Western States

CANTWELL - This abandoned roadside hotel lies near the Denali National Park and Preserve on the Parks Highway. A four-story concrete building, it never opened to customers. This remote area is dark and empty, except for the times when travelers have reported seeing the lights on in the long empty building, and seeing the silhouette of a woman standing in the windows of the hotel.

Intended to one day serve as a hotel, Igloo City was never actually completed. It was constructed sometime in the 1970s, but could not meet the building codes of the time. While it might be easier to meet some of those codes today, too much of the hotel has deteriorated over the years to make renovation worthwhile. Not for lack of trying, though. Ever since its construction, the building has gone through many owners, none of whom could get it up to par. The four-story concrete structure can be seen by airplanes at 30,000 feet it is so large. But the interior was never finished. We know this because the igloo is no longer padlocked as it once was—with so many parts starting to fall apart, it’s impossible to keep curious passersby from wandering in to explore—and many have made their way inside.

It’s primary significance today is that it mark the halfway point between Fairbanks and Anchorage,

Alaska’s two largest cities on the Parks Highway. Cantwell is named after Lieutenant J. C. Cantwell, military explorer and commander of the revenue steamer Corwin on the Yukon River, 1898-1900. Prior to the settlement, the only inhabitants of the Cantwell area were nomadic Tanana Indians and Athabascan Native Alaskans who hunted and fished. In their language they named Cantwell Yede’teni’na. The town began as a flag stop on the Alaska Railroad. This flagstop supplied the Valdez Creek mining area, which had the “This strange and mysterious hotel was never opened to overnight customers.” }{ name “Denali” for the Valdez Creek community. Many - Wikipedia Indians from the village of Tyone came to work at Valdez Creek and later lived out their lives in the Cantwell area. Many Tyones are buried in the old Cantwell graveyard, next to the railroad tracks. Oley Nicklie, a Native Alaskan, sought work with the railroad after fur prices dropped. He and his two brothers then founded part of the settlement. Cantwell is 20 miles away from the abandoned igloo hotel.

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DEWEY - Get lost in our giant corn maze and find the perfect pumpkin in the pumpkin patch.

Admission includes the corn maze, farm-inspired rides, games, activities, Ropes Course, Buckaroo Pony, Redneck Swing, Buckin’ Bull Pipe Swings, Pillow Jump, Zip Lines, and admission into the pick-your-own experience! You will also enjoy tetherball, the animal encounter, giant race slides, farm to table food, and field roller races! Additionally, the an extensive list of shows and entertainment, Grain Train, Barrel Train, and Hayrides are enjoyed every Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Columbus Day all October long. We look forward to having your family enjoy 80 acres of farm-inspired fun at Mortimer Farms!

Enjoy over 40 farm-inspired rides, games, activities, farm animals, the lovely farm scenery, ziplines, ropes course races, and more! To receive a more in-depth experience, book a Farm Tour. Farm Tours give families and schools the chance to talk to a real farmer, ask questions, and learn all about what we do.

Pick n’ Play combines the fun had in The Farm Park and admission into The Gardens by giving you an all-day pass to enjoy both! Tickets start at $16.50 per person. For more information, visit https://www. mortimerfarmsaz.com/

Starting October 1st, on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday + Columbus Day you will enjoy pig races, shows, entertainment, hay rides, corn maze, pumpkin patch, and more! And when the sun sets, you will enjoy all the activities at the farm plus fire dancers, karaoke, barn dances, and navigating through the corn maze in the dark, and entertainment!

On weekdays (Monday - Thursday) hayrides, grain train rides, outside vendors, shows, and entertainment will not be offered. You will enjoy farm-inspired rides, games, activities, corn maze, pumpkin patch, animal encounter, and more.

spired playground filled with rides, games, and activities and tons of farm fun! Admission gives you an all-day pass to enjoy everything at the farm!

WOODLAND HILLS - Ready for a boo-tiful Halloween experience? The entire holiday lives in one fun-filled place at HAUNTOWEEN LA, where families can stop in for a spell and let the ghoul times roll for as long as they like, footloose and car-free! HAUNTOWEEN LA is back and will be open nightly from October 1 through October 31, from 5:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. PT, at 6100 Topanga Canyon Blvd., Woodland Hills, CA.

“2021 is about getting back to the fun festivities that families deserve to enjoy, while still being safe,” says Experiential Supply Founder & Chief Experience Officer Jasen Smith. “Don’t think of it as just a walkthrough. Families can set their own pace and thoroughly explore our thematic interactive environments.”

HAUNTOWEEN LA is a kid-friendly, non-scary thematic exploration adventure featuring six massive, interactive environments. And of course, there’s lots of CANDY to take home.

Trick-or-Treating is back, and this year kids will be able to walk door-to-door for their treats in the Town of Hauntoween. Candy is included in the ticket price.

