Your Guide to Moon Township Events in November and December 2026
October 22, 2026
October 22, 2026
Moon Township's own calendar has two events five weeks apart. Trick-or-Treat is this Saturday, October 31, from 6 to 8 p.m. The Moon Lights Holiday Festival takes over Moon Park on Saturday, December 5. Robert Morris University fills the weeks in between. Its basketball and hockey teams have nine home dates in November, and December 5 puts two RMU basketball games and the township's holiday kickoff on the same afternoon and evening.
Moon Township's Trick-or-Treat listing is short. Hours run 6 to 8 p.m. on Saturday, October 31, and the township's only other note is that it hopes everyone stays safe and has a great time.
The Moon Lights Holiday Festival runs from 5 to 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, December 5, at Moon Park, 1350 Joe DeNardo Way. It is free. The township lists Santa photos, vendors and food trucks, "and maybe a special appearance from the Grinch."
Most of the regular events between those two dates are on Robert Morris University's schedules.
The college season starts in early November, and the first week is the busiest. From Thursday, November 5 through Sunday, November 8, RMU has a home game four days in a row, split between two buildings and two sports. Here is November's home schedule, in order:
The two Niagara games land on the Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving, which is Thursday, November 26. That gives anyone hosting family from out of town a planned evening out on each of the two nights after the holiday.
The basketball games are on campus at the UPMC Events Center, 6001 University Boulevard. RMU's Ticket Central page links to single-game and season tickets for both basketball and hockey.
RMU's hockey schedules list Clearview Arena as being in "Moon Township, Pa." The rink is actually inside the 32-acre RMU Island Sports Center on Neville Island. RMU's directions page gives the address as 7600 Grand Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15225, which is different from the main campus at 6001 University Boulevard. Enter the Grand Avenue address in your GPS for a hockey game. The schedule's town label won't get you to the rink.
The rink has had several names. RMU's arena history says the facility opened in 1998 and the university bought it in 2004. It was called 84 Lumber Arena from 2012 to 2017, then went back to Colonials Arena, and was renamed Clearview Arena on October 13, 2020, through a partnership with Clearview Federal Credit Union. All 1,200 seats are on one side of an NHL-size rink, so every seat looks across the ice at the play.
It is also home to more than the NCAA teams. RMU's history page says both the men's and women's programs came back for the 2023-24 season after a fundraising campaign called "Hockey is the Goal." The same page lists RMU's four club hockey programs, its roller hockey team, the Pittsburgh Curling Club and local youth and amateur leagues as regular users of the building.
The Island Sports Center says it is open to the public year-round. One detail on its public skating page matters in November. While the NCAA season is on, weekday afternoon public skates are held on the outdoor Stadium Rink, and the center asks skaters to "dress accordingly."
The center posts its schedule one week at a time. For the week of October 19, it listed noon to 2 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, a Saturday session from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., and a Wednesday evening session from 7 to 8:30 p.m. That week's Wednesday afternoon session was cancelled. Check the current week before you go. Pre-sale tickets are sold in person on the day of the skate only, and nothing is held without full payment.
| Public skate admission | Price |
|---|---|
| Ages 5 and under | $5 |
| Ages 6 to 55 | $10 |
| Ages 56 and up | $7 |
| Groups of 10 or more, per person | $7 |
| RMU students, staff, faculty with ID | Free |
| Skate rental | $4 |
A family of four with two kids age 6 or older, all renting skates, would pay $56 for one session at these rates. Sticks and pucks aren't allowed during public skating. Hockey players use the separate stick time sessions instead, which cost $10 in the morning and $15 at peak times, with goalies free. The center also runs learn-to-skate classes, private lessons, youth and learn-to-play hockey, and adult leagues and clinics.
Hockey leaves home in December. On December 4 and 5, the women's team plays at Assumption and the men's team plays at Canisius, and neither team has a December home game at Clearview Arena. Basketball takes over on campus, and on the first Saturday of the month the RMU schedule and the township schedule overlap.
The women's game starts an hour before Moon Lights does. If you stay for the whole game, you'll get to Moon Park after the festival has started, and the Santa photo line may already be long. Families planning both should decide ahead of time whether to leave at halftime or arrive late at the park. The men's game at 1 p.m. leaves plenty of time to get from one to the other.
The rest of December stays on campus. The women play Green Bay on Thursday, December 3, at 6 p.m. and Shippensburg on Friday, December 11, at 7 p.m. The men host Monmouth on Sunday, December 13, at 2 p.m. Sunday, December 20, is another doubleheader. The women play Mercyhurst at 11 a.m. and the men play Vermont at 3 p.m. The men's last home game of 2026 is against Ohio on Wednesday, December 23, at 2 p.m. Schools are often on winter break by then, so it may be an easy outing for families with kids.
For Moon Township, the season follows a predictable pattern. The township holds the two Saturdays at either end, and the university fills the weeks between with games on University Boulevard and on Grand Avenue across the river.
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