All good things must come to an end. Ghost Town LIVE at Knott’s Berry Farm wraps up on Labor Day with plot twists, and a final Hoe Down on Monday night which will wrap up a summer worth of stories. Here’s a bit more info from the good folks at Knott’s, along with the scoop on special Sunday night fireworks this weekend.
"Come play a role in new stories and adventures unfolding daily in the old west town of Calico in the acclaimed interactive entertainment experience, Ghost Town Alive!, this Labor Day weekend before it ends September 5. Rumors have spread throughout town over the past week that the legendary patriarch of the Mayfield Gang, Ox Mayfield, is alive and ready to seek vengeance on the good people of Calico."
Knott’s Berry Farm will add two new haunted mazes for Halloween Haunt 2016 that feature demonic samurais and sadistic farmers plus a new scare zone stalked by the legendary headless horseman.
The 44th annual Knott’s Scary Farm will start Sept. 22 and run on select nights through Oct. 31.
The granddaddy of Halloween events will feature nine haunted mazes, four scare zones and two shows scattered throughout the Buena Park theme park. Elvira Mistress of the Dark returns as the face of the event.
Knott's Berry Farm last night revealed details for its annual Knott's Scary Farm Halloween event. The original theme park after-hours Halloween event, Knott's Scary Farm has been entertaining visitors for 43 years and this year will feature more than a dozen haunted attractions over 24 nights, starting Sept. 22 and running through October 31. Rad the rest atThemeParkInsider
This Halloween, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, is coming back and four new scary attractions are joining the original Halloween Haunt, Knott’s Scary Farm.
Oh, and there will be more than 1,000 monsters lurking in the fog.
This is the 44th anniversary of that haunt, which takes place on 24 nights Sept. 22 until Halloween at the park. It will feature monsters like the Headless Horseman, zombies, demon samurais and the Green Witch, all trying to scare the bejesus out of visitors to the park.
“The great thing about Haunt is we are finding innovative ways to plus-out the event ... we're looking at virtual reality and augmented reality,” said Ken Parks, VP of Entertainment at Knott’s Berry Farm. “But the one thing that makes us great is the basic ... and we never lose sight of that.”
The season of scares is upon us once again and Knott’s has announced their Halloween Haunt lineup for 2016. But there’s so much more news coming out of Knott’s Berry Farm today, including a big expansion for Soak City.
Southern California has long been known for its amusement parks, but this year they're really stepping up their game.
Disneyland broke ground on its new Star Wars Land, Universal Studios debuted The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, and Knott's Berry Farm transformed its original Ghost Town attraction into Ghost Town Alive in celebration of its 75th anniversary.
Join us in the fog-shrouded streets of Ghost Town for the MiceChat Knott's Scary Farm Halloween Haunt 2016. This is the 10th anniversary of our event and we are working with the great folks of Knott's Berry Farm to make this our best ever! Leave the real world behind and enter a dream-land of spooky fun with fellow MiceChat readers.
Yester Knott’s Berry Farm gives you a choice of antique automobile rides.
There’s Henry’s Livery, in a far corner of a parking lot. That’s where you drive gasoline-powered cars on a track without a center rail. The ride lacks scenery, unless you count Beach Blvd. and parked cars to be scenic.
And then there’s the Antique Auto Ride, right next to the authentic Dentzel Merry-Go-Round. The electric cars run along a center rail, so there’s no need to steer. The track winds through a contoured, landscaped setting with scenic buildings and props.
An exciting expansion, renovations and new additions are coming to Knott’s Soak City Water Park next summer.
Orange County’s largest water park will debut two water slide towers featuring exhilarating attractions geared for families and thrill seekers. Shore Break will tower over seven stories and offer six different thrilling water slide experiences. Four of the slides on the 60-foot tall tower will start with guests climbing inside an Aqua-Launch chamber where they will wait anxiously for the floor to drop out from underneath their feet, sending them into a high-speed, almost vertical free fall through a series of flat loops and S-curves in a translucent flume. Shore Break will also feature dueling tube slides that will zip riders through an enchanting series of drops and turns. The height requirements for Shore Break slides are 48 inches.
Knott's News: I'd be kind of surprised if this was all they added next year, considering this is a separate park from Knott's with it's own admission and a shorter season. They need something new to draw people to the main gate.
A steam locomotive at Knott’s Berry Farm has been reborn, a birthing that took seven years.
Engine No. 340, the “Green River,” is one of two engines owned by the farm. It and sister engine No. 41 were purchased in the early 1950s by Walter Knott to power the trains of the Ghost Town & Calico Railroad at the theme park.
Baldwin Locomotive Works built the engines in 1881 for the D & RGW (Denver & Rio Grande Western) Railroad. They are narrow-gauge locomotives designed to operate on steeper rail lines, with sharper turns, as found in the Rocky Mountains the railroad served.
The steam engines were refurbished and converted from coal burning to oil burning, then put to work at Knott’s hauling passengers on a 5/8-mile loop.
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On Sunday, July 31, the creative team of the 44th annual world-renowned event, Knott’s Scary Farm, hosted a special panel at the first annual weekend-long Midsummer Scream Halloween Festival in Long Beach, California. Over 1,000 passionate Scary Farm fans attended the panel where it was revealed that for the first time ever, Knott’s Scary Farm will feature standalone Skeleton Key Rooms that are separate experiences from the mazes when you purchase the Fright Lane with Skeleton Key. The four terrifying new Skeleton Key Rooms will each feature a unique story and theme delivering unparalleled scares, interactive secrets and other blood-curling surprises:
