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Ice Cream Fort Collins · Halloween 2026

Your October, with a little local mischief.

Old Town's Halloween hunt, the October calendar, and where to go for ice cream. Free to read on your phone.

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Halloween in your pocket.

Choose email, text or both on The Fort List launch list, and the complete issue comes to you before Halloween.

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For local businesses

A free half page, for the first 50.

  1. 1Send your logo, photos and offer. About five minutes.
  2. 2We design the ad. You approve the proof.
  3. 3It runs in the Halloween issue, and your founding rate is locked for our first print issue.

No contract, no card. Claim by Tue, Oct 20, or when all 50 spots are taken. An ad never buys coverage, and the hunt stays free.

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The Halloween issue

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ContentsThe Fort Collins Halloween Hunt: how to playThe Big Calendar: Section openerRead the Halloween issue

First print issue · founding rates

Three ways to be in our first printed issue

$9,000 signed by Thu, Oct 15 sends it to press. If we fall short, every payment is refunded in full. Want it free instead? The first 50 businesses get a free half page ad in the digital Halloween issue: claim your free ad.

Half page

$395

per issue

A half page in our first print issue.

You get:

  • Half a page in our first print issue, on racks around Fort Collins
  • We design it free, or send your own art
  • You approve the proof before it prints
  • A Featured listing on icecreamfortcollins.com

For: a shop or cafe on the hunt route.

Full page

$650

per issue

A full page in our first print issue.

You get:

  • A full page in our first print issue, on racks around Fort Collins
  • We design it free, or send your own art
  • You approve the proof before it prints
  • A Featured listing on icecreamfortcollins.com

For: a business that wants the whole page.

One available

Presenting Partner

$3,000

Halloween issue

Your name on the whole issue.

You get:

  • The centerfold spread, presented by you
  • The issue's "presented by" credit
  • A full-page ad inside
  • Website and newsletter placement

For: a bank, lender, title company or realtor.

A magazine sponsorship: it buys placement, never a story. Not a sponsorship of the hunt event.

How it works

  1. 1Claim your spot; we hold it.
  2. 2We email an invoice, due on signing. Clicking Claim charges nothing.
  3. 3We design your ad free, or you send art; you approve the proof.
  4. 4Press once $9,000 is signed for our first print issue, by Thu, Oct 15. Short of $9,000: full refund.

Want a locked price across four issues, or the back cover? See the full rate card.

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