Knott’s Scary Farm sets ticket launch date

Knott’s Berry Farm is getting ready to return to the fog for its 53rd Halloween season with the launch of ticket sales for the granddaddy of all haunted events and a preview show revealing the lineup of mazes, scare zones and live shows.

Knott’s Scary Farm tickets will go on sale Friday, July 10, at 10 a.m. for select nights on Sept. 17 through Oct. 31 at the Buena Park theme park.

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Scary Farm 2026 will feature 10 haunted mazes, five scare zones and three live shows. Knott’s typically adds two or three new mazes per year and removes an equal amount from the lineup.

Doors open nightly for the separate admission, after-hours event at 7 p.m. The event typically runs until 2 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and 1 a.m. on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

Knott’s announced that 2025 was the final year for the Grimoire and Mesmer mazes. Two new mazes are expected to take their place.

Here are the eight mazes expected to return in 2026 (with the first year they appeared):

• Mary — The Haunting of Worth Home (2025)
• The Zoo (2025)
• Widows (2024)
• Eight Fingers Nine: The Boogeyman (2024)
• Chilling Chambers (2023)
• Cinema Slasher (2023)
• Room 13 (2023)
• Origins: The Curse of Calico (2019)

Origins: The Curse of Calico will be heading into its seventh year — a long run for a Scary Farm maze in the modern era.

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Knott’s will reveal the full lineup of mazes, scare zones and shows for Scary Farm 2026 during the “Nightmares Revealed” show on Aug. 18 from 7-10 p.m.

The sold-out “Nightmares Revealed” event includes admission to the show, access to the Ghost Town scare zone filled with fog and monsters, a panel discussion with maze designers and creative directors, a lights-on walk-through of a returning maze, a monster make-up demonstration, a costume showcase and ride time on the Silver Bullet and Sierra Sidewinder roller coasters.