnamon rolls, pastries, and coffee beans, or try Coyle’s Bakeshop Like List for bake-at-home scones, house-made jams and marmalades, and other delights. Preserve & Gather Like List also has yogurt, granola, ricotta, take-and-bake scones and cookies, and L’Oursin Like List has a breakfast provisions kit with whole-bean Olympia coffee, a bag of Ranger granola, farm-fresh eggs, a slab of house-made bacon, smoked salmon, local yogurt or kefir, and a jar of Ayako & Family Jam.

Make the most of mushroom season. The best time for wild mushrooms in the Pacific Northwest is between September and November, so it’s prime time for fungi foraging. Feeling adventurous? Pick up a guidebook (like the fantastically named All The Rain Promises and More, a favorite among seasoned mushroom hunters) and set out on your own expedition. If you’re not up to braving the wilderness, you could opt instead for some seasonal dishes at local restaurants, like chanterelle pizza at the Independent Pizzeria Like List , chanterelle and kabocha hummus at Cafe Munir Like List , and chanterelle khachapuri at Dacha Diner Like List . Or try the “Forager” tasting menu from Addo Like List , a vegetarian family meal featuring chanterelles from Mamnoon Like List , or Ethan Stowell’s Forager’s Feast Past Event Like List .

Celebrate Fig Week. The first week of November is National Fig Week, a great reminder to enjoy the luscious fruit in any and all forms. If you need some ideas, try the “Fig and the Pig” burger at Li’l Woody’s, flaky biscuits drizzled with fig honey at the University District favorite Morsel Like List , a Negroni with fig-infused vermouth at Wallingford’s Korochka Tavern Like List , fig panna cotta at the recently opened Mezzanotte Like List in Georgetown, double-chocolate figs from Fran’s Chocolates, or golden puffed millet and rice granola with figs at Ballard’s new cafe Sabine Like List .

If you still have not voted, get your butt to your nearest ballot box (after reading The Stranger's endorsements) and scarf down some delicious rewards at nearby restaurants. We've recommended Like List our favorite one near each drop box, so you can make the most of your time out of the house and celebrate doing your civic duty, and we've also rounded up a list of election food & drink specials Like List , like Super Six's West Wing pop-up. Remember that drop boxes are open 24/7 until they close at 8 pm on Election Day (November 3), and it's smart to plan ahead to avoid lines.

Work up an appetite for Restaurant Week. This year's spring Seattle Restaurant Week, originally scheduled to start March 29, was one of the first events to be canceled due to COVID-19. For the fall edition, though, it's  Past Event Like List back and bigger than ever Past Event Like List : To give the restaurant industry a much-needed boost, Seattle Restaurant Week is featuring more dining options and is extending the event to last an entire month, starting Sunday. Like usual, restaurants will create a variety of special meal offerings as $20 lunches and/or $35 dinners, but this time, those will take the form of make-at-home meal kits, food and cocktail takeout packages, in-house three-course meals, and more. SRW will also be partnering with Plate of Nations Past Event Like List this time around, an event run by the MLK Business Association to highlight southeast Seattle businesses. So far, there are nearly 150 restaurants participating, but if you're overwhelmed by the long list, don't worry: We've rounded up our suggestions Like List .

Other weekend events worth noting:

Dynamite Chicken Pop-Up Remind Like List
Get Tender ‘N’ Tasty Fried Chicken by the bucket from Chef Adam Lee's pop-up at Ethan Stowell's Bramling Cross. Their eight-piece bucket meal comes with buttermilk brined fried chicken, charred scallion and cheddar biscuits, collard greens with bacon, potato salad, and key lime bars.
Bramling Cross, Ballard (Friday-Sunday)

Frelard Tamales Día de los Muertos To Go Past Event Like List
Stop by the beloved, gay-owned tamale window on Halloween to pick up tamales and handmade sugar skulls to decorate at home. While you're there, the first 40 kids will get free bags of Mexican candy, the first 40 adults will get tastes of champurrado (a warm, chocolate-based drink), and you'll have a chance to win items like AirPods and tamales. You're encouraged to order your tamales ahead of time for pickup, as well as to wear "face paint and costumes that are not culturally insensitive" — as long as you're wearing a mask!
Frelard Tamales, Green Lake (Saturday)

Grand Opening Taco City / Dia De Los Muertos Past Event Like List
Welcome Columbia City's new taqueria and celebrate Día de Muertos at the same time with food and drink specials, music from DJ Polo, $5 margaritas and an $8 shot-and-beer deal, and a costume contest promising a $250 prize.
Taco City Taqueria, Columbia City (Saturday)

Lake Stevens Harvest Market Past Event Like List
Celebrate the Halloween harvest by browsing fresh produce, artisan food items, and more at the first Lake Stevens Farmers Market of the season. Costumes are encouraged, and there may also be candy giveaways. 
Lake Stevens Farmers Market (Saturday)

