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.

Old Tucson is the setting for a five-part summer series for Food Network‘s popular show “Chopped.”

According to the press release, “Food Network blows the roof off Chopped, traveling to the Arizona desert for a special five-part themed Chopped: Grill Masters premiering Sunday, July 22nd at 10pm ET/PT. Over five-weeks based outside at the nostalgic Old Tucson Studios, sixteen grilling professionals from around the country face off in this captivating Wild West showdown. The stage is set for the ultimate culinary feud with Chopped favorites Amanda Freitag, Marc Murphy and Aarón Sánchez at the judging table, and astonishing mystery ingredients and tremendously talented competitors. One chef from each preceding duel makes it to the final fiery face-off, and when the dust clears, the greatest grilling pro of all walks away with a $50,000 grand prize.”

Episodes premiere July 22, check local listings. Read more at thefutoncritic.com