The Best Month

October is my favorite month of the year because there's always something fun going on. The month is jam-packed with fun fall events because the weather is perfect, the leaves are changing which makes the scenery so pretty, and it's Halloween season so everything is a little extra spooky! Did you know that Louisville is home to a 4-day festival celebrating all things Halloween?

Youtube

Ultimate Halloween Festival and Parade

Louisville is home to the annual Ultimate Halloween Festival and Parade. This event is one of the largest Halloween festivals in the region, it's so jam-packed it's four days long! Over the four-day festival, you can enjoy plenty of live entertainment, tethered balloon rides, costume contests, trick or treating, a car show, a pub crawl (boo crawl), and of course the annual Halloween parade.

The Ultimate Halloween Fest will take place at the Lynn Family Stadium
from October 26th through the 29th.

The lineup of events are as follows:

AS ALWAYS, ATTENDING THE PARADE IS FREE! ENTRY TO FESTIVAL REQUIRES ACCESS PASS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26
HAUNTED HOUSE • MOLLY’S MIDNIGHT VILLAINS
FOOD • FUN ZONE • TETHERED BALLOON RIDES • VENDORS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27
BALLOON GLOW • HAUNTED HOUSE • THE DEAD SPEAK
FUN ZONE • KIDS COSTUME CONTEST • TRICK R TREATING
FOOD • TETHERED BALLOON RIDES • VENDORS
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28
PARADE • BALLOON GLOW • WALK2STOP BULLYING
BLUES BROTHERS • FREDDY & THE CRUEGERS • KISS ARMY
ADULT COSTUME CONTEST • BOOS CRAWL • HAUNTED HOUSE
FOOD • FUN ZONE • TETHERED BALLOON RIDES • VENDORS
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29
CAR SHOW • HAUNTED HOUSE • KING BEE & THE STINGERS
FOOD • FUN ZONE • TETHERED BALLOON RIDES • VENDORS
PET COSTUME CONTEST

If you want to learn more about Ultimate Halloween Fest and get tickets, you can find all of the event information, here.

LOOK: How Halloween has changed in the past 100 years

Stacker compiled a list of ways that Halloween has changed over the last 100 years, from how we celebrate it on the day to the costumes we wear trick-or-treating. We’ve included events, inventions, and trends that changed the ways that Halloween was celebrated over time. Many of these traditions were phased out over time. But just like fake blood in a carpet, every bit of Halloween’s history left an impression we can see traces of today.