Get An Up-Close Look at Local Urban Farming During “Farm to Fort Worth”

Get An Up-Close Look at Local Urban Farming During “Farm to Fort Worth”

by | Oct 31, 2023 | Best in Fort Worth, Family Fun, Food, Support the Fort

Spend an afternoon “on the farm” and learn how local urban farms are helping the community grow during “Farm to Fort Worth,” presented by North Texas Healthy Communities — the well-being arm of Texas Health that supports Blue Zones Project. The “Farm to Fort Worth” series offers free admission at three local farms where you can experience urban farming firsthand, gain tips for growing fruits and vegetables at home, and discover how we all can support local farmers in their efforts to enhance community health. 

 

Saturday, Nov. 4 ▪ 10 AM – 2 PM

Mind Your Garden Urban Farm

3815 Timberline Dr., FW 76119

Saturday, Nov. 11 ▪ 2-5 PM

Opal’s Farm

2500 Lasalle St., FW 76111

Saturday, Nov. 18 ▪ 11AM – 3 PM

Tabor Farms

3400 Village Creek Rd., FW 76105

Visitors can stop in at any – or all – of the urban farms during the scheduled times, with no tickets or advance registration required. Events are appropriate for all ages. While each farm event may vary slightly, at all you’ll experience:

      • Farm tours
      • A chance to meet the farmers
      • Free fresh produce samplings & tastings
      • Seeds and information for growing at home
      • Fun activities for kids
      • Great giveaways
      • Opportunity to learn about volunteer opportunities and ways to connect with the community

Why is urban farming important? The research is clear. A diet rich in fruits and vegetables reduces the risk of chronic disease and can increase lifespan. Urban farming helps make fresh produce more accessible and affordable to everyone in the community. Urban farms also help give new life to vacant or abandoned land, create employment opportunities, and alleviate the need to rely on extended supply chains and distribution networks for fresh produce.

For more information, visit LiveLongFortWorth.com. See you on the farm!

 

Fall Japanese Festival Marks 50th Anniversary of Japanese Garden

Fall Japanese Festival Marks 50th Anniversary of Japanese Garden

by | Oct 19, 2023 | Best in Fort Worth, Botanic Gardens, Dated, Family Fun, Festivals

Visitors are invited to celebrate the vibrant colors of fall in the Japanese Garden while exploring the arts and culture of Japan during the Fall Japanese Festival on Nov. 4-5. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Japanese Garden’s opening in 1973.

Activities and performances for this year’s festival include:

  • Taiko Drummers at the Horseshoe Garden, both days at 10 a.m. & 4 p.m.
  • Japanese Swordsmanship with GK Sugai, who will perform both days at the Shelter House at 1 p.m.
  • Traditional Tea Ceremony demonstrations in the Oak Hall both days, four times each day (additional fee applies)
  • Five food trucks, three dessert trucks, and traditional food that will be prepared by the Japanese Society and available for purchase at the Japanese Pavilion
  • Origami and Calligraphy demonstrations

Today, the seven-and-a-half-acre garden is a far cry from its rustic beginnings as a gravel pit 50 years ago. The iconic oasis is a fan favorite with its combination of peaceful Koi-filled pools, Japanese and native plants and trees, and beautiful spaces that promote a feeling of relaxation and harmony for thousands of visitors each year.

Entrance to the festival is FREE with general admission. Tickets purchased online are $12 for adults, $10 for seniors 65+, $6 for ages 6-15, and free for children 5 and under. Guests are encouraged to purchase tickets in advance for this very popular event. 

Fort Worth Botanic Garden

The Fort Worth Botanic Garden is the oldest public botanic garden in Texas with beautiful theme gardens, including the Fuller Garden, Rose Garden, Japanese Garden, and the Victor and Cleyone Tinsley Garden, which features plants native to north central Texas. The Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT®) is a nonprofit, international research, education, and conservation organization that collects and safeguards plant specimens, studies and protects living plants, and teaches about the importance of conservation and biodiversity to the world. BRIT assumed nonprofit management of the Fort Worth Botanic Garden Oct. 1, 2020. The combined organization comprises 120 acres in Fort Worth’s Cultural District two miles west of downtown Fort Worth at 3220 Botanic Garden Blvd., Fort Worth, Texas 76107.

