Your Halloween Weekend in the Hudson Valley: Every Event, Time, Price, and Curfew You Need

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Oct 30

By Mara Quinn | October 30, 2026

Halloween falls on a Saturday this year, which is as good as it gets for a long weekend. Events are running all three days, family programming fills the daylight hours, and the grown-up options stretch well into the night. Whether you are driving from Yonkers to Catskill or staying local in Ulster County, there is more happening than any one household can cover. The weekend's schedule, with everything you need to walk out the door: times, prices, addresses, what requires a ticket bought in advance, and what is simply free.

Friday, October 30

The 2026 Horrorthon, Paramount Theatre, Middletown

The Paramount Theatre at 17 South St., Middletown, NY 10940 opens its 2026 Horrorthon on Friday evening with two back-to-back classics. The weekend run goes seven films across three days, but Friday is where the marathon begins, and both Friday slots reward anyone willing to make a night of it.

At 5:00 PM, the screen gets Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978, 1h 55m, PG), starring Donald Sutherland and Brooke Adams, a film that has not stopped feeling relevant since it was made. Then at 8:00 PM, the theatre follows it with The Exorcist (1973, 2h 2m), with Linda Blair and Ellen Burstyn. That is a considered double bill: science-fiction paranoia before dinner, theological dread after dark.

According to Hudson Valley Magazine's weekly picks listing, tickets are $7 per showing or $32 for the full weekend pass. The magazine is the source for those prices; if you want confirmation directly from the theatre before buying, the number is (845) 346-4195. The lobby holds a display by The Haunted Barn before the show, which gives you something to walk through on the way to your seat.

Friday Night Fright, Bethel Woods Center for the Arts

Out in Sullivan County, Bethel Woods Center for the Arts at 200 Hurd Rd., Bethel, NY 12720 runs its Friday Night Fright version of the Peace, Love & Pumpkins walk tonight. Entry is $35.00 for the haunted makeover of the garden trail experience, with structured admission from 6:30 PM. The organizer is direct about the tone: this is a scary attraction and is not recommended for young children. Adults looking for something genuinely unsettling, rather than festive, should note that Fridays and Saturdays use timed ticketing, so plan ahead.

The standard Peace, Love & Pumpkins walk, which runs Wednesday through Sunday all the way through November 1, uses different pricing: advance purchase is $25 for adults 18 and over, $15 for youth ages 3 through 17, and free for children 2 and under. Prices rise to $30 for adults and $20 for youth at the door. General hours are 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM, last entry at 9:00 PM. Those prices come from Hudson Valley Magazine's Bethel Woods partner guide.

PHENOM: Peter Samelson, Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill

If the drive to Sullivan County is not in your Friday plans and you would rather spend the evening in the northern Hudson Valley, Bridge Street Theatre in Catskill is hosting Peter Samelson's show PHENOM: Magic & Mentalism: Where Reality Begins to Bend at 7:00 PM tonight at 44 West Bridge Street, Catskill, NY 12414. The show draws on fifty years of Samelson's repertoire, exploring memory, perception, and the limits of the senses, and is staged in collaboration with textile installation artist Karen St Pierre, whose work makes its U.S. debut here.

Penn & Teller have called Samelson "one of the greatest living magicians," a line from the theatre's press release as carried by BroadwayWorld and WAMC, and Samelson holds the Merlin Award for Lifetime Achievement. Tickets, according to the same press release, are $30 for adults and $25 for students. For tickets, visit bridgest.org/phenom. PHENOM also runs Saturday at 2:00 PM and 7:00 PM, and Sunday at 2:00 PM, so you have four chances to catch it across the weekend.

Saturday, October 31

Family Daytime: Three Options Across the Region

Philipse Manor Hall Family Halloween Day, Yonkers, 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM. The state historic site at 29 Warburton Ave., Yonkers, NY 10701 is running a full afternoon built around Washington Irving. According to the organizer's own page, the hours run noon to 4:00 PM, and everything at the event is free and open to everyone with no registration required. All children must be accompanied by an adult.

The film lineup is a complete Legend of Sleepy Hollow marathon: Disney's The Adventures of Ichabod & Mr. Toad (1949, G) at noon; the Rabbit Ears animated version narrated by Glenn Close (1988, not rated) at 1:15 PM; the 1999 live-action Hallmark Channel version (TV-G) at 1:45 PM; and then two encores in the final hour, the 1988 Rabbit Ears version again at 3:15 PM and the Disney segment again at 3:45 PM. Between screenings, crafts include a jack-o'-lantern mask, a fortune teller, a flying ghost, and a Legend of Sleepy Hollow activity book. Trick-or-treating runs at the front desk. Come in costume.

Note that Saturday morning, the same site runs a separate program worth knowing about if you are arriving early: the Yonkers Fall Waterfront Walking Tour at 10:30 AM, covering the daylighted Saw Mill River, the Yonkers Train Station, the Yonkers Recreation Pier, the Enslaved African Rain Garden, and the city's history from Indigenous origins through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Tickets are $3 for seniors and students and $6 for adults, including museum admission. Register by calling 914-965-4027 or emailing philipsemanorhall@parks.ny.gov.

