HALLOWEEN HOME HAUNTS
Halloween Home Haunts: The Best Yard Displays, Garage Haunts, & Walk-Through Mazes in Los Angeles
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Halloween in Los Angeles is a special time, when horror enthusiasts create elaborate yard displays in order to terrify appreciative trick-or-treaters just for the love of doing it. These amateur efforts are typically decorated to resemble graveyards and/or haunted houses. Some offer walk-through mazes. A few feature elaborate mechanical and visual effects, timed with audio and music to create self-contained shows.
Although we refer to Halloween Home Haunts as “amateur attractions” (because they are non-profit), some feature professional-quality makeup, sets, costumes, and special effects. Home Haunts with live actors tend to be open on select nights, usually weekends and Halloween. Decorated yards often run nightly, sometimes starting by mid-month or even earlier.
Almost all Halloween Home Haunts are free and open to the public. Some accept donations, either to off-set their costs or to benefit local charities.
Below are articles and listings about Los Angeles Home Haunts and neighborhood trick-or-treating opportunities.
- Articles: recent reviews and updates, which may have info on new home haunts not yet listed below.
- Best Halloween Home Haunts: perennial attractions with well-deserved reputations.
- An Alphabetical List includes home haunts for which we have extensive information; the entries here link to dedicated pages including reviews, photos, and video.
- Neighborhood Trick-or-Treating: Streets with many Home Haunts, making them attractive haunting ground for trick-or-treaters.
- Other Home Haunts includes home haunts from past years for which we have incomplete information and new haunts we have yet to visit.
Halloween Home Haunt & Yard Haunt Articles
Learn more about Halloween yard haunts.
Best Halloween Home Haunts & Yard Haunts
Some Halloween Home Haunts rank among the Best Halloween Attractions in Los Angeles. The list below includes haunts with an established reputation for quality. Keep in mind that many of them will be radically revising their presentations for Halloween 2020 in order to protect their visitors from Covid-19. Generally, this means that walk-through home haunts will be eschewed in favor of yard haunt displays.
Beware The Dark Realm
Haunt at Hellizondo
Haunted Rose
Holiday Fantasies Come To Life
Reichland Asylum Home Haunt
Rotten Apple 907
Halloween Home Haunts & Yard Haunts: Alphabetical List
Below is an alphabetical listing of major Halloween Home Haunts and Yard Haunts in Los Angeles and the surrounding area. Last-minute additions are added in Other Home Haunts below. Haunts for which we have little or no information are listed at bottom.
Generally speaking, we use “home haunts” to refer to houses with a walk-through haunted path by costumed characters. “Yard Haunts,” as the name suggests, indicates decorated yards, usually (though not necessarily) without live actors.
BEETLEJUICE: The Bio-Exorcism Show
Beware The Dark Realm
Catastrophe Cabin Yard Display
Clark’s Halloween Music House
Clown Town
Coffinwood Cemetery Yard Haunt
Corner House Haunts
Desert Decay Manor Home Haunt
Fillmore Graves Jack-O-Lantern Farm
Forgotten Hallows Yard Haunt
Garden Path of Doom Yard Haunts
Gothic Hills Cemetery
Harry’s Haunts Halloween Neighborhood
Haunt at Hellizondo
Haunt with No Name Yet
Haunted by Memories Manor
Haunted Groundz
Haunted Mansion Haunt
Haunted Rose
Hillhurst Haunted Circus
Holiday Fantasies Come To Life
House at Haunted Hill
Lunar Terror Productions:
Mourning Rose Manor Halloween Yard Display
Nightmare in Whiting Woods Home Haunt
Pumkin Jack’s Haunted House (home haunt)
Realm of Shadow Home Haunt
Reichland Asylum Home Haunt
Rosehill Haunt
Rotten Apple 907
Spider Lights Yard Haunt
Spooky Hollows Home Haunt
Spooky Saloma Yard Haunts
Steam Town Gotham Home Haunt
The Farm Haunt
Toluca Lake Neighborhood Trick or Treating
Twisted Dreams Haunt
Valley Vista Holiday House
Van Oaks Cemetery Yard Haunt
Western House of Darkness Yard Haunt
Wicked Pumpkin Hollow
Unlisted Yard Haunt(s)
Here we include currently open yard haunts that, for whatever reason (e.g., incomplete information) do not have their own individual listing(s).
Patricia Manor (yard display)
Halloween 2024: The proprietor told us the display is open this Halloween but neglected to give us dates and hours!
20146 Patricia Place
Saugus, CA 91350
youtube.com/codybufkin
Patricia Manor offers a yard with decorations and effects. Note: Before it moved from Santa Clarita to Saugus, the haunt was called “Cardiff Manor.”
Halloween Home Haunts & Yard Haunts: Neighborhood Trick-or-Treating
In some Los Angeles neighborhoods, Haunt-Seekers will find not merely a single yard haunt but an entire block decorated for the season. The impact on these streets tends to be cumulative, so there may not be individual homes worthy of a discrete entry in our listings. If you are more interested in trick-or-treating than pausing to admire an individual haunted house, you might want to check out these spooky street scenes with high haunt-density:
Angelino Heights Trick-or-Treating
Beverly Hills Witch House Trick-or-Treating
Brentwood Trick-or-Treating
Venice Beach Trick-or-Treating
Halloween Home Haunts & Yard Haunts: Ephemera
Halloween Home haunts come and go, sometimes manifesting for only a year or two and then disappearing. Sometimes they simply go extinct, or the creators may revamp and rename their haunt or move to a new location outside the southland. Below is a list of yard haunts that we have encountered in the past but for which we have never created dedicated pages. Information may be out of date, and some may no longer be in operation. Several are still active, and we will update their information as time allows. Meanwhile, click on any available links for more information about them.
