Halloween this year appears to have been a blast, in both Tehachapi and the surrounding area, with candy, costumes and spooky celebrations throughout the community through the evenings of last week.
Of course, most of the events happened Halloween night, as downtown Tehachapi filled up with ghouls, goblins and ghosts as well as dinosaurs, superheroes, demon hunters and countless denizens of other worlds and other times.
Businesses in town gave out candy as part of this year’s Downtown Treat Trail, organized by Funky Junk with the help of the Greater Tehachapi Chamber of Commerce.
Local children and their families trick-or-treated in the downtown area, going from business to business for sweet treats throughout the evening, an event that seemed to go over very well with the community.
“I like it. It’s nice and quiet,” said Veronica Barajas.
Most of the downtown celebration-goers were too busy in search of candy to talk that evening, but those who did seemed to like the atmosphere of Tehachapi’s downtown that day.
“So far so good,” said Carla Emory.
While the Downtown Treat Trail was very well-attended, other places had their own spooky offerings that evening.
Mountain Bible Church offered hay rides, games and live music at its Pumpkin Patch, and the Tehachapi Terror Haunted House had its last scary night as well.
A number of local businesses and organizations had trunk-or-treats that evening, including 5150 Dieselz, whose event traveled around that night, and Stallion Springs Community Services District, which had its own more stationary event.
The night before AltaOne Federal Credit Union had its own trunk-or-treat as did Coldwell Banker Frontier on Oct. 25.
Another early celebration held Oct. 25 was the Ghoulden Hills Trick or Treat at Meadowbrook Park, which had its own offering of candy, music and food, along with a pumpkin patch and petting zoo.
For now the spooky season is over, but it will come again next year.