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Freaky Halloween Fun in Tucson & Southern Arizona

by on Oct. 03, 2012, under Travel & Tourism

Populated with haunted houses featuring special effects, pyrotechnics, and ghoulish creatures performing terrifying stunts, Nightfall-20 Years of Terror! offers a Hollywood-style celebration of Halloween that may be too scary for the little ones, Thursdays-Sundays in October at Old Tucson western film location and theme park.

The Halloween Howl at Colossal Cave Mountain Park hosts family-friendly hayrides and candlelight cave tours, October 19. Guests can help save the world from monsters at the 89th Halloween Haunted Ruins, featuring a trip through Tucson’s Valley of the Moon, weekends in October.

Old Bisbee Ghost Hunt is the newest monthly tour offered at Old Bisbee Ghost Tours, in Bisbee, Arizona, 93 miles southeast of Tucson. This four-hour tour includes a training session, use of ghost-hunting equipment, investigations of haunted locations, and a potential evidence DVD. Guests will investigate who is haunting these buildings and why; afterward, data will be downloaded and sent on a DVD to each participant. Cost is $40 per person. Upcoming tour dates: October 19, November 3.

For more spooky events and fall fun, check out visitTucson.org/events.



  • Carolyn_Classen

    And then there’s a new Night Terrorz haunted house, where a friend is working:http://tucsoncitizen.com/community/2012/10/06/be-scared-stiff-at-new-haunted-house-night-terrorz/

  • Carolyn_Classen

    Just picked up a flyer on The Slaughter House, at 1102 W. Grant. Sounds really scary: http://www.slaughterhousetucson.com, open every day Thursday to Sunday in October, plus Halloween.

  • toughteri

    If parents with young children attend Nightfall, do not attend the final (9:30pm) live performance. Sorry, I can’t recall what it’s called, but it is definitely NOT suitable for youngsters.
    I attended Sunday night, and was appalled at the material, and the extensive presence of young kids. Somehow, I do not think chopping up body parts is funny.