Nightmare Hallow Scream Park

Save your money! Not worth the wait. We stood in line for about twenty minutes only to find out when we get to the door that if you bought your ticket on the Internet you could go in and get your stamp and sign the waiver. They should have some roaming the long line making that announcement. Then we get in and go to the zombie hunt line! Unreal!!! We were in line for over two hours waiting for our turn. They had three wagons going but the VIP line gets the wagons first. For an event like this you should only have one price level. Very unfair to everyone that waited in the cold for their turn. Many people were tired of waiting and went back to pay the up charge for the VIP ticket just so they could get their turn then go enjoy the other events. The zombie hunt was lame. A few people in suits and helmets standing by some cars. It would have been better if they were trying to get the wagon or something. Standing by a car and waving your hands is not a zombie. After the short ride we went to the haunted house. Again there is a very long line and we gave up and left. It was already 10:30. So we paid for zombie hunt and haunted house — a total of $ 35 and started this night at 7 pm. Not worth the $ 35 or the 3 ½ hours.

Good times. Second year in a row. The hayride is super fun and really long. Longest in the Twin Cities. This place is scary but not too scary that you cant bring kids. I would recommend kids 12 and older who like haunted houses would like this place. I also thought it was really fun that they had live bands/​music! Really awesome!!!

I’ve been to this park last year for the haunted house and hayride, so I knew what to expect. This years experience was worse then the last.
We bought our tickets online for the 7pm zombie hunt. Picturing «zombies «walking through a field that you would be able to shoot.
When you get to the entrance, there is no hint that there should be more than one line. After waiting for 15 min, a girl separated the line into 3. The people who bought the tickets online were still waiting a good 10 min after the people who had not bought their tickets were allowed to do so and entered the park. When asked what the hold up was, our line finally was allowed in an hour after our 7pm ticket time.
There was no signage instructing where the line for the hunt was. Once we found that, we waited another 30min waiting. One trailer was cleaned, guns reloaded, then left with out any passengers. Another trailer arrived, was cleaned, guns reloaded, and the attendant miscounted the available seats for our group. so we waited for yet another trailer, another 15 min.
There was no spiel about how long the ride was, or how the ride went. Not knowing anything, I conserved my paint balls, not wanting to use them up by the first half of the ride.
There was 3 – 4 stations that I remember that was mostly cars and chintzy Halloween decorations. The «zombies «were few and far between, most ducking behind trees or int cars after 2 – 3 seconds. A few staying behind items completely.
I understand getting sick of being shot at repeatedly, but they did sign up and are being paid for this. If they had more people, or if the event was set up differently, people would not be over shot.
There was also an issue worth the guns. The paint balls were not lighting up, so you couldn’t see where you were shooting.
Suddenly, the o2 line that was connected to each gun was shut off. I figured that they were conserving it until another section down the trail. I thought that since most of us still had half our paintballs, there was no way this was done. It was. Apparently only some knew the ride was coming to an end when someone asked to buy more balls and was told «Don’t bother, we’re almost done». No announcement at all. The ride itself was less then 15 min.
Glad we spent all that money to stand in line. A few of us were joking that we should go out there with our own paintball guns and shoot at the zombies whenever a trailer full of people arrive, get our money’s worth.
Don’t waste your money or your time.

Great concept, but no here has the managerial skills to run this place. There were hundreds of people in line, but there were only 2 people selling tickets. Unreal. We complained about the lag time but 2 other ladies just standing around doing nothing said «oh, we’re used to it!» And I said «We’re not.» They’re clearly inept throughout this entire facility.
At the paintball zombie line up, there’s no one there so you don’t know if you’re in the right spot, or if they’re doing the hunt or what! When you get on, here’s their announcement:
«Don’t shoot guns across the other guns or they’ll break. Everyone sit down while the tractor is moving. If you need more paint balls we sell them.»
In our group of 8, we had no idea how many paint balls or how long the ride was to manage our usage. Only when we were done did we find out there were 5 scenes with 100 paint balls to use. On top of that, most guns didn’t illuminate the balls so you can’t tell if you’re shooting and if you are, you can’t tell where you’re hitting.
Overall, the lack of management and organization ruins this experience. Hard to believe they are still in business.

I had low expectations before attending the Hallow Scream Park. So long as you have low expectations, you will not be disappointed. (You will still be unimpressed, however.)
We had 8 o’clock tickets for the new «Zombie Hunt», however it was 45 minutes before the trailer started moving, with absolutely no communication. This was extremely unprofessional. On top of that, a friend’s paintball gun didn’t even work. Once we got moving we were shuttled to a nearby dirt road, where we were invited to pelt high schoolers/​homeless men/né’er-do-wells by glow-​in-​the-​dark paintballs. This was very conflicting for me. Here I was, waiting 45 minutes to perform the zombie hunt, however I had to shoot completely indefensible actual humans. I refrained from shooting them, opting instead to fire blindly towards Runnin’ Aces. It was a very weird and surreal experience, but not worth the price tag.
The hayride and haunted house were OK. All told, this was not worth the $ 35 asking price. The staff really needs some additional organizational skills. More communication would be great.
If you’ve ever wanted to hunt humans for sport, I recommend going to the Zombie Hunt, as I do not expect this to return next year.

This place is more expensive than others nearby and it is so lame! It was a waste of time and money. Cheap layout, cheap decorations (a lot of robotic or mechanical things), poor costumes, not many people working the attractions either.
I will not return here. — Very disappointed. Save your money and drive a bit farther north for a better time.
They say they take the last people in at 10 and they will make sure you see all of the attractions. Not entirely true. The workers are in such a hurry to get out of there that they pack up early and are ready to get the heck out of there! They don’t like it either!

This is a great haunted hayride if you have young children who scare easily and can’t handle an intense haunted hayride. There are lots of props and decorations on the hayride, so there’s plenty to see. But it’s a hayride, it’s hard to make them scary, and there’s not much that is clever or innovative about how they attempt to scare you during the hayride.
The haunted house has some good characters/​actors in it, and there are a few good scares in it, but it’s not enough to make it a memorable experience.
If I could give this attraction 1.5 stars, I would, but I can’t do ½ stars, so I have to give it a 1.
2013 UPDATE: I was revisiting all of my reviews and I noticed that all 12 of the «filtered» reviews for NHSP are from people who have only done 1 or 2 reviews on Unilocal.Yet they all gave ‘em 5 stars, with the exception of one four-​star review. And notice the dates they were posted, many came in the same 7 – 10 day period in 2012. If that doesn’t smell suspicious to you, then go ahead and throw your money away. NHSP is a joke and they’re trying to hide that fact by shill reviews.