The Best Home Haunts in the LA Area for Halloween 2026

I've been mapping home haunts in the Los Angeles area for a few years now, and every October the number keeps climbing. Right now FrightMaps has 210 home haunts plotted across the LA metro — from the Santa Clarita Valley down through Long Beach and into the OC border. That's 210 people who decided their driveway, yard, or front porch was going to become something people drove across town to see. I find that genuinely wild, and I find something new to look at every single season.

If you've never thought to look past the big commercial attractions, this is the year to start.

Up in Santa Clarita, #CuestportHaunt Halloween House is exactly the kind of display that makes me stop the car. Full animatronics, a ghost materializing in the upper window, SFX, fog, strobes — the whole production runs Thursday through Sunday from 7 to 10. It's a yard haunt that someone clearly spent months engineering, not an afternoon decorating.

A few miles away, Hawkins SCV (Stranger Things Themed) is doing something different. Nearly everything in this walk-up tribute is handmade — and the owners are calling it their final season. If you're a fan of the show, or just a fan of dedicated craftsmanship, I'd make it a point to get up there before it's gone for good.

Down in Anaheim, Skelly's Fiery Graveyard has a concept I haven't seen anywhere else: Skelly and his dog make their nightly rounds through the graveyard, flames burning in their eyes. There's a fire arch in the mix — weather-dependent, so check before you go on rainy nights — but the core of this display is unlike anything you'd get from a Spirit Halloween kit.

Long Beach is punching above its weight this year. The Creepy Pumpkin House runs a full pumpkin-patch theme up front and hides a walk-through zombie and dollhouse maze behind it. On Halloween night, they're handing out full-size candy bars, which is its own category of commitment. Separately, Lost Souls Cemetery — not to be confused with All Souls, which is also in Long Beach — presents an old, decrepit graveyard with tombstones that feel genuinely weathered and freshly exhumed occupants that sell the illusion hard.

Over in Los Angeles proper, Cemetery 21 commits to a full Carnevil theme: clowns, tombstones, a Carnevil wagon, black lights turning everything wrong. It's a corner lot production that earns a look even if you think you've seen the clown angle done to death.

Norwalk's The Black Moon Coven is a corner-house walk-through built around a witch-coven concept — fog, scare actors, witch animatronics. The corner placement means you get hit from two angles, which the designers clearly planned for.

And if you're looking for something the whole family can do together, Lakota Loop in Simi Valley is one of the most ambitious free walk-throughs I've seen documented on the map: 50-plus live actors, more than 10 individual scenes, and only three nights to catch it. Free admission for something at that scale is a genuine rarity.