Frightland Review (2026)

Parking on-site with easy directions, then a 5-minute walk. Leave any pocketknives or anything considered weaponry behind, as you will not make it through security with them. We walked through the carnival to the ticket booth, which quickly took care of us, and we were off on our adventure. Port-a-pots are always within sight, and a massive bank of them right at the entrance to the 4 main attractions. Frightland has plenty of selfie opportunities, a nice gift shop, and many, many food options in the carnival area.

Lines were well marked for VIP, and a helpful staffer directed haunt goers to their correct line. A large screen playing music videos and a DJ enticing the crowd with giveaways set the mood for the hayride entry. Many, many people were in the hayride line. They were running 10 wagons, about 300 people total at once. The pace at which they were moving people was astounding. We never felt rushed and didn’t have conga lines.

The live DJ and video show ramped up the excitement for the huge crowd as they waited for the hayride. The hayride opened with an animatronics show on both sides of the wagon to read the rules. This was a cool touch, and these were quality props. The hayride was busy with a lot of actors and a ton of animatronics. There didn’t seem to be a pause in the action even between scenes, as props and actors attacked the wagon evenly.

Ravenwood Cemetery was bustling with scare actors who used the many props as distractions and got quite a few scares among the dense fog and tombstones. Quite a few scare tactics were used here, including a bungee scarer, sudden and aggressive animatronics coupled with one or two hidden scare actors timed perfectly, and partial blindness from the heavy fog.

This led into Zombie Town, a beautifully crafted western town with plenty of ghouls acting their parts and putting on believable accents. Fear was a short walk-through with a slew of different scare methods, including darkness, air blasters, actors, animatronics, and a frightening soundtrack. The Attic was very dark and scary, with sudden light and sound, actors, and a really cool dark maze that spiraled. It was unsettling. The prison guards who introduce Zombie Prison set the mood perfectly, as did the doorman at Idalia Manor, explaining the history of its denizens before allowing you to enter. The captured zombie displays in the courtyard added some neat eye candy.

The hayride was a nonstop barrage of actors and special effects. You really had to look around to not miss something. Explosions, bungee attacks, even an IMF scene at the end that had the whole wagon literally rocking.

The animatronics in Ravenwood actually got some scares, as they were perfectly timed and often rushed right at us. There were so many huge props. Idalia Manor was properly decorated with blood-stained walls and had flipping pool tables. Thunder and lightning effects, bungees.

Frightland has as many huge animatronics as we’ve seen anywhere, and they all worked. The tunnel with the vortexes was beautiful and disorienting. Our favorite attraction may have been The Barn with its theming and many, many animatronics and the circular dark maze.

Some of the attractions were VERY scary. Idalia Manor, though barely over 3.5 minutes, scared us about every 20 seconds. It was high intensity. Even on a busy night, Frightland sends you in small groups, and sometimes will send one of you in alone, which is one of our favorite opportunities.

Ravenwood had nonstop actors and animatronics that got us a lot. Fear threw so many scare tactics at us and Zombie Prison was a fitting finale with its mix of light, dark, tunnels, fog, and actors. Prison had a soundtrack that was mostly zombies moaning at us in the darkness. The tunnel was blinding, disorienting, and had us wondering if we were even going the right direction!

Our biggest scare of the night was the zombie hidden in the fog by the bus who had us all shrieking at once. The Attic is mostly pitch black but has “flash” areas with actors to reset your eyeballs before they can adapt. Every jolt in there is a sudden rush of adrenaline. The Barn has a pitch-dark spiral path that really puts you off, and it had the strongest ending with that crazy tunnel. Even though this haunt is “hands off,” actors did get close, and occasionally we were touched.