About this attraction
Field of Screams operates each fall season at Mountville in Pennsylvania's Lancaster County — the Schopf brothers' family farm transformed since 1993 into one of America's perennially top-ranked haunted events, its four attractions anchoring different corners of the scare spectrum: the signature Haunted Hayride through the dark farm woods, the Den of Darkness farmhouse, the Frightmare Asylum's multi-storey barns, and Nocturnal Wasteland, the outdoor trail of wrecked machinery, cargo containers and apocalyptic set-building that makes the platform's Haunted Trails flagship — with 200+ actors nightly, national rankings from Hauntworld to USA Today across three decades, and off-season blackout and extreme events for the committed. It is a commercial scare attraction, not a claimed haunting: Lancaster farm country supplies the darkness, showmanship supplies the rest, though crews trade the customary old-barn stories between shifts. Timed tickets, combo passes, dates and intensity guidance from the official site; October Saturdays queue long, and the surrounding farm roads reward careful driving.