This Halloween stay at a campground with a scary haunted house

Written by : Anna Sibal
10/07/2011 09:30 AM

Have you tried camping on Halloween? Halloween camping can be great scary fun. Many campgrounds across the country treat Halloween as an exceptional holiday, with the campground hosts holding special events for their guests to join in to mark the occasion. They even put up haunted houses, frightening corn mazes, and scary hayrides for everyone to have some awesome Halloween fun.

Here are five campgrounds that have special haunted houses and rides for Halloween that you can try out :

1.  Lake Rudolph Campground, Indiana

Lake Rudolph Campground in Santa Claus, Indiana may be more known for the special Christmas events it hosts for both the locals and out-of-town guests. But on Halloween, this usually festive campground becomes a place for the ghosties, the ghoulies and all those other things that go bump in the night. Lake Rudolph holds its Halloween weekends throughoutSeptember and October. Events to look forward to include site decorating contests where guests make their own haunted houses, trick-or-treating, telling ghost stories around the campfire, classic horror movie showings, and the costume dance. On these Halloween weekends, the normally Christmas-y hayride on Lake Rudolph becomes a frightful one.

2.  Gettysburg Campground, Pennsylvania

Gettysburg Campground in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania celebrates the scary season by holding special Halloween weekends for most of October. This year, they will be on October 14-16, October 21-23, and October 28-30. Highlights of these Halloween weekends are the pumpkin-carving contest, the Halloween costume contests for both adults and kids, trick-or-treating, and the Halloween dance. And then, of course, there is the haunted house and the haunted hayride fitted with creativeprops and sound effects where kids and their parents can scare themselves silly. You have to stay a minimum of two nights to be able to participate in these events. If the Halloween revelry in Gettysburg Campground sounds too tame for you, then you can visit the Gettysburg National Military Park located nearby on Halloween night. The park is rife with sightings of paranormal occurrences.

3.  Whispering Pines Campground, Rhode Island

In Whispering Pines Campground, located in Hope Valley, Rhode Island, Halloween is both an arts-and-crafts affair and a scaring affair. In the daytime, they schedule crafting workshops that kids and their parents can participate in. Come nighttime, though, the sprawling, pine tree-filled acres that make up the campground becomes a place for ghoulish delight. Individual sites are decorated with a Halloween theme. There is also a pumpkin painting contest as well as trick-or-treating and a costume party. And then the campground also has its very own haunted house filled with creepy props. This year, the Whispering Pines haunted house is open on October 8, and entry fees are $1 for kids and $2 for adults.