The Great Hauntway
A community-powered, car-free Halloween celebration at the beach.
10 haunted experiences near Pacifica.
This year, Pacifica and nearby areas offer scares for every taste. For a major exhibition, consider SuperNatural at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.
If you seek a unique experience closer to home, the USS Hornet Museum in Alameda hosts Halloween events, providing a different kind of maritime fright.
Features pumpkin decorating, photo backdrops, refreshments, and preschool campus tours.
Five themed rooms and 10 DJs for a mega Halloween party
Live performance of Schubert's Cello Quintet in the Mozart Room.
San Francisco's longest-running haunted walking tour through historic Pacific Heights.
See all haunted houses, trails, and scare attractions in your area.
Extreme haunts require signed waivers and may include touching, restraint, isolation from your group, crawling, water, and verbal intensity far beyond a standard haunt. They're 18+ and always publish a consent framework with a safe word that instantly stops the experience. Read the full waiver before booking, go with a friend who's done one, and treat the safe word as zero-shame equipment.
Read the attraction's own scare rating first, then cross-check recent reviews for words like "touch," "extreme," or "family." A haunt that requires a waiver or offers a safe word is high intensity. Ones that advertise lights-on hours or kid matinees sit at the mild end. When a group is split, pick the middle rating and let braver members add an extreme attraction later.
Usually no, or only with heavy limits. Most haunts ban guest masks, face-covering makeup, prop weapons, and anything that could be mistaken for cast wardrobe, so staff can tell actors from visitors. Festive shirts and light face paint typically pass. Check the rules page before dressing up, because security will make you stash banned items in the car or a paid locker.