Niles Scream Park

The place everyone's been screaming about

The Niles Scream Park is not just scary, it is considered by many to be one of the top haunted attractions in the country! Certainly one of the largest, the Niles Scream Park offers 44 acres of blood-curdling fear! Unlike other haunted houses, Niles rebuilds all six major attractions each year to provide you with completely new and unique shows. The professionally designed sets and ingenious scare-tactics led The Niles Scream Park to be recognized by Haunted Attraction Magazine as one of the “Top 31 Must-See Haunted Attractions” nationwide for the last several years! This is no mere roadside attraction! Come visit one of the country's premier haunted houses!

We put the CARE in SCARE

While you're trembling, you'll be helping a good cause. In 2019, the Park donated more than $116,000.00 to local charities! The Niles Scream Park is a non-profit community project that uses approximately 150 to 200 volunteers per night to staff its various attractions. These volunteers represent over 65 Michiana area community and school organizations such as Boy Scout groups, church youth groups and booster groups for colleges and high schools. Since 1996, more than $2,000,000.00 have been donated to local and national non-profit organizations, as well as the Niles Scream Park funded college scholarships for students at Niles, Cassopolis, Brandywine, Dowagiac and Edwardsburg High Schools!! What a tribute to our volunteers!

We would like to thank all of you who visited with us this year. We did our best to keep you and our volunteers safe and sincerely appreciate your dedication to the project. We are sorry that we didn’t have our normal amount of actors this year. We are cautiously optimistic that all of them will return in 2021.

For those of you that decided to take the year off, we hope that you will join us again in 2021. All that we can do is hope that the pandemic will be in the history books by then. If not, we will continue to do our best to protect our volunteers and patrons from the Corona crap.

When the season started, we were concerned that we would not be able to pay our bills. We had no idea that our attendance would reach the level of being our third best year ever. We were very fortunate to have all three of our local television stations do positive articles about the Park several weeks before we opened. Those articles and the protocols that we adopted played a tremendous part in our success.

We hope that you enjoyed our new timed ticketing system. That was a first for us in the 47 years of the project. It was one of our many efforts to keep our patrons safe. From our perspective it was a huge success and will be back again in 2021.

For those of you that are not familiar with our project, most of our actors are volunteers that work for a donation to some type of community service group. This year our total donations amounted to $109,915.44! Thank you again for visiting with us and assisting us with helping our many, many worthy groups. A detailed list of the donations can be found on the news section of the website. That brings our total donations to $2,171,418.44 since 1996.

Special congratulations to Boy Scouts Troop #541 for being our #1 group with a total donation of $21,575. Congratulations also are in order to the Make a Wish group whose donation total was $11,725. And no, we will not forget our many other groups. They were totally awesome and we could not have done it without them.

Many new plans are underway for 2021. We look forward to sharing them with you when we open on Friday, September 10^th, 2021.

Thanks again for your support of our project!

Niles Haunted House Board of Directors

***COVID-19 CONTINGENCY & SAFETY PLAN ***

The safety of our patrons and staff ALWAYS has and ALWAYS will be our #1 priority while providing frightful entertainment across our 44 acre Scream Park in Niles, MI.

We care deeply about our family of staff, loyal patrons and the incredibly supportive community surrounding us.  We always have recognized that patrons and staff place their trust in us to provide a scary, fun and entertaining experience; however, they trust that we have also taken many measures to ensure their absolute safety.  Our commitment has not changed as the unfortunate result of COVID-19.  You can view our commitment HERE.

● Pursuant to Michigan law, all patrons and workers will be required to wear masks/face coverings at all times. If you are not willing to wear a mask/face covering, please do not come to the Park. You will be denied admission. If you do not have a mask, we will provide you with one free of charge.

● Temperature checks will be taken of all patrons and workers. If your temperature exceeds 100° you will be denied admission.

● While at the Scream Park, please always social distance yourself from other groups. A minimum of 6 feet.

● While at the Scream Park, please regularly use our hand sanitizer. It is everywhere and free of charge.

● While at the Scream Park, please do your best not to touch anything. If you do touch something, please remember to use the hand sanitizer promptly.

● Before you come to the Scream Park, please make a RESERVATION. If you do not have a reservation, you run the risk of being denied admission. As required by Michigan law, we are limiting the number of people in the attractions and at the Scream Park.

● Tickets can not be purchased after 5pm EST on the night that we are open.  For example, if you are making a reservation for September 11th, it must be made before 5pm EST that day.

● If you and your group arrive early for your reservation, we ask that you remain in your vehicles until it's time for your reservation.  You will NOT be granted early admission.  Please line up in the front area no sooner than 10 minutes before your reservation time.

