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Halloween Tricks & Treats: Local Trick-or-Treat & Trunk-or-Treat Times

2023 Local Trick-or-Treat Times & Trunk-or-Treat Dates and Times in the South Hills

By Emily Papa, Macaroni KID Publisher October 23, 2023

Trick or Treat! Tuesday, October 31st, 2023 is Halloween and Pittsburgh kids are getting excited about some treats! Families in the South Hills of Pittsburgh are finding their best costumes to wear Trick or Treating on Halloween and even during Trunk or Treat events on the days leading up to it. Macaroni KID is working to provide you with the most up-to-date information on local Pittsburgh Halloween Trick or Treat times as well as Trunk or Treats and Halloween Parades, so you know when all the Trick or Treating is! 

Looking for the best things to do with kids in Pittsburgh this Halloween? Macaroni KID has been working hard to find all your family-friendly Halloween activities in the 'Burgh. To find more things to do with kids today in the South Hills this October, check the event calendar to find things to do with kids in Pittsburgh near you





While the information provided is current as of the date of publication, as always, please double-check with the venue, city or township if cancellation or changes occur. As different areas in the South Hills are being updated daily, we are working hard to get the info to our readers.  If you don't see your city represented or have different information, please email me at emilyp@macaronikid.com, so we can update our list! Thanks!!! 





Family-Friendly Halloween Events & Trunk or Treat's in the South Hills of Pittsburgh, PA

🎃 Trunk or Treat at the Mall at Robinson

🎃 Punkin Chunkin'

🎃 Halloween Spooky Spectacular

🎃 Pittsburgh Monster Pumpkins

🎃 Zoo Boo @ Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium

🎃 Teen Maker Lab: Pumpkin Carving

🎃 Pleasant Hills Candy Crawl

🎃 Halloween Storytime and Costume Parade

🎃 Halloween Parade and Puppet Show

🎃 Pumpkin Party

🎃 Pleasant Hills Candy Crawl

🎃 Monongahela Halloween Parade

🎃 Halloween Happenings: A Boo-Tanical Bash @ Phipps

🎃 Bethel Park Halloween Spooktacular Parade

🎃 Zoo Boo @ Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium

🎃 Halloween Fun on The Gateway Clipper

🎃 Bridgeville Halloween Parade

 🎃 Pumpkin Patch Parade

🎃 Trunk or Treat @ Bombash Botanical Skincare Co.

🎃 Trunk-or-Treat @ Kenny Ross Ford South

🎃 Rossi's Halloween Parade and Costume Contest

🎃 Costume & Candy Crawl @ Brentwood Towne Square

🎃 Baldwin Township Trunk-or-Treat

Halloween Scavenger Hunt

👻 HallowBoo @ Idlewild

👻 Halloween Party: Ghosts, Games & Goodies 

🍬 Kenny's Trick-or-Treat

Brookline Halloween Costume Parade

Do you know of a kid-friendly Halloween event taking place in Pittsburgh that isn't listed here? Please submit your event here https://southhills.macaronikid.com/events/submit and we will add it to our list! 






Halloween Trick or Treat times and Halloween Parades in the South Hills of Pittsburgh, PA

Baldwin

Trick or Treat October 31st from 6pm until 8pm

Bethel Park

Trick or Treat October 31, 6-8 p.m.
Spooktacular Parade Saturday, October 28th, 2023 at 9am
Decorating Contest Judging October 24th - 31st

Brentwood
Trick or Treat October 31st from 6-8

Bridgeville

Trick or Treat October 31st from 6-8pm

Carnegie
Trick or Treat October 31st 6-8 pm

Castle Shannon

Trick or Treat October 31st 6-8 pm
Castle Shannon Parade is on October 22nd from 1:00-3:00pm

Cecil Township
Trick or Treat October 31st 6-8 pm

Dormont

Trick or Treat October 31st 6-8 pm

Township of Findlay

Trick or Treat Saturday, October 28th 6-8 pm

Green Tree

Trick or Treat October 31st 6-8 pm

Heidelberg

Trick or Treat October 31st 6-8pm
Halloween Parade October 29th, 1pm
Halloween Scavenger Hunt (teens only) October 29th 1:30pm

Jefferson Hills

Trick or Treat October 31st 6-8 pm

McKeesport

Trick or Treat October 31st 6-8 pm

Mt. Lebo

Trick or Treat October 31st 6-8 pm

McDonald

Trick or Treat October 31st 6-8 pm
Parade starts at 5:30 (starts at East End Park)

North Fayette

Trick or Treat Saturday, October 28th 5-7 pm

North Strabane
Trick or Treat October 31st 6-7:30pm

Peters Township

Trick or Treat October 31st 6-8 pm

Pittsburgh (City)

Trick or Treat October 31st 5-7pm

Pleasant Hills

Trick or Treat October 31st 6-8 pm

South Fayette

Trick or Treat October 31st 6-8 pm
Free family drive-thru trick-or-treating Sat. Oct. 28, 2023 from 1-3pm, in the parking lot of the Sygan SNPJ Lodge No. 6, 540 Third Ave., South Fayette.

South Park

Trick or Treat October 31st 6-8 pm

South Strabane

Trick or Treat October 31st 6-8 pm

Upper St. Clair

Trick or Treat October 31st 6-8 pm

West Mifflin

Trick or Treat October 31st 6-7:30 pm

Whitehall

Trick or Treat October 31st 6-8 pm

If your neighborhood is located in the South Hills area and missing from the list, or if the time has been changed/cancelled, please email emilyp@macaronikid.com with changes. 


We will continue to update our Macaroni Kid Pittsburgh Halloween Guide with events as they are posted, so check back often!





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Trick-or-Treat! Smell my feet! Give me something good to eat!!!

That Halloween jingle will always bring a grin to my face thinking about my childhood years trick-or-treating in the suburbs of the South Hills. These days, Halloween seems to need more than a pillow case filled with candy to satisfy kids. Let me be part of the problem and fill you with plenty of ideas for tricks and treats for your littles during the days leading up to Halloween :) 



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