What to KnowTrick-or-treating at Heritage Square MuseumMontecito HeightsFriday, Oct. 31Tickets available on Eventbrite$3.97 and up
If your costume-obsessed tot is a devoted collector of candies and confections on the last evening of October, then you certainly know the spookiest and most spectacular trick-or-treat spots around the city.
But if you’d like a clutch of cavernous abodes that look as if they were built for an actual Halloween movie, you’ll want to head up or down the Arroyo Parkway to Heritage Square Museum on Oct. 31, with your trick-or-treat bag in hand.
For the historical park will open for three hours Halloween night, all to give families the chance to go from house-to-house in search of sweets.
Or should we say Victorian-house-to-Victorian-house. Heritage Square features a few huge and said-to-be-haunted mansions that could easily appear on the cover of a Halloween-themed novel.
Indeed, we said “said-to-be-haunted” — there are stories and legends about these old homes, which were moved decades ago to escape demolishment — but even if ghosts are plentiful, the houses are still quite haunting.
Perhaps the most haunting of all is the Octagon House, which is really shaped like an octagon, but every one of the Heritage Square buildings has its fans.
Tunes to fit the season and a costume parade are part of the Halloween hijinks, too. Trick-or-treating at Heritage Square Museum begins at 5 p.m. and will wrap by 8 o’clock, if you and your group have parties to attend and other eerie places to be.
Tickets are in short supply, so short, in fact, that a few extra admissions were just released. Find yours well before Halloween, as tickets will not be sold at the door.