Ghouls and goblins walked alongside Marios and Luigis as they filled their bags with candy on Shelden Avenue during the city’s 14th annual trick-or-treating event. Even police officers got into the act, wearing pig snouts while patrolling the street.

A half-hour into it, the event had already drawn a large crowd of families, said Amy Zawada, community and business development director for Houghton.

Sonia Schumacher of Hancock was with her daughter, Winnie Voldarski, 6, who dressed up as Cinderella.

“I like to see all the costumes and the little kids, and she’s got her friends and cousins that she comes with,” Schumacher said.

Garrett Neese/Daily Mining Gazette Crowds watch one of the heats in the inaugural Halloweenie Dog Race during Treat Street Saturday. Racers were divided between small, medium and large dogs.

Saturday’s display included some elaborate costumes. Weston Richards, 3, of Allouez, was dressed as Karl Frederiksen from “Up,” complete with a house and balloons.

“He just loves that movie,” said his mother, Whitney Richards.

The family’s done Treat Street every year, she said. Asked what they enjoyed most, she said “Everything.”

“It’s just so nice to be out and enjoy the city,” she said.

Now in its 14th year, Treat Street keeps entertaining new generations.

Garrett Neese/Daily Mining Gazette Jayla Beutler, 10, of Hancock, dressed as a deceased ballerina, adds to her bag outside during Treat Street Saturday.

Maverick Mills, 18 months, of Laurium, was at Treat Street for the first time. He rode down the street in a Radio Flyer wagon, pulled by his mother, Kayla Mills.

They got to visit his dad, who’s a police officer with Houghton. And they got to see what Treat Street is all about.

For Maverick’s first Treat Street, the family went with a dog costume.

“His favorite word is doggy, so he had to be a doggy,” Mills said.

Actual dogs have been a common sight during Treat Street in years past. This year, they got to be front and center with the Upper Peninsula Halloweenie Dog Race and Costume Parade, organized by Visit Keweenaw.

Garrett Neese/Daily Mining Gazette Weston Richards, 3, of Allouez, enjoys Treat Street Saturday while dressed as Carl Fredericksen from “Up,” a favorite movie.

“Honestly, we love our dogs here in the Copper Country, and this just seemed like something that would be a lot of fun to do,” said Visit Keweenaw Executive Director Brad Barnett. “So it was an opportunity to take Treat Street and add something to it for the dogs, because there’s always a lot of dogs in costumes here.”

Barnett was pleasantly shocked by Saturday’s crowd, which lined both sides of the race track and also cheered on from the Vault parking deck.

“I didn’t know there were going to be a lot of people that would watch it, and then we were literally surrounded,” he said. “We had a crowd up on the parking deck cheering on us, and that was really cool. The community came out and supported it, and we had great volunteers. It was a great, great event.”

It also raised money for a good cause. The event raised about $500 for the Copper Country Humane Society, Barnett said.

Dogs first showed off their costumes to the crowd during a stroll up and down the race course, located east of Isle Royale Street. The pooches dressed up as hot dogs, spiders and more.

Garrett Neese/Daily Mining Gazette Trick-or-treaters line up for candy during Treat Street in Houghton Saturday.

After that, the races began. They were split into three heats for small, medium and large dogs. Some sprinted to the finish, while others stopped to sniff the crowd or fellow contestants.

Erin Barnett’s dog, Hazel, wore a bumblebee costume. It had been a toss-up between that and a frog, she said, but she opted for the brighter colors.

“It was a lot of fun,” she said. “I’m happy that we had the opportunity to do something like this. We were at the Renaissance Festival in Minnesota and saw they did something similar and so it was neat to get to participate.”

When people on the deck weren’t watching the races, they were having fun at the Keweenaw Chamber of Commerce’s Family Fun Event, which had goats, rabbits, turtles and other animals to pet and feed, along with horses to ride.

Colton Miller, 6, of Hancock, got to feed a goat. An avid Spiderman fan, he wears the costume every time there’s a new movie, said his mother, Desiree Butler.

Garrett Neese/Daily Mining Gazette Trick-or-treaters line up for candy during Treat Street in Houghton Saturday.

Also the mother of an 11-year-old, she’s been coming to Treat Street almost as long as it’s been around.

“It’s a safe environment and it’s fun for the kids, so it’s easy,” she said

Amanda Makela of Dollar Bay walks her dog Basil, a 9-year-old basset hound, during Saturday's Upper Peninsula Halloweenie Dog Race and Costume Parade, held as part of Treat Street in Houghton.