Central Iowans have plenty of homespun traditions, like Maid-Rites and calling soda “pop,” and Halloween in the Des Moines metro area is no different. Trick-or-treating dates and times are traditionally held on Beggars’ Night, in the evening hours before Halloween on Oct. 30.
The tradition started about 80 years ago to curb the violence and vandalism that had become an annual problem on Halloween night in Des Moines. And usually children must tell a joke in order to snag a treat.
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Depending on the year, families brave brisk weather and climb over snow banks to reach front doors and fill candy baskets in their neighborhoods.
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Here’s a list of dates and times for Beggars’ Night in 30 central Iowa communities if you and your family are looking for sweets, spooks, and scares on the eve of Halloween.
Check out the list below to see when your community will celebrate Beggars’ Night:
When is Beggars’ Night? Trick-or-treat times for Saturday, Oct. 29:
- Bondurant: 6 to 8 p.m.
- Dallas Center: 6 to 8 p.m., tentative
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Trick-or-treat times for Sunday, Oct. 30:
- Adel: 6 to 8 p.m.
- Altoona: 6 to 8 p.m.
- Ankeny: 6 to 8 p.m.
- Carlisle: 6 to 8 p.m.
- Clive: 6 to 8 p.m.
- Cumming: 6 to 8 p.m.
- Des Moines: 6 to 8 p.m.
- Granger: 5 to 7 p.m.
- Indianola: 6 to 8 p.m.
- Johnston: 6 to 8 p.m.
- Mitchellville: 6 to 8 p.m.
- Norwalk: 6 to 8 p.m.
- Pleasant Hill: 6 to 8 p.m.
- Polk City: 6 to 8 p.m.
- Runnells: 6 to 8 p.m.
- Urbandale: 6 to 8 p.m.
- Van Meter: 6 to 8 p.m.
- Waukee: 6 to 8 p.m.
- West Des Moines: 6 to 8 p.m.
- Windsor Heights: 6 to 8 p.m.
Trick-or-treat times for Monday, Oct. 31:
- Alleman: 6 to 8 p.m.
- Ames: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
- Grimes: 6 to 8 p.m.
- Newton: 6 to 8 p.m.
- Winterset: 5 to 7 p.m.
More on Beggars’ Night and Halloween in central Iowa:
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Is your central Iowa town missing from this list? Please contact [email protected] to have it added.
Jay Stahl is an entertainment reporter at The Des Moines Register. Follow him on Instagram, Twitter, or reach out at [email protected].
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