# Reno Haunts (renohaunts.com)

> The local guide to haunted attractions in the Reno, Nevada area (Reno, Sparks, Carson City). Maintained by locals in the haunt industry. Rankings follow public Google ratings, verified and date-stamped each season. This file is generated from the site's structured content so an AI assistant can answer questions about Reno-area haunted houses accurately.

## Haunted houses currently operating (ranked by Google rating)

Rank 1:
### Dark Prison

> A haunted house inside a real 160-year-old prison.
- Status: OPEN / OPERATING
- Type: professional haunted attraction
- Location: 3301 E 5th St, Carson City, NV 89701
- Years: 2025–present
- Season: Sept 25 – Nov 1, 2026, timed entry. Plus a Halfway to Halloween show each May.
- Prices: GA $24.95–$34.95 by night (2025); VIP tier with priority line
- Ages: Not recommended 12 and under without an adult; no kids under 5
- Intensity: 5/5
- Rating: 4.9/5 stars from 360 Google reviews (verified 2026-08-05)
- Official site: https://darkprison.com
- Details: https://renohaunts.com/haunts/dark-prison/
- Summary: Northern Nevada's largest haunted attraction, staged inside the former Nevada State Prison in Carson City. Three haunts in real cellblocks, a carnival-style yard, and a 21+ bar in the old muster room. The area's highest-rated haunt on Google.

Rank 2:
### Corn Creepers at Andelin Family Farm

> Fifty actors hiding in a real cornfield.
- Status: OPEN / OPERATING
- Type: professional haunted attraction
- Location: 8100 Pyramid Way, Sparks, NV 89436
- Years: Farm festival since 2010; haunt since ~2014
- Season: Haunt nights Thu–Sat, 7–10 pm, late Sept through late Oct. 2026 dates TBA.
- Prices: $20 online / $22 at the farm (2025), timed 15-minute entry slots
- Ages: Haunt is teen-and-up energy; glow necklace signals actors to go easy. Daytime festival is all ages.
- Intensity: 3/5
- Rating: 4.7/5 stars from 880 Google, farm-wide reviews (verified 2026-08-05)
- Official site: https://corncreepers.com
- Details: https://renohaunts.com/haunts/corn-creepers-andelin/
- Summary: Andelin Family Farm's after-dark haunted walkthrough, built in a real Spanish Springs cornfield with around 50 actors a night. The farm also runs Zombie Paintball Apocalypse and a fully wholesome daytime fall festival.

Rank 3:
### The Final Hour

> Ten thousand square feet of slasher-movie warehouse.
- Status: OPEN / OPERATING
- Type: professional haunted attraction
- Location: 875 Deming Way, Sparks, NV 89431
- Years: 2022–present
- Season: October, Thu–Sat 8 pm to midnight, plus Halloween night (2025 ran Oct 2–31)
- Prices: $30 GA / $45 VIP skip-the-line
- Ages: Not recommended under 8
- Intensity: 4/5
- Rating: 4.6/5 stars from 52 Google reviews (verified 2026-08-05)
- Official site: https://hauntedhousereno.com
- Details: https://renohaunts.com/haunts/final-hour/
- Summary: An independent indoor walkthrough haunt in a Sparks warehouse, formerly at Meadowood Mall. Around 10,000 square feet with a hard slasher lean and a chainsaw finale.

## Ghost tours + seasonal events nearby

### BooVille + Macabre Manor

> Indoor trick-or-treating for the littles, a manor for everyone else.
- Status: OPEN / OPERATING
- Type: seasonal event
- Location: 1201 Stardust Street, Reno, NV 89503
- Season: Mid-October through Nov 1, select nights (2025 ran Oct 16–Nov 1)
- Prices: Ticketed; see fearticket.com listing
- Ages: BooVille for young kids; Macabre Manor for older kids and adults
- Intensity: 2/5
- Rating: 4.7/5 stars from 19 Google, venue-wide reviews (verified 2026-08-05)
- Official site: https://theplaceintime.com
- Details: https://renohaunts.com/haunts/booville-macabre-manor/
- Summary: Two Halloween attractions inside one small Reno event venue. BooVille runs themed indoor trick-or-treat rooms for young kids, and Macabre Manor handles the older crowd.

