Whether you're ready to get lost in corn mazes or find bigger frights in haunted places, you'll find plenty of seasonal attractions awaiting around the region.
HAUNTED HOUSES
Survive Alive
Blowing Springs Farm
Eerie Express
Haunted Barn / File photoBLOWING SCREAMS FARM
• Where: Blowing Springs Farm, 271 Chattanooga Valley Road, Flintstone, Ga. (site of Rock City's daytime Enchanted Maize)
• When: 7 p.m. opening Saturday, Oct. 4, then every remaining Friday and Saturday in October
• What to expect: Roaming monsters, bonfires, massive haunt through woods and swamps
• Admission: $16 general admission, $20 daytime maze/Blowing Screams combo; $25 unlimited visits
• Website: www.blowingscreamsfarm.com
EERIE EXPRESS
• Where: Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum, 4119 Cromwell Road
• When: 5:45 and 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, Oct. 10-11, 17-18, 24-25
• What to expect: Cardboard clowns, historic train ride, blacklight indoor mini-golf, petting zoo, pony rides; "Designed for families with younger children, it is NOT a haunted house"
• Admission: $22 ages 2 and up
• Phone: 423-894-8028
• Website: www.tvrail.com
HAUNTED BARN
• Where: 5017 McDonald Road, McDonald, Tenn.
• When: 7 p.m.-midnight every Friday and Saturday in October, plus Sunday, Oct. 12, and Saturday, Nov. 1
• What to expect: A 16-room walk-through attraction with a totally dark maze and a simulated "buried alive" ride in a wooden casket
• Admission: $20
• Website: www.thehauntedbarnchattanooga.com
HAUNTED CAVERN
• Where: Ruby Falls, 1720 S. Scenic Highway
Ruby Falls' Haunted Cavern will explore "The Dark Legacy of Elder Shaw" this season.• When: Friday-Saturday, Sept. 27, then Friday-Sunday, Oct. 3-Nov. 1, plus Thursday Oct. 9. Freak Parade starts at 7:30 nightly
• What to expect: A journey into the cavern to learn about "The Dark Legacy of Elder Shaw," the story of a peddler whose "legacy tonic" turned the people of mining town Carrion Ridge into mindless fiends
• Admission: $23 Fridays, $25 Saturdays, $21 Sundays (cheaper tickets online; group discounts first two weekends and Sundays)
• Website: www.hauntedcavern.com
HAUNTED DEPOT
• Where: Ringgold Depot, 155 Depot St., Ringgold, Ga.
• When: 7 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, Oct. 10-11, 17-18, 24-25
• What to expect: Crazy scares, horror movie-themed terrors such as The Purge Room
• Admission: $8 Haunted Depot, $7 ghost walk, $3 hayride; $15 all three
• Website: www.Facebook.com/hauntedringgold
This trailer load of skeletons is bound for the Ringgold Depot.THE HAUNTED HILLTOP
•Where: 8235 Highway 58
• When: 7 p.m.-midnight Friday and Saturday, Sept. 26-27; then 7 p.m. until at least 1 a.m. every Friday and Saturday in October and Nov. 1
• What to expect: Haunted house, dark maze, haunted hayride, bonfire, cemetery, vortex tunnel, animatronics, scary movies on the big screen
• Admission: $20 (cash only at the door, or pay online and bring printed receipt)
• Website: www.thehauntedhilltop.com
LAKE WINNEPESPOOKAH
• Where: Lake Winnepesaukah, 1730 Lakeview Drive
• When: 6-11 p.m. every Friday and Saturday in October
• What to expect: Hourly parades, special entertainment and two haunted attractions, plus rides are open
• Admission: $24 unlimited Spookah rides ages 3-54, $10 ages 55 and older and children ages 1-2
• Website: www.lakewinnie.com
MAYFIELD HAUNTED TRAIL
• Where: Mayfield Corn Maze & Pumpkin Patch, 257 Tennessee Highway 307, Athens, Tenn.
• When: 7-11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays in October, plus Thursday, Oct. 30, and Saturday, Nov. 1
• What to expect: Judgment Day, a professionally designed haunted attraction set on the actual burial grounds of a 19th-century judge
• Admission: $12
• Website: www.mayfieldfarmandnursery.com
REDNECK ZOMBIE PAINTBALL
• Where: Guthrie Pumpkin Farm and Corn Maze, 490 County Road 67, Riceville, Tenn.
• When: 7-11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays in October
• What to expect: Ride on a trailer outfitted with stationary paintball guns into a small town overrun by zombies
• Admission: $15 (includes paintball guns and ammo)
• Website: www.tnpumpkinfarm.com
SURVIVE ALIVE
• Where: Insane Paintball/Airsoft, 1200 Wisdom St.
