Denton's Day of the Dead Festival

Denton, TX · Quirky

When: October 23–25, 2026
Where: E. Hickory & E. Oak, Downtown Denton · Denton · TX
Cost: Not confirmed
Status: Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

A volunteer run street festival in downtown Denton blending Dia de los Muertos tradition with Halloween and North Texas flavor, running since 2011. The weekend draws more than 25,000 people for coffin races, a lantern parade, and a costume contest along the downtown square. The 2026 edition runs Friday through Sunday, October 23 to 25, with the main day of programming on Saturday.

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Denton's Day of the Dead Festivalsame spot
A volunteer run street festival in downtown Denton blending Dia de los Muertos tradition with Halloween and North Texas flavor, running since 2011.
Thin Line Festsame spot
Downtown Denton's venues fill each spring with documentary film screenings, live music and visual art for this multi day festival, free to attend.
The Denton County courthouse and the Confederate soldier taken off its lawnsame spot
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Denton Wassail Festsame spot
A holiday tradition on the downtown Denton square for more than twenty years, with mulled cider, horse drawn carriage rides, and a visit from Santa marking the unofficial start of the city's Christmas season.
The Campus Theatre opens for the college crowd, and is bought back forty years later0.1 mi
Interstate Theatres put up an Art Moderne picture house on West Hickory Street in 1949, aimed squarely at students from the two universities a few blocks either side of it.