Haunted Houses & Halloween Events

Haunted Houses & Halloween Events

by | Oct 10, 2023 | Best in Fort Worth, Dated, Family Fun, Holidays in Fort Worth

Whether you yearn for a bone-chilling thrill or crave ghoulishly delightful family Halloween festivities that cater to all ages, What’s Up Fort Worth has your darkest desires covered. From the family fun of Boo at the Zoo to the heart-pounding horrors of the most infamous haunted houses, and an unsettling variety of spine-tingling events that sprawl across Fort Worth and the sprawling abyss of the DFW metroplex, a nightmarish feast of activities awaits to satiate your insatiable Halloween hunger. Whether you seek macabre family fun or dare to embark on an adult-only excursion into the depths of terror, it’s all lurking here for you to savor….here at What’s Up Fort Worth!

Fort Worth Zoo Boo at the Zoo

1989 Colonial Parkway · Fort Worth, Texas 76110

October 27th, 28th, & 29th

Enjoy trick-or-treating, themed entertainment, animal shows and more. This festive daytime event is free with Zoo admission or membership and packed with fun for the whole family.  https://www.fortworthzoo.org/boo-at-the-zoo

 

Screams in Waxahachie

2511 FM 66 Waxahachie, TX 75167

OPEN Fridays and Saturdays thru October 28th

Screams Halloween Theme Park is the ultimate Halloween experience in the D/FW Metroplex with 5 Haunted Houses & a whole lot more! Each of the haunted houses has a unique theme and design – they are sure to find what makes you Scream!! And there’s so much more – the Cool Ghoul Boolevard and Rottingwood Cemetery walk-through attractions, exciting live stage entertainment, Scary-Oke, and games of skill for an entire night of Halloween fun.

When you are ready to take a break, partake in some food & drink or shop for some great Halloween merch at the Screams shops. Those over 21 can also enjoy an adult beverage at one of the 5 pubs.

All 5 haunted houses, the Cool Ghoul Boolevard, Rottingwood Cemetery, stage entertainment, and Scary-Oke are all included in your single admission price. To cut the wait times in half, there are a limited number of Fast Passes available each night. Screams is designed for ages 16+ and is not recommended for young children.

https://screamspark.com/

 

Oakwood Cemetery’s Saints & Sinners Tour

October 28th & 29th, 1pm & 3:30pm

Guided walking tours where 6 of Oakwood Cemetery’s “residents” tell their life stories. Saturday & Sunday, Oct. 29th and 30th at 1:00 & 3:30 pm on each day. Oakwood was started at 1701 Grand Ave. by John Peter Smith in 1879. Oakwood has a century old chapel, casket vaults and historic monuments under huge oak trees. Adults $15, students/children $10. 817 5082 for more information.

https://www.facebook.com/people/Oakwood-Cemeterys-Saints-and-Sinners-Tour/100057281987223/

 

Cutting Edge Haunted House in Fort Worth

1701 E. Lancaster Ave., Fort Worth, Texas 76102

2022 Open Dates:  September 30th, October 6-7, 13-14, 20-21, 26-28, 30-31 & November 4th

Cutting Edge Haunted House, a Fort Worth, Texas Haunted Attraction, is a real haunted house. Cutting Edge is a dark attraction filled with terrifying live actors, amazing special effects and incredible monsters. Cutting Edge Haunted House is an intense, multi-story, multi-themed haunted attraction that is widely considered to be one of the best Haunted Houses in the nation, full of chilling detail and unbelievable scares!

