California Gears Up for Halloween with Haunted Happenings, Scary Good Fun & More this Weekend!

We're halfway through October, but that doesn't mean that this season's scary-good fun is slowing down! This weekend is packed with more Halloween Fun than you'll know what to do with - from thrills and chills in the evening at California's Local Haunts, to festive Fall Fun the whole family can enjoy. No matter what Halloween Activities you're looking forward to this weekend, we've got you covered - check out the list below for the scoop on all of this weekend's best Halloween Fun!

	Intermission Productions Haunted House Tracy, CA Open Friday 10/16, Saturday 10/17, Sunday 10/18 and 11 other dates ATTENTION ALL HAUNT LOVERS… Intermission Productions. . .proudly presents Haunted House?. San Joaquin County's scariest and most interactive haunted attraction is opening on October 15, 2015 and will run through November 1, 2015 in Tracy, CA.
	Fear Overload Scream Park San Leandro, CA Open Friday 10/16, Saturday 10/17, Sunday 10/18 and 11 other dates Welcome the most outrageous haunted house event in the Bay Area. As seen on CBS, ABC, Fox, and Forbes, Fear Overload Scream Park offers two horrifying haunted houses and live entertainment throughout the month of October.
	Slipknot's Scream Park Sacramento, CA Open Friday 10/16, Saturday 10/17, Sunday 10/18 and 11 other dates Welcome to the world’s most outrageous haunted house event. Produced by the twisted minds of Slipknot, Slipknot’s Scream Park offers 3 outrageous haunted houses and live horror entertainment.
	The 17th Door Haunt Experience Tustin, CA Open Friday 10/16, Saturday 10/17, Sunday 10/18 and 10 other dates The 17th Door is Orange County's most intense and most terrifying haunted house! Behind its 17 doors is an interactive experience more innovative and shocking than anything that's been tried before.
	Frightmare Farms Merced, CA Open Friday 10/16, Saturday 10/17 and 8 other dates Frightmare Farms Merced’s most terrifying haunted attractions....... Our horrifying attractions set in the heart of Merced County’s farmland will have you begging for mercy.
	Haunted Depot Benicia, CA Open Friday 10/16, Saturday 10/17, Sunday 10/18 and 5 other dates The normally mild-mannered Southern Pacific Railroad Depot will mysteriously transform into a frightful depository of ghosts, goblins and spirits daring the public to pay a visit.
	Antelope Valley Fair FEARgrounds Lancaster, CA Open Friday 10/16, Saturday 10/17, Sunday 10/18 and 6 other dates A.V. Fair FEARgrounds Oct. 16-18, 23-25, & 30-Nov.1 $15 Pre-Sale tickets are ON SALE NOW - Oct. 15 (as of 10/16: $20)! Recomennded for ages 13+.
	The Haunting of Corona Riverside, CA Open Friday 10/16, Saturday 10/17, Sunday 10/18 and 5 other dates A low-cost spine-tingling haunted house maze located in California's Inland Empire. Our motto 'Scaring for a Cure'. Our goal is to raise money for charity, while providing a fun and exciting experience.
	Callson Manor Haunted House Roseville, CA Open Friday 10/16, Saturday 10/17, Sunday 10/18 and 9 other dates GET BIT! at Callson Manor Haunted House. The most extreme Haunted House Theme Park in Sacramento has been supercharged with FEAR this year!
Friends of CID Haunted House San Bernardino, CA Open Friday 10/16, Saturday 10/17 and 4 other dates The Friends of CID offer a three-dimensional real-“life” characters to scare the day lights out of you. There are many characters that help bring our haunted house to life.
	Knott's Scary Farm Buena Park, CA Open Friday 10/16, Saturday 10/17, Sunday 10/18 and 7 other dates This Halloween season Knott's Scary Farm will be full of scary rides, frightening mazes, spooky shows, and more! Elvira, the legendary Mistress of the Dark, will return to Knott’s Scary Farm in a spectacular all-new nightly show, Elvira’s Asylum, which transports guests to an asylum of music, dance a
	Lemos Farm Pumpkins & Halloween Half Moon Bay, CA Open Saturday 10/17, Sunday 10/18 and 3 other dates There are two versions of the Scare Zone. One is the 'Halloween Fun' version for smaller kids who don't want to be really scared.
