A Spooktacular Success: Riverside Family Halloween Fest 2025 Highlights

On Oct. 26th, families from all over the city came to Joel Weeks Park in Toronto’s Riverside neighbourhood to celebrate spookiest time of the year and partake in wholesome Halloween fun, Riverside-style.

On behalf of all our partners and vendors, thank you for coming to Riverside and spending your Sunday with us. To all the adorable doggos who participated in our Dog Costume Party, you deserve all the treats! 

In case you missed it, here are some highlights from this year’s Riverside Family Halloween Fest:

Kiss The Paws, one of the latest additions at 717 Queen St E, joined in on the Halloween festivities!

The Riverside BIA prepared a lot of free activities, including cupcake decorating!

Say “Treats!” — Fetch’n Pet Photography took beautiful portraits of doggos at the event

A BOO-tiful work of art by one of the kiddos at the Riverside BIA’s pumpkin decorating station

  This guy brought the Blue Jays spirit to the Riverside Family Halloween Fest

Ivy and Lua, a maker of hypoallergenic and tarnish-resistant jewelry, is a regular at our events

Fall-inspired dog treats by Cookie Pal for the pumpkin spice-loving doggos

Check out these cute merch from our friends at Toronto Dog Moms

Only the coolest beats and vibes courtesy of DJ Stevie Kicks 

As always, you all came through with the spook-tacular looks for the Dog Costume Party — ’til next year!

Oh, did you think that was it for Halloween in Riverside? We’ve got a couple more events happening later this week, which you can read more about in the posts linked below!

BLOG: No Tricks, Just Treats: Halloween 2025 Community Events in Riverside

BLOG: A Riverside Halloween: Spook-tacular Events and Promotions From Our BIA Members

We always have fun and exciting programming in the neighbourhood, so be sure to check out @riverside_bia on Instagram and the Riverside Blog so you’re always updated!

We acknowledge and thank the City of Toronto, Government of Canada and FedDev Ontario for support of this campaign as part of the ‘Riverside Ramps it Up’ project through the Transit Expansion Construction Mitigation Fund 2025.

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