Fall Fest
Join us for our spooky-ish celebration featuring Creatures of the Night!
Fall Fest returns with a fun-filled night of spooky nature activities in not-so-scary style! With activity stations indoors and out, there is plenty of FREE fall fun for everyone to enjoy.
Park your car at Ahuska Park and ride a FREE Shuttle to ALNC.
Exciting activities include:
- Conduct surprising SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS
- Discover what’s hiding in the BONE YARD
- Meet real live CREEPY CRAWLIES (Thank you UW Insect Ambassadors and Specialty Serpents!)
- Hike the Basswood Forest trails and find CREATURES OF THE NIGHT
- Hear spooky stories by THE HAUNTED SHACK
- Solve a MURDER MYSTERY
- Participate in the COSTUME PARADE
- Take a hike through the prairie and play NIGHT TIME NATURE BINGO
- Discover the STEM-FILLED CURIOSITY CUBE
- Enjoy a witchy dance performance by the WICKED GLINDAS
- Roast marshmallows over a FALL CAMPFIRE (for a small fee) and more
If you have a flashlight or two, bring them along! Otherwise, we will have a limited quantity for use on the trails.
This event is FREE and open to the PUBLIC! $5 suggested donation per person.
Haven’t been to ALNC before? Join us to see what we’re all about!
No registration required; walk-ins welcome!
FREE Shuttle from Ahuska Park! The last shuttle will leave ALNC for Ahuska Park at 7:45pm.
A photographer may be onsite to document this event. If you would not like your photo taken, please advise the photographer. Thank you!
With appreciation to our 2026 partners who make programs like this possible!
If you are interested in partnering with us, please contact Lizzie Condon at lizzie@aldoleopoldnaturecenter.org.
Event Partners
Media Partners
Wondering about lodging?
Country Inn & Suites, AVID Hotel, and AmericInn are all located within 1.5 miles from the Aldo Leopold Nature Center.
Country Inn & Suites has a shuttle.
Interested in a place more home-y?
Check out the AirBnB, and Verbo rentals in Monona.