	McKamey Manor San Diego, CA Open Saturday 10/17, Sunday 10/18 and 12 other dates Be warned, this is not your standard (boo) haunted house. This is an audience participation event in which (YOU) will live your own Horror Movie.
MEF Pumpkin Patch San Jose, CA Open Friday 10/16, Saturday 10/17, Sunday 10/18 and 3 other dates The MEF Pumpkin Patch is a beloved Moreland tradition that combines family fun with community building and fundraising. This annual event is in its thirteenth year and attracts over 2,500 visitors each year.
	California's Great America Halloween Haunt Santa Clara, CA Open Friday 10/16, Saturday 10/17, Sunday 10/18 and 5 other dates Halloween Haunt will desecrate California's Great America with more blood, terror and gore than ever before! The blood curdling horror and mind-bending terror of Halloween Haunt features more than 500 ghastly creatures emerging from the darkness, and all sorts of scary rides and haunted attractions.
	Ward 13 South Pasadena, CA Open Friday 10/16, Saturday 10/17 and 4 other dates Evil Twin Studios' haunted attraction will make nightmares come true at a new location in South Pasadena. This Halloween season, sanity comes to die at WARD 13.
	Queen Mary's Dark Harbor Long Beach, CA Open Friday 10/16, Saturday 10/17, Sunday 10/18 and 8 other dates SOCAL'S ONLY HAUNT THAT IS...ACTUALLY HAUNTED! The Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor will once again rise from the depths of a rich, haunted history to frighten those who dare this October!
Alone Los Angeles, CA Open Saturday 10/17, Sunday 10/18 and 10 other dates ALONE is an ongoing, site-specific, fully-immersive and existential experience that explores the range of human emotions.
	Los Angeles Haunted Hayride Los Angeles, CA Open Friday 10/16, Saturday 10/17, Sunday 10/18 and 8 other dates Traveling the world reveals the presence and underlying unity in all cultures in their experience of fear. The notion of a dark presence exists being uncomfortably close or of a mythical evil entity that is inevitably always sitting and waiting for you to close your eyes and fall asleep so it can com
	Talladega Frights Haunted House & Halloween Town Bakersfield, CA Open Friday 10/16, Saturday 10/17, Sunday 10/18 and 8 other dates Welcome to Talladega Frights -- the Central Valley's biggest and BEST haunted attraction. Open evenings in October. Halloween Town is a family-friendly event filled with activities including pumpkin picking, face painting, Spooky Cinema, hayrides, and more!
	San Francisco Ghost Hunt San Francisco, CA Open Friday 10/16, Saturday 10/17, Sunday 10/18 and 29 other dates The San Francisco Ghost Hunt visits San Francisco’s most notorious historic haunted places and YOU MEET REAL GHOSTS FROM WILD AND ROMANTIC TIMES GONE BY!
F&W Halloween Train Rides Fillmore, CA Open Saturday 10/17, Sunday 10/18 and 3 other dates The historic trains of Fillmore & Western are located in equally historic downtown Fillmore, California. The 1920’s-era business district greets visitors as they turn off of rural Highway 126.
	Nightmare On Main Street Templeton, CA Open Friday 10/16, Saturday 10/17 and 7 other dates Templeton Rec Foundations annual Nightmare on Main Street is located in a empty 100 year old house. This is the scariest haunted house on the Central Coast.
	Piedmont Avenue Pumpkin Patch Oakland, CA Open Friday 10/16, Saturday 10/17, Sunday 10/18 and 13 other dates There are two versions of the haunted house: a scary version and a not-so-scary version for children and timid adults. The crew can switch between each version pretty quickly, so let them know which one you want to go into when you arrive.
	Fright Planet - America's Haunted Theme Park Sacramento, CA Open Friday 10/16, Saturday 10/17, Sunday 10/18 and 6 other dates An entire night of scary fun awaits you at Fright Planet - America's Haunted Theme Park. Numerous haunted houses, attractions, and horror entertainment makes this the largest Halloween event in Sacramento.
	Pirates of Emerson - The Haunted Fields Pleasanton, CA Open Friday 10/16, Saturday 10/17, Sunday 10/18 and 8 other dates We are completely unlike the traditional haunted house; we have taken this to a much, much higher level. At our Dark Adventure, we have created an environment where you are actually in the scenes.
