Haunted Houses in Los Angeles 2026: Dates, Tickets, and What’s New

Los Angeles runs more major Halloween events than any city in the country, with every theme park in the region staging one, plus professional haunts from Griffith Park to Long Beach. This guide covers the multi-day, ticketed events in the greater Los Angeles area, including Orange County, sorted by opening date. Single-day events and home haunts are not listed. For home haunts, see my Southern California home haunts guide. Family and community Halloween events have their own section near the end. For the full statewide list, see my Haunted Houses in California guide.

Los Angeles Haunts at a Glance

The Theme Park Events

Oogie Boogie Bash

Oogie Boogie Bash returns to Disney California Adventure on a record 33 nights from August 18 through October 31, 2026.

Halloween Time at Disneyland

Halloween Time at Disneyland Resort runs August 21 through October 31, 2026, across both parks.

Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood

Universal Studios Hollywood is running its 2026 Halloween Horror Nights over 42 select nights from September 3 through November 1.

Knott’s Scary Farm

Knott’s Scary Farm, running since 1973, is open on 26 select nights through Halloween. Watch my full 2026 walkthrough, and find the event map, hours, and every maze in my Knott’s Scary Farm guide.

Six Flags Fright Fest

Fright Fest presented by SNICKERS is open at Six Flags Magic Mountain for its 33rd year, Fridays through Sundays through November 1, plus Thursdays from October 8, with seven mazes and seven scare zones.

The Professional Haunts

The Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor

The Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor is open on select nights through November 1 aboard the retired ocean liner in Long Beach, with six haunted mazes, carnival rides, and stage shows.

Los Angeles Haunted Hayride

The Los Angeles Haunted Hayride is open in Griffith Park on select nights through November 1, 2026, with the hayride, three haunted houses, and a stage show.

Carved at Descanso Gardens

Carved, the nighttime jack-o’-lantern and light installation at Descanso Gardens, returns October 2 through November 1, nightly from 6 to 10 p.m.

Black Casket

Black Casket Productions, the Inland Empire haunted attraction known for changing its theme every year, enters its fourth season with Cannibal Creek, a backwoods haunt inside a former bank building in Yucaipa.

The Haunted Car Wash

The Haunted Car Wash returns for its sixth season this October, expanding to four Southern California regions.

The Hollow at Live Oak Canyon

Live Oak Canyon in Redlands debuts its first-ever haunted maze in 45 years, opening weekends October 2 through October 31, 2026. Haunt supervisor Philip-Blaine Adsit brings credentials from Knott’s Scary Farm, Sinister Pointe, and 17th Door.

Wicked Lit

Wicked Lit returns for its first season since 2017 with 10 performances from October 29 through November 2.

Delusion: Den of the Mosquito

Delusion returns to the Beckett Mansion at 2218 S. Harvard Blvd. in West Adams, the building where the series began in 2011. Den of the Mosquito is set in a 1920s New Orleans brothel, with guests playing agents of a secret organization. Delusion calls it its longest and most interactive play to date: 50 minutes, split paths, extremely limited availability, and the return of the Play Your Part VIP option, now named The Leech.

Tickets are on sale now. Every 2026 show is 18 and over only, running select nights from September 17 through November 8 at a flat $143 (including $13 fees). Several Saturdays, including October 3, 10, and 17, are already sold out. See my full Delusion 2026 coverage.

Through the Veil

Through the Veil is an immersive theatrical séance from Stage Fright Theater Co. that seats about eight guests at a candlelit table for a 30-to-45-minute sitting led by the host character Ambrose T. Attaway. The audience’s choices steer a story built on historic true crimes, so no two séances play out the same way. In the Los Angeles area it runs at Heritage Square Museum on September 19 and 26, and at Broken Spirits in Anaheim on September 30, with sittings at 7, 8, and 9 p.m. Tickets are through Stage Fright Theater Co. See my full Through the Veil coverage.

Heritage Square Museum’s Halloween Events

Heritage Square Museum has four Halloween events in October. For adults, Street Food Cinema’s 21-and-over Boo-ze, Bites & Frights runs October 16, 17, 23 and 24 with haunted pathways, adult trick-or-treating, three bars, and horror double features, from $45. Magic Market’s Bewitched witch market runs October 10 and 11 for $15. The October 9 After Dark paranormal investigation and the October 31 Hallowe’en Faire were already sold out on September 28. My Heritage Square Halloween guide has every film, time, and ticket detail.

Haunted Soiree

Haunted Soiree is a two-hour Halloween party with drinks and immersive theatre from Meyer2Meyer Entertainment at the Nocturne Theatre in Glendale. The 2026 story is built on Pennsylvania’s 1928 Hex Hollow Murder: a secretive society’s Oktoberfest-style festival turns out to be a ritual, and each room reveals another chapter. It runs select nights October 10 through 31. Tickets start at $59 with fees on the cheapest night, most nights run $69 or $77, and most performances are 21+. See my full Haunted Soiree coverage.

Edgar Allan Poe Speakeasy at the Cemetery

The touring Edgar Allan Poe Speakeasy, where performers act out four of Poe’s stories while you drink a cocktail paired with each one, plays four nights inside Fairhaven Memorial Park & Mortuary in Santa Ana: Saturday, October 10, and November 5, 6, and 7, at 6 and 8 p.m. It swaps Premature Burial into the usual lineup, it’s 21 and up, and general admission is $55. See my full Edgar Allan Poe Speakeasy coverage, with every U.S. stop.

