Niles Scream Park ready for 2024, 51 years of fear

The nationally renowned Niles Scream Park is ready to officially start autumn by scaring the “yell” out of you with seven different haunted attractions. This year marks the 51st consecutive year of their annual fright festival. The gates will squeak open on Friday, September 6th, and be open on the remaining Fridays and Saturdays in September. Beginning on October 4th, the Park will be open all weekends (Friday, Saturday and Sunday). And don’t forget their Black Out event–only on Friday, November 1st and Saturday, November 2nd.

The Niles Scream Park is not just scary, it is considered by many to be one of the top haunted attractions in the country. Certainly one of the largest, the Niles Scream Park offers 44 acres of blood-curdling fear! Unlike other haunted houses, Niles rebuilds each room of all three interior haunted houses each year to provide you with completely new and unique shows. The professionally designed sets and ingenious scare-tactics led the Niles Scream Park to be recognized by Haunted Attraction Magazine as one of the “Top 31 Must-See Haunted Attractions” nationwide.

For those with the courage to tour all seven attractions, here is the line-up for 2024:

Niles Haunted House – The largest and most popular of our attractions, it has been with us since the beginning! Before you even get to the massive house, you must make your way along a lonely, winding path with shaky bridges over dark ponds, with foggy patches through trees and a completely pitch-black maze leading to the dead!

Once you get into the house, there are over 100 different paths through the attraction, it is impossible to see it all with less than seven trips. Each year the rooms, themes, sound effects and scares are changed to provide a fresh show. In 2024, you will venture through a classic haunted mansion with many creepy corridors of the home. From decrepit catacombs leading to the mansion’s chapel, to the thrills and chills of a basement, an attic, dining room, bedroom and so much more! We will have your adrenaline gland pumping!

After you’ve made it through the main House, you still have to survive an old cemetery, and a late 1800’s village consumed by an infection as you continue through many more twists and turns!

Pirates of Siren Seas – In the moonlit hours of the ocean’s embrace, you are crew captives on board the cursed Leviathan, a towering, behemoth ship with tattered sails and a hull marred by the passage of time. You are at the command of Captain Karlo whose heart is as cold as the ocean’s depths and helplessly under the Siren’s enchantment. With a heart full of longing, Captain Karlo captures their beauty causing strange occurrences to plague the ship. The crew’s loyalty begins to sway and you are left astray. Can you break free of his selfish abyss or will you be bound to his obsession forever?

Viciously Voodoo – In the heart of New Orleans, you and your group of adventurous friends stumble upon an unearthed crypt hidden deep within the city's labyrinth of streets. Ignoring the warnings of locals and drawn by curiosity, you enter the crypt, eager to uncover its secrets, but unwittingly awaken an ancient, evil curse that had been dormant for centuries.

What begins as a thrilling exploration quickly transcends into a nightmarish struggle for survival as your group find themselves hunted by malevolent forces from beyond the grave. Trapped within the crypt's cursed walls, you must confront their deepest fears and unravel the crypt's dark history. Tensions rise and trust fractures, you soon realize that you all will not make it out alive. In a desperate race against time, you must fight to uncover the crypt's secrets before you become its next victim, discovering too late that some doors are better left closed.

Field of Screams – Considered one of our most popular attractions, even a GPS won’t help you find your way out of this series of outdoor mazes. Finding a way out means venturing through a massive authentic cemetery, a toxic waste facility, a rundown carnival and the return of the birch tree forest! But once you are there, your problem becomes how to escape! Be sure to grab some comfortable shoes because this is a LONG stroll through the dark and unknown!

Wicked Woods – Shrouded in mystery and darkness, a secluded society dwells amidst the dense foliage and towering trees ruled by a tyrannical force of power with no bounds. The fragile balance of power is disturbed by those who enter from modern civilization and threatens to unleash unspeakable horrors upon the world. Those who enter must confront the darkness that lurks and the evil residing in the hearts of the inhabitants. Easily lost and condemned to wander forever, welcome to the Wicked Woods! – THIS IS AN ALL NEW ATTRACTION IN 2024!

Hooded – Our most intense horror experience ever is BACK by popular demand! Just when you thought it was over, we’re kicking things up a notch. Each patron is blindfolded and oh yeah, the actors can touch you! Adults 18 and older only. You must sign a waiver. If you bail out of the attraction, you got what you paid for–an experience so intense you couldn’t handle it! No refunds. No chicken out passes. Good luck! Included in the Frightful Nightful Plus Package.

Mini Escape Rooms - The Niles Scream Park has brought the popular escape room concept to their midway. A new twist is “speed escape rooms.” Fast paced and exciting, there will be four, five-minute escape rooms open at the Park.

The midway features several food concessions that provide enough variety to satisfy everyone’s cravings. The Gift Shop will let you shop till you drop for the latest Halloween paraphernalia. Our new photo-op system will provide you with several options of pictures to purchase to commemorate your night. And there also is the Dead Man’s Axe throwing game too for those that like adventure and a challenge.

The Niles Scream Park is a non-profit community project that uses approximately 200 volunteers per night to staff its various attractions. These volunteers represent over 65 Michiana area community and school organizations. Since 1996, more than $2.5 million have been donated to local and nation non-profit organizations and to the Niles Scream Park funded college scholarships for students at Niles, Brandywine, Dowagiac, Cassopolis, Edwardsburg and Penn High Schools.

The Niles Scream Park is located on Mayflower Road, south of Niles-Buchanan Road just off Exit 5 of the US 31 Bypass. More information on prices, times and dates of operation can be obtained by visiting the Niles Scream Park web site at www.haunted.org or calling 269-687-FEAR.