Gloucester Quays Halloween Trail

Gloucester Quays is running its Halloween Trail from Friday 23 October to Sunday 1 November, open every day from 10:00 to 17:00. It's a children's activity set across the Quays, the city's leisure quarter on the historic docks, where the designer outlet shopping centre sits alongside a multi-screen cinema, the Waterways Museum, and a growing number of bars and restaurants. The docks themselves give you a look at the area's past through local heritage trips and the architecture around the water.

The trail is built around a simple story: you're helping to get into Mr Halloween's candy vault. To do that, you have to find all his spooky side-kicks and solve a puzzle, and if you get it right, there's a special prize at the end. It's the kind of thing that works well as a family outing, especially since it's spread across the Quays rather than tucked into one spot, so you can make a day of it and wander around the shops and the docks while you're at it.

It's also part of a wider run of Halloween things happening across the city. There's the Friendly Little Ghosts Trail to pair it with, and the Halloween Ghost Tour over at the Gloucester Antiques Centre, so if you've got little ones who are into the spooky side of things, you can string a few of these together over the half-term. The trail runs daily from 10:00 to 17:00, and child tickets are £1.00.