### Haunted Halloween Mini-Golf at The Generator

> Artist-built spooky golf with a tiki bar.
- Status: OPEN / OPERATING
- Type: seasonal event
- Location: 2450 Oddie Blvd, Sparks, NV
- Season: Mid-to-late October, Fri–Sun (2025 ran Oct 16–31)
- Ages: All ages
- Intensity: 1/5
- Official site: https://therenogenerator.com
- Details: https://renohaunts.com/haunts/haunted-mini-golf-generator/
- Summary: The Generator makerspace in Sparks builds a haunted mini-golf course each October, played through large-scale art installations with a tiki bar on site.

### Reno Ghost Tours & Haunted Pub Crawls

> Downtown Reno's dark history, on foot.
- Status: OPEN / OPERATING
- Type: ghost tour
- Location: 201 Flint St, Reno, NV 89501
- Season: Year-round
- Ages: Walking tours all ages; pub crawls 21+
- Intensity: 1/5
- Rating: 4.8/5 stars from 193 Google reviews (verified 2026-08-05)
- Details: https://renohaunts.com/haunts/reno-ghost-tours/
- Summary: Year-round guided walking tours and 21+ haunted pub crawls through downtown Reno's genuinely strange history.

### Reno Zombie Crawl

> Twenty thousand zombies, forty bars, one downtown.
- Status: OPEN / OPERATING
- Type: seasonal event
- Location: Reno, NV
- Years: Since 2008 (~300 zombies then, ~20,000 now)
- Season: One Saturday each October, 8 pm to 2 am. 2026: Saturday, October 17.
- Prices: Crawl cups roughly $7–$20
- Ages: 21+
- Official site: https://crawlreno.com/event/zombiecrawl/
- Details: https://renohaunts.com/haunts/reno-zombie-crawl/
- Summary: One of the biggest costumed bar crawls in the country. Downtown Reno fills with roughly 20,000 zombies across 40+ participating bars every October. The 2026 crawl is set for Saturday, October 17.

### Victorian Nightmare at Mackay Mansion

> A haunted house event inside an actually haunted mansion.
- Status: OPEN / OPERATING
- Type: seasonal event
- Location: 291 S D St, Virginia City, NV 89440
- Season: Select late-October nights (2025 ran Oct 24, 25, 31)
- Intensity: 2/5
- Rating: 4.8/5 stars from 669 Google, museum-wide reviews (verified 2026-08-05)
- Details: https://renohaunts.com/haunts/victorian-nightmare-mackay/
- Summary: The Mackay Mansion museum in Virginia City hosts a period haunted-house event on select late-October nights, staged through the real 1860 silver-baron home.

### V&T Haunted Graveyard Train

> A night train through a real Gold Rush cemetery.
- Status: OPEN / OPERATING
- Type: seasonal event
- Location: Virginia City, NV
- Season: Halloween weekend (2025 ran Oct 31 + Nov 1)
- Ages: Family friendly
- Intensity: 2/5
- Official site: https://vtrailway.com
- Details: https://renohaunts.com/haunts/vt-haunted-graveyard-train/
- Summary: The Virginia & Truckee Railway's Halloween-weekend night ride, rolling 40 minutes through the Gold Hill Cemetery with haunted characters aboard.

