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Get Ready to Be Frightened at These Spooky Spots Near Clifton Park

By Joe Legault

The days are shorter, the nights are darker, and spooky season is taking over the Clifton Park area. If you're ready for a scare, some of the region's top haunted attractions are back for 2026 with haunted houses, creepy corn mazes, nighttime theme park thrills, and plenty of unexpected frights.

Haunted Attractions Near Clifton Park at a Glance

  • Nightmares at Liberty Ridge Farm (Schaghticoke): Five haunted attractions on one ticket, including a haunted corn maze and forest.
  • Haunted Corn Maze at Schuyler Farms (Schuylerville): The Field of Screams, a corn maze you navigate after dark with only a flashlight.
  • Double M Haunted Hayrides (Ballston Spa): A haunted hayride plus six walkthrough haunts. Reservations are required.
  • Fright Fest at The Great Escape (Queensbury): Haunted mazes, scare zones, and nighttime rides.
  • Field of Horrors (Troy): A haunted trail and multiple horror attractions. Not recommended for kids under 10.

Nightmares at Liberty Ridge Farm

lit up ghost in corn field

Quick Facts:

  • Location: 29 Bevis Road, Schaghticoke, NY
  • Dates/Season: October 3, 10, 16, 17, 23, 24 & 30, 2026
  • Attraction Types: Haunted house, underground tunnel, haunted corn maze, haunted forest, 3-D haunted manor

The various haunted attractions at Nightmares at Liberty Ridge Farm will bring your worst fears to life! Located in nearby Schaghticoke, Nightmares includes haunted houses, a haunted corn maze, a haunted forest, and more.

Nightmares at Liberty Ridge Farm returns to Schaghticoke with five haunted attractions included with one ticket. The scares begin with The Farmer's Haunted House, where visitors make their way through an old farmhouse with a sinister story, before continuing into an Underground Tunnel that stretches 175 feet beneath the action.

The experience also includes the Field of Screams haunted corn maze, the outdoor Forest of Fear, and 3-D McCobb Manor. Visitors can make an evening of it with food available on the farm and the Psychic Sideshow live experience.

Nightmares opens October 3, with select Friday and Saturday dates throughout the month. The gates open at 7:00 PM, and the last admission is at 9:30 PM.

Haunted Corn Maze at Schuyler Farms

left photo of people walking in a corn maze at night and right photo of a corn character next to a maze

Think you can handle a corn maze after dark? Schuyler Farms transforms its daytime maze into the Field of Screams every Friday and Saturday night in October. Instead of simply finding your way through the corn, you'll encounter demons, ghouls, masked characters with chainsaws, haunted buildings, and other surprises hiding among the stalks.

Visitors navigate the maze with just a flashlight to guide them, adding another layer of suspense to every turn and dead end. Since this is an outdoor farm attraction, dress for the weather and be prepared for potentially muddy conditions.

For 2026, the Field of Screams runs from dusk to 10:00 PM on Friday and Saturday nights throughout October, including Halloween night. The last ticket is sold at 9:15 PM.

Quick Facts:

  • Location: 1124 Route 29, Schuylerville, NY
  • Dates/Season: October 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17, 23, 24, 30 & 31, 2026
  • Attraction Types: Haunted corn maze, haunted buildings, live scare actors

Double M Haunted Hayrides

Skull with one eye

Double M Haunted Hayrides celebrates 36 years of scares in 2026, and this longtime Ballston Spa attraction has a full lineup waiting for visitors. Your night starts aboard the signature tractor-drawn Haunted Hayride through the dark woods, featuring new scenes for the 2026 season.

Getting off the wagon doesn't mean the scares are over. You'll continue on foot through Brutality, Blood Moon Farm, Dead Root Dwelling, The Last Inn, Doom County FEARgrounds, and Martin's Memorial Hospital. Interactive "Feartainment" keeps the atmosphere going in the midway area between the haunts.

Opening Night is September 19, 2026. Reservations are required, and Double M recommends visiting earlier in the season or on Thursday and Sunday evenings to help avoid the longer wait times that are common later in October.

Quick Facts:

  • Location: Ballston Spa, NY
  • Dates/Season: Opens September 19, 2026; select nights during the Halloween season
  • Attraction Types: Haunted hayride, haunted houses, walkthrough attractions, haunted farm, midway entertainment

Fright Fest at The Great Escape

scary figures riding a carousel

Fright Fest returns to Great Escape in Queensbury for 2026, bringing nighttime scares to the theme park on weekends from September 26 through October 25. Once evening arrives, guests can encounter scare zones, live entertainment, haunted attractions, and rides after dark.

This year's haunted lineup includes Nightmare, an immersive maze centered around 13 different fears. Returning attractions include Skull Manor, CarnEVIL, and Hell Block VI. Scare zones throughout the park add unexpected encounters between attractions, and seasonal food and drinks will also be available.

Families with younger kids can visit earlier in the day for Boo Fest, which offers a much less frightening Halloween celebration with trick-or-treating, crafts, a hay maze, themed activities, and entertainment.

Quick Facts:

  • Location: Great Escape, Queensbury, NY
  • Dates/Season: Weekends, September 26–October 25, 2026
  • Attraction Types: Haunted mazes, scare zones, live entertainment, nighttime rides

Field of Horrors

a creepy clown beckoning you at the entrance

Field of Horrors in Troy is back for its 12th haunt season in 2026. This sprawling Halloween attraction combines five horror experiences at one location, making it a good choice for visitors who want more than a single haunted house.

The Walking Trail of Terror winds through scenes such as a slaughterhouse, western town, Toxic Plant, grand mausoleum, and Carnevil Circus Clowns. The Crypt leads visitors into a cursed tomb of slumbering monsters, and Dr. Morbid's Haunted House reveals the ruins of an abandoned waxworks. Two attractions are new this year, built after a July fire destroyed three haunted houses. Panic at Pinewoods is a fog-filled chain-link maze hiding the restless dead of a forgotten graveyard, and Night Stalkers sends visitors into an abandoned basement where something is following them in the dark.

Field of Horrors warns that its attractions include graphic violence, blood and gore, total darkness, strobe lights, fog, loud noises, tight spaces, and other intense effects. The attraction is not recommended for children under 10. The season wraps with an 18-and-up Extreme Scare Night on November 7.

Quick Facts:

  • Location: 100 Farrell Road, Troy, NY
  • Dates/Season: Open select nights starting September 26, 2026 (Sneak Peek Night)
  • Attraction Types: Haunted trail, haunted houses, tomb/crypt attraction, immersive horror experiences

Plan Your Halloween Scare Near Clifton Park

Hours, ticket options, and reservation requirements vary by attraction, so check each website before you head out. Looking for more ways to celebrate the season? Browse upcoming Halloween events in Clifton Park and start planning your spooky night out.

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About the Author: Joe Legault Joe is a local writer/editor from Lake Luzerne, NY, with a passion for hiking the Adirondack high peaks, running half marathons and 5Ks, and visiting local craft breweries like Common Roots and Dancing Grain. He enjoys writing about the region's can't-miss attractions and activities.
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