We have addressed many of your Frequently Asked Questions HERE.

While you are having fun, please keep everyone safe.

Our COVID-19 Contingency & Safety Plan is subject to change based on state and local mandates. 

NILES, Mich. (December 2, 2020) – The Niles Scream Park, one of Michiana’s most popular autumn attractions, recently completed another successful season at its always changing 44 acre site on Mayflower Road between Niles and Buchanan.

This year, the 47th consecutive year for running the project, the Scream Park raised over $109,000 for more than 60 area children’s organizations, civic groups and other charities. Proceeds benefitted local school and service organizations including groups such as the Boy Scouts, the Make a Wish Foundation, Pets Connect, Niles High School Band Boosters and the Relay For Life (American Cancer Society). The funds raised also will be used for four college scholarships for local high school seniors.  Since 1996, the Scream Park has donated over $2,100,000!!

In addition to the cash donations, the Niles Scream Park supported many local causes, auctions and benefits with ticket donations totaling more than $1,200.

The project included seven haunted attractions and provided volunteer opportunities both in construction and operation of the Scream Park. Plans are underway for even more frightening additions in the coming year. Over 21,000 hours were volunteered by over 390 different people before and during its 22 nights of operation to prepare and operate the seasonal attraction.

The year also marked a visit from interior visitor number 2,200,000.  Morgan Fentress of Crown Point, Indiana, was the special milestone visitor. She received a gift pack when she visited the Scream Park on Sunday, October 11, 2020 with her friend Mario Rodriguez of Crown Point, Indiana.

The Haunted House was chosen as #1 Halloween Activity in the South Bend Tribune’s Readers Choice Awards for the sixth consecutive year and received a Gold Award for “Best Interactive Experience” for the Best of the Best by Leader Publications.   

Photo of highlights from the 2020 Season.  

Niles, Michigan (October 12, 2020) – The Board of Directors for the Niles Scream Park is pleased to announce that they welcomed interior visitor number 2,200,000 on Sunday, October 11, 2020. The lucky individual is Morgan Fentress of Crown Point, Indiana. As a result of her good fortune, she received a special “ghost pack” of goodies from the Niles Scream Park.

Morgan was accompanied by her friend Mario Rodriguez of Crown Point, Indiana. Fentress works in the hospitality industry and recently had her first child, but that did not stop her from making her annual visit to the Niles Scream Park. She visits just about every year because she loves Halloween, getting scared and is continuing a family tradition that was started years ago by her mother.

Providing chilling entertainment for the last 47 years, the Niles Scream Park is pleased to celebrate interior visitor number 2,200,000.

Open weekends through October 31st and Friday and Saturday, November 6th and 7th, the Scream Park is located on Mayflower Road in Niles, Michigan. The Park easily is accessed by taking Exit 5 (Niles-Buchanan Road) from the US 31 Expressway.

For more information call 269-687-FEAR or check out the website at www.haunted.org.

Pictured in the photo (L-R) are: The Boogeyman, Morgan Fentress, Namcy, Mario Rodriguez, Pecora Gimm and the Hogfather.

NILES, Michigan (July 7, 2020) — The Niles Haunted House Board of Directors is pleased to announce the deserving graduates who will receive scholarships from the Niles Scream Park community project. These graduates stood out based on their academic success, involvement in the Michiana community and future aspirations to become civic leaders. We are proud of the accomplishments achieved by this group of young adults and are confident in their ability to sustain success in their collegiate and professional careers. The scholarship recipients are as follows:

Since 1992, the Niles Scream Park has awarded $62,650 in scholarships to 161 local high school students.

These scholarships are made possible by the hard-working volunteers at the Niles Scream Park. Each year a select group of individuals donate their time to support local high school graduates. In addition to local scholarships, the Niles Scream Park community project supports more than 65 area charities and non-profit groups.

Proceeds benefitted local school and service organizations including groups such as the Make a Wish Foundation, Boy Scouts, Pets Connect and the Niles Band Boosters. Last year, the 46th consecutive year for running the project, raised over $116,000. More than 2 million dollars have been raised since 1996.

The Scream Park officially opens Friday, September 11th. The Park is open from 8:00 to 11:00 pm on Fridays and Saturdays in September, from 7:00 to 11:00 pm on Fridays and Saturdays in October and 7:00 to 10:00 pm on Sundays in October. The Park is also open Friday and Saturday, November 6 and 7 from 7:00 to 10:00 pm for the Black Out event.

The Scream Park is located at 855 Mayflower Road in Niles, Michigan. The Park easily is accessed by taking Exit 5 (Niles-Buchanan Road) from the US 31 Expressway.

For more information call 269-687-FEAR (3327) or see the website at www.haunted.org.