Ashland Children’s Halloween parade 2025 — photos galore

03 Nov Ashland Children’s Halloween parade 2025 — photos galore

Families and children.

Creative costumes abounded.

Scary, wacky, creepy, funny.

Published November 2025.

Ashland loves a parade. Ashland is a town full of creative people, so Halloween is a great time to see “creativity on parade” — literally. Thousands of costumed creatures and critters and people from every genre of fiction filled East Main Street from the Ashland Library to the Ashland Plaza, with another thousand or so watching from the sidewalks. The Ashland Children’s Halloween parade 2025 was sponsored by the Ashland Chamber of Commerce, as are the 4th of July parade and festivities, and the Festival of Lights parade on the day after Thanksgiving.

Here are some of the photos I took at the event, plus several taken by my photographer friend Barbara Tricarico.

If you would like to learn about Ashland Halloween celebrations in the 1890s, 1970s and 1980s, CLICK HERE for a photo essay I published in 2024.

My personal creativity prize goes to …

I have never seen anything like this for Halloween. This creative family sloshed through the parade route inside a mobile aquarium.

Ashland Children’s Halloween parade — cute family photos

Ashland Children’s Halloween parade — humans as dogs and dogs as dogs

Ashland Children’s Halloween parade — adult creativity abounds

The band that led the parade, the Broadway Boomer dancers, and me!

Finally, “Who you gonna call? … Ghostbusters!