Major events in Lake Placid that have been canceled are the annual Halloween parade down Main Street and the police department’s Halloween afternoon party for elementary school students and evening dance for middle and high school students.

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Two school parades

The parade usually includes students from the Lake Placid Elementary School and St. Agnes School, marching down Main Street from Saranac Avenue to the Olympic Center, the smallest kids riding on flatbed trucks waving to the crowds of parents and grandparents, visitors and other residents lining the sidewalks.

Instead, each school will have its own parade on Friday, Oct. 30. St. Agnes classes will march around the school parking lot starting at 12:15 p.m.

The LPES classes will march around their school on Old Military Road. Classes will parade in shifts to maintain social distancing and cohorts as follows: kindergarten, noon; first grade, 12:10 p.m.; second grade, 12:20 p.m.; third grade, 12:30 p.m.; fourth grade, 12:40 p.m.; and fifth grade, 12:50 p.m.

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Main Street trick-or-treats

There will be no formal trick-or-treating activity along the Main Street business district, as has been promoted in past years by the Lake Placid Business Association. Businesses will decide for themselves whether to hand out candy.

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Wilmington Trunk or Treat

The Whiteface KOA on Fox Farm Road in Wilmington will be hosting a Trunk or Treat event from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31. It is designed to be a “safe event open to all area children.” Trick-or-treaters can walk through the campground to more than 30 different decorated car “trunks.”

COVID-19 guidelines will be enforced, including social distancing and the wearing of masks. People are also encouraged to use hand sanitizer, and volunteers will be wearing gloves.

This event is sponsored by the Wilmington Church of the Nazarene, Wilmington KOA and local businesses.

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House-decorating contest

The Zonta Club of the Adirondacks sponsored a Halloween House Decorating Contest this year. Judging took place last week, and officials have not yet announced the winners from four communities: Lake Placid, Wilmington, Keene and Saranac Lake. It was a fundraiser for the club.

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Tri-Lakes drive-in movies

Drive-in movies will be held this weekend in each of the Tri-Lakes communities.

The Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism and the Lake Placid Police Department are sponsoring the Lake Placid movie, which is free.

“We are thrilled to be able to support this event, especially this year,” said Mary Jane Lawrence, chief operating officer with ROOST. “Kids, kids at heart, and horror movie enthusiasts will find something they enjoy on the big screen at one of the communities in the Tri-Lakes. While a traditional party and door-to-door Halloween may be limited, this is a fantastic way for everyone to get out and do something fun.”

Here’s the lineup:

– Friday, Oct. 30: “Hotel Transylvania” (2012, rated PG), Saranac Lake Shopping Center parking lot, Lake Flower Avenue, Saranac Lake, 6:30 p.m., free

– Friday, Oct. 30: “Friday the 13th” (1980, rated R), Wild Center parking lot, 45 Museum Drive. Tupper Lake, 7 p.m., $20 per carload for Wild Center members, $25 for non-members

– Saturday, Oct. 31: “Hocus Pocus” (1993, PG). North Elba Show Grounds, Cascade Road, Lake Placid, 7 p.m., free

– Saturday, Oct. 31: “The Blair Witch Project” (1999, rated R), Wild Center parking lot, 45 Museum Drive. Tupper Lake, 7 p.m., $20 per carload for Wild Center members, $25 for non-members

Parking for the Tupper Lake movie begins at 6 p.m., and movies will begin at 7 p.m. All spots must be reserved in advance online at www.wildcenter.org/haunteddrivein. For the movies on Halloween weekend, admission costs $25 per carload for non-members and $20 per carload for members.

Composting toilets will be available for attendee use at both ends of the Wild Center’s parking lot. Per New York state regulations, masks and physical distancing are required for all guests when outside of their vehicle.

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Black Brook, Jay Boo COVID Parade

The “haunted walk-through” in the Jay Town Hall at AuSable Forks will be canceled this year due to COVID concerns. The event drew about 150 children last year.

Instead, the towns of Jay and Black Brook will be sponsoring a new unique Halloween event — the Boo COVID reverse trick-or-treating parade. Volunteers in vehicles in the parade will hand out candy — in individually wrapped bags — at “stop and gather” locations in both towns starting at dusk.

The event is being held in conjunction with local emergency services and businesses.

– The parade will begin at 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31 at the AuSable Forks ambulance garage parking lot.

– It will take a right onto Grove Road to the Francis M. Pattno & John F. Gale Memorial Park. This is a stop and gather place.

– The parade will return over the Grove Bridge and take a right onto Route 9 at Mad River Pizza.

– The parade will stop and gather at the Time Clock Park.

– It will take a right onto Route 9N.

– Then it will take a left turn to Palmer Street Extension.

– The parade will proceed down Palmer Street and stop and gather at the intersection of McCrea and Palmer.

– It will proceed up Palmer and go straight up Silver Lake Road.

– There will be a stop and gather break at the Black Brook General Store.

– The parade will return to North Main Street/Main Street Route 9N.

– It will take a right turn on to Forge Street.

– There will be a stop and gather at the intersection of Forge and Church streets.

– The parade will take a left onto Church Street and proceed to Main Street (Route 9N).

– It will cross the Jersey Bridge and continue up Broad Lane.

– It will take a left onto Burt Lane.

– The parade will continue to Sheldrake Road and then to the intersection of Sheldrake Road and Stickney Bridge Road, where there will be a stop and gather break.

– It will follow Stickney Bridge Road to Route 9N.

– It will take a left turn onto Route 9N toward Jay.

– It will take a left at the Jay Village Green and continue around the park, where there will be a stop and gather break.

– The parade will turn left onto Route 9N toward Upper Jay.

– It will veer to the left at Upper Jay on Route 9N.

– And it will take a left into the parking lot of the Adirondack Mountain Coffee Cafe, where there will be the final stop and gather of the evening.

Parade organizers say that masks and all social distancing guidelines will be strictly adhered to at all stop-and-gather locations.