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Bixby Knolls neighbors, a dog, and a towering Halloween skeleton in a sunny courtyard

Bixby Knolls, your best October yet has been sleeping in the shadows.

patiently waiting

to be set loose.

They call it Knolloween.

For years, its magic has been gathering

behind every front door, beneath every porch light, and across every haunted block.

Now it needs one curious soul to wake it.

Well done.

You’ve set Knolloween loose.

The best Halloween ever has officially risen and all of Bixby Knolls is under its spell.

Go on. Wake the magic. It’s been waiting. What could possibly go wrong?
Aerial view of Bixby Knolls transformed for Halloween

Knolloween is awake now.

Across Bixby Knolls, porch lights are flickering on, apartment windows are glowing back, shops are plotting, and front yards are rehearsing their legends. Somewhere between the first bowl of candy and the last deeply unnecessary twelve-foot skeleton, the neighborhood is becoming one living Halloween map.

  • The Living Map
  • Contests
  • BixbyBoo
  • Good Glow
  • Supreme Relic

By Halloween night, there will be treats worth the detour, contests to win, BixbyBoo whispering, the Good Glow watching over the lights, and the Supreme Relic waiting for the neighbor bold enough to capture it.

Some will transform an entire property. Some will put one perfect paper ghost in a window. Some will simply leave the light on and make a child’s night. Knolloween has room for all of it. The only thing it cannot create is your kind of mischief without you.

One neighborhood. All mischief.

Explore the Map

THE LIVING MAP

The neighborhood has been leaving clues.

Follow the lights, the pumpkins, the sightings, and the places that have gone wonderfully overboard. There is a whole neighborhood to discover.

Explore the Map Put my place on the map

Neighbors, homes, apartments, costumes, pets, a local shop, and a voting sign bring one Bixby Knolls block to life.

ALL OCTOBER. ALL OVER THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

Help make Knolloween impossible to miss.

Put your home on the map. Enter something you made. Bring in a business, school, church, club, or neighborhood gathering place. Offer a prize. Vote for your favorites. Go see what everyone else did. Pick one. Do three. Every new place gives the neighborhood more to discover.

START SOMEWHERE

THEN GO SEE WHAT EVERYONE MADE

ADD MY HOMEENTER SOMETHINGADD OUR PLACEOFFER A PRIZEVOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITESEXPLORE THE MAP

CHOOSE ONE WAY IN, OR MAKE THE MONTH YOUR OWN.

Concept scene showing a decorated house and apartment, pumpkins made by different ages, costumes, a dressed dog, and a neighborhood shop.

THE NEIGHBORHOOD WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE EVIDENCE.

What did you make, wear, carve, or unleash?

Whatever it is, do not keep this to yourself. Enter for a chance to become a neighborhood champion and win a special prize.

See something you love? Vote for it.You can vote for as many favorites as you like.Vote for your favorites

Got something wonderful to give? Offer a prize

Concept scene of a family laughing at a giant skeleton peeking over a neighbor’s roof and a ghost in the shrubs.

WHO YA GONNA TEXT?

Something strange in the neighborhood?

Roof skeletons. Coffins in little free libraries. A shrub acting suspiciously. BixbyBoo would like a word.

Spotted something? Send it to BixbyBoo. Your little discovery might become someone else’s favorite stop on the map.

Send a sighting Explore the Map

And if you see a BixbyBoo sign, its code leads you straight to that place on the map.

Concept scene where a handmade apartment-window theater, a decorated porch, and a shop display each draw delighted neighbors.

THE SUPREME RELIC

Who gave the neighborhood its best story?

A window can do it. So can a house, a shop, or a shared place. Make something generous, imaginative, audacious, and welcoming. Something people will still talk about when October is over.

A SMALL COMMONS JURY CHOOSES THE PLACE THAT BEST CAPTURED THE SPIRIT OF KNOLLOWEEN. THE VOTE COUNT DOESN’T DECIDE THIS ONE.

A lively Bixby Knolls Halloween block scene with decorated homes and apartments, costumed neighbors, and a local shop.

SATURDAY · OCTOBER 31 · 2026

The whole neighborhood is in on it.

