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    Costumed dogs and people at dusk in Heritage Square during Howl-O-Ween 2025
    ✦ A FREAKY FOOT TOURS HALLOWEEN TRADITION

    Best of Flag 2026 · Guided Tour Company · Voting closes Saturday, October 31

    Loved the parade? Vote for the people who put it on.

    Howl-O-Ween is created, hosted and paid for by Freaky Foot Tours, a mother-and-son tour company from downtown Flagstaff. Best of Flag is the Arizona Daily Sun readers' choice vote, and staying on that list is what keeps the parade free to watch. Two ways to vote, under a minute each.

    Best of Flagstaff 2023, 2024 & 2025 100% of profits benefit High Country HumaneFree to watch
    Text 651 to vote Vote online

    Text 651 to (928) 494-2394, then vote online at azdailysun.com/contests/best-of-flag. Both take under a minute.

    Two Ways To Vote

    Both take under a minute.

    Voting closes Saturday, October 31. Do one now and the other when you get a second; doing both goes further than you'd think.

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    From your phone

    Text 651 to (928) 494-2394

    One text. The number belongs to the Arizona Daily Sun's contest line and the code is ours. On a phone, the button opens a text with the code already typed; just hit send.

    Text 651 to voteStandard messaging rates apply
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    Then online

    Vote online at the Arizona Daily Sun

    The button lands you on our category at azdailysun.com/contests/best-of-flag. If you arrive at the front page instead, the path is:

    1. 1Services
    2. 2Guide Tour Company
    3. 3Freaky Foot Tours
    Vote onlineOpens the Arizona Daily Sun ballot

    The full story of the three wins, and why a readers' choice award cannot be bought, is on the Best of Flag page

    How A Vote Helps Howl-O-Ween

    The parade costs money and makes none for us.

    That is by design. Here is how one vote for a tour company turns into dogs in costume on a closed street next October.

    Tours pay for the parade

    Howl-O-Ween is created, hosted and paid for by Freaky Foot Tours. The closed block, the permits, the tent, the printing and the hours all come out of the tour season, and 100% of the event's profits go to High Country Humane.

    Visitors read Best of Flag before they book

    Best of Flag is decided by locals, in print, once a year. When a traveler sees it next to our name they book local, and a locally owned company booked solid in October is a company that can close a street for dogs in costume.

    A fourth win helps the grant applications

    To grow the parade we are starting to apply for community grants and sponsorships for 2027. A readers' choice award is exactly the kind of local proof those applications ask for.

    Howl-O-Ween has run on the tour company's own money and a lot of volunteer hours since the first parade. Freaky Foot Tours has walked downtown Flagstaff since 2015; the parade is the company giving an afternoon back to the town that votes for it.

    Text 651 to vote Vote online

    Make 2027 Possible

    Help us keep the tradition going.

    One Saturday a year takes a crew of people the rest of the year. Tell us how you want in and we will reach out when planning starts.

    VolunteerA few hours on the Saturday: the registration tent, lining up the parade, keeping the route clear, resetting the square.
    VendorA booth at Heritage Square. Makers, pet businesses, local shops and community groups.
    Sponsor or partnerA business that wants its name on the parade, or a group that can lend a hand with permits, prizes, music or the ofrenda.
    Grants and foundationsIf you work for a foundation, sit on a community fund, or have written a grant before, we would love an introduction.

    Grants. We are starting to apply for community grants and sponsorships so the parade can grow without leaning on one small company. If you work for a foundation, a business that sponsors local events, or the City, or you have written a grant before and would show us the ropes, use the form and say so. An introduction is worth a lot.

    Want this year's details instead? Vendors and volunteers for 2026

    Next Year's Crew

    Count me in for 2027

    Volunteer, vendor, sponsor, grants, prizes: one form, we sort the rest.

    Voting closes Saturday, October 31

    Three years running. Make it four, for the dogs.

    Text 651 to (928) 494-2394, then vote online at azdailysun.com/contests/best-of-flag. Both take under a minute, and both keep Howl-O-Ween free to watch next October.

    Best of Flagstaff 2023, 2024 & 2025 100% of profits benefit High Country Humane
    Text 651 to vote Vote online

    Questions about the parade? Call or text (928) 224-0518, or head back to the Howl-O-Ween page.