Located in a 100-year-old abandoned meat packing plant in a section of Fort Worth historically dubbed as “Hell’s Half Acre,” the Cutting Edge Haunted House is built upon a foundation of fear. The meat packing equipment from the Old West is still in use, but now it is a two-story human processing area. Realistic looking human mannequins are hoisted up to the second level and brought through the entire meat packing process until the conveyor system brings the butchered corpses back to the first level. The old meat-packing plant in downtown Fort Worth is a great home for the fantastic special effects that our loyal customers have come to expect.

It takes visitors an average 55 minutes to explore Cutting Edge Haunted House. This walk-through haunted house is frighteningly realistic.

Cutting Edge Haunted House has established a reputation for being one of the best haunted houses in the country. Cutting Edge Haunted House, a Guinness World Record holder, is one of America’s best and largest haunted houses. Come see what new horrors lurk in the twisting corridors of Fort Worth’s ultimate haunted house.

https://www.cuttingedgehauntedhouse.com/

 

Hangman’s House of Horrors

4400 Blue Mound Road, Fort Worth, Texas 76106

Operating Dates and Hours

September 29th and 30th: 8pm to midnight

October 1: 8pm to 10pm

October 6th and 7th: 8pm to midnight

October 8th: 8pm to 10pm

October 13th and 14th: 8pm to midnight

October 15th: 4pm to 7pm (Scaredy Cat)

October 15th: 8pm to 10pm (Regular Show)

October 20th and 21st: 8pm to midnight

October 22nd: 4pm to 7pm (Scaredy Cat)

October 22nd: 8pm to 10pm (Regular Show)

October 26th: 8pm to 10pm

October 27th and 28th: 8pm to midnight

October 29th and 30th: 8pm to 10pm

October 31st: 8pm to midnight (It’s Halloween! ????)

November 4th… encore performance: 8pm to 10pm

Hangman’s House of Horrors has been scaring DFW for over 3 decades.  The legend of Hezekiah Jones, aka “The Hangman”, has now taken its place among some of the most popular haunt legends in the Lone Star State.  Come see these legends brought to life at Hangman’s House of Horrors as we present “Legends Never Die”

https://hangmans.com/tickets

 

Moxley Manor Haunted House in Bedford

510 Harwood Road, in Bedford, Texas 76021.

Operating Dates and Hours

September 29th and 30th, October 1st

October 6th, 7th, 8th

October 13th, 14th, and 15th

October 19th-22nd

October 26th – 31st

Moxley Manor Haunted House returns this fall, bringing you three haunted houses for one price! In addition to Moxley Manor, we bring you our mind blowing 3D Haunted House Big Top Terror and Regans Revenge. Voted one of DFW’s Scariest Haunted Houses in 2018 & must see Haunted House of 2019.

http://moxleymanor.com/

  

Fort Worth Stockyards Ghost Tour (Cowtown Winery)

Located in Mule Alley in the Historic Fort Worth Stockyards at

128 E. Exchange Ave., Suite 610, Fort Worth, Texas 76164

Every Weekend (year-round)

The Paranormal Activity in the Historic Fort Worth Stockyards is one of the most active and written about in the United States.

Our Ghost Tour takes you on a walking tour through the Fort Worth Stockyards, where we will share stories of paranormal activity as well as detailed history of the Stockyards.  The Bordello’s, the shoot outs, the hangings and much more!

Some of the stops along your tour will include The Cadillac Hotel, Miss Molly’s B & B (as seen on the Discovery Channel), The Stockyards Hotel and many more.

The tours leave promptly on time, so please allow plenty of time to park and arrive at the winery.

Private tours for 10 or more are available.  Call the winery at 817-626-1011 to inquire.

https://www.cowtownwinery.com/ghost-tours-index#ghost-tours

 

Fright Fest at Six Flags Over Texas

September 15th – October 31st

It’s Thrills by Day, Chills by Night during HALLOWFEST, every weekend through October 31st.

Fright Fest is back and spookier than ever!

