Halloween in Tulsa: Things to Do This October (2026)

Halloween in Tulsa is a month with a seam in the middle. The State Fair owns the first eleven days. The scream parks, the zoo’s costume nights, and Philbrook’s Halloween morning sit in the second half. This planner follows that split and only names places with a 2026 season we could read on a public page. Rankings live on Best Of. River trails and the rest of the season are in the fall guide. If a door time moved after we read the page, the venue site wins.

Halloween in Tulsa before the haunts take over

The Tulsa State Fair covers October 1–11, 2026, at 4145 E 21st Street. It ends before Halloween week. Buildings and the midway keep their own hours, and we are not reprinting a gate price. If the fair is the plan, let it be the plan. Tickets are on tulsastatefair.com.

The opening weekend also has a downtown night. The Tulsa Arts District’s First Friday Art Crawl lists October 2, 2026, exhibitions 6–9 p.m.: galleries, studios, museums, food, and music around downtown. The listing is an art crawl. A costume is your choice, and the page does not describe a costume contest. Shows we have already sourced sit on the events calendar.

For a free afternoon with no ticket, Gathering Place is the riverfront park. We did not find a Halloween program there worth treating as a tradition. The park’s visit page says entry and parking are free. Confirm hours at gatheringplace.org/visit. Discovery Lab, inside the park, is a separate ticket. That split is on the family outings list.

Scream parks with a 2026 season on the page

Three attractions had a public 2026 season we could read. They are night plans with select dates. “Open all October” is the assumption that gets people to a dark parking lot.

Hex House

hexhouse.com says the season is 20 nights beginning September 25, at Town West Center, 5610 W Skelly Dr (I-44 west, exit 222A). Three indoor walk-throughs share that address: Hex House, Haunted Overdrive, and The Experiment. TravelOK dates the run September 25–November 7, 2026, open 7–10 p.m. on select nights, and calls it an extreme attraction. The venue homepage posted box-office hours that did not settle on one closing time, so use the ticket calendar. We did not find a clear age line. Ask before you bring a child. Ticket prices stay on the venue site.

Insanity Farms

This is the night side of Pumpkin Town, same address, different ticket. The Insanity Farms page says every Friday and Saturday night in October, 7 p.m. to midnight, last admission at 11 p.m., and the same page also says select weekends. Confirm the Saturday you want. It is outdoors on uneven ground: a haunted corn maze, a pallet maze, and zombie paintball. The page recommends ages 12 and up, younger kids only with a parent, requires a waiver, and says actors do not touch guests. Rain can cancel the night; the farm says to call or check its Facebook. Daytime patch admission is a separate visit.

Psycho Path

Psycho Path is in Sperry, north of Tulsa, at 1517 E 106th St N. The site calls this its 22nd season and describes two experiences: a Dark Ride through the woods and a Shadowbox walk-through, indoor and outdoor. It is open on select October evenings, tickets online in timed slots. A lights-out Shadow Box is listed only for October 30 and 31, sold on site. Groups larger than the ride’s posted capacity split up. Age and weather rules are on that FAQ. We are not copying homepage prices.

If a haunt is missing here, we did not get a clean 2026 calendar from its own site. Check the venue. Last year’s rumor is not a listing.

Pumpkin patches and a Saturday festival

Pumpkin Town Farms is the patch we can date. pumpkintownfarm.com lists September 25–November 1, 2026, 10 a.m.–8 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday, closed Monday, at 6060 S Garnett Rd. The page describes a corn maze and a set of farm attractions, plus weekend events that change. Tickets exist; the price stays on the site. Afternoon is the pumpkin visit. A Friday or Saturday night is Insanity Farms, and only if that weekend is actually on.

