Being scared is a feeling that most people tend to stay away from if they can help it. However, for many, the adrenaline rush that comes with feeling frightened is sometimes too good to pass up. Haunted houses offer guests a place to be scared while also providing a sense of security. They are a lot more fun when you know there is no real risk of being harmed.
Here’s where you can get spooked in the Miami Valley:
Brimstone Haunt at Renaissance Park
Fri & Sat Ticket Office opens at 7pm and closes at 11:30pm. The Hayride queue line closes at 11:45. All other attractions will run until lines are empty.
525 Brimstone Road in Wilmington, OH 45177
Brimstone Haunted Hayride: 1 mile ride through our haunted cornfield on a tractor-pulled wagon. 20 minute ride. Intensity level 2.
Forgotten Forest: Features a quarter-mile outdoor, wooded walkthrough. 20 minute walk. Intensity level 4.
Psychosis: Features a high intensity indoor walkthrough. 5 – 10 minute walk. Intensity level 5.
Zombie Assault: Features a high tech and frightening ride in our zombie attack simulator bus.
5 minute simulation Intensity level 3.
Dead Shot Paintball: Features a shooting gallery with window mounted paintball guns and moving zombie targets. 3 – 5 minute shooting gallery. Intensity 1.
Tickets:
Hayride $18, Forgotten Forest $17, Psychosis $7, Zombie Assault $7, Paintball $11
Hayride + Forgotten Forest + Psychosis Combo Ticket $30
Hayride + Forgotten Forest + Psychosis + Fast Pass Ticket $50
Dayton Scream Park
Fri & Sat dark – midnight
5117 Valley Pike Dayton, OH 45424
Celebrating 20th year anniversary!! New Structure, New scenes, New props, New monsters, over 30 new scenes with all New COMPOUND!!!
Tickets $20 onFridays, $25 on Saturdays,
VIP options available. Concessions are available and parking is free.
Face Your Fears: Hotel of Terror
1291 Cold Spring Rd., Springfield, Ohio 45502
Every Friday & Saturday through October 29th, from 8 pm to Midnight.
Face your fears is an intense haunted house, that will take you back in time to a hotel from the 1850’s. Truly haunted. What’s your phobia?
Tickets: $20, Fast Pass $30, VIP (includes touch passes) $40
Touch Pass $2
Halloween Haunt at Kings Island
Kings Island Dr., Mason, OH 45034
Fri – Sun through Oct 30th, opens at 6pm
The fully transformed amusement park features bone-chilling scare mazes and scare zones, sinister live entertainment and hundreds of horrifying creatures lurking in the fog and hiding in every corner of the park waiting for you. Haunting Halloween activities plus some of the most exhilarating night rides in the country, including The Beast, Orion, Diamondback, Mystic Timbers and Banshee make this one of the best things to do for Halloween in the Cincinnati area.
Halloween Haunt is intended for mature audiences, not recommended for children under 13.
Tickets: $44.99, Fright Line $60
Haunted Castle of Carnage and Trail
Friday & Saturdays Dusk till Midnight, Sundays Dusk till 10pm
1213 Harshman Rd, Riverside, OH 45431
This Haunt is not for the faint of heart. Concessions on site. This year you will not believe the changes!! Plus EVERY Group will get one Free Photo of their group at our Photo Booth!!!
The Riverside Jaycees have been scaring the YELL out of you since 1986. Run by 100% volunteers from actors to the crew that builds. All proceeds are used to help children and families in our community.
Tickets: $17, VIP/Fast pass ticket available Fri & Sat $25
Young’s Jersey Dairy Haunted Wagon Rides
Friday & Saturday Nights 7:30-10pm
6880 Springfield-Xenia Rd, Yellow Springs, OH 45387
These Haunted Wagon Ride and Scary Stories are designed for families with children. Weather permitting. A responsible adult must accompany all children under age 11. This is a family fun activity that will help get you into the proper Halloween spirit!
PARENTS: We have designed this ride for families with children. We don’t touch, grab, or chase anyone, but we do try to make it scary and fun. The ride goes into a very dark cornfield where our ‘monsters and goblins’ live. There will be chainsaws (without the chains!), boo’s and other scary things going on.
