Scarywood Haunted Nights at Silverwood Theme Park boasts several haunted attractions, scarezones, entertainment and other activities that vary from year to year. In this post, we give you our ratings for each of these attractions. (Updated August 21, 2026)
For 2026, Scarywood will feature 5 haunted attractions and 10 scare zones. Although it may seem like a lot to squeeze into one night, we still think it’s very doable. There are some big changes this year, most notably the replacement of Planet Zombie with the new “Nightmares” haunted attraction, and two new scare zones – The Wharf, and Doom Town. These all look and sound fantastic, and we can’t wait to check them out. Reviews and ratings will be forthcoming on all of that.
There are also a couple of things missing this year. First is the Monster Meal, which was located inside the Theater of Illusion in 2025. We weren’t huge fans of this, and sorely missed the regular menu at the theater, so from our perspective this amounts to “addition by subtraction”. But, if you liked the Monster Meal from last year, there is still a way to experience it in 2026. Silverwood confirmed that for groups of 25 or more people, a special early entry with a Monster Meal add-on is still an option.
The second, and much more notable for us, is the omission of Timber Terror backwards. We didn’t want to believe it at first, but it’s true – our single favorite attraction at Scarywood is no more. We’ve long heralded this as the singular reason to visit Scarywood, even if you aren’t a haunt fan. It’s truly just that good. Alas, change is inevitable, and although we don’t always have to like it, we’ll move on…eventually. One positive to come from this is that we will no longer need to speed-walk to the far south end of the park to ride Timber Terror backwards before the line gets to be too long. We can instead focus our rope drop strategy on the haunted attractions alone. We’ll give it a shot, and let you know how it goes. Look for future updates to our 1-Night Itinerary, once appropriate “field testing” is complete!
Having said all of that, the rest of the attractions are by and large the same as 2025. One last quick note before we dive into the ratings: we are not rating the “regular” rides that are, for all intents and purposes, operating as they would any other day of the year. If you’re interested in our take on those, check out our Silverwood Attractions Guide.
Chuckles’ 3D Sideshow – 8/10 – Back again for another year, this haunted attraction features – you guessed it – 3D effects and clowns. Housed in a permanent structure behind Aftershock, this maze contains several elements from the former 3Dementia, and Dr. Delirium. The 3D effects continue to improve each year, and the vibe of this particular haunt is always a lot of fun, and very different from the rest of the park.
Blood Bayou – 10/10 – This is the longest-running haunt at the park, now in its seventeenth year. Housed in the old Ice Palace building, this is by far the best attraction when it comes to theming. Despite its age, this is the stuff of legend, and we mean it. The forest scene alone at the start still blows us away as a truly Knott’s-esque level of detail. It’s long, elaborate, full of scareactors, and will no doubt leave you impressed. Recent years have seen nearly all of the props in full working order, and no space was underutilized. Blood Bayou is truly Scarywood firing on all cylinders.
Nightmares – New for 2026 – Rating TBD – Featuring 14 rooms built around 13 different phobias, Nightmares will take guests deep inside the fears that keep us awake at night. From arachnophobia to the fear of dolls, pain, death, and more, each room will bring a different nightmare to life as guests make their way through one of the longest haunted attractions ever developed at the park.
The Swine: Bigger and Badder – 9/10 – Returning for its third year, and housed in the Pavilion area, The Swine: Bigger and Badder is themed to the three little pigs and the big bad wolf. This haunt brings back several elements from the “Freak Farm” theme that used to reside in the former Terror Canyon Trail. We absolutely LOVED that theme, and it made for a great application in this setting. 2025 saw a massively plussed-up version of this maze, and we’re thrilled to see it return!
Pharaoh’s Curse – 7/10 – A walk-through maze with an archaeological/ancient ruins theme. The haunt has impressive sets, tons of scareactors, and even a few animatronics. Plus, the fog and dimly lit corridors can make for a very disorienting experience. We admit this one does seem to be a bit less staffed than other haunts, and as a result it feels a little more empty in some places.
