10/11/2026
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Halloween is our favorite holiday in this house, and I have a very specific weakness for events that sound like someone had a perfectly reasonable idea and then another person said, βOkay but what if we made it slightly more unhinged?β
Hello, Mt. Ashland.
Instead of building a haunted house next to the ski mountain, they use the actual damn mountain.
You start inside the historic lodge and make your way through the haunted basement. Then they put you on a chairlift. At night. In October. On a mountain. Which is already enough information for me to hand over my credit card.
But THEN you get off and head into the Nature Trail where the woods are full of scare actors, sets and special effects.
This is what makes me love an event like this so much. They didnβt take some generic Halloween setup and drop it in Southern Oregon. They looked at what they already had β an old ski lodge, a chairlift and a dark-ass mountain β and built Halloween around THAT.
That is so much cooler.
I love a pumpkin patch. I love c***r. I will absolutely stand in a field and admire a gourd with the best of them. But somewhere around the third hay bale I start needing a little danger. π
Mt. Ashland has apparently decided the answer is sending me into the woods by chairlift.
A Haunting on Mt. Ashland runs Oct. 9β10, with timed evening entries at 7β8 PM, 8β9 PM and 9β10 PM. They ask you not to arrive early, which somehow makes the entire thing feel even more suspicious and therefore better.
π Mt. Ashland Β· Southern Oregon
π Oct. 9β10
π Evening timed entry
π Haunted lodge + chairlift + wooded trail
ποΈ Tickets through Mt. Ashland
And listen, I know myself. I would absolutely book the latest time slot because if I am agreeing to be carried up a mountain toward people whose volunteer position is literally scare actor, I want full darkness. I want commitment.
This is Halloween. Go be weird.
And save me a seat on the chairlift.
β Larie