2021 Guide to Haunted Houses in New Jersey
Did you know that New Jersey has 38 haunted house attractions listed for the 2021 Halloween haunt season!? Some of them may be located closer to you than you think…
Below, we’ll break down what types of haunts you can choose from, ranging from spooky hayrides and terrifying trail walks to creepy home haunts and multi-attraction scream parks. We’ll also discuss where in New Jersey some of the most popular haunted houses are located!
The following list totals up each type of haunt in New Jersey, based on how they are listed on our website:
- Haunted Amusement / Theme Parks: 1
- Haunted Barns: 1
- Charity Haunts: 5
- Haunted Cornfields/Mazes: 4
- Haunted Farms: 4
- Haunted Hayrides: 11
- Home/Yard Haunts: 6
- Haunted Mazes: 7
- Haunted Houses with Multiple Attractions: 15
- Haunted Trails: 12
Fun Fact:
The city with the most attractions / surrounding haunts is Marlboro, NJ.
Each year, we search the internet to find out what these haunts are up to during the off-season. During our 2021 update session for New Jersey, 10 haunts’ information was updated, 1 was removed and 0 haunts were added to the New Jersey Haunted House Directory.
Here are our most recent reviews of haunted houses in New Jersey* according to our local Scream Team’s experience:
- 13th Hour Haunted House – Wharton, NJ (2018) with an overall score of 9.25!
- Field of Terror – East Windsor, NJ (2018) with an overall score of 8.67!
- Brighton Asylum – Passaic, NJ (2018) with an overall score of 8.52!
- Nightmare at Gravity Hill – Jackson, NJ (2018) with an overall score of 7.22!
*Based on all of our New Jersey Haunt Reviews and their most recent, respective scores given out of the past 3 years.
The following are some of the most popular haunted attractions** in New Jersey, based on our website traffic:
Miller Farms Haunted Hayride and Maze
624 South Egg Harbor Road, Hammonton, NJ 08037
Summary:
Miller Farms dedicates itself to be one of South Jersey’s leading providers of family fun and entertainment.
Bloodshed Farms Fear Fest
2919 US-206, Columbus, NJ 08022
Summary:
BloodShed Farms Fear Fest is New Jersey's Ultimate Haunted Attraction Theme Park! Featuring several attractions, nightly entertainment, great food, and more! Free parking.
Farm of Horrors
1051 Flemington Whitehouse Road, Flemington, NJ 08822
Summary:
Spend 45 minutes making your way through 200+ acres of Fright. It starts with our Hair Raising Hayride that “Scares the YELL out of You”, then we let you off in the middle of nowhere for a Treacherous Trek through the “Trail of Terror”, then just when you think you have had enough and begin see that you are almost home, you realize the only way back is through the MassAcre Maize, a Casual Run for your Life; once it is over you find that the path is blocked, and you must enter your final Nightmare, the Carnival of Chaos!
DuBois Family Haunted House
721 Crestbrook Ave, Cherry Hill, NJ 08003
Summary:
The DuBois Family Haunted House is a haunted attraction based in Cherry Hill, NJ. Our goal is to provide safe, low cost scares with a minimal wait time.
We are an all-wood constructed backyard haunted house of 5-10 horrifying rooms.
Our use of local, live actors in place of mechanized props allows us to customize individual tours to the customers’ comfort levels.
*“No Scare”—no jumping, no masks. Actors wave and smile as you walk on by.
*“Full Scare” – Actors will be fully costumed and jumping out at you
*“Fully Interactive Scare” – Actors will be fully costumed, jumping out at you, reaching for you, and they are allowed to touch you on the arms and legs.
Pantophobia
53 Craig Road, Montvale, NJ 07645
Summary:
The Legend of Cyrus Grain continues to grow as his family's old farm land has been developed into a shopping center. Cyrus seekers have documented videos of a shadowy figure they believe to be Cyrus Grain along the family's last area of undeveloped land, legend has it that Cyrus will do whatever it takes to keep all trespassers off what he believes to be the last of his family's land. Cyrus has been seen lurking in the woods, between buildings, and along the private roads at DePiero's Farmstand in Montvale NJ. Do you and your friends have the nerve to ride North Jersey's Best Haunted Hayride and search for Cyrus?
V.I.P. tickets are available and reduce the wait time for the attraction.
**This information was determined by looking at the haunts’ traffic on our site from the past two years. This is not a top haunts list. The above haunts are listed here in no particular order.
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