Get ready Halloween-heads — the season is upon us, and some of the scariest haunted attractions around the country are putting the final touches on their scream-inducing masterpieces. America Haunts, the premier purveyor of fear-based entertainment, has announced its 2023 lineup of frightful experiences.
America Haunts attractions are known for Hollywood quality makeup and costuming, innovative design, technical excellence and absolutely terrifying storytelling. Each attraction is unique, offering unrivaled thrills and chills — an immersive experience full of fear-filled fun. If you can handle the terror, here is this year’s slate of high-level haunts and their opening dates:
Kansas City – Beast — opens September 22. Time travel through a medieval abandoned castle to the infamous swamp town and Werewolf Forest. This haunt's epic experience brings screams and laughter.
Baltimore – Bennett’s Curse — opens September 23. Souls travel far and wide to this haunted domain be spooked above and beyond, even to haunt experts' expectations.
Fort Worth — Cutting Edge – opens September 30. No bones about it, this one offers high-level scares with cutting-edge special effects and the nationally acclaimed zombie drum line featuring apparition-like feats and beats.
Detroit — Erebus – opens September 15. Subjects become part of the mad scientists' experiments into a terror-filled time warp that not only is a transformative bucket list experience but one that warrants return visits.
San Diego — The Haunted Trail of Balboa Park – opens September 23. The renowned makers of the Haunted Hotel decided to shift gears and focus massive scares on their mile-long trail and maze.
New York — Headless Horseman and Hayrides – September 23. The trek to Ulster Park is a no-brainer to experience the legend while screaming for life in the enormous and famously scary haunt, hayrides and corn maze.
Atlanta - Netherworld — opens September 22. Terror is taken to another dimension, with indescribable beings, from phantoms to the primordial, that make a frightful experience for the ages.
Greensboro — Spooky Woods — opens September 23. Scary meets adventure for the best of times with this bona fide buffet of choices from Club Spooky and corn mazes to an all-out haunted trail.
Boston — Spooky World – opens September 22. This scare-filled oasis of nightmares has many unexplained forces in the darkness, plus lively options for enjoying Zombie Paintball, a beer garden, games and fire pits.
Baton Rouge — The 13th Gate – opens September 29. When the gothic gate opens, it beckons visitors into an immersive, haunted world with secrets for scaring that make it undeniably fun.
Philadelphia — The Bates Motel and Haunted Hayride – opens September 22. Hitch a hayride inside this favorite haunt where three generations put their blood and sweat into the best of scaring souls for impressive realism and fright.
Cincinnati — The Dent Schoolhouse – opens September 15. Reliving the terror committed in this place bends the mind and amps the adrenalin. This horror isn't a drill as visitors go from cafeteria to classroom to be schooled in scary fun.
Dallas — Thrillvania – opens October 7. This immersive terror experience with gigantic thrills that send chills from head to toe.
Salt Lake City — Nightmare on 13th – opens September 15. Relentless scaring starts within seconds of entering, testing the wits and the grit running the gauntlet of monsters as things intensify from screams to terror for an adrenalin win.
Paducah — Talon Falls Screampark – opens September 29. Things get real as this behemoth scare park puts it all out there to be among the most menacing to earn every scream, jump scare and chest-pounding heart.