### Washoe Club Haunted Museum & Ghost Tours

> Virginia City's most famous haunted address.
- Status: OPEN / OPERATING
- Type: ghost tour
- Location: 112 S C St, Virginia City, NV 89440
- Season: Year-round; tours roughly hourly, 11 am–5 pm
- Prices: Tours around $8 adults
- Ages: All ages
- Intensity: 1/5
- Rating: 4.7/5 stars from 986 Google, saloon + museum reviews (verified 2026-08-05)
- Official site: https://thewashoeclub.com
- Details: https://renohaunts.com/haunts/washoe-club-ghost-tours/
- Summary: The Washoe Club in Virginia City runs year-round ghost tours through the building Ghost Adventures made famous, with a saloon downstairs and a haunted museum upstairs.

## Home haunts (free neighborhood haunts)

### The Ambush Haunted House

> A full backyard haunted house for a kid fighting cancer near you.
- Status: OPEN / OPERATING
- Type: home haunt (free/donation)
- Location: 7450 Ambush Circle, Sparks, NV 89436
- Years: Since ~2007
- Season: Final week of October, evenings (2025 ran Oct 26–31 with a mid-week Kids Night)
- Prices: Free; donations to NNCCF
- Ages: All ages; bypass route and Kids Night for little ones
- Intensity: 3/5
- Details: https://renohaunts.com/home-haunts/#ambush-haunted-house
- Summary: Wingfield Springs' famous free walkthrough haunt. A backyard-spanning haunted house with a dozen live actors, 12-foot skeletons out front, and every donation going to the Northern Nevada Children's Cancer Foundation.

### Britt's Wicked Manor

> The Damonte Ranch yard display that made it to network TV.
- Status: OPEN / OPERATING
- Type: home haunt (free/donation)
- Location: 10440 Canyon Country Ct, Reno, NV
- Years: 2009–present
- Season: Display runs from late September through Halloween, best after dark
- Prices: Free
- Ages: All ages; view from the street
- Intensity: 1/5
- Details: https://renohaunts.com/home-haunts/#britts-wicked-manor
- Summary: South Reno's celebrity yard haunt. A foggy graveyard, projection-mapped garage shows, and a cul-de-sac that fills up nightly every October. Competed on ABC's The Great Halloween Fright Fight.

### Deadwood Manor

> A haunted house with a mystery you're supposed to solve.
- Status: OPEN / OPERATING
- Type: home haunt (free/donation)
- Location: 18280 Grizzly Bear Court, Reno, NV 89508
- Years: Since ~2019
- Season: Halloween weekend nights; check their socials for the current season
- Prices: Free
- Ages: Family friendly, no-touch policy
- Intensity: 2/5
- Details: https://renohaunts.com/home-haunts/#deadwood-manor
- Summary: The Tate family's story-driven walkthrough in Cold Springs, run under their Grizzly Bear Scare banner. Family-friendly, deliberately lit, and built around a multi-year missing-persons plot.

### Silver Raven Haunted House

> Twenty seasons of scares, admission payable in canned goods.
- Status: OPEN / OPERATING
- Type: home haunt (free/donation)
- Location: 2460 Holman Way, Sparks, NV 89431
- Years: 2006–present
- Season: Late October: Kids Night first, then full-scare nights through Halloween. 2026 dates TBA.
- Prices: Free; bring a non-perishable food item
- Ages: Kids Night is scare-free; regular nights are for the brave
- Intensity: 3/5
- Official site: https://silverravenhauntedhouse.weebly.com
- Details: https://renohaunts.com/home-haunts/#silver-raven-haunted-house
- Summary: The area's longest-running charity home haunt, built by the K.I.L.L.E.R. Productions crew in Sparks since 2006. Free entry; bring a food donation for the Food Bank of Northern Nevada.

## Defunct Reno haunts (the Boneyard)

### Dark Corner Haunted House

> The downtown haunt that became Dark Prison. And it's coming back.
- Status: CLOSED; announced return in 2027
- Type: professional haunted attraction
- Location: National Bowling Stadium, downtown Reno
- Years: 2022–2024
- Details: https://renohaunts.com/history/dark-corner-haunted-house/
- Summary: The haunted house that ran inside Reno's National Bowling Stadium from 2022, built by the crew that now operates Dark Prison. Closed downtown when the show moved to the prison, and now announced to return in 2027.

