Arts & culture
Bayville Scream Park
📍 Bayville
Five haunted houses in one themed park on Long Island's North Shore.
Official site ↗
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Gateway's Haunted Playhouse
📍 Bellport
The Gateway theater campus becomes a walk-through haunt with sets and live performers.
Official site ↗Family & kidsFREE
The 36th Annual Halloween Festival
📍 Stony Brook
Stony Brook Village Center hosts a free Halloween afternoon with trick-or-treating, children's games, music and scarecrow-contest awards. Shopping and food are optional.
Official site ↗Cars & autoFREE
Long Island VW Club All VW Show
📍 Riverhead
The Long Island Volkswagen Club's 24th annual all-Volkswagen car show, rescheduled to its rain date.
Official site ↗Family & kids
LuminoCity Holiday Lights Festival
📍 East Meadow
A 14-acre walk-through lights festival with illuminated creatures, a 40-foot tree and a new holiday train ride.
Official site ↗Arts & cultureFREE
Mornings@LIM: Enduring Hearts gallery visit
📍 Stony Brook
A free museum program for people living with dementia and their care partners, exploring Native American history and contemporary art on Long Island.
Official site ↗outdoorsFREE
Caumsett State Historic Park Preserve
📍 Lloyd Harbor
Hiking and walking trails across a former estate on the North Shore. No pets allowed.
Official site ↗arts culture
Cradle of Aviation Museum
📍 Garden City
Real planes and a lunar module in hangar-size galleries, with a planetarium dome.
Official site ↗painting crafts
Earth Arts Long Beach
📍 Long Beach
Walk-in paint-your-own pottery a block from the beach.
Official site ↗outdoorsFREE
Jones Beach State Park boardwalk
📍 Jones Beach
Two miles of ocean boardwalk and 6.5 miles of beach. Walking in is free; a parking fee applies on some days.
Official site ↗arts culture
Long Island Children's Museum
📍 Garden City
Hands-on exhibits for younger kids. A family outing rather than a date.
Official site ↗arts culture
Nassau County Museum of Art
📍 Roslyn Harbor
Art museum in a Gold Coast mansion, with free sculpture grounds.
Official site ↗outdoorsFREE
Nassau County Museum of Art: sculpture garden & trails
📍 Roslyn Harbor
Outdoor sculptures, an arboretum and walking trails around the museum. The grounds are free.
Official site ↗arts culture
Old Westbury Gardens
📍 Old Westbury
Formal gardens and a Gold Coast mansion, for all ages.
Official site ↗tours walksFREE
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site (grounds)
📍 Oyster Bay (Nassau)
Theodore Roosevelt's estate. Walking the grounds and trail to the beach is free; the house tour has a fee.
Official site ↗fitness wellness
The Adventure Park at Long Island
📍 Wheatley Heights (Suffolk)
Climb, balance and zip through 14 treetop trails and 49 zip lines. General admission is three hours of climbing plus about 30 minutes of orientation and harnessing.
Official site ↗arts culture
Vanderbilt Museum, Mansion & Planetarium
📍 Centerport
A Gold Coast waterfront mansion with natural-history halls and a planetarium. Good for families.
Official site ↗Painting & craftsFREE
Stitch & Chit-Ch(at)
📍 Stony Brook
Bring a current needlework or craft project to the Long Island Museum for a free afternoon stitch circle. Ages 12 and up, no registration required.
Official site ↗family kids
Adventureland
📍 Farmingdale
Rides and boardwalk-style fun. Seasonal hours.
Official site ↗drinks tastings
Alkemy Ice Cream (Huntington)
📍 Huntington village (Main St)
Huntington village's own small-batch, made-to-order ice cream shop, on Main Street in the village.
Official site ↗painting crafts
ClayTime paint-your-own pottery (Huntington)
📍 Huntington village (Gerard St)
Paint-your-own pottery studio in Huntington village; Thursday 6–9pm is an adults-only BYO night.
Official site ↗music nightlife
Dave & Buster's Westbury
📍 Westbury
A giant arcade with VR, racing and prize games, plus a sports bar.
Official site ↗drinks tastings
Francesco's Italian-American Bakery
📍 Hicksville (S Broadway)
Family Italian-American bakery of 40+ years: cannoli, sfogliatelle and pastry cases, open late for an after-games dessert.
Official site ↗drinks tastings
Krisch's Restaurant & Ice Cream Parlour (Massapequa)
📍 Massapequa
Old-school ice cream parlour and luncheonette serving Massapequa since the 1920s: homemade ice cream, sundaes and diner plates.
Official site ↗outdoorsFREE
Long Beach Boardwalk
📍 Long Beach (Nassau)
A 2.2-mile ocean boardwalk an LIRR ride from Penn Station. Beach passes apply in summer.
Official site ↗Cars & autoFREE
NYAROC Alfa Romeo Cars & Coffee Meet-Up
📍 Manhasset
Free Alfa Romeo–focused cars and coffee meet at the Manhasset LIRR / For Five Roasters lot.
Official site ↗outdoorsFREE
Planting Fields Arboretum (grounds)
📍 Oyster Bay
409 acres of gardens, lawns and woodland around a Tudor-style Gold Coast mansion. Parking fee on some days.
Official site ↗music nightlife
RPM Raceway Long Island
📍 Farmingdale (Nassau)
Race electric go-karts on a renovated multi-level track, then add VR or arcade-style challenges if you want.
Official site ↗family kids
Schmitts Farm Haunt
📍 Melville (Suffolk)
A long-running nighttime haunt: an indoor haunted attraction plus a haunted corn trail, with live actors and animatronics. Violent and gory scenes.
Official site ↗music nightlife
Topgolf Holtsville
📍 Holtsville
Driving-range game bays with food and a bar.
Official site ↗fitness wellness
Urban Air Dix Hills
📍 Dix Hills
Indoor trampoline and adventure park with all-day unlimited play.
Official site ↗fitness wellness
Urban Air Lake Grove
📍 Lake Grove
Indoor trampoline and adventure park with all-day unlimited play.
Official site ↗