Some of Scarywood’s Scare Zone themes are very obvious and easy for us to identify; others are not. We’ve done our best here to indicate which is which, but we might have gotten a couple of them mixed up.
Anarchy – 7/10 – Located on the pathway from Lindy’s to the Magic Show theater, this dark walk through the trees provides for a lot of easy places for actors to jump out and surprise your group. It’s a bit light on theming, but the darkness makes up for that. It’s usually the first zone that guests experience after entering the park, which is a ton of fun to watch. And, as the name suggests, it is pure chaos.
Clown Town – 10/10 – Well themed, awesome lighting effects, terrifying props, tons of fog and lots of scareactors. This is everything you want in a scarezone, and consistently our favorite of the bunch.
Deadwood – New for 2025 – Review and rating coming soon.
The Dark Forest – 5/10 – Our best guess is that this is the zone between Tremors and the Thunder Canyon entrance, passing by the picnic pavilion area. It’s definitely a dark area, and has some great hiding spots for actors, but the theming is very minimal.
Doom Town – New for 2026 – Review and rating coming soon.
Freak Farm – 7/10 – Themed to a farm/pumpkin patch with bales of hay and corn stalks scattered around the pathway. As far as we could tell, this was essentially the entrance area to the new haunt The Swine. It follows the pathway through the picnic pavilion area, and serves as a nice shortcut over to both the Swine and Chuckles’ 3D Sideshow. This used to be over in Coaster Alley and was a lot longer, but moving it to the pavilion area does have some advantages. Namely, the much darker pathway made for a much creepier vibe, and made it much easier for the actors to hide!
The Toybox – 9/10 – Placed throughout Coaster Alley around Panic Plunge, this scare zone features actors dressed up as creepy dolls and toys that have come to life, scattered among life-sized toy blocks and other props. What makes this scare zone fun is seeing how well the actors play their parts. Sometimes it’s hard to tell what’s real and what’s fake!
Phobia – 8/10 – A long spiderweb tunnel in between Stunt Pilot and Panic Plunge that is full of creepy crawly critters and fog so thick you can barely see your friends next to you. Although not as large as other scare zones in the park, this one has always had a very effective and chilling vibe to it.
The Wharf – New for 2026 – Review and rating coming soon.
How would you rate the haunts at Scarywood differently? What are your favorites/least favorites? Let us know what you think in the comments below! Last but certainly not least, let us know what other topics you'd like to see covered.
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Anyplace for older people to sit down in the park while attending?
Yes, plenty of benches throughout the park as usual. If you’re looking for a place to sit down inside, we’d recommend Lindy’s or the Magic Theater.
(LONG RAMBLING POST SORRY!)
I just went last Night and it was sooo much fun I absolutely love the atmosphere and near everything about the event!
I first started going last year, and although I had seen everything that I possibly could, the Hellbilly’s show wasn’t playing on the nights I had gone (I don’t know if they didn’t have all the actors or if the show being up front at the entrance was causing problems or what.) so that was my biggest regret. This time thankfully they had it going at the Pavilion area, and I was able to catch it (I went to the area like half and hour early after seeing this years Magic Show) and I made sure to be right up front. I assume they change the show each year, for this one they killed a couple of obnoxious people, and had to deal with the horrifying terror of Artificial Intelligence (In an alluring form!). If you are at the front you will likely get sprayed with the fake Blood just so you know.
The Magic Show was great as always, but it seemed a bit shorter this year, and without the audience participation, and certain aspects were changed a bit, but I assume they change it a little every year to keep it fresh.
For the Planet Zombie Lights Out Haunted Attraction (I assume the “Lights Out” thing is meant to be their replacement for the missing Total Darkness attraction.) there was a new video added in the other queue videos (There are quite a few, I don’t know if they add a new one each year?) with Sgt. Buzz explaining it. The Flashlight they let you use is a little Red Keychain Flashlight. I think the walkthrough was pretty much the same as last year besides most of the Lights being out. They make some good use of suddenly turning certain Lights on in your face loudly as a fun scare (They might have done that last year, but I remember it more this time from the lights being off.). My favorite part was when I shined my Light on Sgt Buzz (I think it’s meant to be him.) in his Gun Tower/Turret thing, to try and get a better look, and he started “shooting” at me.
