Start your engines and prepare for some spooky fun during Boo Drive Thru, sponsored by Mars Wrigley, a special edition of the beloved children's trick-or-treating event. Pack your car full of ghouls, ghosts, princesses and superheroes and cruise down the Zoo's North Road, all in support of Friends of the National Zoo. Supernatural sights await along your drive—and so do treat bags stuffed with M&Ms, Twix and more!
Event Details
Saturday, Oct. 24, and Sunday, Oct. 25, from 4:30-9:30 p.m.
In order to ensure that everyone stays safe this year, Boo Drive Thru is a special 2020 version of Boo at the Zoo, in which kids (and their parents) get Halloween entertainment and candy from the comfort of their own cars.
When purchasing your car pass, you will be able to choose a drive thru time and reserve up to six treat bags. All cars will enter through the Zoo’s Connecticut Avenue entrance and follow a mile-long path along the side of the Zoo. Only family-sized vehicles will be permitted to enter Boo Drive Thru.
On your drive, you will see witches, vampires, Count Pandula and other spooky sights — and get a fun photo opportunity — before receiving your treat bags at the end. After you receive your bags, you will be able to exit at the lower end of the Zoo.
Please note: Boo Drive Thru will take place rain or shine. Ticket sales are final. Bag assembly will begin two weeks prior to the event and will be completed using CDC recommendations: staff will be masked, gloved and remain 6 feet way from each other. Treats may contain nuts or dairy. Guests will be required to wear masks when their car windows are down; preassembled treat bags will be delivered to car trunks at the end of the drive unless the guest requests that the bags are handed through open car windows. Guests will not get out of their cars.
Car Passes
Friends of the National Zoo members can purchase car passes beginning Wednesday, Sept. 16. Non-members can purchase car passes beginning Wednesday, Sept. 23.
Car passes for Saturday and Sunday are sold out.
FONZ members: $45 per car pass
Non-members: $55 per car pass
Each car can reserve up to six treat bags while purchasing car passes.
Treat Donors
- Mars Wrigley
- Blume Honey Water
- Cabot Creamery Co-operative
- Charles Products Inc.
- Chase
- Children's Choice Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics
- City Dental DC
- GEICO
- Goetze’s Candy Company, Inc.
- GoGo SqueeZ
- Herr Foods Inc.
- Quaker
- UTZ Brands Inc.
- Washington Parent
- Washington Wizards
- Zolli Candy
