This long-running Halloween attraction is moving to Scottsdale

Fear Farm is packing up its coffins and creeping across the Valley to a new home for the scary season. The long-running Halloween attraction and fright fest is moving to a new location at 1475 N. McClintock Drive in Scottsdale.

Thirteenth Floor Entertainment, the Denver-based company that owns and operates Fear Farm, announced the news on Monday.

It’s the second time the popular Halloween attraction, which first opened in 1999 and contains four different themed haunts, has moved since the pandemic. In 2021, Fear Farm relocated from its original home near 99th Avenue and McDowell Road in Phoenix to 99th and Maryland avenues in Glendale.

Kyle Sicard, Fear Farm’s general manager, says the move from Glendale was due to the owners of its previous location in Glendale declining to renew their lease.

They’re not looking back, though. Sicard says Fear Farm’s new digs, located south of McKellips Road on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, will allow it to have a “larger footprint" when it operates from mid-September through early November. “We loved being out there (in Glendale) and we loved the people who came out to see us,” he says. “Unfortunately, our lease just wasn't renewed for the property we were at, so we began looking for alternatives.”

Sicard says Fear Farm’s new digs, located south of McKellips Road on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, will allow it to have a “larger footprint” and more room for its courtyard area that has previously hosted concession stands, vendors, rides and live music.

“It's going to allow us the opportunity to have more vendors and the availability to do more things within the space,” Sicard says.

Sicard says the parking situation will also improve "since we have more land."

"Our general parking will be much larger than it's been in years past,” he says. “The entry and exit of the location will be much easier for the flow of traffic than we've had.”
Another benefit, Sicard says, is being centrally located to the rest of the Valley and having close proximity to both the Loop 101 and Loop 202 freeways.

“When we were looking for locations, we decided we wanted to be more central to everybody,” he says. “So we have really quick access from all sides of the Valley, whether its east, west or north. It's going to be easier to get to us.”

Much of Fear Farm’s frightful fun will be making the move to Scottsdale. Sicard says the new location will still offer four themed haunted attractions, each packed with plenty of jump scares and creepy corridors.

There’s one twist, though: Fear Farm’s long-running haunted corn maze won’t be happening due to the soil at the new location not being able to grow the crop. Instead, Sicard says there will be a haunted hay bale maze with just as many horrors awaiting around every corner.

“We found a way to adapt to the situation and it will be just as scary,” Sicard says.