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!

Believe it or not, the Niles Scream Park is already thinking about the year 2023! Why? Who in their right mind plans that far out? Well, if you know anything about us, you would know that we’re one of the OLDEST haunted attractions in the country. To be exact, we’ve been around since 1974 when we were originally known as the Greater Niles Jaycees Haunted House. If our math is correct, 2023 will mark our 50th consecutive season in operation. That is a HUGE milestone in our industry and it’s worth celebrating!

Yes, we’re years out, but we’re determined to make it a year to remember! To get “this party started,” we’re looking to get in touch with those started it all, the Niles Jaycees! If you or a friend or family member happen to know of a former member of the Niles Jaycees, please forward their contact information to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Thank you!

NILES, Mich. (December 3, 2019) – 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 46th consecutive year for running the project, the Scream Park raised over $116,000 for more than 70 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 $2,000,000!!

In addition to the cash donations, the Niles Scream Park supported many local causes, auctions and benefits with ticket donations totaling more than $2,900.

The project included six 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 20,000 hours were volunteered by over 535 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 2,100,000. Megan Darr of Granger, Indiana, was the special milestone visitor. She received a gift pack when she visited the Scream Park on Sunday, October 6, 2019 with her friend Jared Hancock of Mishawaka, Indiana.

The Scream Park broke an all-time attendance record this year for a Friday night on Friday, October 18, 2019, welcoming 8,942 interior attraction visitors. The Scream Park concluded the season with the 3rd best season on record, welcoming 108,535 interior attraction visitors to the Park!!

The Scream Park is recognized nationally in the haunted attraction industry. It was voted #4 Haunted Attraction in the nation by voters on the Coaster Nation annual Halloween poll.

For the sixth consecutive year, the Haunted House Indy review team named the attraction a “Must See Haunt in 2019”. The Park also was chosen as #1 Best Seasonal Attraction & #1 Halloween Activity in the South Bend Tribune’s Readers Choice Awards for the sixth consecutive year and named the Best of the Best by Leader Publications.

Photo taken from our annual pizza party celebration for our volunteers.  

Niles, Michigan (October 7, 2019) – The Board of Directors for the Niles Scream Park is pleased to announce that they welcomed interior visitor number 2,100,000 on Sunday, October 6, 2019. The lucky individual is Megan Darr of Granger, Indiana. As a result of her good fortune, she received a special “ghost pack” of goodies from the Niles Scream Park.

Megan was accompanied by her friend Jared Hancock of Mishawaka, Indiana. Darr is a junior at Purdue University, but that didn’t stop her from making this her fourth visit to the Niles Scream Park. She comes year after year because she loves Halloween and getting scared. This year she had to drag her friend Jared, a Clay Fire Fighter recruit, with her although he is the one that suggested coming to the Scream Park.

Providing chilling entertainment for the last 46 years, the Niles Scream Park is pleased to celebrate interior visitor number 2,100,000.

Open weekends through October plus Thursday, October 31st and Friday and Saturday, November1st and 2nd, 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: Hank Gnash, Randall, Stitch, Jared Hancock, Megan Darr, Dr. Fear and the Ghost.

NILES, Michigan (July 19, 2019) — 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:

The Niles Scream Park is honored to be named the 2019 "Best Halloween Activity" & "Best Seasonal Attraction" by the South Bend Tribune readers in the annual Readers' Choice Awards. This is the seventh year in a row the Scream Park has been chosen number one by the South Bend Tribune readers.

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