Voted a best eventYou do not need a bike. Everyone is welcome at Community Park. Riding is the centerpiece, but optional.
A FREE festival on Halloween itself. 25+ entertainment stations, a BMX stunt show, thousands of costumed riders, and zombies falling out of the sky. A whole October of Halloween across town, and every net dollar builds a custom trike for a child who has never ridden. Make Davis your Halloweekend destination.
The ride, the costumes, the stunt show and the zombies falling out of the sky.
Davis does Halloween for the whole month. Here is the season, the night before, and the day itself.
Every Halloween thing happening in Davis and Yolo County, not only ours. Pumpkin patches, haunted houses and the rest of the season.
The grown-up Halloween night out at Sudwerk Brewing, the night before the festival.
Free at Community Park: 25+ entertainment stations, train rides, music, inflatables, crafts, carnival food, the BMX stunt show, the Zombie Kingdom Quest and the skydiving grand finale.
Hundreds of costumed riders, one very undead route through Davis
PRO-rated skydivers drop into Community Park with smoke trails and flags
X Games-level riders at the halfway point in Mace Ranch Park
FREE rides around Community Park on a rented electric trackless train
Not running in 2026. This year it is the Zombie Halloween Party at Sudwerk.
A Davis first, in 2025. Not running in 2026.
The Zombie Bike Ride's mission has always been to make bicycling available to everyone, including children with disabilities. Over the past seven years the organizers have raised funds, primarily from sponsors, and donated more than $50,000 to NorCal Trykers, who build custom tricycles for children with disabilities.
Each tricycle costs $1,000 or more to make, and funds from our events have now put more than 40 children on one. Those children get to feel the freedom of riding, and the wind in their hair, for the first time. Our sponsors are the reason we can do that and still keep this festival almost entirely FREE to the public.
On November 1, 2025, Davis got something it had never had before: free tethered hot-air balloon rides over the Davis Cemetery & Arboretum, closing out the 7th annual festival with a line that started forming at 5 am.
Every festival ends the same way: thousands of necks craning skyward as PRO-rated skydivers trail smoke and giant flags down into Community Park. Here is how that tradition got FAA approval and a five-year emcee.
Every dollar this free festival raises goes to one place: custom adaptive tricycles for kids with disabilities. Nearly $50,000 and more than 40 trikes later, here is the story of the nonprofit this whole thing was built to fund.
Two quirky, fun tracks made for the festival by our Davis friend Matthew Wright of eNuminous and Archimedes.
Ride with us
2 riders have said they are coming
There is no real need to tell us you are coming. Just turn up.
But it does help us plan a great event. So everyone who tells us goes into a raffle to win a Greg the Zombie plushy: an interactive zombie whose brains, heart and three foot long guts all pull out. It is exactly as good as it sounds.
Riding with us: Charlene
6 of 69 volunteer spots are filled for this year.
63 spots still open across setup, ride marshals, HQ, kids zone and teardown. Two hours makes a difference.
See open shiftsTiers from $150. Your logo in front of thousands of Davis families, and every net dollar builds trykes for kids.
See sponsorship tiersNonprofits, makers, food, games and entertainment stations line the park. Apply for a booth or a station along the route.
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