Visiting a haunted appeal like a haunted house or hayride (especially in the northeastern or Midwest of the USA) are other Halloween practices. Notwithstanding the name, such events are not necessarily held in houses, nor are the edifices themselves necessarily regarded to have actual ghosts. A variant of the haunted house Adult Halloween Costumes is the "haunted trail", where the public encounters supernatural-themed characters or presentations of scenes from horror films while following a trail through a field or forest. Precise of the largest Halloween attractions in the United States is Knott's Halloween Haunt at California's Knott's Berry Farm, which features re-themed diversion park rides and a dozen contradistinct shlep through mazes, plus hundreds of costumed roving performers.

The Witchcraft Decree of 1735 contained a clause preventing the consumption of pork and pastry comestibles on Halloween although in new-fashioned times such treats are a faddy treat for children; the undertaking was repealed in the 1950s. Scotland's National Bard Robert Burns portrayed the varied custom for children to dress up in costumes in his poem "Hallowe'en" (1785).