Here's our 2025 guide to all the haunts you can shake a broomstick at. It's divided into three sections, Wholesome Horrors for kids and family. Haunts for those old enough (FINE PRINT-by legal standards of those haunts...or needing a guardian, because theme parks aren't daycare)
Mary - The Haunting of Worth Home (Maze)
Venture into that creepy house at the end of the street. Within the walls hides a terrifying secret. No one foolish enough to go in there has ever come back out alive. But I’m sure this time it will be different, right? Be careful not to stare into the mirrors too long…you never know what’s staring back from the other side.
The Conjuring Universe, SAW: Legacy of Terror, and Trick ‘r Treat all have mazes this year.
Los Angeles Haunted Hayride
select nights SEPT 19 - NOV 2
Griffith Park 4730 Crystal Springs Drive Los Angeles, CA, 90027
Always considered the top tier haunt to do, we can't wait hear how this year goes.
Like previous Delusion productions, Harrowing Of Hell furthers their novel “moving play” concept. Guests move through a storied venue as they play their part in a haunting, live narrative that unfolds around them.
For 2025, we will also introduce a vastly improved lounge experience that encompasses two floors. Enjoy themed spirits, food, and seductive music to revel in your sinful ways!
And, Experiences, where you're part of the show and probably can't escape!
Wholesome Horrors
Halloween Time at the Disneyland Resort & California Adventure
August 23 through October 31, 2025
August 23 through October 31, 2025
Disneyland, Anaheim, CA 92802
$$
Disneyland wants those kid dollars so Halloween once again starts first at this house of mouse. Special decked out rides, goods and food are all in a Halloween style at the parks. And, special trick-or-treat missions seems like another experience you can pay for. Check their site for more info.
Starts September 14
Natural History Museum
$10 per person. General Admission also required.
Free for Members. Reservation required.
*Please note that tickets are for 30 minute time slots
Free for Members. Reservation required.
*Please note that tickets are for 30 minute time slots
"This
one-of-a-kind seasonal pavilion gives you a rare glimpse into the
secret life of spiders. Stroll through the open air pavilion to see
hundreds of orb weavers and their amazing webs all around you. Then
enter the spider den to peer into enclosed habitats that house different
species from tarantulas to jumping spiders. Along the way you'll hear
amazing stories and get answers to all your arachnid questions from our
Museum Educators."
HAUNTS
Select Nights, Thursday, September 4 through Sunday, November 2
100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, CA 91608
$
Here's the many Halloween brands you find in the park this year via mazes and the tram ride:
Terror Tram: Enter the Blumhouse, Five Nights at Freddy's, The Terrifier, Fallout, Jason Universe (hate that name), Horrors of the Wyatt Sicks (WWE Superstar), Poltergeist
and then originals like Scarecrow featuring music by Slash, and Monstruos 3: The Ghosts of Latin America. Yes, the music by Slash thing is a weird pull, but the man loves horror. So, you're coming here for pulls based on movies and shows you know. Not sure if Poltergeist is still that poular, but whatever.
Select nights from September 18 through
November 1
8039 Beach Blvd, Buena Park, CA 90620
$$
"Knott’s Scary Farm is the longest-running and most haunting Halloween theme park event in Southern California. With over 50 years of nightmares, unimaginable scares and innovative thrills, Knott’s Scary Farm has left no tomb unearthed, no crypt un-rattled and no fear untouched.
New Offerings
Mary - The Haunting of Worth Home (Maze)
Venture into that creepy house at the end of the street. Within the walls hides a terrifying secret. No one foolish enough to go in there has ever come back out alive. But I’m sure this time it will be different, right? Be careful not to stare into the mirrors too long…you never know what’s staring back from the other side.
The Zoo (Maze)
Something has taken over the abandoned zoo. What was once a lively showcase of exotic animals has been transformed into a terrifying laboratory of animal/human experiments. Hybrid creatures have turned on their creators, and the compound is crawling with mutant soldiers thirsty for revenge. Rumors are swirling that the mutated monsters are planning something that will change everything!
