Haunted Family Houses + Goblin Alley
Track-or-Treat 2027 · Build It, Haunt It, Win Camp
October 2027 · Date coming soon
Trackers SE · 4617 SE Milwaukie Ave
Two weeks of camp for the best Haunted Family House. Next year the Track-or-Treat trail is lined with houses built by Trackers families. Your team gets a 6 × 8 ft plot to trick out as far as you dare, then hands out candy to more than 150 kids. Local businesses open Curio Shops on Goblin Alley. Pumpkin archery, zombie axe throwing, and the Gothic Campfire all stay.
See How It Works
Build a House. Haunt the Trail.
Date coming soon
4617 SE Milwaukie Avenue, Portland
4 Curio Shops on Goblin Alley
Form a House
One family, a few families, or the whole block. Pick a Captain and a theme.
Trick Out Your 6 × 8
Build it at home or on site. Go as big as the rules allow.
Hand Out Candy
More than 150 kids walk the trail. Your House is one of their stops.
Win Camp
Best House wins two weeks of Adventure Camp. Three more awards win camp days.
The Candy Trail is getting houses. At Track-or-Treat 2027, the trick-or-treat stops are Haunted Family Houses: 6 × 8 ft plots that Trackers families build, theme, and run, like stalls in an antique mall, only spookier. Kids wander from house to house collecting candy, and every house is trying to be the one they talk about on the way home.
Teams can join their houses into Neighborhoods, and local businesses set up Curio Shops along Goblin Alley. Everything else stays: pumpkin archery, zombie axe throwing, the Goblin Market, and Goth Got Talent at the Gothic Campfire.
Need an Idea?
Steal one, mash two together, or ignore all of them. The best houses tell one small story a kid can take in while they grab their candy.
🧙 The Swamp Witch's Hut
Moss, cattails, jars of pickled eyeballs, and a bubbling cauldron. The witch trades candy for the answer to a riddle.
💀 The Bone Collector's Cabin
Antlers, skulls, and labeled specimen drawers. Guess which animal left the bone and the collector pays you in candy.
🧪 The Haunted Apothecary
Shelves of potions with handwritten labels, dried herbs, and a hooded shopkeeper who weighs out candy on an old scale.
🐺 The Werewolf Den
Claw marks, a fur-lined lair, and a pack that only hands over candy after you give them your best howl.
🍄 Mushroom Hollow
Felted and paper mushrooms glowing under cloth, a tiny gnome village, and a gnome family that keeps the candy in acorn caps.
🧟 The Last Outpost
A scrap-built shelter at the edge of the zombie lanes. Prove to the survivor inside that you're not infected and earn your rations.
🏹 A Haunted Guild Hall
Pick a guild and haunt it: a Rangers ghost outpost, a Mariners shipwreck, a Wilders burrow, or an Artisans cursed forge.
🎃 The Pumpkin Graveyard
Cardboard headstones with terrible puns, jack-o'-lanterns lit with battery candles, and a groundskeeper who knows every grave.
Your 6 × 8, and Your Neighbors
Every House and Curio Shop gets the same plot. What you do inside it is up to you.
📐 Your Plot
Same Size for Everyone Each House and Curio Shop gets one plot, 8 ft wide along the trail and 6 ft deep. Everything you build, hang, or place stays inside it, including costumed people.
Build Up, Not Out Height is where houses win. Anything taller than 6 ft has to stand and stay up on its own.
Power Goes Fast Outlets are limited and assigned in sign-up order. Battery lights work anywhere.
🏘️ Neighborhoods
Team Up Two or more Houses can join into a Neighborhood with one shared theme and build right across the walls between their plots.
Win Twice A Neighborhood competes for Best Neighborhood, and each House in it can still win a House award.
Keep It Walkable Leave a clear path through and around your Neighborhood so the trail keeps moving.
The Prizes 🏆
Trackers staff judge every award except Kids' Choice, which the kids vote on at the end of the trail. Winners are announced at the Gothic Campfire.
🏆 Best House
Two weeks of Trackers Adventure Camp · $1,296 value
The house everyone is still talking about at the campfire. Two full weeks of Adventure Camp ($648 a week), split however your team decides. If a Neighborhood House wins, the two weeks go to that House's team.
🧒 Kids' Choice
Two camp daysKids vote with a token at the end of the trail. The house they pick wins.
🏹 Most Trackersy
Two camp daysReal skills, guild pride, and found materials. The house that feels most like Trackers.
👻 Spookiest
Two camp daysThe best chills on the trail, while still right for a nervous five-year-old.
🏘️ Best Neighborhood
Prize from a local businessFor two or more Houses that build one world together. Presented by a Goblin Alley shop.
Camp days are single days of Winter Break or Spring Break camp. Each House can win one award. Curio Shops are not judged.
Goblin Alley
The Curio Shops of Goblin Alley are four plots for local businesses, right on the trail. Decorate as hard as any House and meet more than 150 Trackers kids and their grown-ups in one afternoon.
🧪 What Your Shop Gets
Your Name on the Alley One sign with your business name and logo, up to 2 × 3 ft.
Something to Hand Out Branded treats or coupons alongside your candy.
A Campfire Shout-Out We thank every Goblin Alley shop by name at the Gothic Campfire.
📜 How It Works
Same Plot, Same Rules A Curio Shop is a 6 × 8 ft plot and follows every House rule for building, safety, scare level, and treats.
No Selling No sales, sign-ups, or sales flyers at the shop. This is a haunt, not a booth.
Not Judged Curio Shops don't compete for prizes. A shop can present the Best Neighborhood prize.
The Rules 📜
Go big inside these lines. Tap a topic to read the rules for it.
Save Your House
Sign-ups open in late summer 2027. There are 18 Haunted Family Houses and 4 Curio Shops, first come, first served. Join the newsletter to hear the moment they open.
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