Photo illustration from reference photographyIce 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.
For readers · Free
Halloween in your pocket.
Choose email, text or both on The Fort List launch list, and the complete issue comes to you before Halloween.
Join the launch list ↗For local businesses
The free half pages are gone.
The first 50 businesses have claimed theirs, or the Tue, Oct 20 deadline has passed. You can still be in the magazine: a full page backs our first print issue and runs in the Halloween issue too. An ad never buys coverage, and the hunt stays free.
First print issue · founding rates
Three ways to be in our first printed issue
Our print goal, once signed, sends it to press. If we fall short, every payment is refunded in full.
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
- 1Claim your spot; we hold it.
- 2We email an invoice, due on signing. Clicking Claim charges nothing.
- 3We design your ad free, or you send art; you approve the proof.
- 4Press once our print goal is signed. Short of it: full refund.
Want a locked price across four issues, or the back cover? See the full rate card.
Help shape the magazine
What do you want this to be?
Two minutes. It goes straight into what we build next.
Rankings and reviews are never for sale. Advertisers buy pages, never opinions.
Questions? advertise@icecreamfortcollins.com · Full advertiser info · Fort Collins, CO