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Taking It To The Streets

November 4, 2024

Clifton Main Street’s 23rd Annual Fall Fest and 28th Annual Trick-Or-Treat with Main Street offers Fall season hometown fun for hundreds of all ages

CLIFTON – As temperatures drop at night, giving chilly mornings, and that unmistakable feeling of autumn, it heralds in the season’s iconic event, Clifton Main Street’s 23rd Annual Fall Fest. It was a perfect day to spend outside Oct. 19. Just a few clouds broke up the crisp blue fall sky; the blue contrasting the pumpkins, orange and maroon décor. And with Halloween decorations are showing up all over the place, we know it’s October.

For Fall Fest in downtown Clifton, droves of visitors – both young and old – flocked to Main Street and side streets to enjoy Clifton at its best and to celebrate the fall season with loads of family fun, all sorts of delectable foods, a huge diversity of vendors, local civic organizations held fundraisers and lots of different live music and entertainment.

Visitors marveled at the Karem Cowboys Wild West Show and the juggler on his unicycle. Kids enjoyed the bounce houses. Parents took photos at the pumpkin patch. Classic cars and tractor gleamed at the Clifton Classic Chassis Auto Museum parking lot, drawing “oohs and aahs” from the admiring crowd.

And for the more active visitors, there was a corn hole tournament at the plaza between the Peace Lutheran Church and On Fifth Gallery, and a pumpkin decorating contest.

Live music ranged from the Clifton High School Jazz Band, Steve Anderson, Rise and Shine Dance troupe, Collin Dexter, Roper Crosthwaite and Joe Frausto at the Market at the Mill stage to Markus Miller and his Americana songs, Gordon Collier and Chad Holt and the Chislers at the big stage next to Olaf’s Restaurant.

And while rain had been forecast for days, Oct. 31 was a perfect evening to celebrate All Hallows’ Eve with the 28th Annual Trick-Or-Treat with Main Street event. The costumes were as diverse as the hundreds of youth and their parents that came to downtown to gather up candy from the tables lining Main Street.

There were students from Hogwarts, a Sasquatch was spotted, a selection of ghosts, grim reapers, ghouls, gremlins and goblins, butterflies and princesses, devils and angels, a walking eyeball, favorite comic characters and super heroes, everyday heroes like soldiers and police men, Lady Justice, Minions, a life-size Lego man, Scooby Doo and his psychedelic van, the Three Little Pigs and the big bad wolf, Dia De Los Muertos costumes.

The mini Pillsbury Dough Boy and the Target dog mascot were being pulled in their carts, as was the baby dinosaur; family canines had on seasonal gear, and several Wednesday Addams with her family members were spotted. And the blow-up costumes were a big hit from chickens to dinosaurs to dragons to unicorns. Just too many costumes to mention, making it a colorful and fun event, ending in at least a month’s supply of candy of all sorts.

Both the 23rd Annual Fall Fest and 28th Annual Trick or Treat with Main Street were presented by Clifton Main Street. Chisholm Country magazine was at both popular events to document the fun with two extensive event photo collages below:

CLIFTON MAIN STREET'S 23RD ANNUAL FALL FEST