Candy Shop Take Over (walk-through)
20205 Soladera Way, Santa Clarita
We visited this during the 2020 pandemic. For 2022, its theme was Haunted Tiki Island. October 29-31, 7-10pm
Clowns at the Castle (formerly Castlestymo)
11850 Riverside Drive #121, Valley Village
Description:Â This modest home haunt presents a haunted window and balcony, with a few ghosts and ghouls leering down upon visitors staring up from the sidewalk below. Reviewed here.
Circus of Nightmares (drive-by)
113 S Brighton Street, Burbank
Great annual haunt. Check it out.
Community Creep at Sinman Manor
Visited in 2021 & 2023
17643 Community Street, Northridge
Visited in 2020
The Forbidden Playground (formerly Corky’s Discount Pest Control)
2020 N. Manning Street, Burbank
Visited in 2020 and 2021
FallOutShelter: LA (yard display)
October 31, 6-10pm
1142 N. Alameda Avenue, Azusa
Francis Manor
Visited in 2021
14319 Califa Street, Sherman Oaks
Description: In 2020, Francis Manor was one of three yard displays packed within a block of each other.
The Ghoulie Graveyard (yard display)
14722 Fonthill Avenue, Hawthorne
Description: Visited in 2020, this is a cemetery yard display worth visiting if you are in the neighborhood to see two nearby home haunts, The Haunted Shack and Spooky Spectacular Halloween Display.
Hamlin Street Horror (yard display)
17436 Hamlin Street, Lake Balboa
Visited in 2020
The Haunted Dome (yard display)
Visited in 2021
11057 Oro Vista Avenue, Sunland
Description: For Halloween 2019, the Haunted Dome offered live actors in a short but intense mini-maze set up in the front yard. In 2020, they moved from Panorama City to Sunland, where they presented a yard display.
The Haunted Mansion
Visited in 2021, 2022
7132 Forbes Avenue, Lake Balboa
Visited in 2019
Kraken Cove (yard display)
1030 Manley Drive, San Gabriel
First visited in 2020
Lake Balboa Haunt (yard display)
First visited in 2021
6938 Whitaker Avenue, Van Nuys, 91406
Description: Lights, animated effects, fog machines, clowns, werewolf
Contact: rich_sacco@yahoo.com
Recommended for: All Ages
Visited in 2020
MacDevitt Manor (yard display)
2436 W. MacDevitt Street, West Covina
Midwick Manor (yard display)
1688 Midwick Drive, Altadena
Prism Haunt (show)
24465 Chamalea, Mission Viejo, 92691
prismresearchgroup.org
Contact: PrismExperiences@gmail.com
Recommended for: Adults and children 8+
Description: For Halloween 2020, Prism Haunt offered a timed show featuring an experiment that brought nightmares to life with projection effects.
Redwater Pass (yard display)
8708 Wendon Street, San Gabriel
Sleepy Hollow Graveyard (formerly Rise of the Dead) yard display
1400 Andenes Drive, Glendale
Rotting Hill Cemetery (yard display)
4848 Sancola Avenue, North Hollywood, 91601
instagram.com/rottinghillcemetery
rottinghillcemetery@gmail.com
Official Description: Rotting Hill is where the most spectacular specters are having the time of their afterlife. See a giddy graveyard show full of jokes to die for… or possibly die from. It’s a family friendly yard display full of home-built fascinations and mechanized monstrosities with enough gallows humor to delight any boy or ghoul. Recommended for all ages.
Visited in 2020 & 2021
Sombras Cemetery (yard display)
26041 Sombras Center, Valencia
Visited in 2019-2023
Spooky Spectacular Halloween Display
Visited in 2020. Not open last time we looked.
17008 Spinning Ave, Torrance 90504
facebook.com/torrancehalloween
Description: This yard is brimming with moving animatornic figures of your favorite movie monsters: Freddy, Jason, Dracula, and more.
Visited in 2020 & 2021
Stoney Point Haunt (yard display)
No dates for 2020
23227 Barnacle Lane, Valencia, 91355
Admission: Free but donations accepted
Description: This was a small backyard maze in 2019; in 2020 it was a front yard display.
Pass Avenue Home Haunt (yard display)
Visited in 2018
1804 N. Pass Avenue, Burbank
Admission: Free
Description: Hollywood Gothique chanced upon this creepy yard haunt in 2018 while on the way to something else. It used low-key lighting to cast a sinister pall upon otherwise benign looking skeletons and Jack O’Lanterns, all resting in the shadow of a “hollow” tree with a snarling face. See more here.
Terror House Haunted Maze (walk-through)
Went on hiatus in 2022, and website is down.
2080 Goodall Avenue, Duarte Ca 91010
www.TerrorHouseMaze.com
Admission: Free
Recommended for ages 12 and up.
Terror Tricked Productions (walk-through)
This home haunt seems to have gone dark since 2019.
44307 42 Street West
Lancaster, 93536
packageishere@gmail.com
instagram@terrortricked
Admission: Free.
No dates were listed for 2020
Twisted Minds Productions (walk-through)
No dates listed since 2019, and their Facebook page is no longer accessible.
8708 Wendon Street
Los Angeles, California
facebook.com/tmphaunt
Admission: Free
Still can’t find what you’re looking for? Check out the Southern California Haunt List.Â
