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Good morning, Bastrop County
Halloween lands on a Saturday this year, which means the candy budget has officially doubled and so have the trunk-or-treats. The forecast says it might finally feel like fall. The forecast has said that before.
Every corner of the county gets in on it this week. Downtown Bastrop's Boo Bash takes over Main Street Saturday afternoon. Smithville has two free horror movie nights at the Playhouse and Scream Hollow all weekend. Elgin has a Lotería night, a Spooky Trivia Night for the grown-ups and a church trunk or treat on Halloween night. Rosanky has a car show, Paige has a Halloween concert with farm animals in the audience, and Sunday's Día de los Muertos Honor Walk closes out the month.
Costumes on. Let's go.
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🎃 Featured This Week | Halloween Weekend Across Bastrop County | October 30 - November 1
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Here's the long weekend, town by town. Pace yourself on the candy.
Friday is the warm-up. Avendale at The Colony hosts a trunk or treat at 4:30, and Playhouse Smithville screens Night of the Living Dead for free at 8:30. Grown-ups who would rather do the Time Warp can catch the Rocky Horror shadow cast at Film Alley (buy ahead, it sells out), and FOUNDATION Christian Ministries throws its Your Way's Better Night glow party at 7.
Saturday starts early in Rosanky, where the Rosanky Revival Trunk or Treat Car Show runs 8am to 7pm. From 2 to 6, downtown Bastrop turns into one big trick-or-treat route for the Bastrop Boo Bash, with the museum porch handing out treats and the Bastrop Social Club running a costume contest. Bring a bag. Bring a bigger bag.
In Smithville, Birdee's starts its Halloween party at 2, Rare Earth Tattoo hosts its first Tat or Treat at 4, and Playhouse Smithville closes the night with a free Rocky Horror screening and the Transylvanian Ball at 9. First Baptist Church Elgin runs a free trunk or treat from 6 to 8, Austin Farm Sanctuary in Paige throws Boo! @ The Farm with trick-or-treating among the pigs, and Copper Shot's Pirates & Sirens party keeps downtown Bastrop going until 10.
Sunday gets quieter and more meaningful. The museum's Día de los Muertos ofrendas have one last day, and at 6pm the Honor Walk leaves the museum for an evening walk down Main Street past the ofrendas in local shop windows. Bring the name of someone you are walking for.
👉 Bastrop Boo Bash | Día de los Muertos Honor Walk | Every event in every town is in the list below.
🍂 The 2026 Bastrop County Fall Guide | Free Download
Halloween is Saturday, and Thanksgiving is closer than any of us want to admit. Our free 2026 Bastrop County Fall Guide lists more than 150 events through the end of November: festivals, markets, craft fairs, holiday bazaars and fall classes.
It covers Bastrop, Elgin, Smithville, Cedar Creek, McDade and Paige. The listings run in date order, and every one has the time, the place and a link to the organizer, so you can plan a whole weekend from your phone.
Save it, and send it to a neighbor who's planning their fall.
