"Haunted City is the largest and scariest experience within three counties" .. after reading all about their "Haunted Nights" online I had high expectations.
I called the park in advance to try to gather more details before driving 30 mins because I didn't want to waste my time and money if it wasn't going to be worth it. However, they didn't answer or return my call after leaving a voicemail.
As soon as we get there and purchase our tickets, they told us the Haunted Train Ride was down (what I was looking forward to). So I asked why we were paying full price for our tickets if we couldn't experience that. She said we would be able to play mini golf and ride go carts instead (apparently that typically wasn't included with the Haunted Nights).
They advertised "Gallows Restaurant" with a new halloween menu so we decided to eat there expecting an actual restaurant to only find it was a concession stand. The food was okay but definitely not worth the price.
After eating, we started to walk around looking for the other 3 attractions they had advertised online. (Carnival of Darkness, Haunted Theater, and Trail of Darkness) *Since going last week the advertised Haunted Theater has been removed from the website*.
Anyways, we walk around the park and can't find a single sign identifying any haunted attractions anywhere. We find an employee and they point us to the mini golf course which was being used as the Trail of Darkness. (With that being said, we obviously couldn't even play mini golf). It was very dark, we were unsure of which way to walk and had to be careful as there were many places we could've tripped. We only encountered 3 people dressed up trying to scare us during this short walk.
We had to find another employee to show us where the Carnival of Darkness was. It was in their laser tag area and when we walked through the lights were on and there wasn't anyone trying to scare us. (I don't know if they were taking a break or what as there wasn't any signs).
They had 4 rides that we could ride but you had to walk around and look for an employee to operate them.
On the bright side ~ there wasn't any lines for anything and the go karts were fun. We rode them twice to try and get our money's worth.
As far as the "Haunted Nights" goes ~ disappointed is an understatement. read more