11/01/2026
🧟♀️ Downtown will be ALIVE tonight for Mercer Monster Mash, with Halloween fun all up and down Mercer Street!
Trick-or-treating, costume contests, performance pumpkin carving, scareoke, ghost hunts, live music, fiery performances, and more spooky surprises await!
🚧 Mercer Street closes to traffic between Bee Street and 7th Street at 5 PM.
🍬 TRICK-OR-TREAT | 6–8 PM
GO WITH THE FLOW! Walk in the direction traffic normally travels on your side of the street. Join anywhere between Bee and 7th...there’s no single starting point!
🏆 COSTUME CONTEST | 8–9 PM
Kids AND adults—this is your moment! We have great prizes, including gift cards to Q 38, Number 9 Brewing Company, Mercer Street Bicycle Co-Op, The Dream Bean , and more!
Line up along the sidewalk beside the Vietnam Veterans mural and get your participant number. We’ll kick things off with the kids’ costume parade on the Town Square stage at 8PM!
🅿️ FREE PARKING
• Post Office / Fountain Lot — 1000 Mercer Street
• First United Methodist Church — 100 Center Street
• Southern Highlands — 1001 Mercer Street
• 900 Mercer Public Lot — across from Danny’s
• Town Square Parking Lot — 850 Mercer Street
• First Christian Church — 805 Straley Avenue, above Town Square with stairs leading down
• Legal parking on nearby side streets
Please keep our downtown neighbors’ driveways and access routes clear.
Check out the poster for the Monster Mash happenings, grab your favorite ghouls, and come make a night of it! 🕸️🧡