Dare to enter the Halloween event of the season, featuring family-friendly attractions during the day…and thrills once the sun goes down.

https://www.sixflags.com/overtexas/events/fright-fest-2023

 

Trick R Treat Trains

Sunday, October 29th

705 S. Main St.

Grapevine, TX

Knock Knock…Whoooo Whoooo…Halloween fun for all ages! Come celebrate Halloween and practice your trick ‘r treating skills with a trip back in time onboard the Grapevine Vintage Railroad’s Trick ‘R Treat Trains! These do not travel to the Fort Worth Stockyards.

Your Trick ‘R Treat Train experience includes:

– A prepackaged bag of treats

– A Halloween storybook reading

– A fun interactive game

Make sure your little ones wear their favorite costume!

https://www.grapevinetexasusa.com/grapevine-vintage-railroad/events/trick-r-treat-trains/

 

Thrillvania Haunted House Park-Terrell

3 Amazing Haunted Houses / 50 Haunted Acres

Thrillvania Haunted House Park is located about 33 miles east of Dallas, Texas at
Interstate 20 and Wilson Road in Terrell, Texas 75161

Legend has it that Verdun Manor is haunted. You know what they say… a house cannot be haunted unless it has a history… and this haunted house definitely has a history!

In 1901, Baron Michael Verdun, a psychopathic werewolf, built a grotesque house on Voodoo Bayou. Deep within the recesses of his manor, he conducted cruel experiments on travelers, turning them into human-animal hybrids. Together with his vampire wife Lady Cassandra, he hosted fiendish masquerades, serving human flesh to his inhuman guests. Finally, one stormy night, an angry vigilante mob set the manor afire and murdered Verdun and Cassandra.

Verdun’s dying words swore vengeance upon all who dare enter his realm. Haunted Verdun Manor has stood silent for these many years, but folks still whisper about Verdun’s final curse. It is said Baron Verdun and his creatures still haunt the rotted mansion and overgrown cemetery. Those brave enough to enter Verdun Manor must dare both Voodoo Bayou and the old graveyard before reaching the manor itself.

 

Cassandra’s House of Clowns

Lady Cassandra has been hounding the clowns to pick up their mess at the Labyrinth and tidy up the place. They finally did. In the process they started tearing down walls and uncovered a ghastly sight: a giant, swollen brain hooked up to some diabolical apparatus. The truth has now been revealed: Baron Michael Verdun discovered, through his experiment on humans at the lab in Verdun Manor, the region of the brain that controls madness, mayhem and chaos.

The subject brain is housed in the Labyrinth, and the clowns are affected by it. They have torn everything down, exposing a new dimension to the Labyrinth that twists space and time out of proportion. They are throwing a party to celebrate! Lady Cassandra’s eyes are rolling in her vampiric skull, but Baron Verdun is smiling wickedly with approval. He knows that, as long as she has victims to prey on, she is happy… and so is he! So come, join the party at Cassandra’s Labyrinth of Terror!

 

Sam Hain’s Trail of Torment

Once bitten by Lady Cassandra, the now delusional and psychotic Sam Hain attempts to lure unsuspecting and curious humans who dare to pass by. Come walk through Sam Hain’s Trail of Torment and see if you can escape his wrath. Decide for yourself what is real and what is delusion.

If you are serious about Halloween and your annual trips around DFW for your annual scare, it’s worth the short jaunt to Terrell, Texas.

https://thrillvania.com/

Pour with a Purpose with Truluck’s in October

Pour with a Purpose with Truluck’s in October

by | Sep 24, 2023 | Best in Fort Worth, Dated, Food and Restaurants, Uncategorized

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and Truluck’s is once again proud to partner with J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines to bring you pairings with a purpose. Each time you visit a Truluck’s location in the month of October for a bottle of J. Lohr’s delicious Carol’s Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon, expertly paired with the ocean’s finest seafood, $20 of each bottle purchased will be donated to National Breast Cancer Foundation’s breast cancer education and early detection programs, and $10 per bottle when ordered to-go. It’s a simple way to give hope to those in need, and a perfect reason to get together with loved ones. Visit OpenTable to plan your visit today. www.trulucks.com