The Hauntoween Pumpkin Patch has more than 30,000 pumpkins on display and for purchase. With hay installations, detailed vignettes, and life-sized props flooding the environment, this is by no means your typical pumpkin patch. When families have found “the one,” they can head over to the Pumpkin Carving Village to create their own jack-o-lanterns!

Attractions for 2021 include a playful Funny Bones Graveyard with enormous hay sculptures and hundreds of friendly skeletons for great photo ops. Also new is the maze-filled Scarecrow Gardens, in which traditional Halloween colors are enhanced by a neon and UV overlay, ready to ignite imaginations, young and old.

Experiential Supply is an award-winning company to which the Hollywood film industry turns when it comes to creating large-scale, immersive experiences for such big budget movies as IT: Chapter 2, Ready Player One, The LEGO Movie, Smallfoot, and more!

Open daily 5-11 p.m. from Oct. 1-31, tickets start at $30. To purchase, visit www.SoCalHauntoween.com.

ERIE - There is terror in the Corn. And there are zombies in the paintball field! Let’s go on a haunted hayride and join in the fun at the Anderson Farm Fall Festival through Oct. 31.

Prepare to be scared when you visit one of the Escape Rooms on site. Whether you want to escape from prison, free yourself from a maniac’s secret lair, or pull off the diamond heist of the century.... here’s your chance. Can you survive under pressure?? Try one or try all three!!

With tons of great activities, including the 25acre corn maze, there is plenty of fun to be had. Spend the day or spend an hour....it’s all up to you! The old-fashioned paintball gallery is similiar to a carnival experience the whole family can enjoy.

Right next door to the gallery is the ZOMBIE PAINTBALL HUNT, Colorado’s answer to the Zombie Apocalypse. You and your friends will enter the containment zone known as Snowbrier (a military base that has been overrun) in one of our zombie attack vehicles outfitted with splatter weapons to locate and take out the infected. So, the only question you should be asking yourself is are you up for the challenge?

Other attractions and activities available are the pumpkin patch, paint a pumpking junction, gem mining, sand diggers, train rides, a tire mountain, and ducktona halfpipe duck races. A group may rent a spot for a campfire. It is great for marshmallow roasting and telling ghost stories.

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Travelers seeking spine-chilling thrills this fall should experience one of these spooky haunts, starting with the Bannack Ghost Walks. These live reenactments highlight significant events throughout the history of Bannack, an old mining town once bustling with life—now the afterlife. Those willing can meet the ghosts of Henry Plummer, Joe Pizanthia, Cyrus Skinner, Doctor Glick, Mattie Silks and many more rouges from Bannack’s colorful past. The ghosts come alive for two shows nightly typically the Friday and Saturday prior to the week of Halloween, the first at 7:00pm and the second at 9:00pm. Performances presented by the Bannack Association are based on historical events that occurred at Bannack.

From Bannack, outdoor enthusiasts interested in learning about Montana’s mining past can head north to Garnet. There’s a self-guided tour of the 30 buildings in this historic mining town, including the J.R. Wells Hotel, F.A. Davey’s Store and two old western saloons. It’ll give you a glimpse of what life was like during the gold mining boom of the 1800s. You can also hike the surrounding trails ranging from 1-3 miles.

For something a little more frightening, the Old Montana Prison in Deer Lodge won’t disappoint. Just a short drive from Garnet, visitors can take a guided or self-guided tour through the intimidating Cell House and into the chilling slide bar cells and black box of Maximum Security. If that doesn’t sound creep enough for you, there’s a Ghost Tour from 9:30 p.m. to 3:30 a.m. on Oct. 9. There you will experience the hot spots where reports have been made about paranormal activity.

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PORTLAND - ScareGrounds PDX returns this fall to Oaks Amusement Park on select nights between Oct. 8-31, 2021.

Considered the city’s ONLY Scream Park, it is located in one of the oldest amusement parks in the country, the historic Oaks Amusement Park. The event features three horrifying haunted walkthrough attractions, House of Horrors Scarezone, Graveyard Pumpkin Patch, Scream Parlor Photo Ops, as well as Oaks Park Thrill Rides, Games, Concessions. Alcoholic beverages are available for adults, 21 and oler ScareGrounds PDX is your destination for a scary good time this Halloween!

As guests make their way to one of the Haunted Attractions, they will encounter the House of Horrors and reluctantly have to make their way through the Scarezone to reach their destination. Consider it a hodge-podge gathering of the worst of the worst. All the monsters you’ve dreaded since childhood have taken claim to the House of Horrors and the midway at Oaks Amusement Park — From bloodthirsty chainsaw wielding maniacs to horrifying clowns — Get ready to scream, because they’re not just going to let you pass through unscathed. The Oaks Park is open 3-10 p.m (5-10 p.m Oct 25-28. The haunted attractions are open 7-11 p.m. (until midnight on weekends.) For ticket and more information, visit https://scaregroundspdx.com/

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MURRAY - It’s back for the biggest Halloween season ever in 2021! The screams are loud and unfiltered this year as the show expands into three new sets. Dead City Haunted House is Utah’s fastest growing haunted attraction and quickly becoming one of the best in the nation. Can you survive what waits for you around every corner? Test your bravery this year with all new surprises you won’t want to miss.

