Where to Dress Up, Party on a Boat + Get Candy This Halloween Weekend

Pets and their humans are invited to celebrate Halloween on the Oakland waterfront with tricks, treats, frights and delights for humans and four-legged friends alike. The Jack London Square festivities include paw painting for pups, pet pampering, a pet psychic, pooch photo booths, doggy treats and more!

Costume Dash 5K

Hoards of costumed runners will take part in a 5K in Golden Gate Park this month. Will you be one of them? Once you cross the finish line, the fun continues with an after party at the park, featuring a costume contest and free gifts from this year's sponsors. Some of last year's best costumes included a California sushi roll and Oscar the Grouch from Sesame Street (with his garbage can and garbage man in tow).

Halloween Haunt at Great America

Since 2007, Great America's Halloween Haunt has produced a variety of rides and shows that are as entertaining as they are terrifying. This year, take a spin on the Delirium, a powerful pendulum that promises to send you whirling into the night or check out the CornSTALKERS maze, where you'll need to weave your way through hay bales and cornstalks while being chased by a cult of evil scarecrows.

Phantasm: Behind the Funhouse Door

Phantasm is welcoming night-crawlers back into the haunted castle at the San Francisco Armory. Take a peek behind the Funhouse Door and witness mind-bending performances by the Vau de Vire Society – an avant-cabaret collective of dancers, contortionists and circus acts. Costumes aren't required for entry, but are highly encouraged – why wouldn't you want to best prom dresses up on the Saturday before Halloween? This year, you can also dance the night away to DJ sets by electro-funk legends Chromeo and The Crystal Method.

San Francisco Halloween Pub Crawl

Ready to celebrate Halloween with a few drinks? What about a few drinks three nights in a row? The Halloween Pub Crawl will start at Bar None on Union Street and continue all through the night. If you can't make it on Friday or want to keep the fun going, the pub crawl will take place again on both the 29th and the 31st, stopping at half a dozen of San Francisco's hottest bars. Domestic drafts will be as cheap as $2, well drinks will be $3 and shots will be $4. Costumes are encouraged!

Halloween International Ball

There's almost something spooky about spending the night in a historic hotel like the Westin St. Francis, the site of the infamous Fatty Arbuckle manslaughter scandal of the 1920s and President Ford's attempted assassination in 1975. On October 29, the St. Francis is opening its doors to costumed partiers who can dance their way through four separate rooms, each with its own musical vibe. With DJs spinning everything from '80s and '90s throwbacks to Latin grooves, there's bound to be something for every witch, astronaut, and Donald Trump imitator.

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