Northport Halloween 2026: Pet Parade and Market Saturday

October 31, 2026 is a Saturday, and on Saturdays from June 6 through November 21, with one skipped date in September, the Northport Farmers Market sets up in the Cow Harbor parking lot at the foot of Main Street. So the village's Halloween morning event is built around the market. The Howl-Ween Pet Parade lines up in Northport Village Park at 9 a.m., walks to the market and holds its costume contest there. The market is one of the parade's presenters, and its vendors and volunteers are the judges.

Most of the rest of Northport's Halloween week runs along the same strip of Main Street, put on by shops, a café, a church and the theater. Here's how the days line up, starting with the one that matters most.

The parade belongs to the market this year

The Village of Northport's flyer lists four presenters: Suffolk County Legislator Stephanie Bontempi, Mayor Donna Koch, Village Trustee Monica Zenyuh and the Northport Farmers Market. Here are the details from the flyer:

• Line-up: on the grass by the Northport Village Park gazebo, 9:00 a.m.
• Finish: the Northport Farmers Market
• Costume contest: judged by market vendors and volunteers
• Prizes: donated by PetPort, with winners featured on social media
• Donations: new or gently used pet supplies, collected for Little Shelter Animal Rescue & Adoption Center in Elwood

The flyer gives no registration steps, so the plan is simply to show up at the gazebo with a costumed pet. It doesn't map a route either. It names only the start at the gazebo and the finish at the market in the Cow Harbor lot.

The calendar matters here. The market sets up on Saturdays only, so a parade that ends at the market only works when Halloween falls on a Saturday.

The prize sponsor is a Main Street business too. PetPort lists its address as 40 Main Street. So the parade starts at the park, ends at the market and gets its prizes from a shop on the same street. Even the donations stay fairly close to home: they go to a shelter in Elwood, also in the Town of Huntington.

How Saturday, October 31 runs, hour by hour

The Village's own website calendar shows "No events" for every day from October 22 through October 31. But the Village homepage promotes the pet parade, and the flyer has the actual schedule. To see what else is happening, check the Northport Chamber of Commerce events page and the listings of individual businesses. Put together, the Saturday looks like this:

1. 8:00 a.m. The farmers market opens in the Cow Harbor lot. It runs rain or shine.
2. 9:00 a.m. Pets and their owners line up at the Village Park gazebo for the Howl-Ween Pet Parade.
3. After the parade: the costume contest at the market, judged by its vendors and volunteers.
4. Noon to 3:00 p.m. Moksha Café at 249 Main Street holds its Halloween Darty. The Chamber listing mentions DJ Briezee, coffee, wine and kava, plus trick-or-treating for children during business hours.
5. 12:30 p.m. The market closes.

The Moksha party starts half an hour before the market packs up, so the two overlap and there's no break between the morning and afternoon events.

The rest of the week runs on Main Street too

The Halloween-week events in the days before October 31 come from the same kinds of places: a design shop, a church, a historical society and a studio on Main. This post goes live on Thursday, October 22, the first day on this list.

Thursday, October 22. GME Interiors at 146-5 Main Street hosts a day of shopping, design and inspiration, welcoming Cat Donohue, from noon to 7 p.m.

Saturday, October 24. Nest on Main continues its business workshop series. The series is presented by Weaver and led by Jessica Affatato, formerly of Harbor Cheese and now Weaver's founder.

Sunday, October 25. This is the busiest day before Halloween itself:

• At 1 p.m., the Northport Historical Society holds a Sundays at the Society lecture. Brian O'Connor, author of Death by Fire and Ice: The Steamboat Lexington Calamity, will talk about John Sloss Hobart, the Revolutionary War patriot and U.S. senator who built a home called Cherry Lawn on Eaton's Neck. Hobart Beach is named for him. The lecture is free, but space is limited and registration is required.
• From 2:00 to 3:30 p.m., Union United Methodist Church holds a Trunk or Treat in its parking lot. Children in costume go car to car collecting candy.
• At the John W. Engeman Theater, Dear Evan Hansen ends its run, which started September 10.

Monday, October 26. Toni and Holly lead a Holiday Birdhouse Decoupage Workshop at Nest on Main. It's a hands-on session that turns a plain birdhouse into a holiday piece. It's the first holiday-themed item on the Chamber calendar, and it arrives five days before Halloween.

A free history lecture and a church-lot Trunk or Treat happen on the same afternoon, and both are run by long-standing local groups, not event promoters.

After Halloween, the market still has three Saturdays

The 2026 market season runs through November 21, with no market on September 19. That makes 24 market Saturdays this year. Halloween is the 21st, so three remain: November 7, 14 and 21. As the market winds down, the village calendar shifts to indoor events.

Saturday, November 7 is a good example of the season's shift. The market is still open, the Chamber lists the Color Run as a family-friendly morning, and Moksha moves to a sommelier-led tasting. Five days later, How the Grinch Stole Christmas opens at the Engeman and runs through December 27. The show opens nine days before the last market on November 21 and keeps going for more than five weeks after it.

Halloween falling on a Saturday makes the connection between these events easy to see. The Village promotes the parade, but the market hosts it, its vendors judge it, a Main Street shop supplies the prizes and a Main Street café hosts the afternoon. The Northport Historical Society's events page and the Chamber calendar fill in the rest of the week.

If you're new to Northport or thinking about which part of the village fits your Saturdays, I'm happy to walk through how Main Street and the harbor shape daily life here, from market mornings to Engeman nights. Jamie Marcantonio has spent more than 30 years helping North Shore families find homes that fit the way they want to live. Let's Connect.