Halloween Parade

Registration for the 2024 Halloween Parade is now Closed

Coming Together to Celebrate

OCTOBER 23, 2025 | 7:00PM

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Columbia’s Mardi Gras “Halloween” Parade is always the fourth Thursday in October. The parade is sponsored by the Columbia Lions Club and the Sunsnappers.

We offer up to $1,500 in cash prizes fort he best floats, walking groups, and individual participants. The parade route is well-lit and secured with ample police police protection to ensure everyone’s safety. please note that candy cannot be thrown from floats but can be handed out by individuals walking alongside the curb line.

The parade features high school and community bands, floats, baton groups, fire departments and local businesses. The last unit in the parade is always a steam calliope.

The parade steps off at 7:00 p.m. at the Columbia Borough Fire Department, 10th and Manor Streets. The parade route is as follows. Manor Street to 4th Street; 4th Street to Union Street, Union Street to Second Street, Second Street to Locust Street, Locust Street to Sixth Street, Sixth Street to Cherry Street. It consists of five divisions, with each division sponsored by local businesses and organizations.

Night
1
Floats, Bands & Groups
1 +

Thanks to our 2024 Division Sponsors

American Legion Post 372
Best Price Propane
Brightspeed
Chickies Rock Moose #307 and Women of the Moose
Clyde W. Kraft Funeral Home
Columbia Family Restaurant
Columbia Fraternal Association
Columbia-Middletown Elks #1074
Columbia Tire Outlet
Doug’s Tree Service
Eastern Driller Manufacturing
Elite Energy
Fish Window Cleaning
Foresters of America
Hambones Hambones Social Club
Hinkle’s Restaurant & Murphy’s Mercantile
Imperial Eagle Products
 
Kleen-Rite
Lancaster Area Sewer Authority
Lancaster County Career & Technology Center
McCarty’s Sealcoating
MiselBerger HVAC
Mountz, Kreiser & Fleckenstein
Nikolaus & Hohenadel
Rhoads Sheet Metal
Red Rose Memorial VFW Post 2435
Sahd Metal Recycling
SmartStor Self Storage
St. John’s Herr Estate – A Luthercare Community
State Farm Monica Markley
Sunsnappers
Susquehanna Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram
Union Station Grill
Wrightsville Social Club

SPONSORSHIP LEVELS

To ensure this year’s parade is as successful as those in the past, we are asking  businesses, organizations and individuals to consider making a donation to cover the cost of bands, special performers and prizes awarded to the best floats and walking groups.
 
The most visible way to support this year’s parade is to sponsor a division of your choice. Division 1 can be sponsored for $350, while Divisions 2 and above can be sponsored for $250. Division sponsors will be recognized with a prominent banner at the front of each division. Donations of any amount are welcome, and all sponsors will be recognized on our website and Facebook page.

HOW IT WORKS

Sign UP TEAM

PREP AND PRACTICE

PARTY IN COLUMBIA

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Sign Up Your Float

A $50 entry fee will apply for for-profit businesses, with the exception of youth baton and dance studios.