{"id":314199,"date":"2026-10-25T23:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T23:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/314199\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T23:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T23:22:09","slug":"lehigh-valley-kicks-off-halloween-festivities-early-with-the-105th-annual-bethlehem-halloween-parade-bethlehem-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/314199\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Valley kicks off Halloween festivities early with the 105th annual Bethlehem Halloween Parade | Bethlehem Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, PA. &#8211; Halloween is now less than a week away, and Bethlehem got in the spooky spirit on Sunday, holding the town\u2019s 105th annual Halloween Parade.<\/p>\n<p>The one-and-a-half-mile parade kicked off at 2 p.m. on West Broad Street and 9th Avenue and continued east, concluding on Main and Spring Streets.<\/p>\n<p>The celebration included a mix of festive fun and community spirit, with fire trucks, local businesses, community groups, dance teams, and high school marching bands all walking &#8211; or riding &#8211; in the parade.<\/p>\n<p>Even the Oscar Mayer Wiener Mobile paid a visit to the event to delight crowds.<\/p>\n<p>Kids, adults, and furry friends dressed up in costumes to enjoy the beautiful weather and celebrate Halloween early during the iconic Lehigh Valley event.<\/p>\n<p>\nCopyright 2026 Maranatha Broadcasting Co., Inc.. All Rights Reserved.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, PA. &#8211; Halloween is now less than a week away, and Bethlehem got in the spooky spirit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,1391],"class_list":["post-314199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bethlehem-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}