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/ October 25, 2026
Howl-O-Scream is an annual Halloween haunt event hosted by United Parks & Resorts, running on select nights each October at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, Busch Gardens Williamsburg, SeaWorld San Antonio, SeaWorld Orlando, and SeaWorld San Diego. The event debuted in 1999 simultaneously at Busch Gardens…
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/ October 15, 2026
Fright Nights is the annual Halloween event hosted by Warner Bros. Movie World on Australia’s Gold Coast in Queensland. What began in 2006 as a single-night “Halloween Family Fun Night” built around a Scooby-Doo theme sold out so quickly that organizers extended it to three…
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/ October 14, 2026
Headless Horseman Hayrides and Haunted Houses has been spooking visitors on a 65-acre farm in Ulster Park, New York, since September 20, 1992, when founders Michael and Nancy Jubie opened the attraction just a month after buying the property. Michael Jubie, a former undercover NYPD…
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/ October 3, 2026
Netherworld Haunted House is a seasonal, walk-through Halloween attraction near Atlanta, Georgia, known for building original storylines and monsters rather than leaning on movie licenses. Founded by Ben Armstrong and Billy Messina, it opened in 1997 in a small Kennesaw storefront before growing into one…
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/ September 30, 2026
Terror Behind the Walls was the annual Halloween haunted house staged inside Eastern State Penitentiary, the crumbling 19th-century prison in Philadelphia that once held Al Capone. What began in 1991 as a single-night fundraiser to help preserve the decaying site grew into a sprawling, multi-attraction…
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/ September 25, 2026
Tricks and Treats is the Halloween event at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, California. In 2026 it runs on Saturdays and Sundays from September 19 through November 1. The park describes it as a family-friendly daytime celebration that happens before sunset and focuses on…
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/ September 25, 2026
Pumpkins at Kentucky Kingdom is a family fall festival at the Louisville theme park, now in its fifth season. It runs Wednesdays through Sundays from October 1 through November 1, 2026. The big change for 2026 is that the Jack O’ Lantern Spectacular, a hand-carved…
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/ September 25, 2026
Brick or Treat is Legoland Florida’s daytime Halloween event in Winter Haven. In 2026 it runs on 21 select dates from September 5 through November 1: September 5, 6, 12, 19, 26 and 27, October 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 23…
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/ September 25, 2026
Phantom Fall Fest is Lake Compounce’s Halloween event in Bristol, Connecticut. It is the current name for the event many visitors still know as the Haunted Graveyard. The 2026 season runs from September 19 through November 1 on select days, and each day is split…
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/ September 25, 2026
Happy Halloween Weekends is Holiday World’s fall event in Santa Claus, Indiana. In 2026 it runs on Saturdays and Sundays from September 19 through November 1, which makes seven weekends. The park has added an extra weekend this year. New for 2026 are the stage…
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/ September 25, 2026
Fright Fest 2026 runs on select nights from September 12 to November 1 at Mid America Adventure in Eureka, Missouri. The park was known as Six Flags St. Louis until it was renamed on August 27, 2026. The property was sold to EPR Properties, and…
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/ September 25, 2026
Fright Fest returns to Six Flags New England in Agawam, Massachusetts for 2026, running on select nights from September 26 through November 1. The after-dark event layers seven scare zones, haunted mazes and coasters running in the dark on top of regular park admission, with…
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/ September 25, 2026
Kennywood is calling 2026 its longest Phantom Fall Fest yet, with the haunted event running select dates from September 12 through November 1 in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania. By day it is a family-friendly fall festival with rides and trick-or-treating; after 6 p.m. the park flips…
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/ September 25, 2026
Harvest Festival at Silver Dollar City runs September 11 through October 31, 2026, making it one of the longest fall events in the Ozarks, and one of the few that skips scare actors and haunted houses entirely. If you’re trying to pin down exact dates…
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/ September 25, 2026
Dollywood’s Harvest Festival presented by Humana runs September 14 through October 31, 2026 in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. It is a daytime fall festival with live music, seasonal food and autumn decor, and it turns into Great Pumpkin LumiNights after dark, when thousands of carved pumpkins…
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/ September 25, 2026
Dark Nights is the after-dark haunt event inside Hersheypark Halloween, and 2026 is its fifth year. Hersheypark Halloween runs September 12 through November 1, 2026, across eight weekends. Dark Nights starts at 6 p.m. on each operating night, while the daytime park stays open for…
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/ September 25, 2026
ValleyScare is Valleyfair’s after-dark Halloween event in Shakopee, Minnesota. For 2026 the park lists Friday and Saturday nights from September 19 through October 31, from 7 p.m. to 11:59 p.m. The lineup is five haunted mazes and four scare zones. New this year are interactive…
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/ September 25, 2026
Halloween Haunt at Worlds of Fun in Kansas City, Missouri runs on select Fridays and Saturdays from September 19 through October 31, 2026, plus Sunday, October 25. The park promotes 15 haunt experiences in total, and the 2026 season adds three new scare zones and…
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/ September 25, 2026
Halloween Haunt at Dorney Park in Allentown, Pennsylvania, runs on select nights from September 18 through October 31, 2026. The park turns into an after-dark event with haunted mazes, open-air scare zones, live shows and night rides. The new addition for 2026 is a maze…
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/ September 25, 2026
Halloween Haunt presented by SNICKERS returns to Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia, on select nights from September 18 through November 1, 2026. The event turns the park into an after-dark scare experience with haunted mazes, scare zones and live shows. The headline addition for 2026…
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/ September 25, 2026
Six Flags Fiesta Texas turns San Antonio’s biggest theme park into a haunted playground every fall, and 2026 marks the 30th year of Fright Fest. Seven haunted houses, two new scare zones built around a circus theme, and after-dark rides fill the schedule from mid-September…
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/ September 25, 2026
