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Haunted Attractions and Haunted Houses in NYC in 2025

1. Little Park of Horrors – Chelsea

Saturday, October 25, 2025
Scare rating: 1 ghost
Best for: All-ages
Highlights: This spooky Halloween event celebrates NYC’s fierce and resilient nature, showcasing plants and creatures—both real and imagined—that come alive on The High Line at night. Everyone is encouraged to wear their costumes and experience Halloween games and activities.
Good to know: The event space is fully covered. In the case of inclement weather, the event will be moved to Sunday, October 26, 2025. Register online in advance. FREE

2. Harlem Grown's Halloween Festival – Harlem

Saturday, October 25, 2025
Scare rating: 1 ghost
Best for: All-ages
Highlights: This local community org hosts a day-long festival on its urban farm. Among the family-friendly activities planned is a haunted tent. Come in costume and prepared to be spooked, plus enjoy sweets, pumpkin decorating, and more fun.
Good to know: Rain date is Sunday, October 26. Admission is FREE.

3. Haunted Carousel – Prospect Park, Brooklyn

Saturday, October 25, 2025
Scare rating: 1 ghost
Best for: All-ages
Highlights: Celebrate Halloween in Prospect Park at the park's beloved carousel, complete with haunted horses! Don your best costume and take a spin on this spooky ride to your favorite Halloween jams.
Good to know: Tickets are $3 per ride, or purchase a book of five tickets for $13.

4. Halloween on the Farm – Floral Park, Queens

Saturday, October 25-Sunday, October 26, 2025
Scare rating: 1 ghost
Best for: All-ages
Highlights: Halloween at the Queens County Farm Museum brings a monster mash to life. Costumed kids and their grown-ups are invited for fall-themed farm fun with hayrides, kids' crafts, a run through the Amazing Maize Maze, a spooky farmhouse to explore, and best of all: trick-or-treating with furry farm friends.
Good to know: Costumes are encouraged. Food vendors are on-site. Book your tickets online in advance!

From magic and mind-reading shows to pumpkin carving demonstrations and costume parades, Boo at the Zoo has it all. Photo by Julie Larsen Maher

5. Boo at the Zoo – Bronx Park, the Bronx

Select dates through Sunday, October 26
Scare rating: 1 ghost
Best for: All-ages
Highlights: Trek the candy trail, explore an extinct animal graveyard, and take in pumpkin-carving demos as the Bronx Zoo's annual Halloween tradition returns, bringing tons of family-friendly activities. New this year: a trick-or-truth maze, face painting, a creepy mystery wall, and a Halloween mashup.
Good to know: Join the costume parade multiple times each day!

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The whole family can participate in a Watson Adventures Ghosts of Greenwich Village Scavenger Hunt. Photo courtesy of Watson Adventures

6. Watson Adventures Ghosts of Greenwich Village Scavenger Hunt – Greenwich Village

Saturday, October 25, 2025
Scare rating: 2 ghosts
Best for: 7 and up
Highlights: See this classic New York neighborhood through an entirely new lens. Creepy clues lead you to these now-haunted houses in NYC, which were once occupied by Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain, plus help you find some spooky landmarks.
Good to know: All children must be accompanied by an adult.

7. Ghosts of New York: Greenwich Village Ghost Tour – Greenwich Village

Friday and Saturday evenings
Scare rating: 3 ghosts
Best for: 12 and up
Highlights: Get spooked and learn something new on this historic ghost tour. Visit haunted cemeteries, learn all about the Headless Horseman, see the hanging tree of Washington Square, and peer through Edgar Allen Poe's window—if you dare.
Good to know: The Greenwich Village Ghost tour is offered to the public on Friday and Saturday evenings. The private Greenwich Village Ghost tour is available any day of the week and can be customized. Ghosts of Grand Central is entirely indoors and a good option for the colder months.

8. Creepy Crawly Halloween – Prospect Park, Brooklyn

Saturday, October 25, 2025
Scare rating: 1 ghost
Best for: All-ages
Highlights: The Prospect Park Alliance hosts a special Halloween event at the Audubon Center, where kids of all ages can take a look at the creepy, crawly creatures. Kids can participate in fun activities and experiments like owl pellet dissection, a creepy crawly walk through the park, and enjoy Halloween-inspired treats.
Good to know: Click through to our listing for the start times of each activity, and plot your plan, so you don't miss the fun!

9. Bronx Zoo's Harvest Glow – Bronx Park, the Bronx

Select dates through Friday, October 31, 2025
Scare rating: 1 ghost
Best for: All-ages
Highlights: The Bronx Zoo's nighttime, family-friendly, Halloween spectacular invites families to follow an animal-themed, illuminated, jack-o'-lantern trail, explore Dinosaur Safari at night, and enjoy live pumpkin carving, Wildlife Theater, games, and more.
Good to know: This event does not include animal exhibits. All animal exhibits close at the end of daytime park hours.

10. Candlelight Ghost Tours of Merchant's House Museum – East Village

Fridays and Saturdays through Saturday, October 25, 2025
Scare rating: 2 ghosts
Best for: 12 and up
Highlights: Venture into Manhattan’s most haunted house by flickering candlelight to hear chilling—and true—tales of decades of otherworldly activity in the house, the results of years of paranormal investigations, and the latest stunning scientific findings.
Good to know: 50-minute tours run every half hour from 6:30-9pm.

11. Blood Manor – Tribeca

Select dates through Saturday, November 8, 2025
Scare rating: 3 ghosts
Best for: 14 and up
Highlights: Blood Manor serves the scariest haunted house experience in NYC. Visitors walk through themed rooms, corridors, and a labyrinth of passageways designed to maximize fears.
Good to know: The haunted house takes about 30 minutes. Reserve tickets online in advance.