Something has taken over the abandoned zoo. What was once a lively showcase of exotic animals has been transformed into a terrifying laboratory of animal/human experiments. Hybrid creatures have turned on their creators, and the compound is crawling with mutant soldiers thirsty for revenge. Rumors are swirling that the mutated monsters are planning something that will change everything!
Select Nights, September 19 - November 2, 2025
26101 Magic Mountain Pkwy, Valencia, CA 91355
$$
Select nights SELECT NIGHTS SEPT 19 - NOV 2
1126 Queens Hwy, Long Beach, CA 90802
$$
We're
glad Dark Harbor is back, the whole Shaq themed Halloween was funny,
but made no sense. And they never used the name Haunted Shaq.
"Each fall the Queen Mary transforms the ship and surrounding harbor into a massive Halloween festival featuring haunted mazes, hundreds of monsters, immersive attractions, live entertainment, VIP experiences, themed bars and lounges, carnival rides, festive eats and treats, instagrammable moments and more!"
select nights SEPT 19 - NOV 2
Griffith Park 4730 Crystal Springs Drive Los Angeles, CA, 90027
$$
One
of our favorites of the season. You get on a hayride and get driven
into the scares. We've enjoyed the different themes per year and hope
they keep coming up with some awesome new ideas.
This year they've team up with Elvira? Yes, the Mistress of the Dark is part of the scares this year with a specially themed haunt and her voice being part of the hayride itself as your own night DJ.
715 N Ontario Street
Dusk till 10pm
Burbank
Free, Donations welcome
One of the best free Haunted Houses in the LA area. Created by someone who work in the industry, we believe a former Disney Imagineer. It's amazing what is pulled off and for free.
Select Nights
Sept 26- Nov 2nd
285 N. Moorpark Road
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
$$
The largest indoor professional walk-through haunted house in Los Angeles Metro and All of Southern California. 142 bone chilling rooms across 32,000 square feet of pure terror.
All 12 of Reign of Terror's theme attractions are connected! As you exit one attraction, you immediately enter the next!
Each attraction is designed to target - and maximize – a different part of your deepest fears in the most thrilling way you can imagine!
Each attraction is designed to target - and maximize – a different part of your deepest fears in the most thrilling way you can imagine!
Oct 3- Nov 1
Three SoCal locations
$
Usually creepy clowns are washing your car. And, trying to get in....ahahahaha.
"Prepare for a spine-chilling experience like no other as Southern California’s Haunted Carwash makes its highly anticipated return this Halloween season. After five years of spine-tingling success, the Haunted Carwash returns this October 2025."
Experiences
Sept 20th-Nov 3rd every night,
$$$
Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here
The famed inscription adorns the arched entryway leading into the belly of Pagan’s Path; a supernatural cult that has taken the metaphors of Dante’s Inferno far too literally, seducing followers through the circles of hell as a necessary preparation for the afterlife.
The famed inscription adorns the arched entryway leading into the belly of Pagan’s Path; a supernatural cult that has taken the metaphors of Dante’s Inferno far too literally, seducing followers through the circles of hell as a necessary preparation for the afterlife.
For 2025, we will also introduce a vastly improved lounge experience that encompasses two floors. Enjoy themed spirits, food, and seductive music to revel in your sinful ways!
Oct 3-Nov 1 Fri-Sat
4850 Lankershim Boulevard, North Hollywood, CA 91601
Advance tickets $24 online / $28 at door
"Part
twisting haunted house and part badass theatre attraction, URBAN DEATH
TOUR OF TERROR will reach into the depths of the darkest corners of the
human psyche to bring you their most horrifying show yet. There's
nothing family friendly about this haunt anymore, folks... The monstrous
freaks are here to terrify and shock you to your core! After facing the
spine-chilling and often risqué maze upon entrance, guests will be
treated to a captivating live show consisting of a series of shocking
and bloody wordless vignettes and mind-blowing physical performances.
Guests will then face frightening new creatures hiding within a reversed
version of the scream-inducing TOUR OF TERROR maze on their way back
into the real world. "
