Downtown Trick-or-Treating on Halloween in Petaluma and Santa Cruz
Downtown Petaluma and downtown Santa Cruz both host free daytime trick-or-treating on Saturday, Oct. 31.
By the Bay Area Brief staff · Edited by Seamus McKenna · · 3 min read
The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk and its rides seen from the beach on a summer day. Photo: The wub / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped, resized and color-graded). Archive photo of the area; not a photo of the events in this story.
Several Bay Area downtowns hold daytime trick-or-treating on Saturday, Oct. 31.
Petaluma Trick or Treat Trail: 3 to 5:30 p.m. Admission is free, with more than 75 businesses taking part. Look for signs outside participating shops.
Downtown Santa Cruz: trick-or-treating at 50-plus businesses from 2 to 5 p.m., then a dog costume contest from 5 to 6 p.m. at Abbott Square. Sign-ups open at 4 p.m. and are limited to 20 dogs.
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