Best Trick-Or-Treating, Scares In OC: Enter Your Neighborhood

SEAL BEACH, CA — Zombie towns, creepy clowns and swinging skeletons are popping up on lawns all across Orange County. Patch is compiling its annual Halloween list of yard haunts that are worth driving by and gaping.

We're also interested in kid-friendly, whimsical Halloween-decorated yards where little ones aren't likely to be chased by a maniac with a chainsaw or have nightmares.

If your yard is worth a drive-by this Halloween, shoot us an email. We'll keep adding to the 2019 tour o' haunted yards leading up to Halloween, which this year falls on Thursday, Oct. 31!

Please include the following information:

• We prefer that the homeowner submit his or her own yard, or an immediate neighbor or close relative.
• Include the exact address of the yard haunt.
• Let us know the dates and hours when your display will be available for viewing, so people aren't ringing your doorbell or bothering your neighbors in the middle of the night.
• Does your yard haunt have a name, like Scream in the Dark, Lake Forest or Haunted Carnival in Rancho Santa Margarita? Be sure to include it.
• Tell us about any special effects, live actors, walk-throughs or other features that makes your yard haunt special.
• Does your display have a Facebook page or website? Be sure to include the links.
• Are you collecting at-will donations for a charity, food pantry or pet shelter? Let us know.
• Include a phone number (not for publication) in case Patch needs to contact you.
• Most important: what kind of Halloween candy are you passing out to trick-or-treaters?

We've been contacting people who've submitted their Halloween haunts from past years. We do our best to verify each address. If you've received an email from us, you're covered. This is for new haunts only.

IMPORTANT: Make sure the photo is yours! Patch assumes permission to use every photo that is submitted for this feature.

Send your information and pictures to ashley.ludwig@patch.com - SUBJECT: Trick Or Treating In OC.

We will run the list Monday, Oct. 28 through Halloween.

But WAIT! THERE'S MORE:

Come back to view our growing list for more yard haunts throughout the Orange County area: There's free fun to be had in the days leading up to Halloween, so set your GPS for these time-honored spooky standbys and newbies. You won't win anything except maybe bragging rights.

HALLOWEEN HAUNTS IN ORANGE COUNTY:

Scream in the Dark Haunted Maze: Lake Forest

• Friday, Oct.25
• Thursday, Oct. 31 - Halloween

Recommend 13-adult, with a $5 entrance fee to cover operating costs.
The maze is located at Cavanaugh Manor, located at 22921 Cavanaugh Road in Lake Forest.

Haunted Carnival, Creepy Clowns In Rancho Santa Margarita

Come to be scared or thrilled! at the Haunted Carnival. On Halloween night, a live carnival barker in full costume will tell people about the happy side (with children’s games), and the scary side (with live actors, clowns, fog, sounds effects, circus music and more chills). Both sides will have candy.

5 Allyssum, Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.

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