Greensboro, NC — Woods of Terror in Greensboro, North Carolina, is open on select nights through Saturday, November 7, 2026, with 18 attractions, and new this season is Dee Snider’s Strangeland, a haunted house based on the 1998 horror film that the Twisted Sister singer wrote and starred in. General admission runs from $40 to $60 depending on the night.
Haunted Attraction Network’s full walkthrough of the 2024 event shows the trail and the Monster Midway. It was filmed two seasons before Strangeland opened.
What Is Strangeland?
Strangeland is an R-rated horror film from 1998, written and produced by Dee Snider, the singer of Twisted Sister. Snider also plays the villain, Captain Howdy, who meets teenagers in an online chat room and then kidnaps and tortures them. One of them is the daughter of a police detective, and the film follows the detective as he hunts Captain Howdy, first to an arrest and then again four years later, after Captain Howdy is released from a mental institution.
John Pieplow directed the film, which runs 1 hour and 25 minutes. The cast includes Kevin Gage as the detective, Linda Cardellini as his daughter, Elizabeth Peña, Robert Englund, and Amy Smart.
Dee Snider’s Strangeland at Woods of Terror
Dee Snider’s Strangeland is one of the 18 attractions on Woods of Terror’s 2026 list, and the haunt worked with Snider on it. “This season, Woods of Terror has had the incredible opportunity to work with Dee Snider on Strangeland,” the haunt wrote in a September 25 post on its blog.
“The challenge is figuring out how to take something people know from the screen and translate that feeling into a live environment,” Woods of Terror wrote in the same post.
Woods of Terror’s attractions page lists Dee Snider’s Strangeland with the note “Details Coming Soon,” so as of October 6 the haunt has not described the rooms.
The 18 Attractions
Woods of Terror runs its haunted houses as stops on one trail, and one ticket covers all of them. The 2026 list:
- Fungus Among Us: ruins overrun by a glowing, mutating fungus
- Jack’s Revenge: a barn full of pumpkin creatures ruled by Jack the Pumpkin King
- Hardwired: abandoned labs patrolled by machines that turned on people
- Neon Nightmare: clowns under strobes and neon
- Extinction: no description posted yet
- Dee Snider’s Strangeland (NEW): no description posted yet
- The Mortuary: an abandoned New Orleans funeral home
- The Necropolis: a New Orleans cemetery with a headless hearse driver
- Horror Cinema: an abandoned movie theater where the killers have left the screen
- Pirate’s Cove: a sea cave that opens into a pirate town
- The Voodoo Lagoon: a bayou swamp ruled by the spirit queen Calypso
- The Crimson Quarry: a gold mine with a hive of werewolves
- Igor’s Revenge: no description posted yet
- Texas House: a rotting farmhouse in rural Texas and the family inside it
- Baba Yaga: the witch of Eastern European folklore and her house on chicken legs
- Sensory Overload: fog, sound, smell, and floor effects that work on all five senses
- Brookhaven Memorial Hospital: an asylum whose patients were turned into monsters
- Monster Midway: live music, roaming monsters, food, drinks, games, and a shop, which Woods of Terror calls a tradition since 2001
2026 Dates and Hours
Woods of Terror’s 2026 calendar has 24 nights, from September 11 through November 7.
- Fridays in October: 6:30 to 10:30 p.m.
- Saturdays in October: 5:30 to 11 p.m.
- Sundays in October, and Thursday, October 29: 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
- Sunday, November 1, and Friday, November 6: 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
- Saturday, November 7: a Lights Out special event, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Tickets and Prices
Woods of Terror sells four ticket levels online, and each one covers all 18 attractions. Prices are before taxes and fees.
- General Admission: $40 to $60. You join a virtual queue and wait on the Midway until a text calls your group. The haunt puts the wait at 1 to 1.5 hours on peak nights.
- Fast Pass: $65 to $75. A separate lane with no virtual queue, and a wait the haunt puts at 10 to 30 minutes.
- All Access Pass: $75 to $100. Immediate entry to the trail, plus a lanyard and credential, 3D glasses, a ride on the Mystery Slide, a gift from the shop, and a group photo.
- Golden Ticket: $125, in limited numbers. Everything in All Access, plus early entry to the Midway for about 45 minutes with the characters, photos and autographs, and a collector’s item. Golden Ticket guests have to arrive early.
Parking is $20 and cash only, and bags are not allowed.
The Virtual Queue and the Monster Midway
General Admission guests do not stand in one long line. You scan a QR code to join the virtual queue, spend the wait on the Monster Midway with the stage, the food, and the shop, and walk to the trail when the text arrives.
The Legendary Haunt Tour Stops Here November 6
Woods of Terror is the Friday stop on the Legendary Haunt Tour, a three-night trip for haunt owners, actors, and fans that also visits Lake Hickory Haunts and Kersey Valley Spookywoods from November 5 through 7. Tour tickets are $560 with the bus and $410 for people who drive themselves.
Event Details
Woods of Terror is at 5601 N Church Street, Greensboro, NC 27455, and has operated since 1991. It is open on select nights through Saturday, November 7, 2026. Tickets and the calendar are at woodsofterror.com.
For more haunts, see my list of the best haunted houses in America and my guide to when haunted houses open and close.
