Douglas, Michigan • October 25, 2025
27th Annual Douglas Halloween Parade For Adults
9:00 pm - Main Lineup
9:30 pm - VIP Lineup
10:00 pm - Parade
Join us Downtown Douglas, Michigan for the 27th Annual Douglas Halloween Parade for Adults. Each year this event draws countless people to our small town to witness this extravaganza of creativity in costuming and performing arts. Paraders spend all year developing characters and practicing routines to "oooo" and "aaaa" crowds. This event is not to be missed!
Show up early to shop around Saugatuck and Douglas and grab a bite to eat. We'd love for you to support and thank our sponsors with your business. You'll quickly realize why Douglas is known as "The Village of Friendliness."
Don’t delay making your travel plans to the Saugatuck-Douglas area.
Main Lineup
9:00 pm
Center Street between History Center (Old School House) and OxBow House. No registration required. Free, but… we’d love a little donation to help the event continue. If you can spare a $5 or $10 we’d appreciate it!
VIP Lineup
9:30 pm
If you're a super-supporter and want to be at the front of the parade, we've got just the spot for you! We’ve added a VIP lineup on Mixer Street for 150 participants only.
VIP Perks:
Lineup last but go first (9:30pm lineup 10pm parade)
More elbow room to space out
Access to a handicap accessible restroom right next to the VIP lineup area
Kim Neuens Design & Interior
Kim Neuens’s shop at 25 E, Center Street is our Halloween Headquarters. She has all the back stock of t-shirts from previous years and will have the 2025 shirts as soon as they are available.
This year marks the 27th Annual Douglas Halloween Parade for Adults, a beloved tradition that draws 15,000–20,000 visitors to our community each October. It’s one of the region’s most anticipated celebrations, and we’d love for you to be part of it!
Why Partner With Us?
Sponsorship of Hystopolis Productions’ Douglas Halloween Parade provides your business with:
Massive Visibility: Thousands of attendees on parade night plus tens of thousands reached through social media, press coverage, and promotional materials.
Multi-Channel Promotion: Inclusion in news and entertainment websites, podcasts, radio/TV interviews, 10,000 postcards, 500 posters, signage, and viral video content.
Social Amplification: Attendees generate significant organic exposure by sharing their parade experiences, the most powerful word-of-mouth marketing available.
Community Goodwill: Association with an event that is joyful, free to attend, and brings visitors back to our community again and again.
Why It Matters
The parade is more than just a spectacle, it’s an economic engine and cultural highlight for our community:
Visitors generate considerable revenue for local businesses over the weekend.
We invest directly in local talent, from student illustrators and professional puppeteers to photographers, and videographers.
We create an unforgettable experience that keeps people coming back year after year, bringing new friends along with them.
Tips for Paraders
Mind the 10’ Gap
Your costume is fabulous and everyone wants to see you!
We’ll space you from the lineup area. Please try to maintain at least a 10 foot gap as you progress down the route. If you catch up to the people in front of you, stop or perform side to side to the crowd to create more space.
Please Do Not Throw Anything
We love our volunteers and the local Department of Public Works employees who help us setup very early and cleanup late.
Please do not throw anything or hand things out to the crowd. It makes a mess and it creates a hazard for paraders who might have limited vision or high heel shoes.
Parking
What time should you be to Downtown Douglas to find close parking?
Anybody’s guess, but we suggest you arrive early, especially if you want to try to eat in a local restaurant or have drinks in a bar as they fill up very early! There is no parking on Center Street, but most of the side streets allow parking on one or both sides of the street.
Our best advice is to make a whole weekend of this event and enjoy the towns! There is plenty to see and do in the Saugatuck and Douglas area before the parade. You can also park downtown Saugatuck and take the Interurban shuttle to avoid the congestion in Douglas.
Free Shuttle
The Interurban Transit Authority graciously runs regular shuttles at no charge and provides on-demand pickup, from anywhere in the Saugatuck Douglas area. Please be patient as they are inundated with riders on parade night. They’ll get to you!
Regular Shuttle Pick-up Locations:
Saugatuck Drug Store
201 Butler St.
Downtown Saugatuck