Hanover’s Top 5 Weekend Events (October 24-26)

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Halloween is peeking around the corner, and Hanover is ready for it. 🎃

Our little town is absolutely buzzing — from costumed pups at Codorus to trunk-or-treats on every block.

If you’re the kind of person who wants to do all the things before the pumpkins start rotting on the porch, this lineup is your weekend roadmap.

Speaking of rotting pumpkins… ours didn’t make it. My son, Emerson, loves Halloween so he was ready to carve pumpkins as soon as October hit. I tried to convince him to wait until it cooled down, but he insisted. When I had to toss our disgustingly moldy pumpkin last week, I thought he’d be disappointed, but nope. Turns out, I fell right into his trap. He’d planned all along to carve another one this weekend. Smart kid, I’ll tell you.

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Here are the best of the best. Full event details are listed chronologically below.

🎃 Trunk or Treat at CrossFit Hanover
🍬 Hanover Market House Annual Trick or Treat
🐾 Halloween Pet Parade at Codorus State Park
🚒 Fall Fest & Trunk or Treat at Pleasant Hill Volunteer Fire Co.
🔮 Community Samhain Circle at The Serpent’s Key

🗓 Friday, October 24 | 🕕 6:15 PM – 8:15 PM
📍 1011 Baltimore St, Hanover

Show off your creativity and costume skills at this community trunk-or-treat hosted by CrossFit Hanover. Bring candy, bring the kids, and bring your best “spooky-but-still-family-friendly” energy.

Bonus: the Clover Lane Fire Department will be pulling in with their fire engine for the kids (and let’s be honest, for the adults too). 🚒

🗓 Saturday, October 25 | 🕘 9 AM – 12 PM
📍 210 E Chestnut St, Hanover

Your favorite Hanover Market House vendors are dishing out treats instead of tomatoes this weekend. Stop by for a morning of candy, costumes, and community.

Costumes are encouraged (but not required), and don’t leave without grabbing a photo with the Market House Scarecrow.

🗓 Saturday, October 25 | 🕙 10 AM: Registration | 🕚 11 AM – 1 PM: Parade
📍 Pavilion 1, 1699 Blooming Grove Rd, Hanover

Pets in costumes. Need we say more?

The annual Halloween Pet Parade is back at Codorus. It’s free to enter, open to all, and benefits Animal Rescue, Inc. Expect prize drawings, treat bags, and lots of wagging tails.

Just remember: leashes on, waste bags handy, and smiles all around. 🦮

🗓 Sunday, October 26 | 🕐 1 PM – 5 PM
📍 2941 Baltimore Pike, Hanover

The folks at Pleasant Hill VFC know how to throw a fall party. Between food trucks, pumpkins, and a community-wide trunk-or-treat, it’s everything you love about autumn in one spot.

If you’ve got a knack for decorating your trunk (or your truck), they’re still looking for participants.

🗓 Sunday, October 26 | 🕓 4 PM – 5 PM
📍 28 Carlisle St, Hanover

The Serpent’s Key is hosting a free Samhain Circle to celebrate the Witches’ New Year. Throughout the day, you can add to their Ancestor Altar with small offerings, photos, or notes for loved ones.

At 4:05 PM, the doors close and the circle begins. This is a peaceful, sacred space to honor endings, beginnings, and the turning of the wheel.

This weekend’s just the start. The full Heart of Hanover calendar is updated weekly with live music, local classes, pop-ups, and family-friendly events.

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In case you missed it, I also published a special edition earlier this week: the Heart of Hanover Halloween Guide 2025. Today’s email gives you a glimpse of what’s happening this weekend, but that guide includes 30+ spooky events happening all around town.

👉 View Heart of Hanover Halloween Guide 2025

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Another newsletter on the books. I’m honestly still surprised by how excited I get every time I sit down to write one.

If you know me in real life, you know I’ve got about twelve hobbies in rotation at any given time. I love learning everything about something… until I don’t. But this newsletter has taught me something important: I don’t just love learning; I love doing when it’s about this community.

If you’ve got something that lights you up the way Heart of Hanover does for me, I hope you make time for it this weekend. And if you don’t yet, that’s okay. The right thing has a funny way of finding you when it’s meant to.

Thank you for being here, for reading, for caring about your town, and for helping me build something that matters.

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Now go have some fun. Put on the costume, eat too much candy (then brush your teeth, please), and remember that community is the real treat.

And I’ll see you again tomorrow. Same time, same place.

XoXo,
Megan

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