Redmond Halloween Events in October 2026: Your Link Guide

Redmond's October 2026 calendar clusters around two Link stations. A pet parade, a book festival, a costume night, a haunted house, an indoor trick-or-treat and a Fire Department Trunk or Treat are all on the schedule. Most of them are close to the Downtown Redmond station or share the Marymoor Village name with the other stop. Only two seasonal staples are away from the line: the Harvest Festival at Farrel-McWhirter Park and the Redmond Saturday Market on Willows Road NE.

This is also the first October since the 2 Line stopped ending at the lake. If you can match each event to its station, you can plan most of the month without the car and save the driving for one Saturday.

The Train Now Reaches the People You Invite

The Downtown Redmond Link Extension opened May 10, 2025. It added the Marymoor Village and Downtown Redmond stations, along with 1,400 parking spaces at Marymoor Village. For most of its first year, though, the line served only the Eastside.

The Crosslake Connection changed that on March 28, 2026. It linked Redmond's 2 Line to Seattle and the rest of the Link network. Sound Transit said trains would run from about 5 a.m. to midnight, every eight minutes at peak and every 10 to 15 minutes the rest of the day. That matters most on the evening events in this post. Friends from Seattle can come to Spooky Spectacular on a Monday night or Trunk or Treat on a Friday and take the train home well before service ends.

Experience Redmond describes the Downtown Redmond station as just north of Redmond Town Center and on the Redmond Central Connector trail. It describes Marymoor Village Station as a walking access point for park and trail destinations. Those two descriptions explain how the month is laid out.

Downtown Redmond Station Covers Most of October

Most of the month's events are in the downtown core, within the station's walkable neighborhood. Here they are in date order:

A few details from the event pages will help you plan. At Howl-O-Ween, the pet parade starts at 1 p.m. and costume judging is at 2 p.m. Spooky Spectacular is for all ages and includes a photo booth, face painting and mini games. For the pumpkin decorating, each participant brings their own pumpkin and the center provides everything else, with no carving involved. Hot dogs, veggie dogs and candy are served all evening. The Redmond Fire Department hosts Trunk or Treat. The city calendar says Parks will bring a decorated vehicle from Farrel-McWhirter, so that park shows up downtown on October 30 too. First-time parkrun participants need to register before their first Saturday.

Where to Eat Between Events

Downtown food near the station has grown, and several places opened recently. The Seattle Times reported in March that Hakka House is back after a two-year break and sits right by the downtown station. Owner Charley Lee had closed his Bellevue restaurant to retire, and he brought his best-known dishes back with him: crispy deep-fried duck, braised meatballs and pork-stuffed tofu. Push-cart dim sum runs daily from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Its ordering page lists the address as 7845 Leary Way. On Howl-O-Ween day, those dim sum hours line up with the morning before the 1 p.m. parade.

The same Seattle Times roundup lists more new places near the station:

• Pagliacci Pizza, the chain's ninth Eastside location
• Dave's Hot Chicken, around the corner
• BA Bakehouse, a French-Asian bakery known for its egg tarts
• A Paris Baguette three blocks north
• UG Tea for matcha, and Joe & the Juice

Inside Redmond Town Center, Supreme Dumplings is open in Suite F115 at 7325 166th Ave NE and serves xiao long bao and other small bites. Experience Redmond lists Farine Bakery & Cafe at 16450 Redmond Way, Chatpata by Kanishka at 16727 Redmond Way, and Woodblock at 16175 Cleveland Street as local favorites a few steps from the station.

Marymoor Village Has One Building, One Night and Two Age Groups

The east station's Halloween schedule all happens on Saturday, October 24, at the Redmond Community Center at Marymoor Village, 6505 176th Ave NE. Two events share the building, and they're aimed at different ages:

• Trick or Treat, 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Kids and families go room to room indoors for candy, with crafts and activities along the way. Registration is through the city.
• Haunted House, 5 to 9 p.m. This is a five-minute walk-through recommended for ages 12 and up. Registration is per participant and covers one walk-through, and tickets are also sold at the door.

The times overlap from 5 to 7:30 p.m., so a family with a younger child and a teenager can cover both in one trip. The haunted house keeps running for an hour and a half after trick-or-treating ends.

Earlier in the day, Marymoor Park is the reason to come to this station. King County says the Marymoor Station Trail runs straight from Marymoor Village Station to the park's north end. The park's off-leash area covers 40 acres. Dogs have to be leashed outside it and aren't allowed on active-play fields or playgrounds. The county's main park page lists 42 acres, so the two county pages don't agree on the exact size. The park also has the Audubon Bird Loop, a community garden and nature trails.

Walking or biking between the two stations is easier than it was. The Bear Creek Trail Bridge opened in May 2025 and connects the East Lake Sammamish Trail to the Redmond Central Connector. According to King County, it removed a 0.7-mile detour across 11 lanes of traffic.

Experience Redmond's Marymoor Village guide lists four food and coffee stops nearby:

• Postdoc Brewing Company, a taproom and beer garden at 17625 NE 65th Street
• Ummah Coffee, 17550 NE 67th Ct. #207
• Pomegranate Bistro, 18005 NE 68th St.
• Rocky's Empanadas, 18390 Redmond Way

You'll Need a Car for Two Events

Neither station serves two of October's best-known traditions.

The Harvest Festival is Saturday, October 17, at Farrel-McWhirter Park, 19545 Redmond Road. It runs in two sessions, 10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3 p.m. The all-access pass includes fresh-pressed apple cider, tractor-pulled wagon rides, butter making with a biscuit, a forest-trail scavenger hunt, farm animal visits and a potion-mixing station. Children 12 and under also get a pony ride and a pumpkin.

The Redmond Saturday Market is at 9900 Willows Rd. NE and runs 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Its homepage gives the season as "May 2 Thru Oct 31." The page doesn't print a year. If those dates are for 2026, October 31 is the last market day, so confirm with the market before you plan Halloween morning around it.

Two Saturdays Take Some Planning

On October 17 and October 31, events at both ends of town overlap.

Saturday, October 17

1. Get to Farrel-McWhirter for the Harvest Festival's morning session, 10 a.m. to noon.
2. Drive back toward downtown and park once.
3. Make the Howl-O-Ween pet parade at Redmond Town Center at 1 p.m. and stay for costume judging at 2 p.m.

The afternoon Harvest session starts at 1 p.m., the same time as the parade, so households with a dog in costume need the morning session.

Saturday, October 31

1. Run the parkrun 5K on the Redmond Central Connector at 9 a.m.
2. Head up Willows Road for the Saturday Market, which closes at 2 p.m. If the season dates on its homepage hold for this year, this is the final market.

Halloween night is still open after that. The city's own Halloween events finish earlier in the week: Monday's Spooky Spectacular, Saturday the 24th at Marymoor Village, and Trunk or Treat at City Hall on Friday the 30th.

If the 2 Line is starting to matter in how you think about a future home in Downtown Redmond or Marymoor Village, Amy Le can walk you through what living near each station looks like day to day, beyond the October calendar. Schedule a consultation whenever you're ready to talk it through.