Owasso’s city festival is one Saturday. The Owasso Harvest Festival is October 10, 2026, 11 a.m.–4 p.m., at Redbud Festival Park, 109 N Main St. The city calls it free and lists a pumpkin patch, a kids’ zone, food trucks, live music, and a pet and kids’ costume contest. Food is a purchase. Vendor applications were already marked full. It is a daytime festival, not a Halloween-night plan.

The Pumpkin Patch for Mission at Owasso First Methodist is a long local tradition. pumpkinpatchowasso.com was still showing 2025 dates when we checked, so a 2026 run is unconfirmed until that page says otherwise.

Family Halloween that stays on the friendly side of scary

HallowZOOeen at the Tulsa Zoo (6421 E 36th St N) is the family night with a full session grid. The zoo calls it spooky and not-too-scary, and it lists October 24–25 and October 29–31, 2026.

Day sessions, when the zoo says the whole zoo is open and animals are out:

Sunday, October 25, 2–5 p.m.
Saturday, October 31, 2–5 p.m.

Night sessions, which the zoo says are a bit spookier, and when animals are not on exhibit:

Saturday, October 24, 6–9 p.m.
Sunday, October 25, 6–9 p.m.
Thursday, October 29, 6–9 p.m.
Friday, October 30, 6–9 p.m.

Saturday, October 31, after dark is not on that list. The afternoon session is the zoo’s Halloween-day window. Online reservations are required. Member and general-admission prices are on the page, ages 2 and under are free and still need a ticket, and we are not copying the numbers. The zoo’s description includes treat stops, carnival games, a not-too-scary haunted house, themed play areas, and a haunted train sold separately. Costumes are encouraged: family-friendly, no realistic-looking weapons, eyes visible. The event is listed rain or shine, with some attractions paused for lightning.

On October 29 and 30, the zoo also lists a Pirates and Princesses dinner at 5 p.m., before those HallowZOOeen nights. The dinner page says registration includes the meal and admission to that night’s event, that sales were set to close at 5 p.m. on Monday, October 26, and that the room is limited. Recheck both pages. A regular daytime zoo visit, outside these sessions, is a different ticket. Hours are on tulsazoo.org.

Philbrook Museum of Art (2727 S Rockford Rd) is the other family calendar, and it is thinner than the zoo’s. On the museum’s family-programs list we could read:

PhilBOO! on Sunday, October 25, 2026, listed at 9:00 a.m.
Fallbrook Storytime: Pumpkin Party on Thursday, October 22, at 10:00 a.m.
Fallbrook Storytime: Halloween! on Thursday, October 29, at 10:00 a.m.
Fall Break at Fallbrook on the index for October 14, 15, 16, and 17

The October 14 page, Fall Break at Fallbrook, gives 10 a.m.–3 p.m. and says that day is free for members and free with general admission. Confirm the other three dates on the calendar before you treat them as the same hours. PhilBOO’s index line is a start time. Open the event on philbrook.org for the end time, what is in the gardens, and whether that morning needs its own ticket. A regular visit is still Wednesday through Sunday on our place record. A Thursday storytime does not rewrite those hours.

A washout belongs in the rainy-day kids guide. Philbrook also sits on the museums list. Parks that are not a patch are on the outdoor parks list.

Costume nights, and the dates already on our calendar

A costume night, in this post, means the organizer invited one. That is the zoo, inside its costume rules, and Owasso’s pet and kids’ contest on October 10. We did not find a downtown bar or ballroom advertising a 2026 costume party. Cain’s Ballroom publishes concerts. The live music list explains the rooms. Buy from the venue.

What we can already point to on the events calendar:

Food Truck Wednesday: Evening Edition at Guthrie Green on October 7, listed as free to attend from 5 to 8 p.m. Food is a purchase. That Wednesday is still inside fair week. Doing both is a long day; confirm the truck lineup on guthriegreen.com.
Iron & Wine at Guthrie Green on Sunday, October 25, announced as a free Off the Cuff concert. Our listing flags the start time as something to recheck.
AFI at Cain’s the same Sunday. The ballroom listing has doors at 7 p.m. and showtime at 8 p.m.