Chuckles 3D Sideshow seemed pretty much the same as last year complete with the “Princess Clown” hanging around in the queue line, I didn’t notice if anything was really changed in the Attraction.
Blood Bayou also seemed the same as what I remember last year but there’s soooo much to take in for these Haunted Attractions, that I’m not really sure.
I didn’t go to the Pharaoh’s Curse this time, as I get ready to leave after 11:00 PM (I’m worried about everyone rushing out of the Park at once if I wait too long. The first time I went to Scarywood last year I went about half an hour after it opened and the Line of Cars stretched into 95 quite a bit. So I try to avoid the reverse situation going out.) but I’m planning to go again within the next couple of weeks (I prefer going twice, and having a more leisurely experience so I don’t have to try and rush to see everything). I’m assuming it will be pretty much the same as the other returning Haunted Attractions though.
For the Scare Zones it was pretty much the same as what I remember from last year, but I think the “Los Muertos” area was new as I don’t remember it, and I can’t bring up the Scarywood Website from 2022 to check. There was also the listed “Steampunk” area that I was looking around for, but I think maybe it’s just the area around the front of the Park (Main Street and the Train Station basically). For the “Anarchy” zone I noticed at least one of the Actors was wearing one of the Legion’s Masks from Dead by Daylight which I was happy to see as I’m a big fan of the game.
Anyways that’s all I noticed different from last year, I had a blast! I’m planning on making Scarywood one of my traditions for each year they have it, I’m just sad that I never went in the past despite living here since 2006.
Thank you for the awesome trip report, Joshua! Sounds like you had a great time at the event. We will be there this coming weekend and this makes us even more excited!
Thanks for the reply! I went again on 10/13/23 (Friday the 13th!) like I was planning. I used your advice of going to the back of the Park first, and it worked great! I went straight for Planet Zombie Light Out first, and went in immediately. After that I headed to Pharaoh’s Curse but it was so early that it was actually closed! So I went to Chuckles 3D Sideshow which also had basically no line, after that Pharaoh’s Curse was open (With almost no line). The only thing I noticed different from last year was that the Anubis Scare Actor at the end was standing around the room on Stilts. Last year he had been in the Pit on the side of the room, but this year they had an animatronic body flailing around over the pit so I assume that’s why he wasn’t in it. After that it was about 8:00 PM so I went to Blood Bayou which had the long line (I assume it will always have a bit of a line since it’s right near the entrance of the Park). I spent the rest of the Night redoing the Haunts I wanted and walking through/eating in the Scare Zones.
Thanks for the comment – glad you found our advice helpful! That’s very interesting that Blood Bayou had such a long line that early, but that also makes sense. We tend to get to that one a bit later in the evening, and the past few years there has been little to no line around 10-11 at night.
As an employee of ScaryWood Quarantine Zone is the area next to Planet Zombie, also quick fun fact during certain parts of the night, we will play “Thriller” as a sort of homage to Michael Jackson. During this the zombie scare actors dance just as they did in the music vid. Definitely something yall should check out next time yall visit.
Thanks for the comment Dan! That’s great insight and we’ll be sure to include those clarifications in the 2025 update to this page.
We’ve also had the chance to see the “Thriller” zombie dancers a few times over the years and you’re right, that’s definitely a fun hidden gem!
We had a great time, as always!! We love the Blood Bayou the most. I do wish the jokes would change at Chuckle’s 3D sideshow, they are getting a little old. I appreciate all the actors out in the cold, windy, rainy weather the night we were there and they do a great job! I love Scarywood every year and I will never stop going if just for the festive vibes alone. I will say I would love to see more Scarywood beanies and pom-pom hats in different themes than previous years. Thank you for bringing Scarywood to Idaho and keeping the spirit of Halloween alive!
Thank you for the comment! Glad you had such a great time! It’s our favorite time of the year at Silverwood as well. 🙂