🗓️ Bastrop County Events | October 26 - November 1, 2026
Monday, 🗓️ October 26
💀 Día de los Muertos Community Display | 10am-5pm daily through Sunday | Bastrop County Museum & Visitor Center, 904 Main St, Bastrop | Last week to see the community ofrendas. Included with museum admission. Bastrop County Historical Society
🎵 Mini Maestros Music Class | First Class | 8:30am, Mondays for eight weeks | Bastrop Academy of Music, 1109 Main St, Bastrop | Music, singing and rhythm for ages 2 to 5. $145, sibling discounts. Register at 512-321-7529. Bastrop Academy of Music
🦋 Family Nature Quest | 10:30am | McKinney Roughs Nature Park, 1884 State Hwy 71 W, Cedar Creek | Screen-free nature play. $10 a person, reservation required. LCRA Parks
📚 Smithville Library Weekly Programs | 10:30am meditation and chair yoga, 1pm Spanish | Smithville Public Library, 507 Main St, Smithville | Free drop-in. Smithville Public Library
🎱 Monday 8-Ball Tournament | 7:30pm | American Legion Post 533, 3003 Loop 150 E, Bastrop | Double elimination, $10 entry. American Legion Post 533
Tuesday, 🗓️ October 27
🎲 Dominoes, Stitchers & Knitters | 10am, 10:30am and noon | Smithville Public Library, 507 Main St, Smithville | Free drop-in groups. Smithville Public Library
🧶 Knitter's Nook | 2-3:30pm | Bastrop Public Library, 1100 Church St, Bastrop | A weekly knitting circle. Bastrop Public Library
🎤 Karaoke with Elijah | 7pm | 602 Brewing Company, 919 Main St, Bastrop | Every Tuesday. 602 Brewing Company
Wednesday, 🗓️ October 28
🧗 High Ropes & Zip Line | 10:30am | McKinney Roughs Nature Park, Cedar Creek | $45, reservation required. LCRA Parks
🧘 Chair Yoga & Knitters | noon and 1pm | Smithville Public Library, 507 Main St, Smithville | Free drop-in. Smithville Public Library
📖 Words Everyday / Palabras Todos los Días | 5:30-7:30pm | Community Gardens, 1067 Hwy 71 W, Bastrop | A free family night on simple ways to help kids learn through everyday routines. Bastrop County Cares
🎄 Christmas in October | Christmas Under the Stars | 6pm | Rosanky Baptist Church, 2160 FM 535, Rosanky | Rosanky Christian Academy and Rosanky Baptist present "The Greatest Gift." Yes, in October. We checked. Rosanky Baptist Church
🎨 Sip, Paint & Socialize | Fall Ladies' Night | 6-9pm | Espadas de Brazil, 1507 Chestnut St, Bastrop | A paint night with COR Art Studio. Costumes encouraged, tickets ahead. Espadas de Brazil
🎴 Lotería Fundraiser | 6:30-8:30pm | El Maguey, 111 S Main St, Elgin | The Elgin Chamber's first lotería night. Buy ahead. Elgin Chamber
🎯 BINGO with Ben | 7-9pm | Bastrop Beer Company, 1008 Main St, Bastrop | Weekly Wednesday bingo. Bastrop Beer Company
Thursday, 🗓️ October 29
🌮 Social Pop-In | 9am-noon | Chestnut Grove Food Truck Court, Bastrop | The Bastrop Social Club's meetup. Grab a bite, meet a neighbor, love on the food trucks. Bastrop Social Club
🥬 Elgin Farmers' Market | 4-7pm | Veterans' Memorial Park, 109 Depot St, Elgin | Local produce, meats, baked goods and crafts. SNAP welcome. Elgin Farmers' Market
🌿 Potions | Celebrating Herbs | 4-7pm | At the Elgin Farmers' Market, 109 Depot St, Elgin | Herbs, tinctures and what Grandma kept in the cupboard. Elgin Texas Farmers' Market
🎠 Community Fall Festival | 4:30-6:30pm | Bastrop Lost Pines Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Bastrop | The residents hand out the candy. If you have little ones in costume, this is the stop that means the most. Bastrop Lost Pines Nursing and Rehabilitation