Li'l Woody's Fast Food Month Past Event Like List
For the month of October, local burger joint Li'l Woody's is cleverly recreating fast food favorites for its weekly specials. Wrapping things up (pun intended, maybe) is the Li'l Crunch Wrap, Li'l Woody's interpretation of the Taco Bell Crunch Wrap Supreme with chipotle mayo, shredded lettuce, pico de gallo, tostada, house-made queso, and grass-fed beef.
Various locations (Friday-Sunday)

The Oeuf & Hoof: Fronch Bronch Past Event Like List
Francophiles will want to flock to this French-inflected brunch pop-up by Ethan Stowell at his Madrona restaurant Red Cow. Brunch will be available in-person by reservation, as well as for takeout and delivery.
Red Cow, Madrona (Saturday-Sunday)

BIPOC VOICES

A new dispensary opens this weekend, partially owned by former Seattle Supersonics power forward and six-time NBA All-Star Shawn Kemp, who's teamed up with Main Street Marijuana co-founders Matt Schoenlein and Ramsey Hamide. (Note: An early press release titled "Seattle’s First Black-Owned Dispensary, Shawn Kemp’s Cannabis, to Open This Month" has been reworded, as Kemp only owns a portion of the company, Seattle Met reports.) Shawn Kemp Cannabis Like List  will have its grand opening Past Event Like List on Friday at 12:45 pm, where Kemp will cut the ribbon alongside his former teammate Gary Payton (both of whom will refrain from signing autographs for health-related reasons, but they'll stick around until 4 for photo ops). "I want to provide nothing short of the best selection, customer experience and prices in Seattle," Kemp told Cannabis Dispensary Mag. If you miss the grand opening, the store will be open all weekend for in-person shopping, and they'll begin curbside pickup service on Monday. 

Other weekend events worth noting:

Liberation Hallows' Eve Past Event Like List
Local Black Lives Matter organizations and activists will gather in Pratt Park on Halloween for an afternoon of Black and Indigenous speakers, vendors, music, and community classes, along with games and free cookies and cake pops.
Cal Anderson Park, Capitol Hill (Saturday)

Peace Peloton Halloweekend Bike Ride and Fun-Raiser Past Event Like List
Hop on your bicycle and join a 12-mile ride supporting economic reform for Black communities, where you'll stop at Black-owned businesses from Wallingford Playfield to Gas Works Park, hearing speeches along the way. After the ride, stick around for a costume contest, a steel drum performance, and a socially distanced dance party.
Wallingford Playfield (Saturday)

Story Porch: Shaping the Past in Seattle Past Event Like List
This Wa Na Wari exhibition dives into the history of porch culture and nation-building, as well as the importance of preserving the cultural tradition of generational storytelling.
Wa Na Wari, Central District (Saturday-Sunday; opening)

SPORTS & RECREATION

Watch the Seahawks take on the San Francisco 49ers over beers and snacks from your local bar. Though this year may look different for sports fans, you can root for your favorite Seattle football team safely and still have fun with socially distanced game viewings at bars and restaurants and with take-home food and drink specials. Read our guide to all-day happy hour, flat-screen TVs, and more, plus specials available for pickup, here Like List .

Other weekend events worth noting:

Ride in the Rain Challenge Past Event Like List
If you've spent at least one fall/winter cycle in Seattle, you know that this city's cyclists pedal on in the rain, sleet, and snow. This Cascade Bicycle Club challenge invites you to slip on some reflective strips and raingear and bike your way through life for all of November. 
Wherever you are (Starting Sunday)

VISUAL ART

Cable Griffith Past Event Like List
The Seattle artist shows fantastical landscapes of dreamlike sequences that evoke other-worldly video games. 
Linda Hodges Gallery, Pioneer Square (Friday-Saturday; closing)

The Experimental Self: Edvard Munch's Photography Past Event Like List
This exhibition of photographs, prints, and films by the master experimental painter and printmaker Edvard Munch is making its first stop in Seattle on its tour through the West Coast. 
National Nordic Museum, Ballard (Friday-Sunday; opened Thursday)

Northwest Native Art Glass: Dan Friday, Preston Singletary, Raven Skyriver Past Event Like List
Contemporary Northwest Indigenous art and the studio glass movement collide in this group show featuring work by celebrated local glass artists Dan Friday (Lummi), Preston Singletary (Tlingit), and Raven Skyriver (Tlingit).
Stonington Gallery, Pioneer Square (Friday-Saturday; closing)

OTHER NOTABLE HAPPENINGS

Dinosaur Adventure Drive-Thru Past Event Like List
Drive through a prehistoric tour of 80 life-sized dinos, including a T-Rex, a Brachiosaurus, and a Triceratops, without fear of being eaten.
Washington State Fair Events Center, Puyallup (Sunday)

Holiday Bazaar Past Event Like List
Ready for Halloween to move over so you can start lining your mantle with tomte dolls? Shop from local vendors stationed at outdoor tents, "just like the Swedes do in Gamlastan," as well as a few indoor booths.
Swedish Cultural Center, South Lake Union (Saturday-Sunday)