Halloween in Lambertville: 2025
Lambertville’s Halloween hospitality is on full display in October!
Lambertville, NJ is known as a Halloween town, because we get creative (AKA crazy) with skeletons, spiders, ghosts, and goblins. Every autumn, thousands of visitors come to Lambertville to feel spooky, scary, and sometimes sentimental.
In this post:
- When to see the Halloween decorations
- Family Halloween Parade details
- Halloween Trick-or-Treat times, schedule, and information
When to See the Halloween Decorations
Lambertville isn’t a “pumpkin on the front porch next to some dried corn stalks” kind of place. We do giant Jack-o’-lanterns, haunted pets, fog machines, front-lawn grave yards, bubbling cauldrons, and sci-fi horror movie sets.
Many Lambertville residents start preparing their homes for Halloween in September so that yards and businesses already have decorations on display by October 1st. If you’re reading this in October, visit Halloween in Lambertville!
Expect to see many home-made setups: we’ve got a pirate house, an undersea house, and a themed house that changes every year. Look for blinking eyes in the darkness, glowing faces, haunted sounds, and lots and lots of skeletons.
The density and elaborateness of the Lambertville Halloween decorations increases as you get closer to October 31st, and stuff gets added all the while.
Many homes have mood lighting, unexpected surprises, and some even have terrifying animatronics. The darker it is outside, the more fun and funky it is.
The best time to see decorations is anytime in October. However, if you visit after October 15th then you’re more likely to see more complete decorations, and there will also be more more visitors viewing the spooktacular scenes.
If You Have Very Young Children
Come during the afternoon or early evening—anytime it’s still light out.
If Your Kids Like Scary
Come in the late evening and hang around past dusk. That way you’ll discover two (light and dark) layers of creepy fun before you go out for pizza.
Children of All Ages
Walk around after sunset. The lights and sound effects really pop in the dark!
Weekends are more crowded than weeknights, so arrive early to find parking.
Residents are used to visitors walking around to experience the decorations as late as 10pm. After that, just be quiet and you’re not going to bother anyone.
(Make sure to read all the way to the bottom of this post so you know what’s happening with the Lambertville Halloween House.)
Lambertville Family Halloween Parade
The annual Lambertville Family Halloween Parade will happen at 2:45pm on Sunday, October 26, 2025 at Mary E. Sheridan Park. The parade will depart at 3pm, so be there by 2:45pm to mingle and see the costumes before you march.
The parade will start at Mary Sheridan Park, then turn right onto Union Street, then right onto Perry Street, and then it will end at the Ely Park Pavilion.
Kids of all ages are welcome to show off their wonderful and creative costumes. No registration is required, and the parade happens rain or shine.
Refreshments include cider, donuts, and some gluten free treats. Lambertville Brass will be playing music. There are no prizes—this is just a grand, old-fashioned parade with fun, family, and friends.
For more details, visit the Family Halloween Parade page on Facebook.
Lambertville Halloween: October 31, 2025
On the evening of Halloween, North Union Street closes and thousands of people come from all over the tri-state area to trick-or-treat, eat candy, see the costumes, and to fully experience Halloween in Lambertville, New Jersey.
A lot of people come to Lambertville on Halloween when it falls on a weeknight, but this year Halloween falls on a Friday, so it’s going to be extra crowded.
People often do all of their trick-or-treating in town. “Kids” that are too old (or too cool) to trick-or-treat often parade up and down North Union Street before walking across the bridge to New Hope, PA where they go to dance and party.
North Union Street Closed 5pm-9pm 5-8pm
On October 29th, the city announced that North Union Street will be closed to traffic from 5-8pm, not 5-9pm as previously reported.
North Union Street closes to vehicular traffic, leaving pedestrian access only. There are many decorated houses within the designated walking area, which makes it a safe and family-friendly location to go trick-or-treating.
Official Trick-or-Treat Hours are 6-8pm
The residents who participate in the Halloween activities on North Union Street tend to sit outside if they are distributing candy—that way you don’t have to compete with thirty other kids when you go up and down a small set of front steps. People with very little kids often bring a wagon or decorated stroller.
You don’t have to stay on North Union Street. Perry Street, Clinton Street, and other parts of town get busy with trick-or-treaters as well. Some of the best-decorated homes are a short walk off of North Union Street. See this post.
Adults Dress Up Too
Don’t be lame! Get into the spirit and show us your fun costume. Lambertville is a place where you can participate and enjoy Halloween however you wish.
Lambertville Halloween House
Delores Dragan’s famed Halloween House is no longer active, at least not how it was in previous years. You will find some decorations at that house, but the full display is now dispersed into black-light illuminated storefronts in Lambertville’s business district. You can read about why the Halloween House retired.
Thanks to the Lambertville Creative Arts Fund, Delores’ whimsical sculptures are on display in what is now called the “Memory Maker’s Trail of Magic,” so the Halloween House figures can still be seen. Here’s a map of where they are.
If the Halloween House meant something to you over the years, perhaps write a thank you note and leave it on the front steps of the Halloween House.
LambPage.com will be writing about Halloween all month long, so check back throughout October as we highlight some of the amazing homeowners who are stepping up to carry the creative torch that the Halloween House used to hold.
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