12. Haunted Bank – Soho

Select dates through Sunday, November 2, 2025
Scare rating: 3 ghosts
Best for: 14 and up
Highlights: The Haunted Bank is a haunted house immersive experience that blends storytelling with top-notch special effects and theatrics. The experience takes place at a real abandoned bank where a botched robbery left blood and ghosts in its wake. Every room blends elaborate sets, eerie soundscapes, and terrifying characters.
Good to know: Be prepared for intense scares, graphic imagery, gore, and disturbing themes. Strobe lights and loud noises are employed.

13. Village Ghost Tours – Richmondtown, Staten Island

Fridays and Saturdays through Friday, October 31, 2025
Scare rating: 1 ghost
Best for: 8 and up
Highlights: From authentic colonial ghost stories to creepy modern-day encounters, Village Ghost Tours explore Richmond Town's historic houses by candlelight. Delve into folklore and mysteries from the past during a tour led by costumed storytellers who share unexplained, unnerving tales.
Good to know: Children must be accompanied by an adult. Purchase tickets in advance online.

14. The Nightmare Before Christmas Light Trail – Bronx Park, the Bronx

Select dates through Sunday, November 30, 2025
Scare rating: 1 ghost
Best for: 4 and up
Highlights: Tim Burton's murky world comes alive on the grounds of the New York Botanical Garden for the second consecutive year. Travel the lighted trail with all your favorite Halloween Town characters, including Jack Skellington, Sally, Zero, and more. Spiders crawl across the ground and high up into the canopy. There's nothing overtly scary here, but the attraction—a 45-minute walking trail—is quite dark in spots!
Good to know: Timed-entry tickets are required. Purchase online before visiting, and consider taking public transportation as parking is limited (and pricey!). Read our full review of the experience here.

Haunted Houses near NYC Worth a Trip

If you're looking for haunted attractions and houses further afield than NYC, here are our top picks:

15. Jack-o'-Lantern Experience at Skylands Stadium – Augusta, New Jersey

Select dates through Sunday, November 2, 2025
Scare rating: 1 ghost
Best for: All-ages
Highlights: Enjoy seasonal food and drinks, outdoor games, pumpkin picking and painting, and a stroll through more than 6,000 hand-carved jack-o'-lanterns in the crisp fall air with family and friends. Enjoy s'mores over a fire pit to round out the fun.
Good to know: Tickets must be purchased in advance. See the website for time slots.

16. Bloodshed Farms: The Last Drive – Columbus, New Jersey

Select dates through Saturday, November 1, 2025
Scare rating: 2 ghosts
Best for: While there is no age restriction, be mindful that some of the props might be unsettling for young children, and actors do get close to the car.
Highlights: Your car might not feel so comfortable when it's surrounded by the twisted creatures and menacing characters of Bloodshed Farms. You navigate theatrical sets full of terrifying displays and special effects in this drive-thru haunted attraction.
Good to know: Tickets must be purchased online. Only one ticket per car is necessary.

17. Halloween House Long Island – Hicksville, New York

Daily through Sunday, November 2, 2025
Scare rating: 1 ghost
Best for: All-ages
Highlights: Halloween House is a completely immersive Halloween experience where you are transported to an all-Halloween world. Every room is a different Halloween theme designed to make every Halloween lover's experience unforgettable. There are no jump scares, actors, or gore!
Good to know: It takes about 45 minutes to walk through the attraction. Halloween House has locations in Deptford and Freehold, New Jersey, as well.

18. Gateway's Haunted Playhouse – Bellport, New York

Select dates through Saturday, November 1, 2025
Scare rating: 3 ghosts
Best for: 13 and up
Highlights: Gateway’s Haunted Playhouse uses the numerous theatrical designers and staff at the Gateway—Long Island’s oldest professional theater—to put on Long Island's best haunted house. Professionally trained actors prepare and rehearse each character that inhabits the haunt. Attend one of its special themed nights for glow sticks, zombies, clowns, and more.
Good to know: Smaller children are invited to attend the Not So Scary Adventure for Kids—1 ghost rating—which will be held Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Children explore a well-lit, Halloween-themed playhouse that introduces fun characters along the way.

19. The Great Jack-o'-Lantern Blaze – Croton-on-Hudson, New York

Select dates through Sunday, November 16, 2025
Scare rating: 1 ghost
Best for: 3 and up
Highlights: This renowned walk-through Halloween experience features more than 7,000 hand-carved, illuminated jack-o'-lanterns forming assorted impressive displays, with lighting and music enhancements.
Good to know: All admission is by timed-entry ticket only, and tickets must be purchased in advance. Flex ticketing allows advance purchase of tickets that can be used any night during the show's run, which sells out early on popular dates.

20. Kevin McCurdy's Haunted Mansion – Wappingers Falls, NY

Select dates through Saturday, November 1, 2025
Scare rating: 3 ghosts
Best for: 13 and up
Highlights: KM’s Haunted Mansion celebrates its 49th anniversary with The Keeper—a haunting experience where every story has an ending. Step into a realm of intricate mazes, bigger scares, and creative twists around every corner. Encounter exclusive interactive performances and dive into a trail of terror filled with spooky surprises.
Good to know: Purchase timed tickets in advance.

About Our Ratings

1 ghost: Mildly spooky and designed for the very young. Think friendly ghosts and gentle surprises.

2 ghosts: Moderately scary; elementary school-aged kids can probably handle this. Expect limited jump scares, creepy characters, and spooky themes that stop short of gore.

3 ghosts: Genuinely thrilling; mature tweens and teens can handle the intense scares, dark themes, and scary characters. Proceed with caution.

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This post was originally published in October 2010 and is updated annually.