2025 Haunted Attraction dates and hours:
Ghost Train
Friday & Saturday Nights, Sept. 19 – Nov. 1
All Aboard for Tweetsie Railroad’s Family-Friendly Halloween Celebration
Theme Park Transforms from Wild West by Day to Ghost Train at Night
The spooktacular season of Tweetsie’s Ghost Train® Halloween Celebration, a popular fall family tradition, begins Friday, September 19, and continues every Friday and Saturday night through November 1.
Daytime guests can still enjoy all of Tweetsie’s Wild West adventures, rides and attractions. . . but when the sun goes down, the park gets a full makeover complete with costumed characters, decorations, music and Halloween-themed attractions.
Younger children will love the dance parties, trick-or-treat stations, themed photo opportunities, and the Palace Spooktacular Show.
Braver kids and adults will appreciate the scary night-time journey on the Ghost Train, walking through the hallowed halls of the Haunted House and exploring the murky Freaky Forest.
And, everyone will love the park’s most popular amusement rides after dark in the Creepy Carnival.
The park opens at 7:30 pm with the first train scheduled for 8:00 p.m. On October Saturday nights on the 18th, 25th, and November 1st the park opens at 7:15 p.m. with the first train scheduled for 7:30 pm.
Tickets are $65 for adults, $45 for children (ages 3-12) and free for children age 2 and under. They are sold in advance for a designated night with a scheduled train ride departure time. A limited number of guests will be admitted each evening, so visitors are encouraged to purchase tickets well beforehand to avoid missing out on all of the spooky fun.
What They Liked Most:
When it comes to Halloween events at theme parks, it usually leans into one of two camps: a family-friendly experience, or a horror-themed experience ... aimed at an older audience. Tweetsie Railroad manages to provide the perfect balance with it's Ghost Train event, offering a generally family-friendly enviroment, but with easily accessible 'scare zones' for those who do want that more thrilling experience, which includes the train itself, the Haunted House, and the 'Freaky Forest.' The Freaky Forest is a little lackluster when it comes to scares, but the Haunted House is perfect. The small size and tight corridors give you a sense of claustrophobia, and helps with building anticipation as you navigate the maze of walls within. The Ghost Train itself though is easily the highlight, as there's nothing quite like it anywhere else in the country. The locomotive is an authentic coal-fired steam locomotive built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Eddystone, PA in 1943, decorated perfectly for the occasion. Usually the Halloween garb put on trains can look kind of tacky, but Tweetsie's is genuinely impressive, with a gorgeously sculpted skull mask, a flamethrower behind the smokestack, and a sparks that fly out of the skull mask, and smoke effects galore give this train a truly eerie feel. The train ride itself gives you a sense of dread too. While not necessarily scary, there is a sense of anticipation as you travel into the darkness, and being stuck on a train for 20 minutes as you ride into the unknown really makes you feel more susceptible to the implied danger. The entertainment is also great, with nightly performances of Thriller, and other spooky fun with 'Darkus Knight' and the 'Spice Ghouls.' In short, Tweetsie Railroad Ghost Train is the perfect Halloween event, by so masterfully catering to practically every demographic possible for a Halloween event, and having visited multiple times over the years, I can say it's well worth the trip.Read More
Suggested Improvements:
Train Rides require you to book a specific time, so make sure you do so over their website at www.tweetsie.com. Season Pass holders can book their tic... kets over the phone, and get $20 off.Read More