SPOOKLOOPS

FIELD OF SCREAMS

Wednesday - Saturday |  6:00pm - 11:30pm | Sunset Valley Farm

Tickets: $15 - $100

Make your way through a corn maze at night as you encounter clowns, a life-sized ‘Jack in the Box’, carnival tents and much more.

Corn Maze

October 1-31  | Sunset Valley Farm  |  Family Friendly  |  Mon - Fri: 1-5pm  |  Weekends & Holidays: 10am-5pm

Tickets: $8

Have fun getting lost in over 8 acres of twists, turns, and dead ends! Right turns, wrong turns, and U-turns, until you find your way out!

TRICK OR TREAT TRAIN

October 20 - 21, 26 - 27  | 3:00pm |  KHR   |  Family Friendly

Tickets $5 (Toddler) - $83 (Family)

Join the Kamloops Heritage Railway for their Trick or Treat Train, this family-friendly excursion has characters in the light of day as we venture out for an hour of upbeat music and fresh fall air. The train will make a special stop at our Pumpkin Patch where you and your little ones can pick out the perfect pumpkin to take home and carve. 

Tractor-Trailer Ride

October 1-31  |  Sunset Valley Farm  |  Family Friendly  |  Mon - Fri: 1-5pm  |  Weekends & Holidays: 10am-5pm

Tickets: $3

Take a ride on the pumpkin patch trailer ride. tour the farm and scout out your favourite pumpkin from higher up. Rides run every 30 minutes.

Pumpkin Patch

October 1-31  |  Sunset Valley Farm  |  Family Friendly  |  Mon - Fri: 1-5pm  |  Weekends & Holidays: 10am-5pm

FREE, Pay for your Pumpkin

Bring your friends and family out to Sun Valley Farms to our annual Pumpkin Patch. Hunt for the most unusual pumpkin of all time, maybe find that cute perfectly round one or just a baby one for the baby. With so many options, you'll have to draw straws for the best one to take home. 

The Jungle Maze

October 25-27 | 6-10pm | Tranquille Farm Fresh | Family-Friendly

Can you… DARE you… navigate and survive 8 acres of JUNGLE with just your headlamp and a handful of clues. You never know who is watching and why, with those glowing eyes in the dark! Meet characters from the Jungle Book and Jumanji in the DARK, while surrounded by 11- foot high corn and alfalfa up to your waist. Have some fun, come dressed up as a character from either movie. 4 months of growing for 12 hours of fun. We prepared the field, planted the seed, and let nature do the rest! Are you up for the challenge? This is a family-friendly event, we’d love for people to dress up and enter a contest each evening of best costume as a family and individual.

ZOMBIE WALK

October 26 | 2:00pm |  Lansdowne Street, Downtown

Tickets: Free

If you love the living dead, and you have a great zombie costume, come and walk the downtown streets like a zombie. Kamloops Zombie Walk has been gaining popularity over the last few years, showcasing some of the best zombie wannabes around. Shuffle, stagger and moan in the streets searching for fresh brains and tasty flesh.

BOO AT THE ZOO

October 25-27  |  5:00pm - 9:00pm  |  BC Wildlife Park  |  Family Friendly

Tickets: Free (Under 2) - $52 (Family of 6)

Boo at the Zoo is back for another year of frights and fun for all ages. Dress the family up and experience historical swordplay, a haunted maze, candy stations and animal encounters. Hours of fun for the whole family. 

The Nelson's Haunt For Humanity

October 25-31 | 7-11pm | Archibald Place, Westsyde | Family Friendly Version

Tickets: $5

A three-night, non-profit, family-run HAUNTED MAZE with scare actors, spooky scenes, and animatronic props. The maze will run Friday, October 25th, Saturday, October 26th, and Halloween Night October 31st. There will be a family-friendly version WITHOUT scared actors between 5 and 7pm on all three nights running. All of ARCHIBALD PLACE will turn into a BIG BLOCK PARTY on ALL three nights, serving food, hot chocolate, smores and more all free by donation. No entrance fee needed to enjoy the party. FIRE PITS and some seating will be provided. All proceeds go to Kamloops YM/YWCA's Battered Women and Children's Shelter.

Get Spooked

October 25  | 6:30pm |  McArthur Island Park

Tickets: $25 - $40 per person

This family-friendly event is a night run and the most fun you'll ever have running in costume! Walking, running, jogging, walking or leisurely strolling is all acceptable at this all-ages, paces and levels of ability event. So grab your family and friends, put on your favorite costume and join us!

Trick or Treat Extravaganza

October 31 | 2pm - 4pm | Aberdeen Mall | Family Friendly

Trick-or-treat extravaganza is once again coming to Aberdeen Mall. Take the kids to show off their costumes and collect candy indoors at all the retailers from 2pm to 4pm.

ENIGMA WOMEN ESCAPE ROOM

Thursday - Saturday  |  7:00pm - 10:30pm | Tranquille Farm Fresh

Tickets: $35

Discover a new kind of escape room this Haloween. It’s WWII and tensions were high in the Maritimes. For the safety and security of Canada’s top code-breaking team, they’ve been split up and scattered all over the country. This way, if there is an attack, they won’t lose all the codebreakers at once. Sonya, Mary, and Elsa are not super happy to be roommates, but they’re figuring it out.

THE COONEY PAPERS - TUNNEL THEATRE

Saturday - Monday  |  Tranquille Farm Fresh

Tickets: $40

Charles and Betsy Cooney settled at Tranquille in 1868 with their two year old daughter Katherine. Together they forged an empire on the shores of Kamloops Lake. Over their lives, they built Canada’s largest horse herd, developed one of the finest ranches in BC, introduced BC apples to the Ontario market, and where the life of the community. Countless parties were held at the Cooney Ranch over the years.
The Cooney Papers chronicles the lives of Charles and Betsy from each of their births to the death of Charles in 1917. This innovative production combines video and live acting in front of a 36 foot curved screen set in front of the loading docks in the old Tranquille Laundry. This is a family friendly show.

Heritage Tours

Saturdays in October | 10am | Tranquille Farm Fresh

We unpack 6,000 years of history and often have visitors contribute to the tour with their stories of connection to Tranquille. From the early fur trade to today’s ghost town, learn about the dramatic role Tranquille played over the years. You are welcome to take pictures on our tour. Tickets are $25.

Pumpkins of Light Festival

October 24 | 6-8:30pm | 915 Southill Street | Family Friendly

Tickets: Free

Join Garden Gate Horticulture Program in the garden for a fun pumpkin event where you'll wander down a path illuminated by hundreds of Jack O'Lanterns carved by the Kamloops community.

Rocky Horror Picture Show

October 26 | Paramount Theatre

Tickets: $5-$11

CLEAR YOUR PLANS and bust out your favourite fishnets, because Drunk in a Graveyard is teaming up with Kamloops Film Society and are screening Rocky Horror Picture Show at 7pm. This is going to be a full-on costume party experience, we want to see people getting excited, singing, dancing, and getting right into the spirit of the spookiest weekend of the year.

Pumpkin Smash

November 2 | 10am-2pm | McArthur Island Park | Family Friendly

Tickets: FREE

A family-friendly event with food and drink, and pumpkin-smashing activities for all ages. Keep your pumpkins out of the landfill so they can be turned into compost. Bring your largest pumpkin to drop from a great height and see it smash! Stick around for the big drop at 1 pm. #smash it, don't trash it. At the Soccer 2 Parking Lot. (4 ft Height requirement to register for this event (121 cm)