The porch lights are on. The cauldrons are full. Somebody gave a twelve-foot skeleton a deeply unnecessary backstory. Follow the map, take a detour, and say hello to someone under an extremely committed hat.

Show me what is out there

WHY HALLOWEEN

Trick-or-treat may be the best neighborhood idea anybody ever had.

Think about it ↓

THE WHOLE RIDICULOUS ARRANGEMENT

Once a year, people dress as creatures, walk up to strangers’ doors, ask for candy, and everybody is delighted to see them.

On any other night, at least one group chat would have questions.

Concept scene of a moth-costumed child collecting candy, a dragon-costumed dog greeting a neighbor, and two adults debating a giant skeleton.
“A moth?” “A moth.”“Is that your dog?” “Tonight, a dragon.”“Who is that?” “The skeleton’s cousin.”
Concept scene of a child showing cheap plastic vampire teeth to a laughing neighbor at the doorway, with other costumed children nearby.

A VERY OLD GOOD IDEA

Halloween has been finding wonderfully strange ways to bring people together for centuries.

Depending on the century, the deal might involve a disguise, a song, a joke, a little cake, or a seasonally appropriate amount of trouble. The details changed. The good part did not: somebody showed up, somebody answered, and something passed between them. Today we call it trick-or-treat, which is both more efficient and much easier to yell through plastic vampire teeth.

A neighbor at a fully visible doorway hands candy to a child in a homemade costume, with more children waiting along the walk.

How does every little monster know which doors are part of it?

THE LIGHT.

YOU ARE WELCOME HERE.

On Halloween, a porch light says something every child understands: you are welcome here.

But the bulb is only how the message gets outside. The welcome is the person behind it.

Different lights. Different moments. Every one mattered because somebody was behind it.

Neighbors of different ages meet across homes and a shop on Halloween night.

THEN HALLOWEEN HAS SOME FUN WITH IT.

A paper ghost appears in an apartment window. A courtyard puts out a bowl and two folding chairs. A shopkeeper buys the good candy. A teenager gets the makeup exactly right. A grown adult gives a twelve-foot skeleton a name, a voice, and unresolved family business.

Porch or no porch, the message travels.

For one magnificent month, people who might otherwise pass one another get a reason to stop. Everyone may arrive as themselves, someone else, or the part of themselves that had been waiting all year for a cape.

THE MAP HELPS US FIND THE LIGHTS.

Trick-or-treat introduces us to the people behind them.

A neighbor reaches out with a bowl of candy.
An address becomes the neighbor with the legendary candy bowl.
Concept scene of two neighbors introducing themselves while their costumed children look on.
The person from three doors down finally gets a name.
A shy child in a handmade moth costume finds a warm welcome at a neighbor’s door.
A shy first knock becomes eleven more.

That is Halloween’s best trick. It does not invent the life in a neighborhood. It lets the life that was already there come out to meet itself.

The Halloween visit and next-day recognition show how a doorway changes two neighbors’ relationship.

THE DOOR. · THE PORCH. · THE LIGHT. · THE PERSON WHO ANSWERED.

The next time you pass, you will see more than an address.

You will remember the neighbor who answered. And the small thing you shared.

HALLOWEEN SPIRIT. NEIGHBORLY LIGHT.

Keep the fright.
Lose the glare.

Let the ghosts steal the show, not the porch light. A little care keeps the welcome on your path and leaves room for your neighbors, the garden, and the night sky. Start with one outdoor light.

The path keeps the welcome. The window gets the night back.

Check one light with Good Glow

VOTING STAYS OPEN THROUGH NOVEMBER 2

The night is over.
The ending isn’t.

The map got us out. The detours kept us there. The knocks became names. Now vote for the places, pumpkins, costumes, and creatures that stole the show.

Vote for your favorites
  1. Through November 2Vote for as many favorites as you like.
  2. In the coming daysChampions, portraits, thanks, and the Relic take the stage.
  3. After thatThe neighborhood’s 2026 story stays here.
Concept daylight scene of neighbors greeting the family who visited on Halloween, with more neighbors together along the sidewalk.

THE FINAL FRAME

Knolloween takes a bow.
The neighborhood stays.

And when the season turns? We’ll find the lights again for Christmas, Hanukkah, and however you make the holidays your own. A new decorations map and contests are coming.

See what’s next in the neighborhood