Plant Kingdoms Wicked Island Review (2026)

There was a sign at the entrance to the park, but nothing after that. I basically drove away until I saw a parking lot with a lot of cars and a building with orange lights and assumed that was the haunt. If you look at a map, the road eventually ends, and you must run around, so you can’t really “get lost”. The parking lot is across the street from the ticket booth building, which is an established park building.

Once you get your ticket, you then walk across this playground area to the queue lines. There was a person helping to direct people, and it wasn’t too difficult to get to. The line is well marked and roped off for general admission and Fast Pass. The line weaves in and out of several smaller shipping containers which gives it a unique feel and more than just simply standing in line. I’m sure it also helps on any cold or soggy nights as well. I didn’t see any food or concession stands but they did have a merchandise booth at the end of the haunt. There was a building that was open for restrooms that was part of the park.

This is a little bit of a unique haunt in the fact that it is literally on an island in a 40-acre lake area. You must walk across a long wooden bridge to get to the start of the scary stuff. While the walkway is very safe and well maintained, hearing the boards creak under every step as you cross the silent water gave it a very eerie feeling that matched the haunt’s whole vibe. While you can see some flashing lights and hear some sounds as you approach, the trees block most of it and keep the haunt mostly hidden.

Once on the island, you follow a trail of bloody mason jar lanterns, which was a nice way to mark the trail and add to the atmosphere. The trails are well fenced off and easy to follow because of the fencing structures and barricades. It was a mixture of well-lit where it needed to be and very dark in some areas to add to the creep factor. I like this combination a little better than a constantly well-lit trail since the darkness helps play into it.

There are several structures you get to walk through. At least one barn-looking structure looked so dilapidated that I could tell if it was built for the haunt or was an actual structure that had been there for 30+ years. There were a few surprise structures like a bus, a downed airplane, and even a few structures you walk under.

At the end of the haunt, you were greeted with chainsaws chasing you up on a hill to the merchandise booth and a tractor with a hayrack ride back to the parking and ticketing area. It’s not a long distance away, but it’s a nice way to end the haunt experience. Considering the environment was outdoors with it being a haunted trail, you were constantly immersed in the overall feeling of the haunt. While there was space between the “rooms” or haunt zones, the overall theme was kept throughout the island.

The haunt relies heavily on the play between dark trails with no or minimal light and very bright lights shining at you that throw off your night vision. They also used different types of flooring effects throughout the haunt; part of the trail was dirt, and some felt like softer sand. Some of the structures had wooden platforms, and others had things like plastic or sheet metal that you walked across that gave different sounds and feelings as you walked.

One of the neat effects they had was the sound of a heart beating. You couldn’t hear it all over the island, which was crazy since sound travels so much. Once you got to a certain section, you could hear it and it grew louder the closer you are to it. It was loud when you reached it, and it made the walk up intense. Not sure what device they used to create the sound, as it looked like a metal cabinet when I reached it. So, I’m not sure if it was just a speaker system or an actual haunt prop.

There’s a variety of characters throughout this haunt, and I feel like the majority, if not all, were original characters. There were various costumes and masks as well as face paint, but since it was a dark haunted trail, it was hard to pick out details on a lot of the costumes. There were some clowns, zombies, hillbillies, evil doctors, and various other unique creatures, just to name a few.

Most of them were into quick jump scares, but some actors had much more dialogue and played with you if you kept talking to them. I didn’t really hear any overly used common phrases besides the screaming, so the conversations felt fresh. Several would follow you along the trails, and one kid in a plague doctor costume followed me three different times with a syringe, trying to get me.

The biggest scare I noticed consistently throughout the haunt was the use of lighting and dark areas. Going on a winding haunted trail and not knowing what’s up ahead and having your night vision messed up with, throws you into uncertainty. Actors are jumping out from all sides so nobody in your group is safe and you can’t see most of them coming.

As far as actual planned scares, this haunt did a good job on jump scares and following people. There were multiple occasions where an actor would follow me for what felt like a long time down a pathway. I’d turn around and they would be right behind me. Sometimes you would hear them walking in the dirt, but if it was a sandy path, you couldn’t, and you would be startled all over again.

This haunt came in at $20 for general admission for adults, $15 for children, and $40 for fast pass for all ages. I went with just the adult general admission for $20. I was surprised at the length of time this haunt took because I couldn’t find much about it online. It took me 30 minutes to complete the haunt, putting this at a good DPM value.

Overall, this is a good haunt with a unique feeling and lots of fun characters to see. The island adds something unique that most outdoor trails don’t have the ability to capture. While it may not have a lot of fancy technical effects, it makes use of its surroundings and the play on lighting.