Six Flags Great Adventure’s FRIGHT FEST
Are You Ready For A Little Scare In Your Life?
Fun By Day- Frights By Night!
Looking for some scary fun this Halloween season? It’s closer than you think and right here in Jackson, NJ, less than two hours from NYC. The fun at Six Flags Great Adventure caters to both crowds. If you have little ones, you can visit from 10:30 until 6pm when the park is scare free! After 6pm the tides change and although there are quite a few scare free zones you can really get your scare on during the evening hours. Recently our family had the change to experience Fright Fest first hand. What an awesome day! Our light-time hours were filled with regular park rides, trick or treating and themed shows that were appropriate for my six year old daughter. By day, families can enjoy favorites like the Trick-or-Treat Trail, Professor Slithers’ Creepy Critters animal show and Spooky Kooky Magic Show plus the new Monster Maze, a corn maze including some of Halloween’s most famous characters. At the Wilderness Theater, guests can enjoy the new Doc Snooker’s Halloween Time Machine, a zany show for all ages. Guests can also challenge the park’s famous line-up of thrill rides including El Toro, Kingda Ka and Nitro, and the new Safari Off Road Adventure. As night approached, my husband took to the shelter of a scare free zone with my daughter while my sons and I went on a hunt for some frightening fun!
Fright Night begins at 6PM with The Awakening! After 6 pm, the festival transitions to “fright by night” as nearly 200 zombies are released into the park. This fall, the park will introduce a new terror trail – Total Darkness, a blackout maze. Lakefront will be home to a new scare zone, Straw-Man Stalkers, with blood-thirsty scarecrows. Terror Trail favorites like Voodoo Island, Asylum, Wasteland and The Manor, now indoors, will return to terrorize guests. In total, Six Flags will offer six haunted
walk-throughs and four scare zones. Fright Fest continues weekends through Oct. 27th.
Nighttime shows, known as “monstertainment,” will include the return of the iconic Dead Man’s Party, Ghoulmaster’s Ghosts, The Awakening, Circus of Thrills and more. Terror trails require an additional fee, while all scare zones and monstertainment are included with park admission.
Fright by Night is not recommended for children under 12 and those who scare easily.
On Sept. 28, Six Flags will host the eleventh-annual American Red Cross Blood Drive and Wild Safari Run. At the blood drive, Guests can donate a pint of blood to earn a free ticket to Fright Fest between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. Reservations must be made by calling 732/928-2000, ext. 2834. Up to 200 donors are needed and will be taken on a first call, first serve basis. Must be 16 or older, at least 110 lbs. and in good health to donate. The Wild Safari Run is a 3.1-mile cross country meet sponsored by Powerade and Kelly’s Sports. The race features high school cross country competitors from surrounding states running through the safari. Registration information is available at www.wildsafariinv.com
Six Flags Great Adventure will host the 7th annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure Oct. 6 – New Jersey’s largest 5k run/walk. The day honors breast cancer survivors, those lost, and unites a community in the fight against breast cancer. In 2012, more than 8,000 participants and spectators turned out to support the Race for the Cure.
Disclosure: Media invite provided by Six Flags Great Adventure. All opinions
are that of Diane Sullivan. Contact me at ELGeorgia@aol.com or on twitter .@3decades3kids.
