Name: 2025 Spooktacular 5K & Monster Mile
Start: 2026-10-31
End: 2026-10-31
Location: Huntsville, Alabama

About the Event

5K Course

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Here are a few race details.
PACKET PICK-UP
Packet Pick-up will be at Fleet Feet Huntsville Friday from 12-6. Please do your best to try to pick-up at Fleet Feet. Race morning packet pick-up will be available starting at 7:00 a.m.

Fleet Feet Huntsville
2722 Carl T. Jones Drive
Huntsville, AL 35802

PARKING
Parking Garage M will be open starting at 6:30 a.m.
Enter from Clinton and Church

TOILETS
There will be port o johns available next to the parking garage!

START TIMES
8:00 a.m. 5K Start (Church Street just North of the Museum of Art)
9:00 a.m. 1 Mile (Church Street) We will start as soon as all the 5K runners are finished.
9:30 a.m. Awards and Costume Contest Winners Announced. Please check in with the judges prior to 9:00 a.m.
We will run rain or shine!

SPONSORS

Mizuno

SWIFT RECOVERY

Return to Sport

Marcos Pizza

The Fresh Market

Please support our sponsors!

To view the 5K course please click here!

Fleet Feet Huntsville & Madison invites you to join runners, walkers, ghosts, and goblins of all ages at the Spooktacular 5K Run and Monster Mile on October 25, 2025 Get crafty and creative and participate in the costume contest or, better yet, compete in costume!

The 5K will begin promptly at 8am with the 1 mile at 9:00am. Awards, for both races and all costumes, will follow the 1 Mile (around 9:30am)

5K Registration Fee:

July 1st -July 31: $25

August 1st - September 31st $30

October 1st - October 24th $35

1 Mile Registration Fee:

thru September 31st: $25

October 1st - October 24th $30

Costume Contest Categories
Best animal costume

Best cartoon costume

Best celebrity costume

Best princess costume

Best rock star costume

Best sports costume

Best superhero costume

Best Group costume

Cutest costume

Funniest costume

Goriest costume

Most Halloweeny costume

Most original costume

Most politically correct

Most technologically advanced costume

Most traditional costume

Scariest costume

Ugliest costume

Top prize best of show

Questions? Please suzanne@fleetfeethuntsville.com

Races Offered

Spooktacular 5K

Oct 31, 2026

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Distance — 5K

terrain

Type — Road running

timer

08:00

Spooktacular 5K & Monster Mile

Oct 31, 2026

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Distance — Spooktacular 5K & Monster Mile

terrain

Type — Road running

timer

08:00

Monster Mile

Oct 31, 2026

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Distance — 1 Miles

terrain

Type — Road running

timer

09:00

Weather Overview

These values represent the 3-year monthly averages for October in Huntsville.

Temp (°C)

Feels Like (°C)

thermostat 11.6° / 23.9°

wb_sunny 9.7° / 22.0°

Wind (km/h)

Humidity (%)

air 10.0 /

water_drop 62.8%

Temp (°C)

Feels Like (°C)

Wind (km/h)

Humidity (%)

thermostat 11.6° / 23.9°

wb_sunny 9.7° / 22.0°

air 10.0 km/h

water_drop 62.8%

About Huntsville

Huntsville is in northern Alabama, about 20 miles from the border with Tennessee. The city is a center for missile defense and aerospace technologies, with companies like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman having major operations here. Cummings Research Park, the second largest research park in the country, is home to many of these companies.