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You are here: Home / Fall Activities / Spooky and Fun Halloween Yard Decor in Champaign-Urbana

Spooky and Fun Halloween Yard Decor in Champaign-Urbana

October 22, 2021 By Kathy Richards

Explore your own neighborhood or seek out an unfamiliar destination, keep your camera handy, and enjoy the journey

Decorating for fall is a fundamentally optimistic act. Whether you are celebrating a bountiful harvest, anticipating spooky Halloween hijinks, or simply defying the disappearing daylight, we can all unite behind the fantasy that winter will never actually arrive. Or we can pretend that skeletons are smiling because they are happy to see you. (Right?)

Skeleton on University Avenue fence
On the 800 block of West University, Champaign (chambanamoms.com photo)

Combine our friends’ and neighbors’ creativity with Central Illinois’s fickle autumn sunshine (or changeable clouds), and you just may find yourself spending an entire afternoon driving aimlessly around and stopping to take pictures whenever the inspiration hits. When you happen upon a Little Free Library sprouting seasonal decor, you know that Fall has officially arrived in Champaign-Urbana and Halloween can’t be far away.

Little Free Library decorated for Halloween
On the 100 block of West Pennsylvania, Urbana (chambanamoms.com photo)

Of course, we have a variety of articles highlighting more permanent and predictably photogenic aspects of our area:

  • Where to Instagram in Champaign-Urbana
  • 10+ Places to See Fall Colors in Champaign-Urbana
  • Where to Take Fall Family Photos in Champaign-Urbana
  • Say Cheese: Where to Take Cute Fall-themed Pics in Champaign-Urbana

This post, however, is a little different — it’s about the ephemeral, the temporary, the unexpected. The werewolves?

Urbana werewolf on porch swing
On the 1500 block of Trails Drive, Urbana (chambanamoms.com photo)
Werewolf with mouth open
On the 1500 block of South Mattis, Champaign (chambanamoms.com photo)

Even when a business sets up a Halloween display, it’s somehow … extra. Questions flood your mind: Will it still be there when you go back? Is that stapler somehow possessed? How long before the squirrels eat those pumpkins?

Pumpkin man sitting at straw desk
302 W. Springfield, Champaign (chambanamoms.com photo)

It’s about the serendipity of stumbling upon something photogenic when you visit a new neighborhood — such as Lake Falls in Savoy, where skeletons and spiders appear to have taken over.

Savoy house with skeleton ping pong
On Silver Lake Ct., Savoy (chambanamoms.com photo)
Savoy house with spiders and skeletons
On the 400 block of Lake Falls Blvd, Savoy (chambanamoms.com photo)

Or perhaps you prefer your Halloween decor in an older neighborhood, maybe with more trees and more evidence of decay?

Urbana house with Halloween graveyard
On the 1500 block of Trails Drive, Urbana (chambanamoms.com photo)
Urbana house with skeleton parents
On the 1500 block of Trails Drive, Urbana (chambanamoms.com photo)

Enjoy these last few vignettes, back in central Champaign where the trees hang low over the streets, the crows are gathering, and Halloween is almost upon us.

New Street house with skeletons and graves
On the 400 block of South New, Champaign (chambanamoms.com photo)
New Street house with giant spider
On the 1100 block of South New, Champaign — even spookier by night (chambanamoms.com photo)
Mayfair house with Halloween figures
On the 2000 block of Mayfair, Champaign (chambanamoms.com photo)
Healey Street house with Halloween inflatables
On the 1200 block of West Healey, Champaign (chambanamoms.com photo)

As the sun begins to set, the lights come on. But only the spooky lights.

Old Warson house with inflatable Halloween decor
On the 3300 block of Old Warson, Champaign (photo provided)

We hope these photos have given you the itch to Go Out and Look at Things.

Because winter is coming. And you can’t escape it.

Skeletons on University Avenue fence
On the 800 block of West University, Champaign (chambanamoms.com photo)

 

Know a place we should add to this post? Send info/pics to editor@chambanamoms.com

Filed Under: Fall Activities, Halloween, Outdoor Fun, Things To Do in CU Tagged With: autumn, champaign, Fall, Halloween decor, holiday photos, photo backdrop, photography, photos, picture, Pictures, savoy, urbana, yard decor, yard decoration

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