Halloween isn’t just for kids – leave the little ones at home and indulge in some spooky grown-up fun! For more family fun this autumn, don’t forget to check out our Ultimate Guide to Fall & Halloween Events in Wichita!
23rd Annual Great Plains Renaissance & Scottish Festival
Sedgwick County Park {6501 W. 21st St}
Sep 30-Oct 1
Tickets: $15
Come one, come all to the 23rd Annual Fall Great Plains Renaissance and Scottish Festival! Wichita’s long standing fall tradition returns September 30th and October 1st, 2023 in Sedgwick County Park. Aye, there’ll be jests and jousts, falconry and fire breathing, damsels and daredevils, bagpipes and belly dancers, singing pirates, The Wichita Highland Games, Celtic music, kings and queens, Vikings and vagabonds, Kansas Authors Pavilion/renaissance in reading, fairies and fairy tales, fantastic artists, the siege engine competition marvelous merchants and much, much more!
Boos and Brews
Old Cowtown Museum {1865 W. Museum Blvd}
Sept 29th, 7pm
Enjoy an evening of ghosts, fun and brews at Old Cowtown!
Wicked Island
OJ Watson Park {3022 S. Mclean}
Friday and Saturdays in October, 8pm-midnight
$20-30
The Campbells have been haunting Wichita and its surrounding areas since 2012. They offer an ever changing treacherous walk-through a wooded island where your nightmares may become reality.
Tallgrass Film Festival
Orpheum Theatre {200 N. Broadway}
October 5-8
Tickets: $50-$259
Join us in downtown Wichita for the 21st Annual Tallgrass Film Festival.
Haunted Hops
Botanica {701 Amidon Street}
October 12th, 6-10pm
Join us for the First Haunted Hops at Botanica on Thursday, October 12, 2023 from 6:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. Take a stroll through the haunted gardens while sipping on more than 15 spooky-themed craft beers and hard ciders provided by local and regional breweries. There will also be signature cocktails, mocktails and seasonal brews available throughout the gardens. Guests can sample small bites while enjoying live music by Annie Up and DJ Carbon. For football enthusiasts, there will also be several spaces around the gardens to watch the Chiefs vs. Broncos game. Not only does your Haunted Hops ticket give you access to a delightfully spooky craft beer event, but you also get to experience Botanica’s Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular. This includes the Haunted Woodland Walk, fire dancers, aerial acrobatics, a petting zoo and over 1,000 carved Jack-o-lanterns.
Haunted Hangar
B29 DOC Hangar {1788 S. Airport Road}
October 13th
ICT Bloktoberfest
Historic Union Station {701 E. Douglas}
October 13-14th
Echoes of Fear
Old Cowtown Museum {1865 W. Museum Blvd}
October 27-28th, 7pm
Cowtown’s SUPER SCARY Halloween party with spooky displays and photo ops. Come in costume! Ages 18 and up, 21 to drink.
Halloween Bar Crawl
October 27-28th, 4pm-???
Costume contest, drink specials, after party and more!
Spooky! Night of Treasures 2023
Museum of World Treasures {835 E. 1st Street}
October 27th, 6-10pm
The Museum of World Treasures invites you to join us in celebrating our beautifully dark and mysterious world in a fun and spooky way! Proceeds from this event go to support the educational mission of the Museum of World Treasures.