EPIC Entertainment Group has partnered with Hersheypark to conjure up a new frightfully immersive haunt experience that spreads its shadows over the Hersheypark landscape every evening during Hersheypark Halloween seasonal event. The four-acre addition, called Dark Nights, represents the largest investment to date for a seasonal event, with three new scare zones and four horrifying haunted houses as part of integrated thrill experiences guests can only find in Hersheypark.
Hersheypark Halloween is a fun, family experience featuring everything guests know and love about the Halloween spin on the season previously called the Hersheypark In The Dark event, with add-on horrors of Dark Nights for guests seeking thrills and frights new in 2022.
During Dark Nights, once-familiar spaces mutate into chilling explorations of the unknown with four horrifying haunted houses. EPIC Entertainment Group will leverage its decade of renowned haunt expertise to deliver an immersive, chilling haunted house experience, The Descent, where guests will find out who stalks the dark underground tunnels beneath Hersheypark.
Other haunted houses include:
- Haunted Coal Mine – For too long, unsettling cries of miners lost in these coal shafts have tormented the living. Take a daring trek through the abandoned mine, which suddenly becomes an explosive encounter.
- Creature Chaos – Join Professor Darkstone as he pits you against Pennsylvania’s most fearful and deadly creatures. Don’t worry; they’re in their cages…for now.
- Twisted Darkness – Dare to have your tarot read by a twisted fortune teller and be forced into a never-ending carnival of nightmares. Was it real, or was it all in your mind?
As part of Dark Nights, midways transform from enchanting to unnerving with three Scare Zones, including EPIC Entertainment Group’s Midway of Misery, where flames burst into the skies as guests are summoned through a sinister gateway into the darkest corner of Hersheypark.
Other scare zones include:
- Darkstone’s Hollow – Wander among Professor Darkstone’s showpeople boasting his array of mythical creatures. Beyond the mesmerizing imagery, there’s more to the show than meets the eye.
- Valley of Fear – Don’t find yourself alone in the murky mists along Spring Creek. The dreadful beings are watching and waiting deep within the shadows, knowing exactly when to strike.
Hersheypark Halloween will open more weekends than ever before for seven weekends from September 17 through October 30, 2022. Starting September 17, the hours for the event are 2-10 p.m. on Saturdays and 2-9 p.m. on Sundays. Hersheypark Halloween is also open on Fridays from 5-10 p.m. beginning October 14. Dark Nights runs from 6-11 p.m. on Saturdays (and Fridays starting October 14) and 6-10 p.m. on Sundays.
Guests must purchase a separate Dark Nights add-on ticket to experience unlimited access to the four haunted houses. Add-on tickets let guests experience the houses as many times as they dare during a single visit. Scare Zones are included with a general admission ticket to Hersheypark Halloween. Full details on Hersheypark Halloween and Dark Nights, as well as tickets, are available now on the Hersheypark website.
