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Temperatures have started to drop and there’s been an uptick in giant spiders and skeletons displayed on porches all over town. You know what that means: It’s officially spooky season…and bars are getting into the spirit(s). We’ve rounded up the best spots to visit if you’re looking for creepy decor, seasonally inspired cocktails and more.
Interested in more haunting options? You can also check out local bars that are home to real-life ghost stories.
Casey Wilson
Adrift
218 South Broadway
720-784-8111
One of the best tiki bars around is decked out for Nightmare in Paradise, a month-long Halloween celebration that runs from September 30 through November 1, with a cocktail lineup that includes the rum-based Frog’s Breath (“looks like poison, tastes like paradise,” the bar says) and a pumpkin spice version of the classic Chi Chi dubbed “Trick-or-Chi Chi,” plus specialty punch bowls and shots. It will offer “haunted hour” specials all day on Tuesdays, from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursdays, and from 4 to 6 p.m. on Fridays, with discounted seasonal cocktails on Red Rum Wednesdays, when it will play horror movies on the big screen. Look for more Halloween-themed events throughout the month.
Casa Bonita
6715 West Colfax Avenue, Lakewood
The iconic Pink Palace is celebrating Halloween and Día de Los Muertos from September 30 through November 2 with various Casa BOOnita activations. Guests are encouraged to wear costumes and can expect “larger-than-life installations, decorations, special menu items including a signature cocktail, and hidden surprises,” it says. While reservations, which are required, can be famously hard to get, there are some available, particularly on weekdays.
The Crypt
1618 East 17th Avenue
When Pricilla Gould opened the Crypt in 2022, she told Westword, “This place is just destined to be weird.” And weird it is, in all the best ways. Year-round, the bar from Gould and her partners, Chris Maynard and Dale Canino, is filled with details inspired by death culture, so it just makes sense that the team here would embrace the Halloween season. This year, it’s going big with 31 events in 31 days, culminating in an October 31 Halloween blowout. Check it out @thecryptdenver on Instagram for the full lineup.
The Devil’s Drink Presents the Upside Down Bar
3330 Mariposa Street
This dark and moody bar with a full menu of espresso martini options recently moved into a new, larger home at 1553 Platte Street, but during the month of October, its original LoHi location is transforming into the Upside Down Bar, an immersive Stranger Things pop-up that promises “cocktails and neon nostalgia.” Open Thursday through Sunday, starting October 2 through Halloween, tickets for the pop-up are available for $7 via Eventbrite.
The Electric Cure
5350 West 25th Avenue, Edgewater
When an online review tried to dim the glow of this bar by calling it “Satanic,” owners and industry vets Lexi Healy and Veronica Ramos embraced the accusation, leaning in with enthusiastic irreverence. So, of course, October is its time to really shine. For 2025, it’s rolling out the Little Bar of Horrors menu stacked with what it calls tropical Halloween “cocktails from beyond the grave.”
Honor Farm
Honor Farm
1526 Blake Street
303-862-9457
Named for a place in Pueblo with its own creepy past, this concept from the team behind the Electric Cure is filled to the brim with ghouls playing up the building’s history, which includes stories of a ghost named Lydia that haunts the place. Honor Farm’s decor is permanent, but it is upping the fright factor during October as the Coffin Club pop-up. The mezzanine level of the space is also home to Hell or High Water, a tiki bar with a gay pirate ship theme.
Milepost Zero at McGregor Square
1601 19th Street
This food hall near Coors Field is getting into the spirit with a bar takeover dubbed the Netherworld. Throughout October, it will be pouring “strange and unusual” specialty drinks and hosting Haunted Happy Hour from 3 to 6 p.m. Sunday and Monday with $2 off any of the seasonal cocktails or draft beers. Stop by on Fridays starting at 8:30 p.m. for Graveyard Grooves, a DJ-led dance party.
Poka Lola Social Club
1850 Wazee Street
This Dairy Block bar will transform into Poka Luna on October 1 and keep that identity through Halloween. Expect spooky decor plus more than fifteen Halloween-themed cocktails, mocktails and shots. The bar is also hosting a Halloween cocktail class from 7 to 9 p.m. on October 9; tickets are $30, and guests will learn how to make a variety of Halloween cocktails. The bar is also hosting events such as a spooky artisans market on October 5 and a butterfly coffin workshop in conjunction with the Terrorium Shop on October 12, plus weekly Tarot Tuesdays with a tarot reader and Ouija Wednesdays.