Nights of the Jack

Nights of the Jack is a one-mile, self-guided walking trail of carved and illuminated jack-o’-lanterns at King Gillette Ranch in Calabasas, with food trucks, a kids’ carnival, and a bar called the Spookeasy. It is not a scary event and all ages are welcome, per the operator. It runs select nights from September 25 through November 1, with timed entry from 6 to 9 p.m. Tickets are priced by date and time slot, from $24.99 to $74.99 before fees, and are sold in advance only, through the event’s site.

Reign of Terror Haunted House

Reign of Terror in Thousand Oaks opens its 2026 season on September 25, adding two new sections, Backwoods and The Blue Bayou Hotel, plus a reimagined Funhouse. The indoor walk-through covers 145 rooms across 35,000 square feet and runs 18 nights through early November.

The 17th Door

The 17th Door in Buena Park is open for its 12th season, and my 17th Door guide has every night’s price and hours. Every guest signs a waiver, and you can shout the safe word, “Mercy,” to make an actor back off, skip a room, or leave the haunt entirely. Three rooms can’t be skipped once you enter. The 2026 story is Perpetuum Penitentiary, a prison with a Prison Barber, a death row, a Butcher’s meat locker, and a Warden who decides your fate. Groups of six to eight go through in about 35 minutes. The Barber’s haircut is optional: say “Mercy” in his room and don’t sit in his chair.

Eulogy Collective: Shades of Hell

Eulogy Collective in Anaheim bills itself as “SoCal’s ONLY Year-Round Haunted House,” with live actors, practical effects, and a theme that changes with the seasons. Its fall show is Shades of Hell, a walk-through built on the idea that “Hell isn’t the same for everyone.” It runs Fridays through Sundays through November 1. Eulogy Collective also runs a horror and Halloween shop at the same address.

Zombie Joe’s: Urban Death and Mary and Margo’s Sideshow

Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre Group in North Hollywood has two Halloween shows this year. Urban Death Tour of Terror “Ultra” takes the weekends: a maze, a live show of wordless horror vignettes, and a second maze, in about 45 minutes, for ages 17 and up. It runs select Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from October 9 through November 1, for $24 in advance or $28 at the door. Mary and Margo’s Halloween Sideshow of Madness takes the weeknights, Wednesdays and Thursdays from October 14 through 29, with shows at 7:30 and 9 p.m. Tickets are $22.50 with fees. In the story, two performers who died in a theater accident return from the Void to put on what they believe will be their greatest show. See my full Urban Death coverage.

Family and Community Halloween Events

Beetle House LA Retro Halloween Party

Beetle House LA, the year-round Halloween bar and restaurant that closed its Hollywood Boulevard home in 2025, returns as a pop-up at The Compound in Commerce, Oct 8 to Nov 7. Timed 90-minute sessions run Thursdays through Sundays at 5, 7, and 9 p.m. for $30, sold only in advance on Eventbrite, with street food, cocktails, a DJ, sideshow acts, and trick-or-treating. Eventbrite lists it as all ages. See my Beetle House LA guide for dates and details.

Haunted Little Tokyo

Haunted Little Tokyo is a Halloween season put on by the Little Tokyo neighborhood in downtown Los Angeles, with ghost tours led by the Little Tokyo Historical Society, a free family scavenger hunt, and a 21+ block party at a secret location shared with guests who RSVP. In 2026 the block party is on Halloween, Saturday, Oct. 31, and the RSVP opens closer to the event.

Magic of the Jack O’Lanterns

Magic of the Jack O’Lanterns returns to the South Coast Botanic Garden in Palos Verdes on select nights from September 18 through November 1, 2026. This one is family-friendly and not a scare event: a mile-long illuminated trail lined with more than 10,000 hand-carved pumpkins, with larger-than-life displays, s’mores stations, and a kids’ fun zone. New scenes this year include a whimsical circus, a Dia de los Muertos tribute, and an undersea section. Tickets start at $29.99 for adults and $24.99 for kids at magicofthejackolanterns.com. The event is run by Thirteenth Floor Entertainment Group.

The Hollow Awakens

The Hollow Awakens is a new indoor-outdoor Halloween event from Imaginarium at Lakewood Center. It covers more than 100,000 square feet with ten themed “haunted worlds,” most of them family-friendly. The operator suggests ages 8 and up for the dark indoor areas, and two optional mazes add jump-scare actors. You can walk through or play a mission game to put the monsters back to sleep. Outside there’s an illuminated pumpkin patch, mirror rooms, a ball pit, trick-or-treating, and a free circus. Plan on 90 minutes to two hours.

Los Angeles Haunt FAQ

What is the biggest haunted house event in Los Angeles?
By scale, Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood and Knott’s Scary Farm are the two giants, with Knott’s running 10 mazes across 26 nights and Universal running 42 nights.

When does Halloween start in Los Angeles?
Earlier than anywhere outside Florida: Oogie Boogie Bash opens August 18 and Halloween Time at Disneyland follows August 21. Most haunts open in mid-September. Want to work at one of these haunts? See how to become a scare actor.