👜 Boo-tique Crawl | from 5pm | Downtown Bastrop | Rhinestone Rattler, Magnolia Row and Silver Creek Collections stay open late with spooky-season shopping. Christmas shopping two months early counts. Rhinestone Rattler Boutique
🎤 Open Karaoke | 6-9pm | Prufrock Pub stage, Hyperloop Plaza, 865 FM 1209, Bastrop | All ages. Free. Hyperloop Plaza
🎙️ Open Mic Thursdays | 7pm | Mutt's Last Stand, 205 N 3rd St, Smithville | Bring a song, a poem or some nerve. Free. Mutt's Last Stand
❓ Trivia with Ben | 7-9pm | Bastrop Beer Company, 1008 Main St, Bastrop | Weekly Thursday trivia. Bastrop Beer Company
Friday, 🗓️ October 30
🏈 Friday Night Football | Elgin at Bastrop | Memorial Stadium, Bastrop | The county rivalry game, Bears vs. Wildcats. Kickoff time isn't posted yet, so check with the school before you grab the stadium blanket. Bastrop ISD Athletics
🦋 Family Nature Quest | 10:30am | McKinney Roughs Nature Park, Cedar Creek | $10 a person, reservation required. LCRA Parks
🚗 Trunk or Treat Party | 4:30pm | Avendale at The Colony, Bastrop | The neighborhood's free trunk or treat. Short legs, short walk. Facebook event
🚗 Trunk or Treat with Buescher State Park & Smithville ISD | 5-7pm | Smithville Jr. High and High School parking lots, Smithville | Candy from decorated trunks, plus a ranger "mystery touch box" where kids guess the nature item by feel. Free. Texas Parks & Wildlife
👻 Spooks & Scandals Walking Tour | Second Night | 5:30-6:30pm | Starts at the Bastrop County Courthouse Gazebo | The museum added this night after Oct 24 sold out, and now it's sold out too. Check the page in case a spot opens up. Bastrop County Historical Society
🎭 Heroes & Horseshoes Wild West Masquerade | 6-10pm | Bastrop Convention & Exhibit Center, 1408 Chestnut St, Bastrop | A Western benefit gala for Restoration Ranch's veterans programs. Tickets on the ranch's site. Restoration Ranch
🎱 BINGO Night | 6-8pm | Rising Sun Vineyard, 233 Edmonson Ranch Rd, McDade | Cards 1 for $5 or 3 for $10, with wine, beer and the kitchen open. Rising Sun Vineyard
🎸 Live Music at The Boring Bodega | 6-8pm | Hyperloop Plaza, 865 FM 1209, Bastrop | Local artists. Free. Hyperloop Plaza
🍪 Spooky Halloween Cookie Class | 6:30-9:30pm | Flour Girls, 113 Palo Pinto Bnd, Bastrop | Learn piping and flooding, and take home cookies you will not want to eat. You will eat them. Flour Girls
💄 The Rocky Horror Picture Show | Let's Do the Time Warp Again | 6:30-9pm | Film Alley, 1600 Chestnut St, Bastrop | A shadow-cast screening. Buy ahead, it has sold out before. Tickets
✨ Your Way's Better Night | Worship + Word + Glow Party | 7pm | 177 Union Chapel Rd E, Bastrop | FOUNDATION Christian Ministries' biggest fall night, for the whole family. FOUNDATION Christian Ministries
🧠 Spooky Trivia Night | 7-9pm | Elgin Public Library, 404 N Main St, Elgin | Halloween trivia for ages 18 and up. Free. Elgin Public Library
🚲 Halloween Bike Ride | 7pm | Fisherman's Park to Downtown Bastrop | A costumed 4-mile family ride. Bring lights. Helmets over hats. City of Bastrop Parks & Recreation
🎶 Live Music | Josh Calvin & Co. | 7-10pm | Copper Shot Distillery, 809 Main St, Bastrop | Copper Shot Distillery
👻 Scream Hollow Wicked Halloween Park | Fri-Sun | Fri and Sat 7pm-midnight, Sun 7-10pm | 149 Split Rail Ln, Smithville | Haunted attractions in the woods. Ages 12 and up recommended. Scream Hollow