Trick or Treat in the Park, Art Omi, Ghent, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM. Art Omi's 120-acre sculpture and architecture park at 1405 County Route 22, Ghent, NY 12075 turns its Silver Meadow into a trick-or-treat trail, with candy stops tucked among more than sixty works by artists and architects from around the world. It is free, all ages, and costumes are encouraged. The organizer requests an RSVP but says walk-ins are always welcome. Art Omi is a nonprofit arts center in the hamlet of Omi, roughly fifteen minutes from Hudson and Chatham, and the supplies for the event come from Golden Harvest Farms in Valatie. For questions, the park's number is (518) 392-4747.

Trick-or-Treat on Huguenot Street, New Paltz, 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM. Historic Huguenot Street at 81 Huguenot St., New Paltz, NY 12561 opens its historic homes for children and families from 3:30 to 5:30 PM. The event is free and open to the public, though an RSVP is requested so the organizers do not run out of treats. Every stop on the route has teal pumpkin, allergy-friendly goodies, supported by Pest Masters. Two food trucks are on site during the event window: From the Ground Up Food Truck from 3:30 to 5:30 PM, and Marks Hot Dogs from 3:30 PM through 7:30 PM, which runs through the conclusion of the Halloween Parade After Party that follows the trick-or-treating.

Drivers should know that a portion of Huguenot Street closes to vehicles from the 1799 LeFevre House at 54 Huguenot Street to Mulberry Street, and Broadhead Avenue closes from the Huguenot Street intersection to the gravel parking lot.

The Horrorthon Continues: Four Films on Halloween

The Paramount Theatre schedules four films on Saturday. If you are doing the marathon at $32 for the weekend pass, per Hudson Valley Magazine's listing, this is the day you get your money's worth.

At 1:15 PM: Bride of Frankenstein (1935, 1h 15m), Boris Karloff at his most theatrical. At 3:15 PM: Night of the Living Dead (1968, 1h 36m, R), directed by George A. Romero, the film that rewrote what horror could be. At 5:30 PM: House on Haunted Hill (1959, 1h 15m), Vincent Price doing what only Vincent Price could do. And at 8:00 PM: Halloween (1978, 1h 40m, R), directed by John Carpenter. Watching Carpenter's film on the actual holiday, in a theatre that is running a Haunted Barn lobby display, is worth the drive to Middletown.

Saturday Evening: Disco of the Dead, The Tin Barn, Clermont

For a grown-up Saturday night, The Tin Barn at 1783 Route 9, Clermont, NY 12526 is hosting Disco of the Dead, a 21-and-over Halloween party with an APB Entertainment DJ, food from Gettin' Smashed Smash Burgers, and a prize for best costume. Entry is $5.

A note on timing: sources list conflicting door and DJ times for this event, so I am not going to print a start time here and send you somewhere at the wrong hour. Check The Tin Barn's own channels for the evening's schedule before you leave the house. The $5 entry and the 21-and-over door are confirmed across sources.

Sunday, November 1

The weekend wraps more quietly, but not without options. The Paramount Theatre closes its Horrorthon at 2:00 PM with Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948, 1h 23m), with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. It is the palate cleanser the weekend earns, and it is a genuinely funny film. Bridge Street Theatre has the final performance of PHENOM at 2:00 PM. Bethel Woods runs Peace, Love & Pumpkins through Sunday as well, with the same general-admission prices and the 10:00 PM close, last entry at 9:00 PM.

Curfews and Trick-or-Treat Hours

This section carries information previously verified and published in RFTUV's October 28 Dutchess County Halloween guide. Because Halloween falls on Saturday this year, the curfews affect Friday night and Saturday night both, and no Dutchess County municipality published official trick-or-treat hours for 2026.

Here is what is in place:

Fishkill: Under-18 curfew from 8:00 PM to 4:00 AM, running October 30 through November 1, all three nights of the weekend.

Wappinger: 9:00 PM to 4:00 AM curfew, October 30 and 31.

Pleasant Valley: 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, October 30 and 31.

Town of Rhinebeck (outside the village): tiered by age. Children 10 and under are in by 8:00 PM. Ages 11 through 17 are in by 11:00 PM.

Kingston: Mayor Steven Noble's executive order puts a curfew of 8:00 PM on Halloween night for anyone under 16. A Hudson Valley Country roundup of 2026 Halloween curfews, published October 30, corroborates this.

Most of these curfews exempt minors who are accompanied by a parent or guardian. If you are taking younger kids out in any of these communities, keep that exception in mind, plan your route, and know your cutoff time before you leave.

If Halloween Is Not Your Plan: Final Foliage

The state Department of Economic Development's seventh weekly fall foliage report of the season, as reported by the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle on October 29, is clear on where things stand: Halloween weekend is the last realistic call for peak color in the lower Hudson Valley, and the window is closing.

In Dutchess County, Poughkeepsie is at nearly full color change but past peak, with bright reds and maroons. Beacon is still at peak, at 70% transition, with Mount Beacon and the surrounding Hudson Highlands described as especially radiant. That makes Beacon the strongest foliage destination in the county right now. Nearby, Cold Spring in Putnam County is up to 80% change with bright yellows, reds, oranges, and purples. Bear Mountain State Park in Rockland County is at 100% and peak. Newburgh in Orange County is at 95% and past peak; Cornwall, also in Orange, is at 70% and still at peak.

If your weekend plan involves skipping the crowds and driving somewhere quiet, the color is still there. It will not be for much longer.

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Mara Quinn

Mara Quinn is Reporting from the Uncanny Valley's resident expert on media and the business of technology. She covers platforms, deals, incentives, and the money moving underneath new machines. She lives in Beacon.