	Raisin Hell Ranch Madera, CA Open Friday 10/16, Saturday 10/17, Sunday 10/18 and 11 other dates Raisin Hell Ranch is the ONLY haunted cornfield in the Valley and was voted the “SCARIEST Haunted Attraction” in 2013 by our customers!
	Pumpkin Maze Lathrop, CA Open Friday 10/16, Saturday 10/17, Sunday 10/18 and 13 other dates In 1997, Ron Dell’Osso and his wife Susan, started the first Corn Maze and the Halloween event has grown into a Haunted House, Pumpkin Blaster and much more.
	Mid State Scare & TNT Terrors, The Haunt in Atascadero Atascadero, CA Open Friday 10/16, Saturday 10/17 and 4 other dates The favorite haunted house of all the central coast has teamed up with TNT Terrors to create an all new experience! The MID STATE SCARE returns as the scariest event on the central coast as a classic haunted mansion style attraction with zombies thrown in for good measure.
	Fantozzi Farms Corn Maze & Pumpkin Patch Patterson, CA Open Friday 10/16, Saturday 10/17, Sunday 10/18 and 5 other dates Two huge mazes, a haunted maze, corn cannons, cow train rides, hayrides, corn seed pit, hay pyramids, pipe slides, hay bale maze, picnic area, edcuational farming displays, and pig races!
	San Diego Ghost Tours San Diego, CA Open Friday 10/16, Saturday 10/17, Sunday 10/18 and 24 other dates Ghost Tours and Ghost Hunting Tours... You’ve seen it on T.V. now come see and try it for yourself! Exclusively offered in San Diego by Michael Brown, The Leader in San Diego Ghost Adventures.
	The Haunted Hotel San Diego, CA Open Friday 10/16, Saturday 10/17, Sunday 10/18 and 12 other dates Featured on the Travel Channel, The Haunted Hotel is one of America's top haunts. The Hotel is full of new spine tingling, skin crawling effects that are so real you'll scream for your life as you try to escape.
	Irvine Park Railroad's Pumpkin Patch Orange, CA Open Friday 10/16, Saturday 10/17, Sunday 10/18 and 13 other dates Irvine Park Railroad's Pumpkin Patch is a very popular event attended by visitors from across the Southland. Due to Pumpkin Patch attendance, as well as other activities inside of the park during the months of September and October, we encourage all of our visitors to plan to arrive at the park early
	The Empty Grave Laguna Hills, CA Open Friday 10/16, Saturday 10/17, Sunday 10/18 and 8 other dates The Empty Grave is an immersive walk through haunted house. We feature state of the art special effects, special lighting, animatronics and live actors to provide you with a one of a kind haunted house experience that is like no other.
	Coffin Creek Haunted House and Trail Corona, CA Open Friday 10/16, Saturday 10/17 and 5 other dates Welcome to the Haunted Asylum at Coffin Creek You can now explore Coffin Creek for yourself. Visit 5 haunted attractions and Market Place in one location.
	Blind Scream Haunted House Rohnert Park, CA Open Friday 10/16, Saturday 10/17, Sunday 10/18 and 10 other dates Blind Scream presents three Terrifying Haunted Houses in 20,000 square feet of pure exhilaration. BLACKOUT is a heart thumping, blood pumping, walk thru your darkest nightmares.
	Pumpkin Express Train Ride and Pumpkin Patch Campo, CA Open Saturday 10/17, Sunday 10/18 and 3 other dates Join in the fun as we board the Pumpkin Express train ride at the historic Campo Depot and travel to the Great Pumpkin Patch.
	Sinister Pointe Brea, CA Open Friday 10/16, Saturday 10/17, Sunday 10/18 and 12 other dates Fear the Darkness is a terrifyingly unique experience, where you along with a single guest will encounter a nearly 30-minute fear challenge that will require complete trust from your partner.
	Higbee Horror Haunt Modesto, CA Open Friday 10/16, Saturday 10/17 and 4 other dates A professional high quality haunted walk through attraction. 9 detailed themed areas, with high quality masks and costumes on the scarers, meant to fully immerse you in the scares.
	The Haunted Trail of Balboa Park San Diego, CA Open Friday 10/16, Saturday 10/17, Sunday 10/18 and 12 other dates The Haunted Trail is a stroll through the park you will never forget. Enter the mile long Trail through the twisted grove of pines & gnarled oaks.