🧟 Night of the Living Dead | Free Screening | 8:30pm | Playhouse Smithville at Hope Floats, 109 NW 2nd St, Smithville | A classic horror screening, then "the living party." Free. Playhouse Smithville
🎤 Friday Night Karaoke | The RAB Show | 8pm-midnight | American Legion Post 533, 3003 Loop 150 E, Bastrop | American Legion Post 533
🎃 Saturday, 🗓️ October 31 | Halloween
🌭 Texas Wienerfest | 4th Annual | Sherwood Forest Faire, 1883 Old Hwy 20, McDade | A dachshund festival with the Wiener Cup races, a costume parade, Lowrider Limbo, 50-plus vendors, food trucks and a 21-and-up beer garden. Short legs, big personalities. Tickets and times on the site. Texas Wienerfest
🚗 Rosanky Revival Trunk or Treat Car Show | 8am-7pm | Texas Firewalkers BBQ, 3042 S Hwy 304, Rosanky | Horsepower, Halloween and barbecue at Firewalker Ranch, all day. Facebook event
🏃 Adelton Fest Boo Run 3K | 9:30-10:30am | Adelton neighborhood, Bastrop | Free. Run, walk or just show up in costume. Facebook event
🥕 Bastrop 1832 Farmers Market | 10am-2pm | 1302 Chestnut St, Bastrop | Bastrop 1832 Farmers Market
🐕 BOO! BARK Ranger Hike | 10-11:30am | Bastrop State Park | A one-mile hike with your dog. Costumes optional for both of you. Park entry applies. Texas Parks & Wildlife
🎃 Community Gardens Pumpkin Patch | Final Day | 10am-5pm | 1067 Hwy 71 W, Bastrop | Last chance this season. Passes online. Community Gardens
🎃 Evergreen Farms Pumpkin Hunt | 10am-5pm | Evergreen Farms, 242 Monkey Rd, Elgin | Free entry, activity tickets $3.50. Evergreen Farms
🧗 Family Nature Quest and High Ropes & Zip Line | 10:30am | McKinney Roughs Nature Park, Cedar Creek | $10 and $45, reservations required. LCRA Parks
👻 Bastrop Boo Bash | 2-6pm | Downtown Bastrop | Our featured event. The big downtown trick or treat. Free. Downtown Bastrop
🏛️ Boo Bash at the Museum | 2-6pm | Bastrop County Museum & Visitor Center, 904 Main St, Bastrop | A treat stop on the museum porch. Bastrop County Historical Society
👗 Boo Bash Costume Contest | 2-6pm | Downtown Bastrop | Find the Bastrop Social Club and Bailey Team Real Estate. Prizes for the best costumes. Bastrop Social Club
📚 Bastrop Book Bash | 2-6pm | Bastrop Public Library, 1100 Church St, Bastrop | Same afternoon as the Boo Bash, one block over. Bastrop Public Library
📖 Thriller Book Club | 2-3pm | The Owl, 106 N Main St, Elgin | The Elgin library's book club, on the scariest day of the year. Free. Elgin Public Library
🌿 Spooky Spanish Moss | 2-3pm | Buescher State Park, Smithville | Moss legends and a craft. Park entry applies. Texas Parks & Wildlife
🎃 Halloween @ Birdee's | from 2pm | The Birdsong Bar & Patio, 1200 NE Loop 230, Smithville | The Birdsong
🖋️ Tat or Treat | 4-9pm | Rare Earth Tattoo, 1655 N 3rd St, Smithville | The studio's first Halloween open house. Cash only. Rare Earth Tattoo
🐷 Boo! @ The Farm | 5th Annual | Austin Farm Sanctuary, 1165 Old Pin Oak Rd, Paige | Trick-or-treating around the sanctuary, tours to meet the residents, a vendor market and a movie under the stars. Bring a pumpkin for the pigs' Pumpkin Bash. Jim & Hilary's Facebook event has them playing a Halloween set 4-7pm. Check the sanctuary for times and tickets. Austin Farm Sanctuary | Jim & Hilary
🍷 Live Music | The LTD's | 4-7pm | Rising Sun Vineyard, 233 Edmonson Ranch Rd, McDade | Rising Sun Vineyard
⛺ Canopy or Treats | 5:30-7:30pm, come and go | First Baptist Church Smithville parking lot, 300 Hudgins St, Smithville | A lit-up canopy with candy and treats for the kids. First Baptist Church Smithville
