{"id":25518,"date":"2018-10-29T14:40:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T21:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25518"},"modified":"2018-10-29T14:40:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T21:40:41","slug":"halloween-wild-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/halloween-wild-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild in the Streets &#8211; Halloween in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/haloaren.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Whether you head for the desert and the annual Palm Springs Halloween on Arenas (pictured), or spend your night at the insane\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/halloween\/west-hollywood-halloween.html\">West Hollywood Carnaval<\/a>\u00a0on Santa Monica Boulevard where half a million crazies in costume are expected, California&#8217;s &#8220;mean streets&#8221; turn wild on October 31, and that is no exaggeration!<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/halloween\/palm-springs-halloween.html\">Palm Springs Halloween on Arenas<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>$1000 Costume Contest<\/li>\n<li>Debby Holiday, one of the most prolific dance artists with mega-hits &#8220;DIVE&#8221;, &#8220;I LIKE YOU&#8221;, &#8220;BRING IT ON&#8221;, &#8220;PIECE OF MY LOVE&#8221; and &#8220;SURRENDER&#8221; brings the beat to the street on Arenas Road at this event, $5 donation but no one turned away.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wild is in the eye of the beholder. To adults without children wild can mean the sight of kids trick or treating for candy in a downtown plaza or shopping mall. Here&#8217;s a few places you may want to steer clear of if that&#8217;s your definition:<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/calendar\/2018oc31.html\">Trick or Treat<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Arcata | Atascadero | Auburn<\/li>\n<li>Bakersfield | Balboa Island | Berkeley | Big Bear Lake | Brea | Buena Park<\/li>\n<li>Chico | Claremont | Concord | Coronado<\/li>\n<li>Davis | El Segundo | Encinitas<\/li>\n<li>Fortuna | Glendale | Grass Valley<\/li>\n<li>Huntington Beach | Lakeport | La Verne<\/li>\n<li>Monrovia | Monterey | Morgan Hill | Morro Bay<\/li>\n<li>Nevada City | Oakland<\/li>\n<li>Paso Robles | Palo Alto | Pasadena | Perris | Petaluma | Pinole | Placerville<\/li>\n<li>Quincy | Redondo Beach<\/li>\n<li>San Bruno | San Jose | San Rafael | Santa Barbara | Santa Cruz | Santa Rosa | Stanford | Seal Beach | Sierra Madre | Suisun City<\/li>\n<li>Turlock | Upland | Ventura | Walnut Creek<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Maybe &#8220;wild&#8221; is the sight of a parking lot where cars, candy and kids converge (and not collide). If that&#8217;s your avoidance, steer clear of these:<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/halloween\/trunk-or-treat.html\">Trunk or Treat<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Agoura Hills | Artesia<\/li>\n<li>Fontana | Irwindale<\/li>\n<li>Merced | Modesto | Moorpark<\/li>\n<li>Pittsburg | Rosemead<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you head for the desert and the annual Palm Springs Halloween on Arenas (pictured), or spend your night at the insane\u00a0West Hollywood Carnaval\u00a0on Santa Monica Boulevard where half a million crazies in costume are expected, California&#8217;s &#8220;mean streets&#8221; turn wild on October 31, and that is no exaggeration! Palm Springs Halloween on Arenas $1000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25518"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25519,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25518\/revisions\/25519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}