Moving Beyond Cancer in NOLA: Check out the Free/Low-Cost Events in City Park this Month

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Fall Garden Festival

The annual Fall Garden Festival is an educational experience for home gardeners and professionals.

Saturday, October 6th from 10 am to 5 pm
Sunday, October 7th from 10 am to 4 pm

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Evenings with Enrique

The New Orleans Botanical Garden extends its hours to 8pm every Wednesday during October to celebrate "Evenings with Enrique." Each Wednesday is free to Louisiana residents, courtesy of The Helis Foundation.

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Scout Island Scream Park

Join your friends for a Halloween fright fest in the heart of City Park. Experience multiple truly terrifying haunts including Bloody Bayou, The Devil's Swamp, and Zombie Combat. The event will also have amusement park rides, a beer garden, food, live music, and a dance floor. Everyone pays an admission price; for additional haunts you can pay one price or pay as you go.

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Kid Zone

The Kid Zone is an area for families to bring younger kids to celebrate Halloween with face painting, a hay bale maze, bounce house, kid focused entertainment, a pumpkin patch where guests can hand select a pumpkin, and featuring a red and white stripped high-peak tent at its center. Guests can board one of our old fashioned tractor-pulled hay wagons for an adventure through the wooded swamp perimeter for a non-scary hay ride. $15/person

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