FrightQuest: A Halloween-Event Guide

Halloween means different things to people, ranging from sheer white-knuckle terror to white-chocolate candy. It's also a holiday that's celebrated in ways that reflect America's regional diversity, from prairie ghost tours in Kansas to the Mardi Gras-style street party of Lahaina Halloween in Hawaii to the Fetish and Fantasy Halloween Ball in -- where else? -- Las Vegas, Nevada. And the granddaddy of American witchery in Salem, Massachusetts.

To help you navigate the overwhelming options, MapQuest presents FrightQuest. We've selected three events or activities in each of the 50 states and 27 major metropolitan areas to give you a variety of choices. Look below to see a national map of our 234 Halloween suggestions, or browse by state or major metropolitan area. And be sure to read the Halloween observations of our all-star guest writers: the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants Tom Kenny (Upstate New York); pioneering space explorer Leroy Chiao (California); and lead singer of Halloween-loving heavy-metal satirists GWAR Dave Brockie (aka Oderus Urungus) (Virginia).

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FrightQuest State and City Guides

Halloween In New Orleans
by Susan Powers
While kids will go wild for a Big Easy Halloween at Boo at the Zoo (featuring a Star Wars stage show), adults can go wilder at the Voodoo Experience Music Festival or Molly's Halloween Parade.

Halloween In Indiana
by Wendy Gould
The Hoosier State offers family fun in the form of corn mazes. After the kids go to bed, older kids and adults can test their mettle at the Indiana Fear Farm, including a haunted hayride populated with scary characters.

Halloween In Seattle
by Barbie Carpenter
The Emerald City will thrill you with its zombified re-enactment of Michael Jackson's Thriller, replete with a cast of dancing zombies.

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Halloween-Season Events In All 50 States & 27 Major Metro Areas

STATES

Alabama	Alaska	Arizona
Arkansas	California	Colorado
Connecticut	Delaware	Florida
Georgia	Hawaii	Idaho
Illinois	Indiana	Iowa
Kansas	Kentucky	Louisiana
Maine	Maryland	Massachusetts
Michigan	Minnesota	Mississippi
Missouri	Montana	Nebraska
Nevada	New Hampshire	New Jersey
New Mexico	New York	North Carolina
North Dakota	Ohio	Oklahoma
Oregon	Pennsylvania	Rhode Island
South Carolina	South Dakota	Tennessee
Texas	Utah	Vermont
Virginia	Washington	West Virginia
Wisconsin	Wyoming

METRO AREAS

Atlanta	Baltimore	Boston
Chicago	Cincinnati	Cleveland
Columbus	Dallas-Fort Worth	Denver
Detroit	Houston	Kansas City
Los Angeles	Miami	Milwaukee
Minneapolis	New Orleans	New York City
Orlando	Philadelphia	Phoenix
Pittsburgh	Portland (Oregon)	San Francisco
Seattle	St. Louis	Washington, D.C.

FrightQuest Special Features

SpongeBoo!
by Tom Kenny
The Syracuse, New York-born voice of global icon SpongeBob Squarepants offers his take on Halloween, the holiday in which little kids ring his doorbell...dressed as him.

I'm Gonna Be An Astronaut
by Leroy Chiao
This Milwaukee-born, California-raised space-exploration pioneer has gone where few men -- or women -- have gone before. And he first realized his space-exploring dreams on Halloween.

GWAR's Halloween Haunting Grounds
by Dave Brockie
The man behind the mask of Antarctic-demigod warrior Oderus Urungus realizes that perhaps his love of Halloween was shaped by his native Virginia's blood-soaked history.

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Not Safe For Kids: The Country's Scariest Haunted Houses

Haunted Hotel Ball, Arizona
Nightmares Haunted House, Arkansas
Haunted Pub Crawl, Boston
Monster Bash, California
Statesville Haunted Prison and Frightmare Haunted House, Chicago
Cedar Point HalloWeekends, Cleveland
Stanley Hotel Historic Ghost & History Tours and Haunted Mines, Colorado
Broadview Bloodbath, Columbus
Cutting Edge Haunted House, Dallas-Fort Worth
Ghost Tour Of Rockwood Mansion, Delaware
The 13th Door and Frightmare, Denver
Erebus, Detroit
Fright Factory Of Fort Myers and Twisted Woods, Florida
Netherworld Haunted House, Georgia
Haunted Plantation, Hawaii
Nightmare On The Bayou and ScreamWorld, Houston
The Haunted World, Idaho
Dream Reapers and Realm of Terror, Illinois
2-Jo's Town of Terrors, Iowa
Forest Of Fear, Kansas
Los Angeles Haunted Hayride and West Hollywood Halloween Carnival, Los Angeles
The 13th Gate Haunted House, Louisiana
Bennett's Curse At Blobs Park and Scream City, Maryland
Haunted Hall, Michigan
Screamtown, Minnesota
The Terror Test and The Haunted Trail, Mississippi
The Darkness, Missouri
Fetish And Fantasy Halloween Ball, Nevada
Night Of Terror, New Jersey
Molly's Halloween Parade, New Orleans
Kersey Valley Spookywoods Haunted Attraction, North Carolina
Seven Floors Of Hell and Halloween Haunt At King's Island, Ohio
Dr. Linderhall’s Nightmare Factory, Oregon
Halloween Horror Nights, Orlando
The Bates Mote, Pennsylvania
Fright Factory, Philadelphia
Demon House, Pittsburgh
Fortress of Nightmares At Fort Adams and Field Of Screams, Rhode Island
Halloween In The Swamp, South Carolina
The Lemp Brewery, St. Louis
Hauntedweb Of Horrors, Tennessee
Ghoulwill Ball, Texas
Nightmare On 13th, Utah
Dead North, Vermont
Fright At The Museum, Washington, D.C.
The Asylum and Doctor Dekay's House Of Screams, West Virginia
Wisconsin Fear Grounds and Green Bay Fear, Wisconsin
Snow King Halloween Bash and Ghost Tours Of Laramie City, Wyoming

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