Tickets: $14 for adults and children ages 6 and older. Ages five and under are $6
After arriving at the farm, purchase your tickets at Cowvin’s Corn Bin, (located between the restaurant and the barn).
Hell’s Dungeon
Fri & Sat 8-midnight thru Nov 5th
located in the rear of the Eastown Shopping Center3866 Linden Ave, Dayton, OH 45432
3866 Linden Ave, Dayton, OH 45432
From the deep backwoods, to the abandoned halls of an archaic medical facility, and to the glitz and glamour of a traveling carnival…. We have such sights to show you. 3 Unsettling glimpses into the darkness that plagues the soul of men. A true vision into the horror that awaits all at the end of their days. You may run… You may hide… But we’re coming for you….
Tickets: $24, Fast Pass additional $10
Land of Illusion
Haunted Scream Park
Fri & Sat 7pm – 1am through Oct 30th
8762 Thomas Rd, Middletown, OH 45042
“Live” spooks, lunatics, and chainsaw-wielding madmen, guaranteeing you a different fright each night with 6 major haunted attractions.
DR. PSYCHO’S HAUNTED ESTATE
MIDDLETOWN HAUNTED TRAIL
DYSPHORIA *NEW*
PHOBIA
TEMPLE OF TERROR
KILLER KLOWNS
Tickets: Single attraction pass $25
General Admission $55- grants you unlimited access to all 6 attractions
Season Pass $99 Fast Pass available for additional cost
Lewisburg Haunted Cave
4392 Swisher Mill Road, Lewisburg, OH 4533
Friday & Saturday 7-midnight through Oct 29th
With 500 ft of haunted bridges and 30,000 live bats, the Lewisburg Haunted Cave is located deep underground and been the #1 Rated Haunt for two years in row by Ohio Valley Haunts. Open rain/shine (it’s dry underground).
Tickets: $25, $30 on Oct 1, 8, 15,22 and 29, kids under 10 $25. Fast Pass $60
Mine Tour $15 adults, $5 children 10 and under
A historic tour of the Lewisburg Limestone mine, home of the Haunted Cave and Ohio’s largest brown bat habitat. The tour explains the history of the mining operation and is NOT SCARY, takes you into a different part of the mine than the Haunted cave, you are likely to see bats. The ride takes about 40 minutes. The Mine tour is partially outdoors and not sheltered from the rain and will run during a light rain and cold temperatures. We will not run during a thunderstorm or otherwise miserable conditions.
Sidney Haunted Woods
2232 W Russell Rd Sidney, OH 45365
Saturday’s 7:30pm through Oct 29th
Evil clowns, zombies, silent hill burn victims and more at Sidney Haunted Woods. Come sit by the fire before you are taken back to our 3/4 mile track of relentless terror. See if you make it out ALIVE or if you will become one of the bodies left behind. We are located in Sidney, north of Dayton and south of Lima.
Tickets: $16, $12 for kids age 10 and under, first responders, veterans and active military personnel.
Cash only
Wilmington Haunted Hollow Ride
Opens Sat, Sept 24th, then every Fri & Sat til Oct 29th 7:30pm – midnight
1261 W Dalton Road, Wilmington, OH 45177
Each and every fall the fields of Clinton County come alive with screams of horror as Fire Breathing Semi’s chase unsuspecting victims on a Haunted Bus Ride.
The Ride
Fire Breathing Semi’s chase unsuspecting victims on a Haunted Bus Ride through a forest filled with monsters, madness, and mayhem. Be brave, come take a ride.
Slaughter Hotel
The once lively and glamorous Slaughter Hotel is now abandoned and in disrepair. Hope you enjoy your stay!
Eville Asylum
Formally a State Funded Institution, not all patients survived, those that have died now haunt these halls.
Field of Terrors
As the name implies, this Haunted Maze is a terror-fying walk through a field where evil never sleeps.
General admission $40, VIP Speed Pass $60, Haunted Hallow Ride $25
We’ll add more attractions as they open for the season. If you know of one we’ve missed, drop us a note.
