Nestled in the beautiful environ of Griffith Park, the LA Ghost Train returns for another spooky year, offering up family-friendly chills and thrills as you ride on a miniature train through lots of spooky scenes that will bring a big jack-o-lantern grin to kids of all ages!

Spooky Castle

Lines start forming up to an hour before the gates open at 7:00pm, so feel free to get there early, have a picnic, and relax. The fun frights will be here soon enough.

I’ve never been on this little train before, so I don’t know what it looks like the other eleven months of the year, but I was very impressed by the time and effort that has been put into this Halloween event. There are haunted mines, toxic waste-filled towns, a crazy Tesla coil that improbably sounds quite musical, a spider attack, a Dia de los Muertos festival, a creepy clown house, an alien invasion, and much much more, all experienced from the safety of your model train.

Unpleasant Screams

Yes, your model train. You take this lengthy tour (seriously, ours was about 25 minutes long) while straddling a 7.5 inch gauge model train as it chugs around the park, over bridges and through tunnels (keep your knees and arms close in–there are some tight clearances that show up with very little warning during your trip).

Scary Scarecrow

There are no actors or live monsters that are jumping out or anything like that, and no gore or blood.  There are some very creepy props and scenes (a roomful of dolls all moving and talking, a dried-out mummified woman in a rocking chair, skeletons galore, ghostly projections, giant spiders), but it’s all in good fun and the train moves along at a brisk pace, not lingering at any frightful place for very long.

Aaaagh! Spider!

I am as jaded a haunter as they come, having visited and worked at many many more adult-themed haunts over the years, and this place utterly charmed me. The love these volunteers have for their trains, and for this event in particular, is refreshing and charming, and I would love to bring back the rest of my family soon and ride this train again!

Singing Pumpkins!

The Ghost Train is located at 5202 Zoo Drive, in Los Angeles. They will be open October 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, 29, 30, 31, and November 1, from 7:00-10:00pm. Tickets are $15 each, with free parking. Riders must be at least 34″ tall.

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