Hayride of Horror Review 2024
Hayride of Horror Review 2024
We visited Hayride of Horror on October 12, 2024. Hayride of Horror is located at 199 Woods Dr, Lockport, IL 60441. Tickets are $15 for General Pass which admits one person to either Hayride of Horror or the Curse of the Bayou. A Combo Pass is $25, which gets you into both attractions. Their Speed Pass is $35 which lets you skip the line for both attractions. This haunt is open every Friday and Saturday from 7 to 10pm. The last two weeks of October, they are open on Sunday from 6 to 9pm as well. The day we went they were very busy, so we do recommend that you go as soon as they open or you will be waiting for a while.
The first attraction we did was Hayride of Horror. The wagon takes you to different scenes in a big open field. Some of the scenes include a clown section, crystal lake, a cemetery and a few other scenes we will keep a secret for your enjoyment. Going through the field, we encounter some little monsters. A lot of them were kids, which was so cute and awesome! These kids had so much energy and were so into their characters. They would run up to the wagon trying to kill us! When you see these kids, you can tell how much fun they were having. There was a little girl who just stood still, not moving a muscle that caught our eye. At just the right time, she started acting all creepy and running around. This little girl was amazing! Everyone on the hayride thought she was a doll until she moved. There was a Jason standing in the middle of the road just staring at the tractor heading towards him. He looked like a real killer in a horror movie. We are telling you, these kids are made to be haunted house actors!
The next attraction we did was Curse of the Bayou, which is basically their Haunted House. In the past, we loved the bayou. This year, we weren’t crazy about it. To us, it was short and felt more like a maze than a haunt. It felt like there weren’t that many actors in the bayou. The ones that we did meet did a great job, we won’t take that away from them, but if anything else we feel like the bayou needs a lot of work or at least to change it up. So the maze part was ok but I felt like there was only one actor in the big maze.
We always love riding the hayride every year and seeing these kids perform. You get to see them get all into it trying to scare people on the hayride. Like we said before, we think the bayou needs a lot of work, like an update. We still had a good time. It was extremely busy that night, and the Hayride of Horror crew did a great job trying to move the line, loading people on and off the hayride and through the haunt without having any long conga lines. If you’re looking to do something with the family and take them out to a haunt, then check out Hayride of Horror in Lockport!