• When: 7-11 p.m. every Friday and Saturday night in October, plus Nov. 1
• What to expect: Similar to a hayride, this interactive ride lets participants shoot glow-in-the-dark paintballs using mounted paintball guns at zombies trying to "attack" the riders on the trailer. Zombies are unarmed and won't shoot back
• Admission: $25 (includes $40 paintball playing pass with rental equipment for future visit)
• Website: www.survivealive.com
CORN MAZES
The 6.5-acre corn maze at Old McDonald's Farm features a silo farm scene.
Rock City's Enchanted Maize at Blowing Springs Farm at the foot of Lookout Mountain in Flintstone, Ga., has crop circles as its 2014 theme.AUTUMN ACRES
• Location: 1096 Baier Road, Crossville, Tenn.
• Theme: Trivia Corn Maze, Farm Tracks corn maze, FSI corn maze
• Days and hours: 4-10 p.m. Fridays, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturdays, 1-6 p.m. Sundays through Nov 2. Open by appointment 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Tuesday-Friday (all times Central)
• Admission: $10 armband for ages 3 and up, $2 discount for ages 65 and older; $15 VIP admission armband includes ticket to barrel train ride and two tickets for the corn cannon; $140 season pass for two adults and up to three children/grandchildren; pumpkins $4
• Other things to do: Hayrides, pirate ship playground, kids' corral with giant tunnel slides, bonfires, general store, petting zoo, pumpkin patch, Barn Yard Cafe. Additional fee for corn cannon, face painting and animal feed
• Website: autumnacres.net
ENCHANTED MAIZE
• Location: Blowing Springs Farm, 271 Chattanooga Valley Road, Flintstone, Ga.
• Theme: Crop circles; clues to a hidden code on Rock City's social-media pages
• Calendar: Thursday-Sunday, Sept. 25-Nov. 2 (times vary by day)
• Admission: $10 per guest; free to children under 4
• Other things to do: Critter Corral (Friday-Sunday), pumpkin maze, hayride, cow train, playground, corn slingshots, inflatables
• Website: www.enchantedmaze.com
A trip to the pumpkin patch yields a wheelbarrow full of the fall fruits for a family at Guthrie Corn Maze and Pumpkin Farm in Riceville, Tenn.GUTHRIE PUMPKIN FARM AND CORN MAZE
• Location: 490 County Road 67, Riceville, Tenn.
• Calendar: Opening weekend, Sept. 27-28; then Friday-Sunday through Oct. 31
• Admission: $9 ages 13 and up, $7 children 5-12
• Other things to do: Hayride to pumpkin field, animal petting barn, hill climb, "hay calf" roping, giant slide, obstacle course, hippity hop track
• Website: www.tnpumpkinfarm.com
MAYFIELD CORN MAZE
• Location: 257 Tennessee Highway 307, Athens, Tenn.
• Theme: Tribute to Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
• Calendar: Opening weekend, Sept. 27-28; then Wednesday-Sunday through Nov. 2
Mayfield Corn Maze and Pumpkin Patch in Athens, Tenn., celebrates the 10th anniversary of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library reading program.• Admission: $10 corn maze, $10 pumpkin patch, $15 combo; free for children 2 and younger
• Other things to do: Kiddie ziplines, giant slides, pedal cars, hay rides, hillbilly pig races, hay jump, tractor tire playground, cow train rides
• Website: www.mayfieldfarmandnursery.com
OLD MCDONALD'S FARM
• Location: 16705 Coulterville Road, Sale Creek
• Theme: "So God Made a Farmer" corn maze
• Days and hours: 10 a.m.- 7 p.m. Saturdays, noon-7 p.m. Sundays through Nov. 2. Open Tuesdays-Fridays for school field trips, birthday parties and other large groups by appointment
• Admission: $12 ages 3 and up; pumpkins an additional fee
• Other things to do: Hayrides to pumpkin patch, giant slides, pumpkin slingshot, farm market, Calf-A and Old McDonald's Mining Co. store, wagon rides, Barnyard 500 pedal tractor race, hands-on fun in the harvest barn. Farmersgolf is additional charge
• Website: www.oldmcdonaldsfarm.net
The River Maze in Ocoee, Tenn., is marking its 10th year.RIVER MAZE
• Location: Birchland Ocoee Farms, 1371 Highway 64, Benton, Tenn.
• Theme: "Ocoee ... Place of Passion and Beauty" corn maze, "Beauty and the Bees" soybean maze, "No Right Turn" maze
• Days and hours: 11 a.m-9:30 p.m. Saturdays, 1-5 p.m. Sundays through Nov. 2; 5-9:30 p.m. Friday nights in October only, groups by appointment
• Admission: $10 ages 4 and up; pumpkins an additional fee
• Other things to do: Admission includes all mazes, hayride, goat walk, milking the cows, corn toss, corn box, horsey tire swings, "Tag with Spookley and His Friends" and "The Fairy Tale Trail." Tokens must be purchased for face/pumpkin painting, "Water Wars," cow train, pumpkin basketball, corny football and corn cannon
• Website: www.therivermaze.com