LOCATIONS in DFW:

2401 McKinney Ave, Dallas, TX 75201, 214-220-2401
1420 Plaza Plaza, Southlake, TX 76092, 817-912-0500
 
COMING TO PLANO FALL 2023
Kimbell Art Museum 2023–24 Exhibitions

Kimbell Art Museum 2023–24 Exhibitions

by | Sep 15, 2023 | Arts, Best in Fort Worth, Family Fun, Museums

UPCOMING 2023-2024 KIMBELL ART MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS

Bonnard’s Worlds

November 5, 2023–January 28, 2024 

Renzo Piano Pavilion

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In Bonnard’s Worlds, the Kimbell Art Museum will present its first exhibition dedicated to the works of French painter Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947), inspired by its 2018 acquisition of the artist’s Landscape at Le Cannet (1928). The exhibition explores the sensory realms of experience that fueled the painter’s creative practice—from the most public spaces to the most private. Comprising a careful selection of approximately seventy of Bonnard’s finest works created over the course of his career, Bonnard’s Worlds reunites some of the artist’s most celebrated paintings from museums in Europe and the United States, as well as many unfamiliar to the public from worldwide private collections. Governed neither by chronology nor geography, but by measures of intimacy, the exhibition will transport visitors from the larger realms in which Bonnard lived—the landscapes of Paris, Normandy, or the South of France—to the most private interior spaces of his dwellings and of his thoughts. 

 Bonnard’s Worlds is organized by the Kimbell Art Museum and The Phillips Collection. It is supported in part by Frost, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

 

Art and War in the Renaissance: The Battle of Pavia Tapestries

June 16–September 15, 2024

Renzo Piano Pavilion

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In the Renaissance, monarchs and religious leaders glorified their power and wealth through the art of tapestry, commissioning some of Europe’s greatest artists to commemorate significant events through the lavish medium. Monumental tapestries, much more costly than paintings, could serve as immersive and elaborate tools for dynamic storytelling and political propaganda, depicting histories in fine wool, silk, and metal-wrapped thread at monumental scale.

Art and War in the Renaissance: The Battle of Pavia Tapestries marks the first time that this entire cycle of seven large-scale tapestries—some of the most awe-inspiring examples of this often-overlooked artform—has been on view in the United States. The tremendous images, each about twenty-seven feet wide and fourteen feet high, commemorate Emperor Charles V’s decisive victory over French King Francis I that ended the sixteenth-century Italian Wars. Designed by court artist Bernard van Orley, the tapestries were woven in Brussels by Willem and Jan Dermoyen in deeply saturated hues and exquisite detail, luxuriously highlighted with gold. Each composition is packed with figures including richly adorned military leaders, horsemen, and mercenary foot soldiers armed with swords, pikes, and firearms, all inhabiting beautifully undulating landscapes dotted with hills, towns, and forests. The immersive scale of the tapestries draws viewers into the world of Renaissance history, military technology, and fashion and will be complemented by impressive examples of arms and armor from the period.

Art and War in the Renaissance: The Battle of Pavia Tapestries is organized by the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte and The Museum Box in collaboration with the Minneapolis Museum of Art, the Kimbell Art Museum, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Dutch Art in a Global Age:

Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

November 10, 2024–February 9, 2025
Renzo Piano Pavilion

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In the seventeenth century, Dutch merchants sailed across seas and oceans, joining trade networks that stretched from Asia to the Americas and Africa. This unprecedented movement of goods, ideas, and people gave rise to what many consider the first age of globalization and sparked an artistic boom in the Netherlands. Dutch Art in a Global Age brings together paintings by Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Gerrit Dou, Jacob van Ruisdael, Maria Schalcken, and other celebrated artists from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s renowned collection. These are joined by four Dutch paintings from the Kimbell’s permanent collection, along with prints, maps, and stunning decorative objects in silver, porcelain, glass, and more, from the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth centuries. Exploring how Dutch dominance in international commerce transformed life in the Netherlands and created an extraordinary cultural flourishing, the exhibition also includes new scholarship that contextualizes seventeenth-century Dutch art within the complex histories of colonial expansion, wealth disparity, and the transatlantic slave trade during this period.  

