🎃 Halloween 2026
South Texas Halloween &Haunted Attractions Guide
Haunted houses, haunted trails, ghost tours, real haunted locations and fall attractions across San Antonio, the Coastal Bend, Corpus Christi, the Rio Grande Valley and South Texas. See what’s open tonight, compare scare levels, save favorites and plan your night.
Thunder’s Fright Night
I’ve stomped through every haunt on this map. Most of them screamed louder than I did. Pick one. I’ll be right behind you.
Thunder’s Picks
Three standout picks from this region, rotating daily. Editorial picks only: nothing here is paid placement, and anything sponsored is always labeled.Find your fright
Filter by experience, scare level, region, distance or night. Glowing green pins are open tonight. Tap any pin or card for details, tickets, saving and sharing.
Haunt keyWorth the Drive
Destination-level Halloween attractions: the big parks and record-setting haunts Texans road-trip for. This list sits alongside the normal results and never changes how they are sorted.
Meet your hosts
Six hosts know the way through these haunted places. Choose a guide… if you trust them.
Ember
The Baron
Silas
Mara
Elias, the Keeper
Agatha
Haunt survival guide
Buy tickets online
Saturdays in late October sell out. Online tickets are usually cheaper, and many haunts sell fast-pass or timed-entry upgrades.
Go early or go weeknights
Lines are shortest right at opening and on Thursday or Sunday nights. The last weekend before Halloween is the busiest.
Dress to run
Closed-toe shoes, no costumes or masks for guests at most haunts, and leave bulky bags in the car. Trails get dusty or muddy.
Check age guidance
Every card shows a scare level and the venue’s age guidance. For younger kids, switch on Family Halloween to see only family and mild spots.
Know the rules
Actors won’t touch you unless it’s a full-contact haunt, and you shouldn’t touch them. Most haunts have a safe word or exit if it gets too much.
Dates, hours and prices come from each attraction’s official site and are checked regularly, but haunts change schedules often. Spots marked “Confirm dates” are still awaiting 2026 confirmation. Always check the official site before you go.
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Best Haunted Houses in Texas
Texas has some of the biggest and longest-running haunted attractions in the country, from multi-house scream parks to small-town jailhouse haunts. Every listing in this guide comes from the Thunderfoot Sports master event list and is checked against each attraction’s official site, with scare levels, age guidance and operating nights on every card.
Destination haunts worth planning a trip around
- Thrillvania in Terrell spreads three attractions across 50 haunted acres east of Dallas.
- Cutting Edge Haunted House in Fort Worth holds the Guinness World Record for the longest walk-through haunted house.
- Nightmare on 19th Street in Lubbock packs four haunts and 1.25 miles of scares onto one ticket.
- Phobia Haunted Houses on Houston’s Beltway 8 runs eight haunts with covered lines.
- Graystone Scream Park in Longview and Scream Hollow in Smithville are full Halloween parks with multiple houses, shows and food.
- For the most intense experiences, look for the Extreme scare level, such as SCARE for a CURE near Austin, a full-contact charity haunt for ages 13 and up.
Theme-park Halloween
Six Flags Over Texas Fright Fest in Arlington, Six Flags Fiesta Texas Fright Fest and SeaWorld Howl-O-Scream in San Antonio add haunted mazes, scare zones and live shows to a regular park day. SeaWorld also runs a daytime, family-friendly Spooktacular.
Texas Ghost Tours
Ghost tours are the mild end of Halloween: guided walks through historic downtowns, cemeteries and old hotels, usually about an hour long and open to all ages. Popular picks include Historic Galveston Ghost Tours, River City Ghosts in San Antonio, Dallas Terrors, the adults-only Hell’s Cowboys tour in Fort Worth, Historic Jefferson Ghost Walk in East Texas, and Lamplight Ghost Tours in Montgomery and Conroe near Lake Conroe.
Family Halloween Events in Texas
Not every Halloween night has to be a scream. Turn on Family Halloween in the guide to see trunk-or-treats, downtown spooktaculars, pumpkin-lit farm nights and haunts with lights-on or kid hours. Many bigger haunts also run gentler options, like the no-scare Family Days at Silo of Screams in Temple, the Kids Haunt at Terror Isle in Texas City and the lights-on route at Black Betty in Beaumont.
How we rate scare levels and ages
Family means no scares or very gentle ones. Mild covers ghost tours and spooky walks with few jump scares. Scary is a traditional haunted house with live actors. Extreme means full-contact, very long or unusually intense. Age guidance comes straight from what each venue posts; when a venue doesn’t post one, the card says so.
Halloween Events by Region
Looking for more than haunts? Each regional schedule covers festivals, fall events, live music and more from the same master event list.