October 25 is the collision: PhilBOO in the morning, a zoo day session and a zoo night session, then Iron & Wine and AFI in the evening. Pick the museum, one zoo session, or one concert.

Saturday, October 31, is quieter on the calendars we trust. The zoo’s window is 2–5 p.m. Insanity Farms’ Friday-and-Saturday line would include that night if “select weekends” does not remove it. Psycho Path’s lights-out note names October 30 and 31. Hex House is select nights inside a longer season. The ticket page is the list.

How to split the month

Fair week, through October 11. Expo Square, and maybe First Friday on October 2 or the Guthrie Green trucks on October 7. Leave the haunts for later. Owasso’s festival is Saturday the 10th if you want a free daytime instead of a second fair day.
A patch afternoon. Pumpkin Town on a Tuesday-through-Sunday between now and November 1. Monday is the closed day on the farm’s own hours.
The Sunday before Halloween. October 25. Pick PhilBOO, one zoo session, or one concert.
Halloween week for a scream. A Friday or Saturday at Insanity Farms or Psycho Path, or a Hex House night that is actually on the calendar. If kids are in the car, use a zoo day or night session instead, and read the costume rules.

A visitor here for the city, rather than the season, should use the weekend itinerary. A day that has to stay free belongs in free things to do in Tulsa. Philbrook’s regular admission, the zoo, Discovery Lab, the fair, and every haunt on this page sit outside that free list. Owasso’s festival and the Guthrie Green lawn shows are the exceptions we have sourced.

Check the official site the day you go. This page can name the night. It cannot hold a ticket window open after the venue changes it.

Frequently asked questions

What should I do for Halloween in Tulsa if nobody in the group wants a haunted house?

Use the daytime half of the month. Pumpkin Town Farms posts a family season through November 1, the Owasso Harvest Festival is a free Saturday on October 10 with a kids’ and pets’ costume contest, and HallowZOOeen at the Tulsa Zoo is the not-too-scary ticket. Gathering Place stays the free park when you do not want a ticket at all.

When is HallowZOOeen at the Tulsa Zoo in 2026?

The zoo’s HallowZOOeen page lists October 24–25 and October 29–31, 2026. Day sessions are Sunday, October 25, and Saturday, October 31, from 2 to 5 p.m. Night sessions are October 24, 25, 29, and 30, from 6 to 9 p.m. Halloween night itself is not on that night list. Online reservations are required. Prices are on tulsazoo.org/hallowzooeen; we are not copying them.

Is the Tulsa State Fair a Halloween event?

Only for the first eleven days of the month. Expo Square lists the 2026 fair for October 1–11 at 4145 E 21st Street. It is closed before Halloween week. Tickets and the day’s hours are on tulsastatefair.com.

Where can I find a pumpkin patch in Tulsa in October 2026?

Pumpkin Town Farms (6060 S Garnett Rd) lists September 25 through November 1, 2026, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday, closed Monday. The Owasso Harvest Festival includes a patch on October 10 only. The Owasso church patch at pumpkinpatchowasso.com was still showing 2025 dates when we checked, so we are not calling a 2026 run confirmed.

Are Tulsa haunted houses open on Halloween night?

Some advertise a Saturday that would include October 31, and some do not publish a full night list. Insanity Farms says Friday and Saturday nights in October and also says select weekends. Psycho Path lists a lights-out option for October 30 and 31 only. Hex House is select nights inside a longer season. Buy from the venue calendar the week you go.

What is already on the calendar the weekend before Halloween?

Sunday, October 25, is crowded on purpose. Philbrook’s family calendar lists PhilBOO! that morning, the zoo has a HallowZOOeen day session and a night session, Iron & Wine is the free Guthrie Green concert, and AFI is at Cain’s that night. Pick one ticket. The rest of October’s shows are on the events calendar.

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