Halloween is creeping around the corner, and that means it’s time to trade your usual date for something a little more spooktacular. Houston has plenty of spots to make your spooky season date frightfully fun. So, grab your favorite ghost or ghoul and get ready for a hauntingly good time at these romantic spots.
1) Houston Pumpkin Festival at Discovery Green~ Pumpkin Spice Up Your Life
Fall has officially arrived downtown, and the Houston Pumpkin Festival is bringing all the pumpkin filled fun to Discovery Green through November 8. Couples can wander through colorful pumpkin and gourd displays, take a ride on the carousel, cruise around the lake, explore a hay maze, and snap plenty of festive photos together. With the Houston skyline providing the backdrop, this is one pumpkin patch date that’s sure to have you falling for each other all over again.
2) Haunted Hues at The Color Factory~ Color Us Spooked
Who says Halloween has to be dark and gloomy? Haunted Hues gives the Color Factory a colorful spooky season makeover through Halloween, complete with pumpkins, ghostly gradients, a spine tingling ball pit, seasonal surprises, and ghoulish photo ops. Costumes are encouraged, so coordinate with your sweetheart and turn your date into a colorful Halloween photo shoot. It’s frightfully fun without being frightfully scary. It’s perfect for couples who prefer their boos brightly colored and full of fun.
3) Zoo Boo at Houston Zoo~ Have a Wild Time With Your Boo
3) Put the “boo” in zoo with Zoo Boo at the Houston Zoo, running through October 31. This spooky season celebration features pumpkins, seasonal decor, festive photo opportunities, animal themed surprises, and new attractions including the Tangled Web Trail and Great Pumpkin Portrait. On select evenings, the Zoo stays open later with glowing pumpkins, spooky sights, Ghost Town, s’mores, and more. It’s a wild date for couples who want to see their favorite animals getting into the fall spirit.
4) The Cursed Cauldron at Incanto~ Cauldron Bubbles
Ready to brew up a little trouble with your boo? The Cursed Cauldron returns to Houston for another season of witchcraft, cocktails, curious concoctions, and wickedly good bites. The immersive pop-up takes over Incanto through November 1. Incanto has been transformed into a bewitching world filled with magical decor and seasonal experiences including tarot nights, burlesque, witchcraft workshops, movie paint and sips, and other spooky happenings. With potion inspired drinks and a whole coven of Halloween activities, this is one cauldron you’ll definitely want to get into.
5) Dracula by Drunk Shakespeare~ Fang-tastic Fun
5) Forget a traditional theater date and get ready for a little fang-tastic comedy with Drunk Dracula from the Drunk Shakespeare Society. The 21+ experience puts a boozy, interactive spin on Bram Stoker’s classic vampire tale, with one cast member drinking live while the story unfolds. With cocktails, audience participation, improv, and plenty of gothic mayhem, it’s a date night where the romance is questionable but the entertainment is guaranteed. Just try not to get too attached to the vampire.
6) Seasonal Paint & Sip Workshops at Pinot’s Palette~ Paint the Town Boo
Put your artistic chemistry to the test at Pinot’s Palette in Montrose with a lineup of seasonal and Halloween inspired paint and sip classes throughout October. Upcoming designs include spooky favorites like Peak-A-Booo, Ghost Stories, Haunted Harvest Moon, Boo in the Woods, Witch’s Way, Let’s Get Batty, Spooky Night Ride, Hallow-Queen, Haunted Path, and Spooktacular Starry Night. With guided instruction, drinks, and plenty of opportunities to laugh at each other’s artistic interpretations, it’s a date where you can create a spooky souvenir together even if your masterpiece is more “abstract terror” than Halloween chic.
7) Jekyll & Hyde The Musical at StageWorks Theatre~ A Date With Your Dark Side
For a Halloween date with a little more drama, meet the darker side of romance at Jekyll & Hyde The Musical at Stageworks Theatre. Running through October 11, this gothic musical follows brilliant Dr. Henry Jekyll as his dangerous experiments unleash his sinister alter ego, Edward Hyde. With sweeping romance, gripping suspense, psychological drama, and a battle between good and evil, it’s basically the perfect theater date for couples who like their love stories with a little darkness.
This Halloween, skip the ordinary routine and make your date night a little more fang-tastic. Houston has plenty of ways to celebrate spooky season with your sweetheart. So grab your boo, pick your poison, and make some hauntingly good memories together. Love may be scary, but a boring date is downright terrifying!
