SOUTH BEND, Ind.-- The Indiana Dinosaur Museum is kicking off Fall and Halloween celebrations early this year with a weekend full of activities.

Today, ABC57 stopped by the Indiana Dinosaur Museum for their fourth annual Wicked Weekend from Oct 24 to 26.

Founder of the Indiana Dinosaur Museum, Mark Tarner, says that families are invited to participate in the Fall activities this weekend.

Activities this year include coffin races, hayrides, a family-friendly haunted house, and pumpkin tours.

" I think community happiness is, of course, is based around rituals and holidays and celebrations," Tarner tells ABC57, "we want to symbolize that."