Find the best neighborhood for trick-or-treating this Halloween 2025 in Boston!

Looking for the best places to trick-or-treat in the DC area? Here are 16 great neighborhoods for trick-or-treating in 2025.

There's nothing more exciting for kids than going trick-or-treating on Halloween. Luckily for DC-area children, there are tons of great neighborhoods to trick-or-treat in DC, Northern Virginia, and Maryland. Residents of these neighborhoods love to do it up, from extravagant decorations and crazy costumes to haunted houses and tons of candy.

We did research and interviewed local parents to put together this list of 16 great neighborhoods to trick-or-treat in the DC area, all of which are sure to put your family in the spooky spirit. For more Halloween fun, check out our Halloween Events and Activities Guide for Kids in Washington, DC, which includes our list of the top Halloween events in DC for kids and families. 

Families love to celebrate Halloween by trick-or-treating on Long Island, with its many walkable main streets, villages lined with festive shops, and elaborately decorated homes. 

You can stay in your neighborhood, where kids know how to navigate the houses, or you can take Halloween as an opportunity to explore new areas of Long Island. We’ve compiled a list of the best Long Island neighborhoods for trick-or-treating in 2025.

We prefer neighborhoods that have houses close together, are well-lit with minimal traffic, and that also have merchants participating in the fun. Read on for our list of favorite places to trick-or-treat on Long Island.

For even more spooky fun, check out our Long Island Halloween Guide, including a rundown of the best scary haunted houses for teens and trunk-or-treat events for kids. 

If you think it's hard to trick-or-treat in New York City, think again. One of my favorite childhood memories of growing up in NYC was Halloween in Greenwich Village when the Village Halloween Parade was just a couple hundred artists and others who marched through the neighborhood. Afterward, we would trick-or-treat up and down the brownstone blocks. Everyone was friendly, and we would come home with our shopping bags filled. It was magical.

Although the parade and Greenwich Village have changed a lot since then, your kids can still enjoy that kind of thrilling trick-or-treat experience in many New York City neighborhoods. Which neighborhood is the best for Halloween trick-or-treating in NYC depends on who you ask. So, we turned to our astute readers and collected recommendations from our parent-driven NYC staff over many, many years to bring you a list of the best places to trick-or-treat in New York City, so you'll know where to bring your kids on Friday, October 31, 2025. It's always a good bet to join one of the local Halloween parades, and then go trick-or-treating throughout the community with local families.

For more seasonal fun, check out our jam-packed New York City Kids' Guide to Halloween, which showcases FREE Halloween events, pumpkin patches, and more.

We love to trick-or-treat in Atlanta and the surrounding communities, and this city knows how to do scary—terrifying Atlanta haunted houses like Netherworld make even the bravest cry! So of course surrounding trick-or-treat Atlanta neighborhoods go all out for Halloween. Grab your candy buckets because we're highlighting some of our favorite neighborhoods to trick-or-treat in Atlanta.

For even more Halloween content, make sure to visit Atlanta's Ultimate Halloween Guide! We've got so many holiday ideas, like FREE Halloween events in Atlanta, Halloween events for Toddlers, and more sugary sweet Halloween articles.

Looking for the best places to trick-or-treat in Dallas-Fort Worth? These neighborhoods are worth a look.

In a metroplex as big as Dallas-Fort Worth, finding neighborhoods that go all-out for Halloween can be a challenge. After all, over eight million people are living in North Texas; not every community can be a stomping ground for all things ghosts and goblins. So we asked our friends, scoured the internet, and used our own insider knowledge to share some of the coolest places to take the kids to trick-or-treat on Halloween night. These are the top spots for the spookiest Halloween decor, the best community vibe, and of course, lots of candy.

To keep busy until it's time to trick-or-treat, discover the best Halloween events for kids in Dallas-Fort Worth and 16 can't-miss Trunk or Treat events! 

Experience the ultimate Orlando Halloween event with a memorable night of trick-or-treating! While several families choose to trick-or-treat in their own Orlando neighborhoods, we understand that's not always an option for everyone. That’s why we’ve rounded up the best neighborhoods across Orlando and Central Florida to go trick-or-treating, so you and your little goblins can enjoy a fun, safe, and unforgettable Halloween night!

Besides our favorite Halloween neighborhoods to trick-or-treat near Orlando, we've got a ton of Halloween content in our Orlando Halloween Events Guide. Learn more about FREE Halloween events, Halloween activities for toddlers, spooky Halloween events for teens, and more! 

The best places to trick-or-treat in Los Angeles happen to be the best places to trick-or-treat in the whole country! Granted, we might be a little biased, but here are the facts: the Halloween decorations on local homes are second to none, and many blocks across the city close off streets to traffic to have trick-or-treat parties. And LA movie magic often finds its way onto neighborhood streets in the form of elaborately decorated houses and incredible special effects. 

But in a city this big, some neighborhoods go all out on Halloween, and some remain pretty quiet. Where should you go? We’ve compiled a list of the most legendary trick-or-treat neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Here’s where to go to find lots of treats—not to mention some prime photo ops.

To keep busy until it's time to trick-or-treat, discover the best Halloween events for kids in Los Angeles, save your Halloween budget for candy and costumes with the top free Halloween events in LA, and find more Halloween fun in our Halloween Fun and Activities Guide for Los Angeles Kids.