### Slaughter House (Reno Fright Fest)

> Fourteen seasons, five venues, one empire of Reno Halloween.
- Status: PERMANENTLY CLOSED
- Type: professional haunted attraction
- Location: Last venue Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave, Reno
- Years: 2006–2019
- Details: https://renohaunts.com/history/slaughter-house/
- Summary: Eli Kerr's Reno Fright Fest ran the Slaughter House from 2006 to 2019, from the Silver Legacy to Meadowood Mall to three levels of the Aces ballpark. It was Northern Nevada's biggest haunt for a decade, and COVID ended it quietly.

### Frightmare

> Four haunts under one roof at Victorian Square.
- Status: PERMANENTLY CLOSED
- Type: professional haunted attraction
- Location: Victorian Square, 1250 Victorian Ave, Sparks
- Years: Through 2014
- Details: https://renohaunts.com/history/frightmare/
- Summary: Sparks' big-box haunt next to the Century Theatres, home of the Zombie Farm House and Evil Clown Town. It promised to reopen after a 2015 remodel and never did.

### Grimes Castle

> Carson City's kingdom, whose walls still scare people today.
- Status: PERMANENTLY CLOSED
- Type: professional haunted attraction
- Location: 1809 N Carson St (The Dungeon) + Carson Mall (The Labyrinth)
- Years: 2006–2013
- Details: https://renohaunts.com/history/grimes-castle/
- Summary: Michael Grimes ran Carson City's hometown haunt from about 2006 to 2013, growing to two locations. When it closed, its walkthrough walls were bought by Silver Raven, where they still stand every October.

### Haunted House of Horror (Ormsby House)

> The casino haunt that claimed the number-one spot in Nevada.
- Status: PERMANENTLY CLOSED
- Type: professional haunted attraction
- Location: The Ormsby House, S Carson St, Carson City
- Years: 1998–1999
- Details: https://renohaunts.com/history/ormsby-house-haunt/
- Summary: For two Octobers, Carson City's landmark Ormsby House ran the Haunted House of Horror, a 12,000-square-foot charity haunt with 140 staff, three-hour lines, and a claimed number-one ranking in Nevada. Then the hotel closed and never reopened.

### Frightmares (Reno Hilton)

> The forgotten casino haunt of 1999.
- Status: PERMANENTLY CLOSED
- Type: professional haunted attraction
- Location: Reno Hilton (now Grand Sierra Resort), 2500 E 2nd St, Reno
- Years: 1999–1999
- Details: https://renohaunts.com/history/frightmares-reno-hilton/
- Summary: In fall 1999, New Century Entertainment ran Frightmares at the Reno Hilton, the same building that later became the Grand Sierra Resort. One documented season, then gone, and almost nobody remembers it existed.

### The Boomtown Haunted House

> The casino haunt with the electric chair.
- Status: PERMANENTLY CLOSED
- Type: professional haunted attraction
- Location: Boomtown Casino, Verdi, NV
- Years: ~1994
- Details: https://renohaunts.com/history/boomtown-haunt/
- Summary: Around 1994, Boomtown Casino in Verdi ran a haunted house remembered for one thing above all, a Distortions Unlimited electric chair effect. Another pre-internet haunt we're working to document.

### Battlefield Live Z

> The casino where you hunted zombies.
- Status: PERMANENTLY CLOSED
- Type: seasonal event
- Location: Grand Sierra Resort, 2500 E 2nd St, Reno
- Years: 2012–mid 2010s
- Details: https://renohaunts.com/history/battlefield-live-z/
- Summary: Grand Sierra Resort's live-combat zombie attraction, launched in 2012 as the first of its kind at a casino property. The space is now Max Action Arena.

