Thread: Hey Minnesotan Haunters

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I have lived in Minnesota about 90% of my lifetime, and never attended the Anoka Halloween events. It's claim to the Halloween Capital of the World is probably a misnomer, however it has to be worth checking out.
Has anyone been? Are any events in particular worth attending? Is the Haunted House good? The Walking Ghost Tour sounds interesting, is it worth $7?

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I would be interested to know this as well... I always thought a trip there would be fun, but wondered if it was worth the time

I guess I can't help much since I have never actually been to any of the events, but we had some friends who lived in Anoka and we were driving to their house on the day they just happened to have the Halloween parade. Wow. It is a HUGE event! A drive that should have taken us 15 minutes, ended up taking about 2 hours. There were soooo many people!

I wish I was near the Halloween capital of the world.

Sorry...
even though I've lived here in MN all my life, never been to the Anoka Halloween celebration. Yes, it's claim to fame is true. Do a search for "Halloween Capitol of the World" & see for yourself.

weird, I live less than 20 minutes from Anoka, and I've heard about the Halloween festivities there, but have never been. I looked at the website, there's a lot of stuff going on! I don't know if everything's worth it, but if you live close...why not?

I would like to go to the Walking Tour-I love spooky stories. The little witch might like the parade, I guess they dress dogs up, what could be better to a 4 year old?!

ITS A HUGE MISNOMER.

I grew up there, the claim to "Halloween Capital" is mostly historical - they were one of the first to have an organized Halloween celebration.

Now days its barely a blip - though the chamber of commerce would argue otherwise, and apparently still tries to lobby for the title. They do a big parade which is okay (VERY tame, very midwestern), but most things are geared towards kids - it's like any other small town community celebration. There's a pageant, I think there's a ball now, a few costume contests which seem to be won by bad store bought slutty messes...The bars have parties like bars everywhere do, but there's not anything to really blow your mind.

Anyways, NO, its not worth it. Madison is much more of a Halloween destination than Anoka is.

THank you HeatherEve, I didn't want to waste a day when there are so many other Halloween/Fall activities to do at that time of year!

I also used to live, not far from Anoka. I lived in City of Ramsey not far from the Armstrong kennels. I never went either. Always something else going on at the same time. Just seemed like a big parade and lots of people. Of course that was 25 years ago.