Ghastly ghouls await you at the Haunted Pumpkin Walk

Take a stroll through the Haunted Pumpkin Garden and be prepared to be scared. It’s the annual event at the New York Botanical Garden now through Oct. 31.

Youngsters can take part in guided activities, play inside a pumpkin house, go on a scavenger hunt for fall fruits and nuts, look for worms, put on a show at the Pumpkin Puppet Theater, read spooky stories, and watch seeds sprout.

On Saturdays and Sundays children can march in a costumed parade that travels throughout the Children’s Adventure Garden, where they run into ghoulish, ghastly zombie pumpkins along the way.

Haunted Pumpkin Garden, weekly now through Oct. 31. From 10 am to 5:30 pm. Free with garden admission.

New York Botanical Garden [200th St. and Kazimiroff Blvd. (718) 817–8700; www.nybg.org]

Children dress up and have fun at the Giant Pumpkin Carving at the New York Botanic Garden.

Herb Scher