Halloween in Staffordshire

Visit Staffordshire this Halloween – it’s the home of hair-raising Halloween fun, with spine-tingling scare mazes, trails, pumpkins and more!

Here’s our guide to some of the best things to do with the family in Staffordshire.

10 Family Days Out for Halloween in Staffordshire

• Alton Towers Resort:

Home to the legendary Scarefest, with its scare mazes and freaky fun for visitors of all ages, Alton Towers Resort should be top of your list for Halloween days out this year!

• Drayton Manor Park:

Experience Halloween Thomas-style at Drayton Manor Park’s More Treat Than Trick, packed with live shows, street entertainment, and meet & greets with your favourite Thomas & Friends characters.

• The Trentham Estate:

Follow the clues on the new Room on the Broom trail, enjoy spooktacular stunts at Gandeys Circus, and carve pumpkins, create wands, and cast spells at The Trentham Estate.

• Monkey Forest:

Enter the monkeys’ woodland home and say hello to the macaques one last time before the Monkey Forest closes for winter. Try out the Haunted Hidden Trail – if you dare!

• National Forest Adventure Farm:

Tackle the fearsome scare attractions at the National Forest Adventure Farm’s Screamfest Resurrected, and enjoy the fun fair, live music and flash mob dance parties.

• Lower Drayton Farm:

You’re sure to find the perfect pumpkin in the 12 acre Lower Drayton Farm – there are more than 80,000 to choose from! Once you’ve picked it, create your spooky design in the carving tent.

• The Potteries Centre:

Visit the Pumpkin Patch at The Potteries Centre for great selfie opportunities and the big pumpkin giveaway, where there is a free pumpkin and carving kit to take home with you.

• Biddulph Grange Garden:

Breathe in the fresh air at Biddulph Grange Garden and help the witch find the ingredients for her magic potion, before venturing into the spooky tunnel.

• Museum of Cannock Chase:

There are crafty capers in the Halloween workshop at the Museum of Cannock Chase, and an outdoor trail with prizes for everyone who completes it.

• Peak Wildlife Park:

Crack the clues at Peak Wildlife Park and solve The Missing Elephant Mystery, with a treat for everyone who finds the answer. It’s half price for kids too, with any full paying adult, throughout half-term.

Half term days out in Staffordshire

There’s all these things and more, making Staffordshire a great place for a day out this half term.

Get the adrenaline pumping with rainy day activities at Waterworld and Snowdome, discover Staffordshire history at The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, or create a masterpiece at World of Wedgwood.

Our Half Term page is full of ideas for family days out in Staffordshire.