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Halloween in the Berkshires

Posted by Kaitlyn in Events, Family, Food, Music & Night Life

Due to all of the amazing and spooky events coming up in honor of my favorite holiday I have decided to put together a short blog of some exciting things to do during the last week of October! Click on any of the images to visit the website for each place and event!

Family & Day time adventures!

Ioka Valley Farm

Ioka Valley Farm – This is a place I personally really love and that I have been going to since I was a little girl. It is free to visit which allows you into the barn and animal’s areas where you can feed some of them. It also includes a free hayride across the road to the pumpkin patch and small corn maze.

Ioka Valley Farm is on Route 43, 1/2 mile from Jiminy Peak Resort. 4 miles from the intersection of Route 43 and Rte 22 in Stephentown, NY.

The Mount

Halloween at The Mount - Thrills and chills abound as The Mount celebrates Halloween week with an array of programs that will explore the estate’s most haunted areas and pay homage to classic ghost stories.

Daily readings and special ghost tours highlight the week. Click on the image to the left to view the up coming events at The Mount in Lenox!

Wheelchair Accessible, 2 Plunkett Street Box 974 Lenox, Massachusetts 01240-0974

Email: info@edithwharton.org

Berkshire Scenic Railroad

Berkshire Scenic Railway – All aboard for the Halloween Express train on Oct 30-31st offered by the Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum. Make sure to come in costume! Experience a side of the Berkshires that you won’t see from your car. Our 90 minute, 20 mile roundtrip excursion between the picturesque towns of Lenox and Stockbridge is an entertaining and educational experience for the whole family. 10 Willow Creek Road Lenox, MA 01240

Halloween Parties & Costume Contests!

BSCC Halloween Dance

BSCC Halloween Dance – Saturday, October 23, 9pm – 1am at the Elk’s Club on Union Street in Pittsfield, MA Berkshire Stonewall will be hosting a Halloween Party on October 23rd from 9pm to 1am at the Elk’s Club. DJ BFG will be joining us once again, and we’re coming up with some crazy decoration ideas. Guests are encouraged to dress in their favorite costumes. Appetizers, DJ, Costume Contest! Admission: $5 Member/$10 Non-Member ($5 additional fee for entrance in costume contest)

Bucksteep

HALLOWEEKEND 2010 at Bucksteep Manor – OCTOBER 29 & 30 9pm – Must be 21 (gates open at 8pm each night)

2 nights of Mayhem filled with Pranks, Surprises, The famous Haunted Bathrooms, Late Night Munchies & Snacks and more! A Costume contest with prizes for Funniest, Scariest, Most Tasteless, Best Handmaid, Best Couple, Sexiest, and Best Overall Costumes & a JACK-OLANTERN CONTEST

Performances by: REV TOR BAND & FRIENDS, FUNGUS AMUNGUS, DOMINO THEORY, LONGVIEW GUNSLINGERS, HOLYWATER UNDERTOE – Featuring Mark Mercier of Max Creek, CHRIS MERENDA & MORE In The “haunted” Barn and grounds of BUCKSTEEP MANOR 885 Washington Mountain Road Washington, MA

Zombie Pub Crawl

ZOMBIE PUB CRAWL – Friday, October 29 at 7:00pm – October 30 at 1:00am. this one-night extravaganza of soCiaL MonsTrositY, posHumous libAtioN, and all around flesh-chompingly, brain-devouringly good times in downtown GoPittsfield (c)

The concept is surprisingly simple: get your ZOMBIE on and come join the crowd of assembled undead as we enjoy an assortment of beverages and lurch around to and from multiple fine establishments in downtown Pittsfield.

Places to be taken over: Dotties Coffee Lounge (they have lotsa booze, remember!), Mission, Spice, Patrick’s Pub, Baba Louie’s PREGAME: Emporium (5-7pm) : Zombie prep with assistance from our crack team of makeup and costume specialists for those that need it. Bring your assorted makeup, wreckable clothes, and accessories and we will turn you into a ghastly rotting corpse.

