Voted a best eventRiding is the centerpiece, but not required. Everyone is welcome at Community Park.
A FREE, family-friendly festival on Halloween Day, 2026! Featuring 25+ entertainment stations, a BMX stunt show, thousands of costumed riders, and zombies falling out of the sky. The bike ride itself is the main event of the day, but it is entirely optional, so come on wheels or on foot. Money raised goes to our beneficiary, NorCal Trykers, to build custom trikes for children with disabilities. Check out our calendar for more events throughout October. Make Davis your Halloweekend destination!
The ride, the costumes, the stunt show, and the zombies that fall out of the sky.
Davis does Halloween for the whole month of October. Here is a look at events during the season, the night before, and the day itself.
All things Halloween happening in Davis and Yolo County.
The adults-only Halloween night out at Sudwerk Brewing.
FREE at Community Park: 25+ entertainment stations, train rides, music, inflatables, crafts, carnival food, a BMX stunt show, the Zombie Kingdom Quest, and more.
Hundreds of costumed riders, one very undead route through Davis
PRO-rated skydivers drop into Community Park with smoke trails and flags
X Games-level riders at the halfway point in Mace Ranch Park
Free to watch: really good skateboarders doing tre flips, switch lipslides and costumed hijinks at the newly renovated skate park.
Not running in 2026. This year it is the Zombie Halloween Party at Sudwerk.
A Davis first, in 2025. Not running in 2026.
The Zombie Bike Parade's mission has always been to make bicycling available to everyone, including children with disabilities. Over the past seven years the organizers have raised funds, primarily from sponsors, and donated more than $50,000 to NorCal Trykers, who build custom tricycles for children with disabilities.
Each tricycle now costs $1,600 to build. As of 2025, funds from our events have put 42 children on custom trikes. Those children get to feel the freedom of riding, and the wind in their hair, for the first time. Our sponsors are the reason we can do that and still keep this festival almost entirely FREE to the public.
Every $1,000 sponsored becomes roughly $6,000 of festival. See how.
On November 1, 2025, Davis got something it had never had before: free tethered hot-air balloon rides over the Davis Cemetery & Arboretum, closing out the 7th annual festival with a line that started forming at 5 am.
Every festival ends the same way: thousands of necks craning skyward as PRO-rated skydivers trail smoke and giant flags down into Community Park. Here is how that tradition got FAA approval and a five-year emcee.
NorCal Trykers builds custom adaptive tricycles for kids with disabilities, and they are the reason this festival exists. More than $50,000 and 42 trikes later, here is the story of the nonprofit it was all built to fund.
Two quirky, fun tracks made for the festival by our Davis friend Matthew Wright of eNuminous and Archimedes.
Ride with us
2 riders have said they are coming
There is no real need to tell us you are coming. Just turn up.
But it does help us plan a great event. So everyone who tells us goes into a raffle to win a Greg the Zombie plushy: an interactive zombie whose brains, heart and three foot long guts all pull out. It is exactly as good as it sounds.
Riding with us: Charlene
21 of 83 volunteer spots are filled for this year.
62 spots are still open across setup, ride marshals, headquarters, kids' zone, and teardown. Two hours makes a difference.
See open shiftsTiers from $150. Your logo in front of thousands of Davis families, and your money helps build tricycles for kids with disabilities.
See sponsorship tiersNonprofits, food vendors, games, and entertainment stations line the park. Apply for a booth or station before spaces run out.
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