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Thousands participate in the afternoon parade that descends on the downtown plaza area of town. The merchants give out candy to trick or treaters. If you want a break from the masses of people just follow the sign to the right and you’ll be in Lithia Park which looks really good this time of year.
Ashland, Oregon Halloween Parade 2008
If you want a taste of what this part of town is like a few hours later on Halloween then click here. Warning: some of these photos are rather risqué.
Ashland is a popular town for holidays. People come from all of Oregon (and even California) to participate on the 4th of July and Halloween. The parties go all night long.
Halloween festivities kick off with the Ashland Parade beginning at the library at 3:15. Everyone marches to the city center from there and downtown remains pretty crowded until 3 or 4 in the morning, 12 hours later.
In the next few days I’ll show you a few pictures. Today I’ll even include a video so you can hear and almost feel the atmosphere.
This is the aforementioned house at night. I don’t think they quite made it up to one jack-o-lantern a day this year. Perhaps they also counted the bats hanging on the porch to get to the correct number of days.
While the upcoming election has taken over the front yards of most houses in town, Halloween is winning the battle in this home’s front yard on Siskiyou Boulevard.