Whether you’re a hardcore haunt fan or looking for something to do with the family to celebrate the Halloween season, you’ll find everything you could want within an hour of Toledo.
Between Scream Acres at Leaders Family Farms in Napoleon and The Haunted Hydro in Fremont, your nightmares are only a short ride from home.
The Haunted Hydro in Fremont is a Halloween classic. This year, owner/operators and actors Bob and Beth Turner redesigned 60 percent of the interior of the Hydro and created an all-new outdoor walk-through haunt that is sure to get even the toughest people to jump and yell.
The theme for the Hydro this year is “Hex-Treme Takeover.” With newly designed rooms and elevated walkways, the poorly lit and cool outdoor vibes of the 100-plus-year-old Hydro add a unique feel to the attraction.
Whether you’re walking through a maze of chain-link fence or looking for ways out of a confined space, the outdoor walk-through makes sure that your focusing on what you can see is one of your biggest disadvantages.
Beth said the outdoor walk-through has been redesigned.
“Bob has actually made the walk-through much bigger this year, including a path that takes you very close to the river,” she said.
Just 30 minutes from Maumee is easily one of the best combinations of haunt and family destinations, Leaders Family Farms in Napoleon. Leaders offers a two-phase corn maze that is stunning in every respect. Both phases of the maze, Scream Acres and the PanDEMONium Project, are included in the price of maze admission and a daytime walkthrough of both phases of the maze will take guests more than an hour to complete.
If you have the guts to walk the maze at night, expect to be in the corn for two hours or more.
If you have kids and want to make a day of your trip to the family farm, Leaders also offers a giant trampoline-like pillow for kids to jump on, straw tunnels for the little ones, a petting zoo full of well-cared-for animals, a maze for munchkins and many other things.
Once you’re finished walking around the grounds, eating, shopping for pumpkins and perhaps participating in some karaoke, it will be dark enough for Scream Acres and The PanDEMONium Project to open.
When walking from building to building in each haunt, you’re forced to walk through pitch-black mini corn mazes alone.
Each time you think you’re almost finished or safe, you realize you’re wrong and the suspense just amplifies the quality of frights.
While it’s fun to take the family out for a day trip, Leaders offers much more than a family destination: It offers two of the must-experience haunts in our area.
For operation dates, hours and directions visit leadersfamilyfarms.com and thehauntedhydro.com.