Dutch Art in a Global Age: Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 

CURRENTLY ON VIEW

 

Selections from the Permanent Collection

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Louis I. Kahn Building and Renzo Piano Pavilion

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The Kimbell Art Museum hosts a small collection of masterworks representing a diversity of cultures, periods, and geographies—unified by a common theme of superlative quality. Paintings, sculptures, and objects from African, Asian, Ancient American, and European collections are installed in both the Louis I. Kahn Building and the Renzo Piano Pavilion. Admission to the permanent collection is always free. 

 

VISITOR INFORMATION 

Special exhibition admission is $18 for adults, $16 for seniors and students, $14 for ages 6–11, and free for children under 6. Admission is half-price all day on Tuesdays and after 5 p.m. on Fridays. Tickets are $3 for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients and all family members present with a valid SNAP Card. Admission to the permanent collection is always free.  

Museum hours are Tuesdays through Thursdays and Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Fridays, noon to 8 p.m.; Sundays, noon to 5 p.m.; closed Mondays. For general information, call 817-332-8451 or visit kimbellart.org.  

 

SPONSORS 

Promotional support for the Kimbell Art Museum and its exhibitions is provided by American Airlines, PaperCity, and NBC 5. Additional support is provided by Arts Fort Worth, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

 

IMAGE CAPTIONS

Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867–1947), Dining Room in the Country, 1913. Oil on canvas, 64 3/4 x 81 in. (164.47 x 205.74 cm). Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The John R. Van Derlip Fund, 54.15

 

Willem and Jan Dermoyen (Flemish, active 1520s–1540s), after a design by Bernard van Orley (Flemish, 1487–1541), Invasion of the French Camp and Flight of the Women and Civilians(detail), from the Battle of Pavia tapestries, c. 1528–31. Wool, silk, and metal-wrapped thread, 173 ¼ x 322 in. (440 x 817.9 cm). Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples

 

Gerrit Dou (Dutch, 1613–1675), Dog at Rest, 1650. Oil on panel, 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. (16.5 x 21.6 cm). Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Promised gift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art, L-R 250.2017

 

Attributed to the Metropolitan Painter (Maya painter, active 7th–8th century), Vessel with a Mythological Scene, Guatemala or Mexico, Late Classic period, 7th–8th century. Ceramic with pigment, 5 1/2 × 4 3/16 in. (14 x 10.6 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Purchase, Nelson A. Rockefeller Gift, 1968, 1978.412.206

 

Installation view of the Kimbell Art Museum’s permanent collection. Photography by Robert LaPrelle, Kimbell Art Museum

Screams 2023 Opens September 29th

Screams 2023 Opens September 29th

by | Sep 11, 2023 | Best in Fort Worth, Dated

The time is drawing near for the 27th season of Screams® Halloween Theme Park! Screams® 2023 will open Friday, September 29th and will run every Friday and Saturday night through Saturday, October 28th. Screams® Halloween Theme Park is the ultimate Halloween experience in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex with 5 Haunted Houses and a Whole Lot More including walk-through attractions, exciting live stage entertainment, Scary-Oke, shops, food, pubs, and games of skill for an entire night of Halloween fun!

For the 2023 season, Screams® Halloween Theme Park will be unveiling new configurations for several of the haunted houses, a new layout for the park, new vendor shops, and an all-new Season Pass.

Each of Screams’ five haunted houses will have unique themes that will provide totally different haunt experiences – they are sure to find what makes you scream! 

