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3rd Annual Costume Night at Cochran Park

Put on your costumes and join for the third annual Costume Night at Cochran Park (100 S 21st Street) on Friday, October 10, from 6-8 p.m.
Free activities include:
🎃 Pumpkin Painting (thanks to PowerTech!)
👻 Movie Screening (announcement coming soon!)
🎃 Light-up Balloon Animals
👻 Fall Photo Ops
🎃 Glow Kickball
👻 Glow Soccer
🎃 Glow Football Toss
👻 Glow Pickleball
🎃 Glow Kan Jam
👻 Imagination Playground (big blue blocks)
🎃 Music
👻 Council Bluffs Public Library Station
🎃 Glow Basketball
👻 Prizes, and more!
🍔Thanks to Iowa West Foundation, they will have free hamburgers from 6-8 p.m. 🍿☕Plus, food vendors selling drinks and snacks.
Parking is limited, so walking or biking is encouraged! On-street parking is available in the surrounding neighborhoods.

Lanoha’s Annual Fall Festival

Join for an afternoon full of Family Fall Fun!
🚜FREE Spooky Hayrack Ride
🍧Yummy Treats
🤡Face Painting
🎯Pumpkin Launcher for Savings &
🎃Fall Family Fun
🐶Bring your fur babies too, we’re Pet Friendly!
Come visit some of our favorite local vendor friends while you’re here and enjoy seasonal specials all day long!

HawkWatch Appreciation Days

This season marks the 34th year of Hitchcock HawkWatch, and you’re invited to learn more about their important conservation work!

Swing by the Loess Hills Lodge gallery from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. any Saturday in October to learn more about what their research is uncovering in our gallery displays, enjoy refreshments including lemonade and cookies, and see what raptors are passing through atop the park’s 45-foot observation tower.

A $5 per vehicle entry fee or parks membership is required to enter the park. Thank you!

Hitchcock HawkWatch is a volunteer group that dedicates more than 3,000 hours each year to recording the fall migration of raptors including Red-Tailed Hawks, Bald Eagles, Turkey Vultures, and more.

HawkWatch Appreciation Days

This season marks the 34th year of Hitchcock HawkWatch, and you’re invited to learn more about their important conservation work!

Swing by the Loess Hills Lodge gallery from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. any Saturday in October to learn more about what their research is uncovering in our gallery displays, enjoy refreshments including lemonade and cookies, and see what raptors are passing through atop the park’s 45-foot observation tower.

A $5 per vehicle entry fee or parks membership is required to enter the park. Thank you!

Hitchcock HawkWatch is a volunteer group that dedicates more than 3,000 hours each year to recording the fall migration of raptors including Red-Tailed Hawks, Bald Eagles, Turkey Vultures, and more.

HawkWatch Appreciation Days

This season marks the 34th year of Hitchcock HawkWatch, and you’re invited to learn more about their important conservation work!

Swing by the Loess Hills Lodge gallery from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. any Saturday in October to learn more about what their research is uncovering in our gallery displays, enjoy refreshments including lemonade and cookies, and see what raptors are passing through atop the park’s 45-foot observation tower.

A $5 per vehicle entry fee or parks membership is required to enter the park. Thank you!

Hitchcock HawkWatch is a volunteer group that dedicates more than 3,000 hours each year to recording the fall migration of raptors including Red-Tailed Hawks, Bald Eagles, Turkey Vultures, and more.