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If you’re looking for some Halloween events in Dorset this October half-term, we’ve got you covered! Get ready for lots of spooky fun, fancy dress, and themed days all around the county.
There are spooktacular events all across Dorset this Halloween, from family-friendly events at your favourite local attractions, to adults-only club nights and horror events. We’ve also listed a few local pumpkin patches where you can PYO and pose for pics among the pumpkins!
I’ll try to keep this list updated with any new events, so if you find out about any more, please let me know. You can drop me a comment at the end of this post or get in touch on my social channels.
LAST UPDATED: 14th October 2025 – fully updated with this year’s dates and details.
Happy Halloween…
Family Halloween Events in Dorset
Weymouth & Nearby
Weymouth Halloween Parade
Dates: 30 October 2025
Times: 4:30-8pm
Location: Weymouth town centre
Price: Free
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A huge Halloween parade will run throughout Weymouth town centre, full of zombies, witches, ghouls and more. The parade will start from Millennium Square (outside the Range in New Bond Street).
Trunk or Treat, Weymouth
Dates: 30 October 2025
Times: 6-8pm
Location: Melcombe Regis Car Park
Price: Free
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The above Halloween parade ends at Melcombe Regis Car Park for a “Trunk or Treat extravaganza”. Expect around 40 decorated cars, sweets and gifts for the kids, activities, refreshments available to purchase, and prizes for the scariest Halloween trunk!
Aquarium to Ascarium at Weymouth Sea Life
Dates: 4 October – 2 November 2025
Location: SEA LIFE Weymouth
Price: from £19 (included with your SEA LIFE admission)
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Serafina the Sea Witch is back at Sea Life Weymouth for 2024! Follow an immersive activity trail to help her look after her ocean home and fellow sea creatures by completing ‘spook-splash-tic’ challenges throughout the aquarium.
Make your way to the Witch’s lair where she will cast her spell to open her treasure chest, revealing a special reward!
Halloween Fun at the Fort
Dates: 25 October – 1 November 2025
Location: Nothe Fort, Weymouth
Price: £10.50 adults / £4.50 child / under 5’s free (full entry to the Fort)
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During Halloween, the Nothe Fort becomes the spookiest place in Weymouth! As always, they’re running an exciting programme of family activities – including ghost tours, a Wand-making Workshop, Pumpkin Golf, Creepy crafts, and more!
Brave the famous ghost tunnels and come face to face with the “Whistling Gunner”. Fancy dress is encouraged! Activities are free with your entry ticket to the Fort.
Zombie Trail – A Grimm Scary-tale (LIVE actors)
Dates: 25 October 2025
Location: Weymouth Town Centre (commencing at Primark, ending at Sticks and Bones)
Price: £2
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This October half term, venture through Weymouth Town Centre on a Zombie Halloween trail where riddles must be unravelled, puzzles conquered, and cunning tested. Only then can the villains be banished back into the shadows before their curse takes hold forever. All those who correctly complete the challenge will win a small prize.
Halloween Brunches at Upwey Wishing Well
Dates: 25 & 31 October 2025
Location: Upwey Wishing Well, Upwey, Weymouth
Price: £15 per child
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Upwey Wishing Well tearooms are hosting two special Halloween-themed brunches for children. There’s “Bluey and Wednesday” brunch on 25 October 2025 and a “Taylor Swift X Stitch Spooky Brunch” on 31 October 2025 – more info here.
Pumpkins (and other spooky season stories)
Dates: 28 October 2025
Location: St Nics Gallery, 11 St Nicholas Street, Weymouth, DT4 8AA
Price: FREE – but donations are welcome
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Gourdon and Melonie are activist pumpkins on a mission! Disturbed that so many of their fellow pumpkins end up in bins every Halloween, they are on a mission to change hearts and minds and improve human/vegetable relations for all time.
Armed with a hand-drawn presentation, a ukulele and a really terrible poem, they will not rest until you take the pumpkin pledge and vow never again to throw a pumpkin in the bin.
Ridiculous comedy for all the family, Pumpkins is a show that will make you rethink your relationship with squashes.
Ghostly Games at Abbotsbury Swannery
Dates: 25 October – 2 November 2025
Location: Abbotsbury Swannery, New Barn Rd, Weymouth
Price: Kids £1 each with a full-paying adult
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“This Halloween Half Term, join us for some spook-tacular fun at the Swannery! Six ghostly games around the Swannery – from skeletons to spiders, pumpkins to messy goo and more! Designed for under 10-year-olds, age-appropriate, safe and full of fun.”
Dorchester & Nearby
Spooky Fun at Dorset Museum & Art Gallery
Dates: 25 October – 2 November 2025
Location: Dorset Museum & Art Gallery, High W Street, Dorchester, DT1 1XA
Price: FREE with Museum Entry | Kids Go Free
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A group of cheeky ghosts have floated into the Museum—but don’t worry, they’re more funny than frightening! The challenge is simple: how many ghosts can you spot during your visit?
Haunted History Hunt at Dorset Museum
Dates: 30 and 31 October 2025 2pm – 5pm
Location: Dorset Museum & Art Gallery, High W Street, Dorchester, DT1 1XA
Price: FREE with Museum Entry | Kids Go Free
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Step into the shadows and join us for a spine-tingling Haunted History Hunt at the Museum. As you journey through the galleries, you’ll uncover eerie tales hidden within the artefacts, discover the mysterious and macabre side of Dorset’s past, and experience the museum’s history like never before.