Fright Fest 2026 at Six Flags Over Georgia in Austell runs on select dates from September 12 to November 1, 2026. The park keeps its normal daytime operation, and the grounds turn scary at dusk with mazes, scare zones, live shows and night rides. This…
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/ September 25, 2026
Fright Fest is the after-dark Halloween event at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington. In 2026 it runs from September 11 through November 1 on select evenings, so check the park calendar for the exact nights you want. Haunted houses are scheduled to open at…
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/ September 25, 2026
Fright Fest 2026 at Six Flags Great America runs select nights from September 19 through November 1 in Gurnee, Illinois, marking the event’s 35th year at the park. Two brand-new haunted mazes, Blair Witch: No Signal and Nightmares, headline a lineup that also adds two…
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/ September 25, 2026
Fright Fest is the after-dark Halloween event at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey, running select nights from September 18 through November 1, 2026. It layers nine haunted mazes and five walk-through scare zones onto the park’s regular roster of coasters and rides…
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/ September 25, 2026
Fright Fest is the after-dark Halloween event at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California. In 2026 it runs on select nights from September 18 through November 1, starting at 6:30 p.m. and continuing until park close. The park lists Fridays through Sundays for the…
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/ September 25, 2026
SCarowinds is Carowinds’ after-dark Halloween event, running select nights from September 11 through November 7, 2026, with haunted mazes, scare zones, live shows and the park’s coasters running after sunset. This guide covers exactly what you need before you buy: the full schedule, how the…
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/ September 25, 2026
Halloween Haunt at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio runs on select nights from September 25 through October 31, 2026. The park’s official page lists the event as Halloween Haunt Presented by SNICKERS. It is an after-dark event, so the park does not run it every…
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/ September 25, 2026
Howl-O-Scream is SeaWorld San Diego’s after-dark Halloween event. It runs on select nights from Friday, September 11 through Saturday, October 31, 2026. The park keeps the Howl-O-Scream name for 2026. For this edition, SeaWorld has added two new haunted houses, three new scare zones and…
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/ September 25, 2026
Howl-O-Scream at SeaWorld San Antonio is the park’s after-dark Halloween event, and 2026 marks its 25th anniversary. The official SeaWorld page lists select dates from September 11 through November 1, 2026, on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. The event starts at 7 p.m. and continues to…
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/ September 25, 2026
Howl-O-Scream is SeaWorld Orlando’s after-dark Halloween event, running on select nights from Sept. 11 through Oct. 31, 2026. Gates open at 6:30 p.m. and the scares start at 7:00 p.m., with five haunted houses, six scare zones, five themed bars and live shows spread across…
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/ September 25, 2026
Howl-O-Scream is the after-dark Halloween event at Busch Gardens Williamsburg in Virginia, running on select nights from September 11 through November 1, 2026. Five haunted houses, five scare zones and a lineup of horror-themed shows take over the park once the sun goes down, while…
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/ September 25, 2026
Halloween events at theme parks 2026 run from late August into the first days of November, and this page lists every one ThrillZing has a full guide for, sorted by state. Each row links to the event guide with the verified 2026 dates, haunted house…
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/ September 25, 2026
Howl-O-Scream is the after-dark Halloween event at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay. In 2026 it runs on select nights from September 11 through October 31. Gates open at 5 p.m., and the event itself starts at 7 p.m. and continues until park close. The new headliner…
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/ September 25, 2026
Halloween Horror Nights is Universal Studios Hollywood’s after-dark scare event, with haunted houses, scare zones and a Terror Tram takeover across the park. The 2026 edition runs on 42 select nights from September 3 through November 1, and each night starts at 7 p.m. For…
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/ September 23, 2026
Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor is an annual Halloween haunted attraction staged aboard and around the retired ocean liner RMS Queen Mary, permanently docked in Long Beach, California. First opened on October 1, 2010, the event transforms the historic ship’s decks, corridors, and adjacent parking areas…
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/ September 19, 2026
Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party is a separately ticketed after-hours event held at Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World, running on select nights each August through November. First held in 1995, it has grown into one of the most popular seasonal ticketed events at any Disney…
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/ September 19, 2026
Halloween Haunt returns to Canada’s Wonderland in Vaughan, Ontario for the 2026 season, taking over the park after dark on select nights from late September through Halloween week. Billed as Canada’s largest haunted theme park experience, it combines six walk-through mazes, seven outdoor scare zones…
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/ September 18, 2026
Oogie Boogie Bash – A Disney Halloween Party is a separately ticketed, after-hours Halloween event held at Disney California Adventure Park in Anaheim, California. Launched in 2019 when Disneyland moved its Halloween party from Disneyland Park to DCA and renamed it after the villain from…
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/ September 15, 2026
Halloween Horror Nights is the separately ticketed, after-dark haunt event held each fall at Universal Orlando Resort, transforming Universal Studios Florida into a gauntlet of haunted houses, scare zones, and horror-themed shows. It began in 1991 as a three-night event called “Universal Studios Fright Nights”…
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/ September 15, 2026
Knott’s Scary Farm transforms Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, California into roughly 160 acres of haunted mazes, scare zones, and live shows every fall. What began in 1973 as a modest three-night experiment dreamed up by park marketing staffers George Condos and Martha Boyd…
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/ September 14, 2026
HalloWeekends 2026 at Cedar Point runs September 17 through November 1. Seven original photos of the decorations going in: the entrance pumpkins, barrel jack-o-lanterns, Frontier Trail, and the Millennium Force gargoyle.
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