The skeletons went up on Downtown Littleton's lampposts on October 1. Four days later, on Monday, October 5, the City of Littleton holds a public open house about rebuilding the street they hang on. Almost every downtown event this month happens on foot: a lamppost scavenger hunt, hour-long ghost tours through the alleys, and a Sunday of trick-or-treating from shop to shop. The Main Street concept the city is now turning into a real design calls for more trees, gathering spaces, and the infrastructure needed to close the street for events. So walking downtown this October is a good preview of the street the city wants to build.
Bones About Town runs on repeat visits
Bones About Town is a month-long promotion hosted by the Littleton Downtown Development Authority. More than 25 skeletons hang on lampposts around the district, and each one wears an oversized toe tag with a QR code. Scan it, enter your email, and you're in the drawing. You can scan up to 25 different skeletons once each week. Every Saturday until Halloween, one person wins a $100 gift card to the Downtown Littleton business of their choice. On Saturday, October 31, one person wins a $250 grand prize.
The scans reset every week, so the rules reward coming back several times. Someone who walks the route on the first weekend and again before each Saturday drawing gets more entries than someone who does one long loop. The hunt's how-to-play page says it is designed to get people "exploring beyond your usual stops." This fall, a few of those stops are new.
Two new doors on the skeleton route
Leaves on Main opened September 5 at 2699 Main Street, at the end of the street just before The Melting Pot. It sells indoor plants plus a curated selection of books and goods for plant lovers. Founder Nancy Szilagyi is a Colorado Master Gardener. She ran her own landscaping business for 13 years and later managed O'Toole's Garden Center in Lakewood. She found the space by walking Littleton's streets and nearly missed the small sign in the window.
"I know that plants can really create a calming, healthy vibe for people, and I wanted to provide that. And I knew that Littleton didn't really have anything like that." Nancy Szilagyi, speaking to the Littleton Independent
Lewis and Cluck is back downtown at 5827 S. Rapp Street after a few years on South Broadway. The chicken feed and supply shop started on Prince Street in 2016 as an offshoot of Lewis and Bark. New owner Steve Skundberg bought it from founder Pete McClintock. Skundberg told the Littleton Independent he found the Rapp Street building after spotting a "For Rent" sign next door during a meal at McDonald's, and the owners called him back within three hours. The shop sells organic and non-organic feed, treats, and coops, and it plans to carry live chicks in the spring. Hours are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Lewis and Cluck closes at 4 p.m. on Saturdays, so get there earlier in the day if you're combining it with a skeleton loop.
Four nights in the alleys
The lamppost hunt covers the sidewalks. The Haunts of Littleton walking tour, now in its 24th year, covers what the organizers call "Littleton's dark streets and alleys." It mixes local history, eyewitness accounts, and what the tour itself calls "tongue-in-cheek muses." The nonprofit Friends of 444 runs it.
- Nights: Friday, October 16; Saturday, October 17; Friday, October 23; Saturday, October 24
- Departures: Every 10 minutes from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m., 10 tours a night, each about an hour long
- Start: The parking lot of the Littleton RTD station. The organizer lists the address as 5800 Prince St., and the Downtown Littleton listing uses 5777 S. Prince St. Both point to the same station area. The tour ends downtown about two blocks from the station.
- Price: $20 for adults and $17 for children under 12, plus ticketing fees, purchased online. The ticketing page shows a wider price range, so check the final total at checkout.
According to the organizer, tours usually sell out one to two weeks ahead. Counted back from October 16, that means the first weekend could be gone by early October. Tickets are at hauntsoflittleton.com.
Because the tour starts at the RTD station, it's one of the few downtown evenings you can reach by train without having to park. Parking is also the issue the city is studying right now.
Sunday the 25th, and the rest of the month
Goblin Giveout 2026 is on Sunday, October 25, from noon to 4 p.m. Kids trick-or-treat at participating shops and restaurants. The Littleton Merchants Association runs the event, and the Downtown Littleton listing gives 2516 Main St. as the venue address. The listing doesn't say whether the event is free or requires a ticket, so check the Littleton Downtown Development Authority's calendar at littletondda.org before you go.
Two more fall events are a short drive from Main Street:
- Littleton Museum Harvest Festival, Saturday, October 10, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at 6028 S. Gallup Street. Entry is free. Wagon rides, snacks, and carnival games cost extra.
- Magic of the Jack O'Lanterns at Hudson Gardens, 6115 S. Santa Fe Drive, on select nights through November 1. The October 3 listing shows 6:30 to 10:30 p.m.
What the city is designing for the street you're walking
The Project Main Street open house runs Monday, October 5, from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Half Moon Room at Arapahoe Community College, 5900 S. Santa Fe Drive. The city's September business newsletter calls it a gallery-style presentation, with interactive ways to give feedback and project staff on hand to talk.
Here is where the project stands, according to the city's Let's Talk Littleton project page:
- City Council unanimously adopted the Project Downtown Concept Plan in November 2024, and Main Street is its highest-priority major project.
- The city secured $32.6 million for the Main Street improvements in 2026.
- The concept includes new trees and amenity areas, gathering spaces, raised planters, specialty paving, event-closure infrastructure, and gateways at the east and west ends of the street.
- Current work includes preliminary design, a parking and curbside strategy, checks on cost and buildability, and construction phasing meant to keep downtown businesses accessible.
The funding came largely from financing. On August 1, 2026, the city reported that council had approved up to $30 million in Certificates of Participation, to be repaid from generally available city revenues, and that investors paid $32.8 million for them. The city reports that figure and the $32.6 million project figure on different bases, so they shouldn't be read as the same number.
The city hasn't published a construction start date. Its September materials describe Main Street as entering preliminary design and say that phase will produce a construction strategy. Earlier concept-stage reporting from Colorado Community Media described several ideas: a possible curbless street running building-edge to building-edge on the center blocks between Curtis and Prince, sidewalk bump-outs for seating and outdoor dining, and a drop from roughly 80 street parking spaces to about 40. Those were concept ideas, not final engineering. The parking count is exactly what Project PARKing is studying now, and the city is asking where people see parking problems or opportunities downtown and along Littleton Boulevard.
This is where October connects to the project. Event-closure infrastructure is meant to make temporary street closures easier to set up. Goblin Giveout and Haunts of Littleton already use downtown as walking space, and the next big event is the Candlelight Walk on Friday, November 27, from 5 to 8 p.m., with a parade, tree lighting, drone show, and photos with Santa. Anyone who scans skeletons on a Saturday, walks a ghost tour from the station, or tries to park for Goblin Giveout will have firsthand experience the design team is asking to hear about on October 5.
At Live Grand Team, we follow how projects like Project Main Street change daily life in the communities we serve, from the parking plan to the street layout. If you'd like to talk about what downtown's next few years could mean for your corner of Littleton, Let's Connect.