Cancer Services Network's 5K walk/run, with a Halloween costume contest, vendors and a live band. Proceeds support local cancer patients and their families.

Registration is $30 for adults and $20 for students, T-shirt included.

Register with Cancer Services Network

The last day of the Abilene Zoo's fall festival: costumes, trick-or-treating, seasonal activities and the animals.

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM. Tickets at abilenezoo.org.

Free admission. Dozens of scarecrows made by local students are on display and competing for prizes, and kids trick-or-treat building to building through the historic village. Costumes encouraged.

Meet adoptable pets from All Kind Animal Initiative, with Majestic Coffee, vendors, food trucks and live music. Free to attend.

Two sessions: 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM and 6:00 – 10:00 PM. Across the street from Frontier Texas!

Amateur bodybuilding competition and pro-qualifier, with standard, classic and teen divisions and athletes from across the region. Doors open at 9:30 AM; the show starts at 10:00 AM.

Key City Productions

A free family festival celebrating Día de los Muertos: Pre-Columbian artifacts, Mexican folklore, crafts, games, food and music, plus student artwork from Region 14 in the Stasney Center for Education.

Ballet Folklórico performs at 12:30 PM in the Sculpture Courtyard.

In Albany, about 35 miles northeast of Abilene.

Kickoff 3:00 PM at Anthony Field at Wildcat Stadium.

Tickets at tickets.acusports.com.

A free Halloween celebration in the heart of downtown: trick-or-treating around downtown, live music, a local vendor market, kids' activities and food trucks. Come in costume.

4:00 – 8:00 PM. Free.

5:30 – 6:30 PM — Kids hour, a less-spooky hour for younger kids
7:00 – 10:00 PM — Full scare

Outlaws and undertakers at the historic Swenson House, with food trucks and lawn games. Haunted house tour $15.

Live music on the Burro Alley patio at El Fenix Cafe. Free for customers.

The Buffalo Gap haunted village tours are back for the first time in over ten years. A guide walks your group through the Historic Village after dark, with live actors and jump scares along the way.

Tours leave every 10 minutes from 7:15 to 9:45 PM and run about 30 minutes. $15 per person, ages 12 and up. Also runs Friday, October 30.

Tickets from the Buffalo Gap Chamber of Commerce

5:00 PM — Doors open
5:00 PM — Tethered balloon rides begin
5:00–6:00 PM — KT and the Blues Scientists
5:45 PM — Balloon glow
7:00 PM — Movie showing: Up
8:45 PM — Movie ends
9:30 PM — Grounds close

Friday is evening only. The single morning flight of the weekend is Saturday at 7:00 AM.

7:00 AM — Morning flight
10:00 AM — Vendors and food trucks open
11:00 AM — Luke Powell
12:00 PM — Mo Y Su
1:00–1:30 PM — Double D Entertainment puppet show
1:30–2:30 PM — Mulberry Canyon
2:30–3:00 PM — Texas Tornados line dance performance
3:00–4:00 PM — South of Mayhem
4:30–5:30 PM — Big Spring Band
5:00 PM — Tethered balloon rides begin
5:30–6:30 PM — Balloon glow
6:30–7:30 PM — Parkside
8:00–9:00 PM — Lively
10:00 PM — Grounds close

This is the only morning flight of the weekend. Be there before 7:00 AM.