  • Bootlegger’s Bayou takes you on a twisted trip through the bowels of the terrifying… but beware… if you get lost here there’s a depraved and gruesome family waiting for you…
  • Times Up Maze Enter at your own risk! Tick Tock goes the clock, you’re running out of time… run, run, give it all you’ve got, before that dreadful chime…
  • Zombie Wasteland Apocalypse The infected have taken over! Containment is futile… can you find your way through the wasteland of carnage? Survivors think you’re zombies… the Zombies think you are food!
  • TerraMythica Castle Take a terrifying trip through the dark, horror infested halls of the TerraMythica Castle and experience the evil being conjured throughout its cursed, medieval corridors…
  • Klownz in 3-D Step right up and into this diabolical circus of the deranged! Try if you can, to survive a trip through this depraved circus of madness… all in 3-D (yes, you actually wear 3-D glasses through this haunted house)

And there’s a Whole Lot More! Additional attractions will include the Rottingwood Cemetery and the Cool Ghoul Boolevard. The Screams® Stage will feature the return of the Hell Dolls providing exciting shows where aerials and fire collide, and Scary-Oke (Screams® unique version of Karaoke) will encourage everyone to join in the fun by trying out their singing skills.

When visitors are ready to take a break, they can grab a bite to eat at the Food Court and enjoy turkey legs, sausage-on-a-stick, BBQ sandwiches, pizza, jumbo fajitas, hot dogs, nachos; and all-new items such as elote, specialty grilled cheese sandwiches, Bubba’s bacon, and much more along with Dr Pepper products. The 13th Hour Bakery will have specialties such as Beef & Cheddar Skulls (skull shaped calzones filled with beef and cheddar), Buffalo Chicken Skulls (skull shaped calzones filled with Buffalo chicken), savory stuffed croissants, cinnamon rolls, gourmet brownies, cookies, cakes, and flavored hot chocolate as well as weekly specials.

Those 21+ can partake in an adult beverage at one of the 5 Screams® pubs (must be 21+ to purchase or consume alcohol) that will feature mixed drinks, a great selection of craft beers & seltzers, and the ever-popular Jell-O Shots in a syringe!

There will also be palm readings, henna tattoos, and shops with hand crafted chocolates, horror/sci-fi/cult movie themed collectables, jewelry, tarot cards, resin and ceramic art, horror themed crochet plushies, and so much more.

Credit cards are widely accepted throughout the park. However, games and some other locations are cash only. Visitors are encouraged to bring sufficient cash but there are 4 ATMs available to serve guests should they need them.

Tickets include admission into the park and all 5 haunted houses, the Rottingwood Cemetery, Cool Ghoul Boolevard, stage entertainment, and Scary-Oke. To cut the wait times into the haunted houses in half, there are a limited number of Fast Passes available each night of the 2023 season as well. Fast Passes are NOT admission tickets. Food, drink, games, and shop merchandise must be purchased separately.

Tickets prices at the gate (on event nights only) start at $45 and Fast Pass prices start at $33 with prices varying for Friday and Saturday nights. Discount tickets are available on-line at www.ScreamsPark.com and discount coupons will be available at Legacy Chevrolet/GMC in Waxahachie starting September 15th. A limited number of the all-new Season Passes that provide admission into every night of Screams® 2023 are available only at www.ScreamsPark.com for a cost of $165 plus tax & fees. The Season Pass does not include a Fast Pass. Parking at Screams® is FREE compliments of Legacy Chevrolet/GMC – Waxahachie.

A few additional things to keep in mind for your visit to Screams® are:

  • Screams® is designed for ages 16+ and is not recommended for small children
  • No costumes, face paint, or decorative masks are allowed at Screams®

Screams® is open Friday and Saturday nights, September 29 – October 28, 2023, from 7:00 pm and is open late until 1:00 am. Admission stops at 12:00 Midnight and the ticket office closes 12:00 AM as well. Screams® is located at the Scarborough Faire® site just one mile west of I-35E at 2511 FM 66 in Waxahachie, TX. That’s just 30 minutes south of the downtowns of Dallas & Fort Worth.

Screams® is sponsored by Dr Pepper and Legacy Chevrolet/GMC – Waxahachie.

For more information about Screams® 2023 visit ScreamsPark.com or follow us atScreamsPark on Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube, or Instagram.