Haunted Harvest 2026 Sets Up at Veterans Memorial Park on Halloween Night
Aubrey’s annual Haunted Harvest is back on Saturday, October 31, running from 5:30 to 9:30 PM at Veterans Memorial Park and Fire Station #1 Bay, 1817 Springhill, Aubrey, TX 76227. The evening pulls together three distinct activities — a trunk-or-treat, a hayride, and an outdoor movie — giving families across the 380 corridor a full Halloween night without leaving town.
Trunk-or-treat registration is currently open, so anyone planning to set up a decorated vehicle and hand out candy should lock in a spot sooner rather than later. The city has not announced a registration deadline publicly, but trunk spaces at community events like this tend to fill once word spreads through Aubrey’s neighborhood groups and school networks.
What to Expect on the Night
The layout uses both Veterans Memorial Park and the adjacent Fire Station #1 Bay, which gives organizers room to separate the trunk-or-treat lanes from the hayride staging area. That split works in the crowd’s favor: families with younger kids who tire out early can work the trunk-or-treat loop and head home, while older children and adults can stay for the hayride and settle in for the movie.
No specific film title has been confirmed in city materials, but an outdoor Halloween movie at a park with fire station lights in the background is a reliable draw regardless of the title on the screen.
The event runs four hours, from 5:30 to 9:30 PM. October 31 sunset in Aubrey falls around 6:40 PM, so the first hour of trunk-or-treating happens in daylight or dusk — good light for photographing costumes — before the park goes properly dark for the hayride and movie portion.
Getting There and Parking
Veterans Memorial Park sits at 1817 Springhill in Aubrey. Springhill is a straightforward approach from either the US-377 corridor or from Main Street through historic downtown. Parking availability will depend on how many vehicles register for the trunk-or-treat, since participant cars occupy a portion of the lot. Arriving by 5:15 PM should give families time to park, orient to the layout, and get into the trunk-or-treat flow before the official 5:30 start.
If you are coming from newer subdivisions on the east side of Aubrey — Del Webb, Star Trail, or the developments off FM 428 — allow a few extra minutes on Halloween evening. Neighborhood trick-or-treating traffic peaks around the same window.
Trunk-or-Treat Participants: What to Bring
Decorators should plan for at least four hours of candy distribution. A conservative estimate for a well-attended community trunk-or-treat in a city Aubrey’s size is 200 to 400 kids over the course of the evening, concentrated in the first 90 minutes. Bulk candy bags, a folding table, a power strip if your display uses lights, and weather-appropriate layers for the adults staffing the trunk are the practical checklist.
October 31 average low temperatures in Denton County hover around 50°F, so costumes that work over a light jacket are the practical choice for kids and parents alike.
Part of a Bigger Fall Calendar
Haunted Harvest is one piece of a busy October for city-organized programming. The City of Aubrey has kept the Community Center calendar active through the month with Senior Fit and Senior Tai Chi classes running weekly, and the Aubrey Citizens University fall cohort wraps its final two Monday sessions on October 19 and October 26. Haunted Harvest on the 31st effectively closes out October programming before the city pivots to the November 7 season-finale market at Veterans Memorial Park.
For residents newer to Aubrey, the park doing double duty as a Halloween venue and a Saturday farmers market space within the same week is a useful illustration of how the city uses that downtown footprint. The same ground that hosts trunk-or-treat on a Saturday night will have vendors setting up canopies a week later.
Registration and Details
Trunk-or-treat registration and any updates to the event schedule are being handled through the City of Aubrey. Check the city’s official calendar for registration links and any last-minute logistics changes as October 31 approaches. Given that this is a city-run event at a city park, weather contingency information, if needed, would also come through that channel.
Plan for parking, register a trunk if you want to participate on the distribution side, and bring layers. That covers the essentials for making Haunted Harvest 2026 work for your family.
