While garbing yourself in your most ghoulish get-up and strolling the the streets of your town with other neighborly monsters is a pre-Halloween tradition in many cities, it would be hard to outdo Shoreline Village in terms of sheer scale and creativity.
For the Shoreline Village Zombie Walk and Halloween Party, a free festival, is one of the livelier undead events around, and most definitely in Southern California.
The revelers will be out and moaning Oct. 11, 2025 when the sizable Long Beach celebration returns to the ocean-side attraction.
Activities, crafts, face-painting opportunities, LEGO brick fun, a DJ, and other pop-up happenings will add an eerie-and-effervescent vibe to the area, which will draw many otherworldly beings ready to shamble in scary and cinematic fashion.
Visit Long Beach shared the schedule for the happening, which begins to moan at 4 p.m. near the Yard House. Things get more frightful later in the evening, so do take note if you plan on attending by the light of the moon, eek.
There is an assortment of wicked and winsome ways to get your eek on around the LBC, including a phantom-fun tour of the Victorian-cool Bembridge House Oct. 11 and an Oct. 25 cemetery tour with the Historical Society of Long Beach at the knowledgeable lead (two cemeteries will be featured, Long Beach Municipal Cemetery and Sunnyside Cemetery).
And at the famously spectral ocean-liner that is just around the harbor from Shoreline Village?
Dark Harbor is haunting the area near the Queen Mary on select fall nights, with mazes, startles, and scary characters galore.
For more on all of the upcoming eek-outs, including Downtown’s Fright Fest Oct. 25, moan your way over to the Visit Long Beach site now for all of the ghostly gatherings.