Halloween in the Grove

Pumpkin Chuck Monster Bash Parade

Spooky?  Fun?  Kid-friendly?  Cottage Grove has something for everyone and is the perfect place to celebrate Halloween. After you check out the exciting parade, head on over to Zywiec’s Garden Center to get your scary fix. The center’s Haunting Experience is enough to give anyone the chills — and maybe even a few Halloween nightmares. Not a fan of big scares and screams? The Fall Fun Fest is a more playful option filled with Halloween attractions.

PUMPKIN CHUCK

Toss it. Launch it. Roll it down a slide. Join us the day after Halloween for your last chance to wear your costume and get rid of your Halloween pumpkins in a fun way. For location and times, visit discovercottagegrove.com.

MONSTER BASH PARADE

The Monster Bash parade is an annual family fun tradition held the Saturday before Halloween along East Point Douglas Road South. Individuals and families are welcome (and encouraged!) to dress up to participate in the fun. Typically held in the late morning, this is a perfect event to add to your Halloween activity round-up. Find out more at cottagegrovestrawberryfest.com

THE HAUNTING EXPERIENCE

Every Halloween, a frightening fever sweeps the nation with thrilling hayrides, creepy mazes, and haunted houses. If you dare, head over to the Haunting Experience located at Zywiec’s Garden Center to experience a night filled with your darkest nightmares.

The Haunting Experience has all of the attractions you need for a fun Halloween scare as well as live music on select nights.

THE HAYRIDE Gather up your family and friends and take a ride on Minnesota’s longest consecutively running haunted hayride; now in its 36th year!

Beware! This hayride is not for the faint of heart. It’s filled with spine-chilling surprises as you go through the haunted forest and the terrors of Wilhelm Steelworks. Along the way, you will also encounter creatures that lurk along the trails. Be careful, they might turn you into one of them!

THE HAUNTED HOUSE After the hayride, test your grit through one of the scariest haunted houses that you’ve ever encountered.

The Haunting Experience’s famous haunted house is filled with perils and dark entities that are hungry for screams of terror.

FALL FUN FEST

Halloween doesn’t always have to be about a spine-chilling experience. If you are looking to dip your feet into something a little less scary and more playful, head over to Zywiec’s Garden Center where you’ll find family-friendly Halloween fun including:

• Goat feeding and petting • Hayrides • Coloring station • No-scare haunted house tour • Pumpkin painting station • Sand art station

▸ Both the Haunting Experience and the Fall

Fun Fest can be found at Zywiec’s Garden

Center 10900 E. Point Douglas Road S.

Cottage Grove 651-459-3500 | zywiecs.com