Honored as one of the “Haunters to Watch” recipients in 2020, Dead City Haunted House has continued to innovate the industry with customized animatronics and special effects created entirely in house. You will experience an Adventure.

Located next to the Murray cemetery at 5425 S Vine Street , free parking is available on site. Advance general admission online is $26.95. Optional Death be Gone (For Kids or Chickens!) @ $1.00 per ticket. They are open weekends from 7:30 p.m. to midnight (11 p.m. on weeknights). Repeat Offender (2nd Entry Same Day) is $8.

As a teenager the owner of Dead City Haunted House attended several haunted house events which generated further interest, made fun memories, and provided a wealth of experiences to draw from when creating future events. He learned how to make many special effects in a high school electronics class including plasma balls, Jacobs Ladders, Tesla Coils, strobe lights, zap effects and more. Having an interest in animatronics and robotics, he attended the University of Utah and received a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering. While at the U of U he developed an animatronic control circuit card and used it to make coin operated talking skeletons. In 1997 he opened his own first haunted house called The Haunted Old West. It was located at the Wagonmaster restaurant, ironically in the same building that Dead City Haunted House now resides. The event was around 18,000 square feet, had several automated effects, approximately 40-50 actors, vortex tunnel, two giant puppet characters, and many other fun effects. After its success, several other opportunities arose. There was a period of time where he even consulted for other haunted attractions in the area. He wandered around in the underground tunnels of one attraction, thinking up effects for his next haunted event.

In 2003 – 2004 he designed and operated an outdoor haunted house event for Hollywood Connections family entertainment center in West Valley City. He also designed a fully automated Halloween animatronic theater that performed for guests. From 2010 to 2016 he was a 12% owner of the Castle of Chaos haunted house and resided mainly at the Nightmare Mansion event in Taylorsville Utah.

From 2015 – 2017 he designed a haunted house that operated at the Utah State Fair. In 2016 he created his own line of animatronics control systems along with a line of amazing animatronic monsters! In 2017 work began on the new 30,000 square foot Dead City Haunted House location where the legacy continues!

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Fright Fest at Wild Waves Theme & Water Park (Oct

8–31)

Fright Fest at Wild Waves Theme & Water Park invites visitors of all ages for six weekends of Halloween-inspired fun. Family by Day activities for little ones run from noon to 6 pm on Saturdays and Sundays. But by night, the park gets genuinely frightening. So the time from 6 pm to 7 pm Fridays through Sundays is reserved for older kids and those who are not afraid to encounter monsters. Three haunted attractions are also not recommended for small children. SCARE-a-oke fun takes place every Friday night.

Haunted House (Thu Nov. 6)

The Haunted House located at the Georgetown Morgue is one of the scariest Halloween attractions in Seattle. The Georgetown Morgue of Seattle witnessed thousands of funeral preparations and cremations. The frightening story tells that nine morgue staffers were forced into the crematorium chamber and burned. Also, the notorious Dr. Simons has acquired the Georgetown Morgue and discovered catacombs underneath that might contain glowing toxic chemicals. Will you dare to investigate what is going on at the Georgetown Morgue?

Woods (Oct 1-31, on selected days)

It’s sure to provide a thrilling and chilling experience. The Haunted Woods is a 35-minute frightening quest through the corn with creeps, mutants, weird characters, and other dangers at every corner. The farm also has a less scary Flashlight Maze & Night Wagon Ride attraction. The seasonal fun continues each weekend throughout October.

Join us as we illuminate the spirits of the wild and wooly cowboys and Indians that once inhabited the vast prairie. Expect numerous bumps in the night as the Trolley travels through the haunted highways and paranormal passages of Cheyenne.

Explore the darker side of Cheyenne as you hear chilling tales of the local haunts in this destination. The tour route is different each year with all new surprises, so you can come back for more...if you dare. periences as relayed to us. The tour is based upon actual spine tingling events as people perceived them. We work closely with paranormal investigation groups to provide relevant paranormal data. The investigators participate in the tours. Costumes are encouraged!

Whether you call Cheyenne home, or you’re visiting for the first time, the Cheyenne Trolley Tours offer a great introduction to Cheyenne and the Wild West. The Cheyenne Street Railway Trolley Wild West tours show you the city’s most interesting sites and historic buildings, with lively narration. A Cheyenne Trolley Charter Tour is the solution for many group outings within Laramie County, as well. Travel in style to and from your destination.

From gruesome murders to unexplainable phenomena, this 70-minute tour will leave you wondering what is imagined - and what is truly real.

Make reservations for any Friday, Saturday or Sunday in October, either at 6 p.m. or 8 p.m. For more information, visit https:// www.cheyenne.org/things-to-do/ cheyennetrolley/