We Checked Every Halloween Attraction in New England Against Its Own Website

We checked 50 Halloween attractions across all six New England states against their own websites. Not against each other's listings. Against the venues.

7 have published a plannable 2026 season. 15 have published any 2026 dates at all.

The live status of every venue lives on the 2026 announcement tracker, which recounts itself every time a record changes. This page is the story behind those numbers.

That isn't a story about lazy haunted houses. It's early August; announcing now is normal and sensible, and the count above has already moved once since we first published this page. It's a story about the dozens of pages that will tell you, today, exactly which nights these attractions are open — and where those dates actually came from.

The full audit

What we found

7 complete seasons. Fright Kingdom in Nashua, New Hampshire: opening September 25, weekends through October 31, Sundays added from October 9, plus In the Dark in November and Fright Before Xmas in December. $41 online, $45 cash at the door — no cards. It announced first — the rest of the plannable list caught up only in the days after we started checking.

And Collins Farm in Bath, New Hampshire, whose corn maze published a July 31 to October 31 season and is open right now. Thirteen acres, three difficulty levels, all ages — plus a Flashlight Maze and a Haunted Flashlight Maze after dark in October.

Joined since we first published, and both worth planning around: Sauchuk Farm in Plympton, Massachusetts, weekends from September 19 to October 31 with tickets required, and Phantom Fall Fest at Lake Compounce — nine weekends from September 19 to November 1, and the first Connecticut attraction here with a confirmed full calendar.

Five venues with partial confirmed dates. Strawbery Banke's Ghosts on the Banke (October 16–17 and 23–24), three separate Fort Knox events in Maine, and one off-season Easter night at Fright Haven in Connecticut. Between them that is eleven operating days — announced, but not a season you can build a weekend around.

Four closed or transformed. Ghoulie Manor in Taunton says on its own site that it is closed. Factory of Terror in Fall River now leads with a year-round Scream cinema, and its haunted house page 404s. Rhode Island's Haunted Labyrinth — the state's longest-running haunt, going back to 1985 — posted a farewell letter, and Vermont's Dead North says plainly it will not be reopening. All four remain listed as operating elsewhere.

Seven still showing 2025. Spooky World, Witch's Woods, Scary Acres, Nightmare Vermont, Vengeance in the Valley, and DementedFX were all displaying last season when we looked. Connecticut's Legends of Fear is the subtle one: its tickets page lists "Sunday, October 12th, and 26th" — dates that are Sundays in 2025 and Mondays in 2026. The calendar check catches it in seconds.

One open every single day. America's Stonehenge in Salem, New Hampshire is open daily, year-round, 9am to 5pm, closed only for Thanksgiving and Christmas. In a category where almost everything runs a handful of October weekends and spends the rest of the year as a stale webpage, that is worth naming.

One that had quietly renamed itself. We first recorded Lake Compounce's Halloween event as unverifiable, because the park's site rejected our requests. It turned out we were requesting a deleted page: the Haunted Graveyard is now Phantom Fall Fest, and its 2026 season — weekends, September 19 to November 1 — was published on the park's own site the whole time. A 404 from a site that also blocks bots reads exactly like a block, which is how we got it wrong for three days.

The four ways a Halloween date goes bad

This is the useful part, and it generalises well beyond haunted houses.

1. The schedule with no year on it

Gaines Farm in Guilford, Vermont publishes: open every Friday and Saturday, October 3–25. No year anywhere on the page.

That schedule cannot describe 2026. This year October 3 is a Saturday and the 25th is a Sunday. It fits 2025 perfectly, when the 3rd was a Friday and the 25th a Saturday.

It reads as current. It is being copied, verbatim and undated, onto roundups right now.

2. The recycled calendar nobody weekday-checked

Multiple pages list Maine's Fright at the Fort as running October 13, 19, 20, 26 and 27. In 2026 those are Mondays and Tuesdays. No haunted attraction runs Monday–Tuesday in October.

They line up exactly with weekends in 2018. That's an eight-year-old schedule that has been forwarded from page to page for the better part of a decade, and a thirty-second calendar check catches it.

Meanwhile Fright at the Fort does not appear on Fort Knox's published 2026 calendar at all. The fort's Halloween lineup is now a ghost camp, a wizarding weekend, guided tours, and a scavenger haunt.

3. The attraction that changed its name

Spooky World in Litchfield used to be Nightmare New England — older roundups still list them as two separate attractions. Barrett's second attraction in Abington has been The Cell, The Sanctuary, Condemned, Outpost 34, and for 2026 is Burial Hill Motel. Any page telling you to visit Outpost 34 is a year stale on its face.

4. The dead domain that outlives its listing

barrettshauntedmansion.com, friendsoffortknox.org, and fieldofscreamsri.com have no DNS records at all. The attractions behind two of them are alive and well at different addresses. Rhode Island's Field of Screams is stranger still: its former site, hauntedhayride.net, now serves the host farm's plant nursery storefront. Christmas trees where the hayride used to be.

The venue that argues with itself

Special mention to Barrett's Haunted Mansion, which is open, confirmed, and in its 35th season — and whose own website gives two different prices for the same upgrade ($65 on the tickets page, $60 on the FAQ) and two different dates for each of its special events.

Mayhem at the Mansion is "Tuesday October 20" in one place and "Tuesday, October 21st" in another. Devil's Night is October 27 in one place and the 28th in another. In 2026 the 20th and 27th are the Tuesdays. The Tuesday-matching dates are almost certainly right — but for an 18+ event with limited tickets and a signed waiver, "almost certainly" isn't a booking. Call them.

What to do with this

If you want a confirmed booking today, there are two: Fright Kingdom for a haunted house, and Collins Farm's corn maze if you want something the whole family can do in daylight.

If you're planning around any other venue, check the venue's own site — and check the weekday against a calendar. That single step catches most of what's wrong out there.

If a page gives you dates without a "last checked" date, you have no way to know how old they are. That's why every page on this site carries one at the top, and why this audit is stamped July 31, 2026.

We're re-running this through August as venues announce. Bookmark it, or tell us when you see something change — corrections are the point.

The full state-by-state detail

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