Warren's 'Brite Nites' Offers Family-Friendly Halloween Fun

Each week, we’ll tell you about one great idea to give you a much deserved break, and make your life a little easier, maybe a whole lot easier.

This week, take the whole family and your neighbors, too, to the annual Brite Nites Halloween event at Warren's Wagner Farms Arboretum. With several hundred original jack-o-lanterns on display, a Haunted House (that's not too scary for the young ones), and refreshments, it's becoming a favorite Halloween stop in the area. Many of the pumpkins were carved by local students and adults.

The event benefits the Wagner Farm Arboretum, raising as much as $30,000 for programs on the site, which include a community garden, a children's garden—where the jack-o-lanterns are on display—as well as numerous art and crafts classes during the year.

Tickets are available online, and at the gate while supplies last, and cost $7 for seniors and kids 4 to 14; and $10 for adults. Children 3 years and younger are free. Because the paths are not paved, strollers are not permitted. Gates open at 7 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights.