Halloweekends- small children

Hi there... I am planning on heading to CP for a few weekends this fall and although we've been to halloweekends, we've never been at the park at night. Are there certain "little kid" friendly routes to take that don't take you through the ghouls and goblins that pop out to scare everyone? Or are nights specifically for older guests? Thanks!

You can avoid the areas, frontier trail, camp snoopy at night (CarnEvil). My kids are 6yrs old and don't like scary things and they have no problems being in the park at night.

If you're wanting to head to the back of the park. Take the train.

That way you don't stand a chance of walking though Screamworks (the trail) or passing Carnevil (Camp Snoopy) on your way.

The rest of the zones and mazes you pretty much have to walk into.

Perfect, thanks for the info! My son isn't scared of decorations but I wouldn't want anyone jumping out at us unexpectedly. The train it is!

To add to the above, you should also know that between 7:30-8:00, the monsters are out on midway for the overlord ceremony and/or headed to their zones. They're repeatedly reminded to not scare when heading to the zone, but that's not always the case. The same could be said for just after midnight when they're heading back. Whether they're trying to "get ya" or not, it's a time when youngsters could be a little on edge.

Never really had a problem with my kids. The screamsters seemed to pay attention to the families walking through the scare zones and holding back some on the little ones. Most of them would stop in front of us and pose for a second then say hi to the kids and assure them that they were just wearing costumes.
In the houses however every age is fair game.

Red Garter Rob said:
If you're wanting to head to the back of the park. Take the train.

That way you don't stand a chance of walking though Screamworks (the trail) or passing Carnevil (Camp Snoopy) on your way.

The rest of the zones and mazes you pretty much have to walk into.

The train doesn't run on Fridays during holloweekends. Just Saturday and Sunday.

JTaylor said:
Never really had a problem with my kids. The screamsters seemed to pay attention to the families walking through the scare zones and holding back some on the little ones. Most of them would stop in front of us and pose for a second then say hi to the kids and assure them that they were just wearing costumes.

I agree. I have walked through Frontier Trail with a double stroller and the screamsters wouldn't bother us. I thought that was really cool of them.

We stepped back behind the "flood" lights in Frontier Trail to watch the guests go by and my 2 year old son got a kick out of those guests who got "frightened" by the screamsters as they walked by :)

Two years ago, my girlfriend and I took our 3 year old (at the time) to the back of the park to walk through Frontierland since it's our favorite part of the park. Needless to say, we were surprised (and admittedly, a bit naive) to find out that it had been transformed into Maniacal Mechanical Screamworks. We didn't end up going through it and backtracked our way to the Gemini midway. In doing so, we passed CarnEvil and the screamsters roaming the entrance of the haunt made an effort to distance themselves from us since we were pushing our son in a stroller. They seem to be pretty good about families with young children.

I would definitely make a point to go the area near the Bluestreak as they have little kid friendly Halloween themed attractions.

Really cool of them? Why were you taking a toddler through a haunt area anyway?

Does anyone know what parts of the Magical House on Boo Hill are from the funhouse? I thought someone mentioned it on here in some thread. Is it the furniture? Went through it Sunday and was trying to look around for recognizable items.

I wish I could go through there. My kids are too old now.

What's the age limit? My boys are 8 and 11. They got candy, too.

I don't remember the age limit. Mine are 12 and 14. My 12 year old will only do thrill rides now. Probably too old for Boo Hill anyway.

Mine are probably too old, too, they certainly weren't thrilled but I wanted to look through it for Funhouse artifacts, plus they liked the candy.

But I was wondering if anybody can tell me about the regular haunted houses and/or walk-throughs. How much blood, guts, gore, murder and mayhem are in these? My kids wanted to do Cornstalkers but I said no because (I was skeered) I was concerned about too violent imagery for an 8 and 11 year old. How bad are these haunted houses and do you think it would be too much? We did Fear Faire again this year along with walking through Frontier Trail's Screamworks and they enjoyed that but wanted to do more.

The violent blood and guts stuff is pretty minimal. Pretty much non-existent in the outdoor haunts, and very light in the indoor stuff. Zombie High and Infirmary both have a few scenes with some (very obviously fake) severed limbs, but that's about all I can think of. The haunts are mostly of the pop out and startle you variety, not the gross you out variety.

Thanks, Ralph! We'll give it a shot.