TAMPA, Fla. — Spooktacular, Busch Gardens Tampa Bay’s family-friendly Halloween event, returns this weekend with trick-or-treating, characters and more.

What You Need To Know

  • Busch Gardens Tampa Bay's Spooktacular event returns Sept. 9

  • The Halloween event features family-friendly activities and offerings during the day on select dates

  • Visitors can enjoy trick-or-treating, character interactions, story time and more

The event, which Busch Gardens is touting as “bigger than before,” will take place at the park’s Festival Walkway from noon to 4 p.m. starting Sept. 9

There will be photo opportunities, a costume parade and a new experience with Professor Pufflemintz, who has been put in charge of a set of interactive experiments.

Park visitors can meet characters, including a “witch-in-training” named Kandy, who also will be part of several new activities at the event. The lineup includes story time with Kandy reading “Room on the Broom and a walkthrough pumpkin experience with a photo op.

Spooktacular will run Saturdays and Sundays through Oct. 29 as well as Monday, Oct. 30 and Tuesday, Oct. 31.

The event is included with admission to Busch Gardens.

For more information, visit buschgardens.com/tampa.