[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.]
Every year on Halloween, at our house on the southwest side of Denver’s Stapleton neighborhood, we get somewhere between 1,100 and 1,250 trick-or-treaters.
I’m not exaggerating.
A couple of years ago, I wrote an article about how to survive Halloween in our neighborhood for a blog run by Stapleton’s master developer, Forest City. As I put it in that piece, “If you haven’t experienced Halloween in Stapleton, you haven’t really experienced Halloween.”
Here’s the time-lapse video proof. (Things always look busy but manageable until ~6:30pm. Then it gets absolutely crazy.)
2015: ~1,200 trick-or-treaters
2014: ~1,100-1,200 trick-or-treaters
2013: ~1,200 trick-or-treaters
2012: ~1,200 trick-or-treaters
I didn’t take video in 2011, but that year, I estimated we gave out ~1,270 pieces of candy, totaling ~26 lbs 6 oz.