Halloween & Autumn Garden Trail at Moreton Walled Garden
Dates: 18 October – 2 November 2025
Location: Moreton Walled Garden, near Dorchester
Price: Maps £3 each
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Halloween Trail: Grab your map from the shop and explore the gardens in search of spooky characters, then complete the quiz to claim your prize! There will be nine friendly ghosts hidden around the gardens. Find them all to uncover the mystery word. Every participant is guaranteed a prize!
Swanage, Wareham, and the Isle of Purbeck
Halloween Trail at Durlston Country Park
Dates: 22 October – 5 November 2025
Location: Durlston Country Park, Swanage
Price: £3.50 per trail pack (entrance to the country park is free)
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Head to Durlston Country Park, just outside Swanage, for a Halloween Children’s Activity Trail. Collect your activity trail booklet from the Castle reception, then set off on a spooky trip around the park.
Halloween Haunt at Blue Pool
Dates: 25 – 31 October 2025
Location: The Blue Pool, Furzebrook Rd, Wareham BH20 5AR
Price: General Admission Fees Apply
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“Explore our all-new family-friendly haunted forest trail, filled with fun spooky surprises. With activities for children and adults alike—from pumpkin carving and bat box making to face painting—this year’s event promises more thrills and Halloween fun than ever before.”
Poole, Bournemouth & Ringwood
Halloween Half Term at Farmer Palmer’s
Dates: 27-31 October 2025
Location: Farmer Palmers Farm Park Ltd, Wareham Road, Poole
Price: £20 for park admission (under 2s free, 2-year-olds £11).
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Head to Farmer Palmer’s for SPOOKTACULAR fun for little ones this Halloween Half Term! This year, expect “Soak-a-Spook” Tractor Rides, Halloween hunt, “Snotbags Disco”, the Spooky Maize Maze, and more.
Most of the farm park has a spooky makeover (some areas remain spook-free for anyone not into Halloween). Dressing up is highly encouraged!
Spooky Forest Trail at Moors Valley
Dates: 23 October – 2 November 2025
Location: Moors Valley, near Ringwood
Price: Standard: adult £18 child £12 under 3s free / Off-Peak: adult £14 child £8 under 3s free
Returning for its second year: explore the forest at Moors Valley Country Park after dark with a brand-new Halloween illuminated trail! Booking required. There are three different sessions to consider – the darker it gets, the spookier it gets:
Daylight – Most suitable for the youngest visitors.
Twilight – The scare level ramps up a notch.
Moonlight – As scary as it gets (but still suitable for all)
Halloween at Adventure Wonderland (CLOSED)
Adventure Wonderland theme park near Bournemouth is currently closed for a refurb.
Adult Halloween Events in Dorset
Nothe of the Living Dead
Dates: 31 October – 1 November
Location: Nothe Fort, Weymouth
Price: £25
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A super-scary, interactive zombie maze with live actors, jump scares, and puzzles Weymouth’s Nothe Fort for Halloween! Described as a cross between The Walking Dead and Crystal Maze, Nothe of the Living Dead combines jump scares and challenges in an hour-long experience that sees participants take on a chilling quest to save the world from an undead takeover.
The Block Party
Dates: 25 October 2025
Location: The Old Fire Station, Bournemouth
Price: from £5
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Electronic music festival on the streets of Lansdowne this Halloween as 2,500 monsters descend for The Block Party. There will be tons of great DJs & artists performing across 5 venues – including some massive acts (TBA). Expect themed rooms and stages in each venue with full Halloween décor and walkabout haunted characters performing fire breathing, stilt walking, LED shows, and more.
Halloween Pumpkin Patches in Dorset
READ MORE: Pumpkin Patches in Dorset for Halloween 2025
Bincombe Bumps Pumpkins
Dates: 4-5 October, 11-12 October, 18-19 & 25-31 October 2025
Location: West Farm, Bincombe, Weymouth Dorset, DT3 5PS
Tickets from: Free
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Pumpkin picking, haunted house, trick or treat, and lots more at the popular Bincombe Bumps Pumpkins in Weymouth!
Dorset Country Pumpkins
Dates: TBC
Location: Longclose Farm, Blandford Forum DT11 0BU
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Pick your own pumpkins at this lovely family-run farm shop in Dorset!
Update: sadly, the Pumpkin Patch did not run in 2024. The farm said that the inclement weather this year has meant that their pumpkins have not grown as well as usual. Hopefully, they’ll be back in 2025!
Fordingbridge Pumpkin Pastures
Dates: 11-12 and 18-31 October 2025 (PYO Pumpkins)
Firework Frenzy 1 November 2025
Location: Bickton Manor Farm, Fordingbridge, SP6 2HA
Tickets from: Free entry & free parking. Pumpkins start at £1.
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Pick your own pumpkins, take a ride on the Halloween Barrel Train, get stuck into the Nerf range, and enjoy some fun arts and crafts. There’s also a special Firework event on 1 November (booking essential) with live music, food & drink, and fireworks.
Do you know of any more Halloween events or pumpkin patches in Dorset? Leave us a comment and we’ll add them to the list!
