Boo at the Zoo at Oakland Zoo
Sat, Oct 24Saturdays and Sundays through November 1, 2026; costume contest Saturdays 10/24 and 10/31 at 12 PM
Oakland Zoo9777 Golf Links Road, Oakland, CA 94605Directions
All ages
With admissionActivities during a regular zoo visit; zoo admission applies
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About this adventure
Oakland Zoo's Halloween festivities run on fall weekends, and the last four days fall in this window. Children collect Boo at the Zoo trading cards around the zoo: at the entrances (lesser flamingo), the rides ticket booth (white-handed gibbon) and the Flamingo Plaza kiosk (chimpanzee). There are more in the Reptile Room (American alligator), the Bug House (Caribbean cave cockroach) and the Habitarium (California condor, after a science mission at the desk). On Saturdays at noon there is a costume contest in the Wildlife Theater in the Wayne & Gladys Valley Children's Zoo. Saturdays at 1 PM bring creepy crawlers at the House of Bugs, and Sundays at 1 PM scaly species in the Reptile & Amphibian Discovery Room. Kids are encouraged to come in costume, but no inflatable costumes, because they can frighten the animals. The activities happen during a regular zoo visit.
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