WHAT: Trick or Treat Nights at the St. Louis Aquarium. Bring the kids in costume and meet all the pirates while your family tours the Pirates & Pumpkins event, explores animal exhibits, learns the pirate jokes and riddles and collect the candy loot. Check out all the sea life-carved pumpkins and get your hands wet touching sharks, stingrays, jelly fish and more. Meet a pirate parrot, fire the pirate ship cannons and sit on the magnificent pirate throne.
WHEN: After hours from 5 to 8 p.m.on Friday and Saturday nights in October: October 4 & 5, October 11 & 12, October 18 & 19 and October 25 & 26.
WHERE: The St. Louis Aquarium at Union Station, 201 S. 18th St., St. Louis, MO 63103
TICKETS: www.stlouisaquarium.com
MORE: After the Aquarium closes, a special after-hours event with Pirates & Pumpkins turns the Aquarium into a trick or treat festival every Friday and Saturday in October from 5 to 8 p.m. (last admission at 7 pm.). Kids can gather candy treats from the pirates, walk the plank, dig for buried treasure, make their own pirate hat and even more challenges await. Guests who complete them all become honorary pirates and leave with a share of the candy loot. Pirates & Pumpkins Trick or Treat Nights are bigger and better this year with more pirates, more fun and more candy. Admission to this special event is $30 for adults and $25 for kids 3-12 years of age. Children 2 and under are free. Annual Pass Holder admission is $15 for adults and $10 for kids 3-12 years of age.
Social media fans will love the Instagram-worthy photo opportunities throughout the transformed Aquarium during their fall journey.
Patches of realistically carved and lighted pumpkins representing the Aquarium’s sea life will greet visitors as they explore the attraction. One of the highlights is a pumpkin shark scene complete with a boat for family pictures and scary selfies.
Guests make their way through the marine habitats and hands-on, hands-wet animal adventures at the Aquarium, learning amazing animal facts and enjoying pun-filled pirate jokes. Along the way little buccaneers can learn to talk like a pirate and can create their own pirate names.
Treasure seekers will explore elaborate pirate scenes and kids can fire the pirate ship’s fearsome cannons. At the end of the quest, only the bravest adventurers can sit at the Pirate King’s Throne for a triumphant picture.
Pirates and Pumpkins, an interactive pirate adventure, is open at the St. Louis Aquarium at Union Station through October 31, 2024. Built in 1894 and once the busiest and biggest train terminal in the nation, St. Louis Union Station offers a luxury hotel, restaurants and a variety of attractions at the family entertainment destination.
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