BYP Bash

BYP Halloween BASH – Friday, October 29 at 8:30pm – October 30 at 12:00am – Enjoy a frightfully festive evening with your fellow YPs, complete with our always enjoyable costume contest and entertainment by Bob Heck Entertainment. Costumes are required and prizes will be awarded for Best Male Costume, Best Female Costume and Best Group/Duo.

$10 for BYP Membership Cardholders or $15 without the card. For advanced tickets, please call (413) 499-4000, email choyt@berkshirechamber.com or log onto www.berkshirechamber.com/byp

Casey's

Casey’s Haunted Blacklight Halloween Party – Friday, October 29 at 9:30pm – October 30 at 2:00am -

Here it is, the Party of the year! We’re turning all the lights off, and all you Guys and Ghouls will glow under the blacklights… We’re handing out great cash prizes for the best costumes out there! We have great drink specials that you won’t find anywhere else! Get a Blood Bomb for just $4 bucks!

We have an amazing band for the night, and Guilty Pleasures always rocks the house! It’s a night you wont want to miss! get on out and dance till you can’t dance no more!

Burlesque Bites

Burlesque Bites: A Halloween Extravaganza - 18+ Saturday, October 30 at 8:00pm – October 31 at 1:00am Location: Jae’s Spice Second Floor – Join Gypsy Layne and Prtty Pitty this Halloween for “Burlesque Bites!” Gypsy Layne, the first-ever homegrown Burlesque troupe of the Berkshires, will be performing a special spooky show at 9PM with new gypsies and new numbers! If you haven’t seen the show before, there won’t be a better night to catch a first viewing – and if you have seen it, this show won’t be like any of the others!

A Halloween dance party will follow with DJ Alan Wrench spinning tunes from 10:30 until close. We’ll be awarding prizes for most original costumes in a number of categories, so be sure to dress up before you get down! Doors for the burlesque show open at 8PM. Tickets for the show and the party are $20. Tickets for just the dance party (after 10:30) are $5.

To guarantee seating at the show, reservations are recommended and can be made by emailing info@gypsylayne.com.

Unwrapped

Unwrapped Halloween Party at the Berkshire Museum – Saturday, October 30 at 8:00pm – October 31 at 1:00am – Location: Berkshire Museum Pittsfield, MA -

A halloween party to beat last year’s! Let loose and be loud in the museum! Help celebrate the holiday and the last weekend of the museum’s “Wrapped” exhibit! DJ BFG all night!! The Berkshire Pure Movement Dancers seductively swaying!

At midnight we will have a showing of “Night Of The Living Dead” in the Little Cinema! The galleries will be open, and you can check out the museum’s resident mummy, Pahat, and 2 of his friends who will be departing! This party is only $15! Advance tickets will be sold at the museum, and members pay just $10! We will have another costume contest this year, so go big! We will send out the categories soon so keep an eye on our page! Winners last year took home restaurant gift certificates and other prizes from local businesses. If your business would like to be part of the prize giving, contact us through this page!

Gourmet apps, cash bar (drinks will be $4-$6) 21+ PLEASE bring your ID! $15 at door, 8PM-1AM. There’s nothing like a chance to get wild in the museum! This is a Halloween party and we expect everyone to act like it! Can’t wait to see you all costumed up again!

Reggae Halloween

A REGGAE HALLOWEEN – Saturday, October 30 at 9:00pm – October 31 at 1:30am – Key West Lounge 159 State St North Adams, MA – BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!!! 2nd Annual Rebel Alliance Halloween Party!!! It’s Halloween again! Come jam out at Key West!

We will have a variety of entertainment for you all night long, with a prize for best costume, and loads of other surprises, including a retro music dj set by front man Mike Wood. So come hang with the rebels and have a great time.

GEAA

GEAA Halloween Party – Saturday, October 30 at 9:30pm – October 31 at 1:30am GEAA/Back 9 Crane Ave Pittsfield, MA

Join them for their costume contest with cash prizes, drink specials and dancing all night! Click on the poster to the left to find out more.

Kaitlyn