Halloween in Hope BC: A Quiet Town's Honest Guide

Hope's Halloween is small but real: Little Monsters on Wallace on October 31, a free Rec Centre party on October 24, and where the haunted house and pumpkin patches actually are.

Written by Hope Local Desk

30 September 2026 4 min read

Updated 22 Oct 2026

The short version

When: Halloween is Saturday, October 31. Hope's main Halloween events fall on October 24 and on Halloween day itself.
The one to plan around: Little Monsters on Wallace — free family fun in Memorial Park and trick-or-treating at downtown businesses, October 31, noon to 2pm.
The weekend before: a free Halloween party at the Hope Recreation Centre and a Witches Tea Party on Wallace Street, both October 24.
Not in Hope: the Sunshine Valley haunted house, east on Highway 3, and the pumpkin patches, which are in Abbotsford.

Hope is a small community at the junction of the Trans-Canada and Highway 7, and it is not the place for a big haunted attraction or a corn maze. But it does have a real, small-town Halloween: a downtown trick-or-treat and family afternoon on the day itself, a community party at the Rec Centre the weekend before, and a few smaller events on Wallace Street. That is a good Halloween for a town this size, and it is worth knowing about rather than driving forty minutes for something bigger.

The District of Hope's own events calendar carries no Halloween entries; the Halloween listings come from Tourism Hope Cascades & Canyons and community groups. Otherwise October in Hope is ordinary and lovely: the farmers' market runs in Memorial Park on Sunday mornings, and the trails are at their best when the leaves turn.

Pumpkins and orange bunting along a mountain-town main street at dusk

Little Monsters on Wallace

The anchor of Hope's Halloween is Little Monsters on Wallace, run by Tourism Hope Cascades & Canyons on Saturday, October 31, from noon to 2pm in Memorial Park on 3rd Avenue. It is free, with face painting, fortune telling and roaming magic, plus daytime trick-or-treating at participating downtown businesses and a Halloween Passport for the adults. It runs rain or shine. For a family with small children, a daytime trick-or-treat on a downtown street is the easiest Halloween there is.

Hope's Halloween is small but real: Little Monsters on Wallace on October 31, noon to 2pm, and a free Rec Centre party on October 24. The haunted house and the pumpkin patches are out of town.

Children in Halloween costumes doing crafts at a community centre party, with forested mountains outside the windows

The weekend before, and what is out of town

On Saturday, October 24, the Hope & Area Recreation Halloween Party runs from 1 to 3pm at the Hope Recreation Centre, 1006 6th Avenue, put on by the Hope Library, the Rec Centre, Hope Community Services and the Fraser Valley Regional District. The same afternoon, Lindy's Earth Enchantments at 503 Wallace Street holds a Witches Tea Party, also 1 to 3pm. The Witches & Warlocks Paddle on Kawkawa Lake already ran earlier in October.

Two things that get attached to Hope are not in town. The haunted house at Sunshine Valley runs on Friday and Saturday evenings until Friday, October 30 (listed from about 6 or 6:30pm — check the listing for the night you plan to go), at 14850 Alpine Boulevard — about 15 to 20 km east of Hope on Highway 3, toward Manning Park. And there is no pumpkin patch or corn maze in Hope, Laidlaw or Silver Creek; the big ones, Maan Farms and Taves Family Farms, are in Abbotsford, about an hour west on the Trans-Canada.

A wooden dock on a misty mountain lake at dusk

The fine print, honestly

The District of Hope's bylaw directory lists a Firearms and Fireworks Bylaw and a Fire Bylaw, so check the fireworks rules there before anyone sets something off. The District does not publish a Halloween-specific advisory or a trick-or-treat curfew. Hope also sits in wildfire country, so a regional burning restriction can supersede whatever the local bylaw allows — look up the current fire-ban order for the area first.

So: Little Monsters on Wallace on Halloween afternoon, the Rec Centre party the weekend before, and a drive to Abbotsford only if the pumpkin patch is the point. In a town like Hope that is not a consolation prize — it is a genuinely good small-town Halloween.

Jack-o-lanterns on a stone wall along a small-town main street at dusk

Your Halloween at a Glance

Saturday, October 24, 1 to 3pm. The Hope & Area Recreation Halloween Party at the Hope Recreation Centre, and the Witches Tea Party at 503 Wallace Street.

Friday and Saturday evenings to October 30. The Sunshine Valley haunted house, east of Hope on Highway 3 — check the listing for times.

Saturday, October 31, noon to 2pm. Little Monsters on Wallace in Memorial Park, with trick-or-treating at downtown businesses. Free.

What Is Not Happening

There is no haunted house, pumpkin patch or corn maze in Hope itself, and no District-run Halloween event or trick-or-treat curfew. If you have seen a Halloween listing that is not in this article, check it with the organizer before you go; dates drift year to year.

The basics for the night are the same everywhere: go in a group, carry a light, cross at a crosswalk, and check anything unwrapped before a child eats it.