🚙 Trunk or Treat at First Baptist Church Elgin | 6-8pm | 13916 County Line Rd, Elgin | Free, with tons of candy. First Baptist Church Elgin
🏴☠️ Pirates & Sirens Halloween Party | 7-10pm | Copper Shot Distillery, 809 Main St, Bastrop | Rock House plays, costume contest at 8:30. No cover, 21+ after 7. Copper Shot Distillery
👻 Scream Hollow Wicked Halloween Park | 7pm-midnight | 149 Split Rail Ln, Smithville | Halloween night at the haunt. Scream Hollow
🎶 Live Music | Robert Jericho Duo | 7:30-10:30pm | Gracie's, The Grace Miller, 706 Pine St, Bastrop | The Grace Miller
🎬 The Rocky Horror Picture Show | Free Screening + Transylvanian Ball | 9pm | Playhouse Smithville at Hope Floats, 109 NW 2nd St, Smithville | Don't dream it, be it. Free. Playhouse Smithville
Sunday, 🗓️ November 1
💀 Día de los Muertos Community Display | Last Day | 10am-5pm | Bastrop County Museum & Visitor Center, Bastrop | Bastrop County Historical Society
🥬 Smithville Sunday Market | 10am-2pm | James H. Long Railroad Park, Main & 1st, Smithville | Produce, handmade goods and live music. Smithville Market
🎶 Live Music | Kyle Reed Hemmen | noon-2pm | Gracie's, The Grace Miller, 706 Pine St, Bastrop | The Grace Miller
🎸 Bastrop Blues Jam | 2-5pm | Copper Shot Distillery, 809 Main St, Bastrop | Bring an instrument or just a chair. Copper Shot Distillery
🕯️ Día de los Muertos Honor Walk | 6-8pm | Starts at the Bastrop County Museum & Visitor Center, 904 Main St, Bastrop | Bring a loved one's name and walk downtown past the ofrendas in local businesses. Bastrop County Historical Society
👻 Scream Hollow | Season Finale Weekend | 7-10pm | 149 Split Rail Ln, Smithville | Scream Hollow
🔮 Planning Ahead
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🤠 Thu Nov 5 | Farm Street Opry | 7pm, doors 5:30pm | Bastrop Convention & Exhibit Center, 1408 Chestnut St, Bastrop | The monthly traditional country show. The Farm Street Opry
📚 Fri Nov 6 | Autumn Book Swap with the Friends of the Bastrop Library | 5-7pm | Bastrop Beer Company, 1008 Main St, Bastrop | Bring a book, take a book, with cookbooks featured this year. Free, all ages. Friends of the Bastrop Public Library
🍷 Fri Nov 6 | Starlight Dinner in the Vineyard | 6:30-8:30pm | Rising Sun Vineyard, 233 Edmonson Ranch Rd, McDade | Four courses, wine pairings and jazz. Rising Sun Vineyard
🎨 Sat Nov 7 | Bastrop Art Fest | 10am-4pm | Lost Pines Art Center, 1204 Chestnut St, Bastrop | Free admission. Lost Pines Art Center
🚗 Fri-Sat Nov 13-14 | Heroes & Hot Rods Veterans Weekend Car Show | 20th Year | Main Street cruise-in Friday 5-9pm, car show Saturday from 7:30am | Downtown Bastrop | Bastrop Area Cruisers
🍂 Sat Nov 14 | FUMC Fall Festival | from 10am | First United Methodist Church, 400 Olive St, Smithville | First United Methodist Church Smithville
🏡 Sat Nov 14 | Smithville Garden Club Tour of Homes | 11am-3pm | Smithville | Five homes and a church, tickets at each home and the visitors center. Smithville Garden Club
🎄 Fri Nov 27 | Lighting of the Pines | 6pm | Fisherman's Park, Bastrop | The 2026 Lost Pines Christmas kickoff. City of Bastrop
🏛️ Sat Dec 12 | Bastrop Historic Homes Tour | Bastrop | Six stops this year, including a historic church. Bastrop County Historical Society
🍂 Everything else through November | It's all in the free 2026 Fall Guide. Download the Fall Guide
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