October 8, 2026
Where Does a Liberty Lake Weekend Go After September 27?
The county campground season ended September 27. Here are the dates, addresses and deadlines for Liberty Lake's October, from the last farmers market on Oct. 10 to the Knox Avenue Halloween events.
Photo: SounderBruce, CC BY-SA 4.0
Where does a Liberty Lake weekend go once the regional park’s posted season is over? Spokane County listed the 2026 campground season at Liberty Lake Regional Park as Friday, May 15 through Sunday, September 27. The $10-per-vehicle day-use parking fee ran over those same dates, and the county page lists no October or November fee. For four and a half months, the county’s season set the pace of a summer weekend.
October’s calendar moves somewhere else, and it gets smaller. Almost every dated event between now and Halloween is in town, on a residential street, or on one stretch of East Knox Avenue. The rest of this post goes through that calendar in order, because the order shows how the month moves from the lake into town.
The Last Saturday at Town Square Park
The farmers market is the first event that goes away. The city lists the Liberty Lake Farmers Market’s final 2026 date as Saturday, October 10, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Town Square Park, 1421 N. Meadowwood Lane.
The market and the regional park are the two big outdoor draws of a Liberty Lake summer, and they end two weeks apart. The campground season closed September 27, and the market’s last morning is October 10. For about two weeks this fall, the market is the main gathering spot the city runs on its own calendar.
The weekend before was already busy. The city listed its all-day, citywide Chalk Art Extravaganza for Saturday, October 3. After October 10, the city’s own events stop meeting in one park.
The City Moves Its Event Onto Your Street
The city’s next big event doesn’t use a park at all. “My Haunted Hometown” is a Halloween decorating contest run by the Parks & Recreation Department. Every entry goes onto a citywide map, so neighbors can go see the decorated houses. The city’s notice, posted September 14, says the prize is “a year’s worth of bragging rights” and a spot on the city’s website and social media.
The dates work like a short countdown:
- Friday, October 16, 5 p.m.: registration deadline.
- Saturday, October 24: houses must be decorated and ready for judging.
- October 24 through Halloween: decorations stay up for People’s Choice judging.
That middle step matters for planning. If you enter, your decorations need to be up a week before Halloween. If you just want to look, the map is complete and the houses are lit from October 24 on, so the last week of October is the time for an evening walk or a slow drive. The contest details are on the city’s My Haunted Hometown page.
Over the summer, the city’s events gathered people at Town Square Park. This one spreads them across neighborhoods, and the map is what links them.
The Last Week Lands on East Knox Avenue
Once judging is done, the calendar comes back together, mostly on one street. The four days at the end of October look like this:
| Date | Event | Location | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wed., Oct. 28 | Barrel Room Carmenere dinner | Liberty Lake Wine Cellars, 23110 E. Knox Ave. | Members-only, catered by Nectar |
| Thu., Oct. 29 | Halloween Party | Liberty Lake Municipal Library | 5 to 8 p.m.; games, tattoo station, book reading, bat exploration |
| Thu.–Sat., Oct. 29–31 | Happy HalloWINE flight and candy pairing | Liberty Lake Wine Cellars, 23110 E. Knox Ave. | All-red flight, $20, refunded with a bottle purchase |
| Sat., Oct. 31 | Annual trunk-or-treat | Legacy Church, 23221 E. Knox Ave. | 3 to 5 p.m.; decorated cars, games, face painting |
The week starts at Liberty Lake Wine Cellars. Its blog lists a members-only Barrel Room Carmenere dinner on Wednesday, October 28, with catering by Nectar. From Thursday through Saturday, the winery’s “Happy HalloWINE” pairing is open to everyone. The flight is all reds paired with Halloween candy. It costs $20, the charge is refunded if you buy a bottle, and wine club members drink free. The Thursday listing runs 4 to 8 p.m.
The library party on Thursday evening, October 29, runs 5 to 8 p.m. The city calendar lists games, a tattoo station, a book reading, and bat exploration. It overlaps the first night of the HalloWINE flight, so a household can split up that evening and still be home at a reasonable hour.
Halloween is a Saturday this year. Legacy Church lists its annual trunk-or-treat for October 31, 3 to 5 p.m., at 23221 E. Knox Ave. The listing includes trick-or-treating at decorated cars, games, popcorn, face painting, a bounce house, cocoa, and a photo booth. Because it ends at 5 p.m., families can go before dark and still have the evening for the neighborhood houses on the Haunted Hometown map.
The winery at 23110 E. Knox and the church at 23221 E. Knox are only about a hundred address numbers apart on the same street. Three of the four events in the last week happen there, and the fourth, at the library, overlaps them on Thursday.
A Building Site in the Same Address Range
A few blocks of numbers away, the city is renovating a building that will move more of Liberty Lake’s public life to this part of town. Construction started April 13, 2026, on the city-owned building at 23129 E. Mission Ave., formerly owned by Legacy Church, which is being turned into Liberty Lake’s new City Hall. The Mission Avenue building is separate from the Knox Avenue address where Legacy Church is holding its trunk-or-treat.
The renovated building has 14,000 square feet, almost double the 7,500-square-foot City Hall at 22710 E. Country Vista Drive, and an enlarged council chamber for public meetings and events. Once the new building opens, the Country Vista building will house the Parks & Recreation Department, which is the department running this month’s decorating contest.
The city’s project page estimates construction from April 2026 to April 2027, with city operations moving to Mission Avenue in May 2027. The council hired Dardan Enterprises of Post Falls on March 3, 2026, for up to $3.6 million. The Spokane Journal of Business reported in March that the renovation is paid for from the city’s general fund, using excise taxes, and that the city bought the one-acre property for $2.2 million in 2022. The Liberty Lake Splash put the project on its September cover under the headline “New city hall takes shape.”
Next October the Halloween events on Knox may be the same ones, but the street around them will be different. The council chamber a short way off on Mission will be open, and the city’s public meetings and events will have a new home in the same part of town where this year’s Halloween week takes place.
One Park Project Still on Paper
One city park project is still in planning this fall. The city is planning to renovate the Pavillion Park playground and asked residents for input on the design in June. KXLY reported that the survey stayed open until July 3. The city’s notice gave no construction start or reopening date, and as of early October no published construction schedule has been found.
The Halloween schedule with the most moving parts is the one on Knox Avenue: the winery flight Thursday through Saturday, the library party Thursday night, and the trunk-or-treat from 3 to 5 p.m. on the 31st. The Haunted Hometown map covers the hours after dark.
If you’re watching how the Mission Avenue City Hall project and the Pavillion Park playground move forward, John Kennedy follows these city projects as they happen. He’s glad to talk through what they mean for your part of Liberty Lake when you’re ready to Schedule Free Consultation.
