More About Family Friendly HalloWeekend Movie Night at Gabis Arboretum - Trick-or-Treat in Costume!
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Join us for an evening of spooktacular family fun! Dress in costume, trick-or-treat around the Railway Garden, and enjoy seasonal games! Bring the whole family for a night of Hallo-Weekend fun! Come dressed as your favorite character or in costume. Bring your own treat bag for trick-or-treating.
6 PM GATES OPEN
MOVIE STARTS AT DUSK (APPROX. 7PM)
Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Bored with the same old scare-and-scream routine, Pumpkin King Jack Skellington longs to spread the joy of Christmas. But his merry mission puts Santa in jeopardy and creates a nightmare for good little boys and girls everywhere.
Food and soft drinks will be available for purchase.
Tickets
$10 per adult
$5 per child/ Children 3 & under free
PNW students $5 with passcode- reach out to gabisarboretum@pnw.edu to get passcode
PNW alumni $5 with passcode- reach out to alumni@pnw.edu to get passcode
Purchase tickets here: Click for Details
Add on to your night with a Ghost-Hunting Tour!
Oct. 6th only
Are the Gabis Arboretum woods haunted? Let’s find out! Join Northwest Indiana Paranormal and the PNW Paranormal Club on a guided ghost hunt through the arboretum to collect evidence of the paranormal. This experience will be led by professional ghost-hunters using specialized equipment. While we can’t guarantee you will have a paranormal experience, you’re sure to learn and have fun! Paranormal program begins after the movie around 9 pm.
$10 per person in addition to movie ticket.
Includes a 45-minute ghost hunt into the arboretum’s woods and 45-minute discussion of other haunted venues and paranormal sightings in Indiana. Very limited number of tickets are available!
Ticket sales end Wednesday, Oct. 4th.
Movie & Ghost Tour Package Here:
Click for Details
Join us for an evening of spooktacular family fun! Dress in costume, trick-or-treat around the Railway Garden, and enjoy seasonal games! Bring the whole family for a night of Hallo-Weekend fun! Come dressed as your favorite character or in costume. Bring your own treat bag for trick-or-treating.
6 PM GATES OPEN
MOVIE STARTS AT DUSK (APPROX. 7PM)
Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Bored with the same old scare-and-scream routine, Pumpkin King Jack Skellington longs to spread the joy of Christmas. But his merry mission puts Santa in jeopardy and creates a nightmare for good little boys and girls everywhere.
Food and soft drinks will be available for purchase.
Tickets
$10 per adult
$5 per child/ Children 3 & under free
PNW students $5 with passcode- reach out to gabisarboretum@pnw.edu to get passcode
PNW alumni $5 with passcode- reach out to alumni@pnw.edu to get passcode
Purchase tickets here: Click for Details
Add on to your night with a Ghost-Hunting Tour!
Oct. 6th only
Are the Gabis Arboretum woods haunted? Let’s find out! Join Northwest Indiana Paranormal and the PNW Paranormal Club on a guided ghost hunt through the arboretum to collect evidence of the paranormal. This experience will be led by professional ghost-hunters using specialized equipment. While we can’t guarantee you will have a paranormal experience, you’re sure to learn and have fun! Paranormal program begins after the movie around 9 pm.
$10 per person in addition to movie ticket.
Includes a 45-minute ghost hunt into the arboretum’s woods and 45-minute discussion of other haunted venues and paranormal sightings in Indiana. Very limited number of tickets are available!
Ticket sales end Wednesday, Oct. 4th.
Movie & Ghost Tour Package Here:
Click for Details
Date & Time
October 7, 2023
6:00pm
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Gabis Arboretum at Purdue Northwest
450 W 100 N
Valparaiso, IN 46385
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Gabis Arboretum at Purdue Northwest is a 300-acre, oak preserve of formal gardens, woodlands, wetlands, prairies and hiking trails located near Valparaiso, Indiana. Open year round, the Arboretum offers a wide variety of events and classes for all ages. Officially becoming part of Purdue University Northwest in 2018, Gabis Arboretum provides an enriching, natural habitat for public, educational, conservation and recreational use.
Located approximately 25 miles from the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and 60 miles southeast of Chicago in Valparaiso, Indiana, Gabis Arboretum offers beautiful vistas, quiet corners and hiking trails to escape into its diverse landscape.
Located approximately 25 miles from the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and 60 miles southeast of Chicago in Valparaiso, Indiana, Gabis Arboretum offers beautiful vistas, quiet corners and hiking trails to escape into its diverse landscape.
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