Michigan Travel · Port Huron
Pumpkin painting and a movie, a touch-a-truck candy run and a walk through Halloween woods fill Port Huron’s October
PORT HURON, Mich. — Port Huron’s family Halloween calendar has three stops this month, starting with paintbrushes and a movie that ran Friday, Oct. 9.
The city’s recreation department handed out pumpkins and paint at the Harvey Community Center, 3013 24th St., from 5 to 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9, then showed “Hocus Pocus” at 6. Pumpkin painting required registration, at $3 per pumpkin for city residents and $6 for nonresidents, according to the department’s listing. The movie was free and needed no sign-up. Popcorn and water were free, chairs were provided and families could bring lawn chairs and their own snacks.
Downtown takes over on Saturday, Oct. 17, when Trucks & Treats returns to McMorran Boulevard from 12:30 to 4 p.m. The free event lets children get close to police cars, fire engines, dump trucks and construction equipment while drivers and downtown businesses hand out candy to kids in costume. The last hour, from 3 to 4 p.m., is set aside as quiet hours, the downtown listing says.
The month’s biggest walk-through comes the Saturday before Halloween. The Halloween Stroll fills the Sanborn Park woods, 1919 Sanborn St., from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Oct. 24, with candy from nearly 30 local businesses and groups, Halloween inflatables and scenes, cider and doughnut holes, a petting zoo and a trackless mini train looping the park. Food and drink trucks will be on site.
Trick-or-treaters enter in groups every 30 minutes, with the last group at 12:30. Only children collecting candy need tickets. Early registration costs $5 for residents and $10 for nonresidents and closes the Friday before. Day-of tickets are $10, cash only, at the recreation trailer.
The resident rate also covers Port Huron, Burtchville, Kimball and Clyde townships, according to the city. The stroll runs rain or shine. Parking is free, Sanborn Street will be closed at Pine Grove Avenue, and the city asks visitors to arrive heading west on Sanborn.
Updated Oct. 13, 2026: The Oct. 9 pumpkin painting and “Hocus Pocus” showing at the Harvey Community Center have passed; that stop is now in the past tense. Trucks & Treats (Oct. 17) and the Halloween Stroll (Oct. 24) are still ahead.
Sources:
Port Huron Parks & Recreation, “Hocus Pocus and pumpkin painting,” Oct. 9, 2026, https://www.porthuronrec.com/events/hocus-pocus-and-pumpkin-painting
Downtown Port Huron, “Trucks & Treats,” Oct. 17, 2026, https://downtownph.com/trucks-treats/
Port Huron Parks & Recreation, “Halloween Stroll,” Oct. 24, 2026, https://www.porthuronrec.com/halloweenstroll
Photo: Don Scarborough, “Trick or Treater,” Oct. 31, 1979, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.5 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/), cropped and color-corrected; derivative under the same ShareAlike license, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trick_or_Treater.jpg
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