### Kingdom of Horrors

> Twenty-six rooms behind the roller rink.
- Status: PERMANENTLY CLOSED
- Type: professional haunted attraction
- Location: 515 E 7th St, Reno (at Roller Kingdom)
- Years: ~2011–2017
- Details: https://renohaunts.com/history/kingdom-of-horrors/
- Summary: The haunted kingdom that ran at Roller Kingdom on East 7th Street through most of the 2010s, built around the grim legend of the Kilburn Estate. It faded out quietly around 2017.

## Blog

- [Is Dark Prison Too Scary for Kids? A Parent's Guide to Reno Haunt Intensity](https://renohaunts.com/blog/haunted-house-scare-levels-kids/): Which Reno haunts work for a 7-year-old, which ones a brave 11-year-old can handle, and which ones mean it when they say 13 and up. An honest intensity ladder.
- [The Lost Haunts of Reno: Where Did They All Go?](https://renohaunts.com/blog/lost-haunts-of-reno/): The Slaughter House ran 14 years and vanished without a goodbye. Kingdom of Horrors faded behind a roller rink. Frightmare promised a remodel that never came. The real history of Reno's dead haunted houses, researched and written down.
- [The Real History of the Prison Where Dark Prison Lives](https://renohaunts.com/blog/nevada-state-prison-history/): First gas execution in the world. An inmate-run casino. Sandstone that built the State Capitol. The Nevada State Prison earned its reputation for 150 years before a haunted house ever moved in.
- [The Reno Halloween Calendar 2026: Every Date That Matters](https://renohaunts.com/blog/reno-halloween-calendar-2026/): Dark Prison opens September 25. The Zombie Crawl hits October 17. Home haunts light up the last week of October. Every confirmed 2026 date, plus the ones still pending.
- [The Ghost Stories Northern Nevada Locals Actually Tell](https://renohaunts.com/blog/reno-ghost-stories-locals-tell/): The Lady in Blue on the Washoe Club staircase. Rosie in Room 11. Two little girls on the Mackay Mansion's third floor. The documented lore of the most haunted corner of Nevada.
- [How Much Do Reno Haunted Houses Cost in 2026? Every Price, Compared](https://renohaunts.com/blog/reno-haunted-house-prices-2026/): General admission runs $20 to $35 in the Reno area, VIP tiers hit $45, and four of the best haunts in town cost nothing at all. Every verified price in one place.
- [The 2026 Reno Haunted House Guide: Every Haunt, Ranked](https://renohaunts.com/blog/reno-haunted-houses-2026-guide/): Everything opening in the Reno area this season, what it costs, how scary it actually is, and which haunt fits your crew. Updated as dates are announced.
- [Reno's Home Haunts: Four Neighborhood Scares Worth the Drive](https://renohaunts.com/blog/reno-home-haunts-worth-the-drive/): The Ambush, Silver Raven, Britt's Wicked Manor, and Deadwood Manor. Reno's home haunt scene is small, free, and better than it has any right to be.
- [The Slaughter House Story: 14 Years of Reno's Biggest Haunt](https://renohaunts.com/blog/slaughter-house-story/): A magician built Reno's scariest empire and moved it five times, from the Silver Legacy to Meadowood Mall to three floors of a baseball stadium. Then it vanished without a goodbye. The full history.
- [Virginia City After Dark: The Complete Haunted Day Trip From Reno](https://renohaunts.com/blog/virginia-city-haunted-day-trip/): Thirty-five minutes from Reno sits a town that never needed to build a haunted attraction. The Washoe Club, the graveyard train, a haunted mansion, and how to do it all in one day.
- [What It Actually Takes to Build a Haunted House in Reno](https://renohaunts.com/blog/what-it-takes-to-build-a-haunt/): Eight semi-trucks of sets. Sixty actors a night. A backyard build that starts in July. The numbers behind Northern Nevada's haunts, from stadium productions to garage walkthroughs.

## Contact

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