Great America Joins Scary Time For Theme Parks In Full Swing

SANTA CLARA, CA -- Your will to be thrilled will be tested leading up to Halloween at Great America. The amusement park that stepped up scary times with the fastest roller coaster in Northern California now brings out something more frightening. Great America is introducing a maniacal "Tooth Fairy" this year who in seeking his lost teeth terrorizes bystanders until they end up in the dentist's chair -- everyone's scare in reality.

Halloween Haunt runs through Oct. 28.

The new maze show has been added this year with eight others -- each one having a frightening theme for those who live through it can boast about. Madame Marie's Blackout relies on a traditional favorite to scare people -- turning the lights out of her mansion. Ripper's Revenge allows the innocent to encounter a mob of villains who are dead set on taking over old-town London.

Halloween Haunt also returns with old favorite mazes -- Backwoods, Chaos House, CornStalkers, Roadkill Roadhouse, Wax Museum Chamber of Horrors and Zombie High, along with the ever popular Jester Town and Feary Tales.

Park Entertainment Manager Sean Lee has pledged "intense scares for Great America guests."

Halloween Haunt is open Friday and Saturdays from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. through Oct. 27; Sundays 7 p.m. to midnight, with the exception of Oct. 21 because of an event at Levi's Stadium.

For the younger set or those who believe real life is scary enough, the Great Pumpkin Fest dominates the daytime hours until Oct. 28 (closed Oct. 7, 20 and 21). That means trick-or-treating with Snoopy and the Peanuts gang, pumpkin decorating, a hay maze and coloring. "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" movie will be shown with book readings throughout the day.

--Image courtesy of Great America