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Haunted Trails Family Amusement Center
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- Location:
- Tinley Park, IL
Every Thursday come up there by yourself or with the family. Recieve a FREE indoor ride wristband with the purchase of a large drink.
21 reviews for Haunted Trails Family Amusement Center
Corny check
Crazy Carny rides that can somehow make you dizzy or feel like your going to die check
putt putt check
awesome haunted house that scared us. Check
awesome check check check.
Good times, the only reason I give this place 4 stars is because I actually expected it to be more run down. Everything was just a little to "new" for my tastes. But it was perfect the night before drunken debochary. Plus no old 80's arcade games? What the hell?
Jack Skellington would definitely approve of this place---it's Halloweentime all year round!
I'm not an authority on miniature golf courses, but I think Haunted Trails is quite possibly the best ever. There are a few features with creepy sound effects, blood-red lakes and fountains, and all your favorite movie monsters from Frankenstein to the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Not to mention the open-mouthed ghost trash cans that sort of resemble blow-up dolls---perfect for photo-opps.
If you love Halloween as much as I do, then it's definitely worth a trek out to the southwest Chi-town suburbs.
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I think I would have been at Haunted Trails all the time if I had grown up around here. Haunted things + go karts are the only things I really need for an awesome evening.
My boyfriend told me that he had never been on a go kart and that just seemed soooo wrong. I wanted to get him on one immediately and race him to the death. Haunted Trails jumped into my brain. I'd driven by the huge Frankenstein lots of times and always wanted to go and I now had the perfect reason.
We went later in evening so we wouldn't have 8 million kids to deal with. It was awesome. We were the only two people on the track the first two times we went around and it totally satisfied the need for speed in both of us. We recently took an out of town friend here to play mini golf and that was a lot of fun too. Way more fun than the average boring course. Again, we went in the evening and it wasn't crowded at all. Totally fun!
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Fun for the kids. Have them bring in their report cards for tokens! Lots of games to play and as well as rides outside when the weather is nice otherwaise the rides outside are closed. Ditch the rides and take the family to play mini golf which is probably the best part of Haunted Trails. There is an eattinng area and they serve the regular junk food..pizza, hotdogs, chips...we were invited to a birthday party and it was pretty nice. Decor needs to updated though, I feel like I'm sitting in an old place when I go here.
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I can't think of another place with such a high percentage of five star reviews. Haunted trails is worth every one.
It's like some genius (I think it might have been Rich Koz) decided to roll in all your favorite things about halloween, make it year round and divide it by two arcades, go karts, batting cages, miniature golf, blood fountains, a money machine (I never got to play it, but I'm still pretty sure the concept is a little over my head) and crappy pizza. What's more is the seasonal addition of a haunted house in october to balance out the off season haunted decor as though they were multiplying zero by zero but instead of zero they came up with a quadruple factor of perfect kind of monster gore which is perfect for children with a remainder of Frankenstein.
Like Robin, I redeemed report cards here for tokens based on my grades They never gave me too many for math. I believe the redemption system went A=4 tokens, B=3, C=2, D or F= NOTHING! All you parents should see if this still happens.
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The only thing haunting about haunted trails is it's location. Maybe I picked the wrong time to go but I would not recommend this place unless you have kids or you are on a death wish.
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What better place to come and enjoy a party with your family and kids and just have a great day. All in all I can honestly say this place turns me into a lil kid again I love going on the go carts, miniature golf, and playing the deal or no deal game. And the pizza is pretty decent too. My kids love this place and I would definitely recommend HT if your throwing a party for your kid. They have very reasonable party packages and I guarantee you'll have a great time.And in October they have a cool lil haunted house.
This place is sick. I could live here, nestled between the row of pinball machines and the claw machine that has tiers and tiers of silver plated bling.
I was here last weekend and while taking a break from some pinball, I stood by the go kart track trying to predict who would cross the finish line first. Maybe it will be the Taco Bell car? M&M? Oh but none of that mattered because a kid spun out on the track and I saw liquid spilling out of the front of his car and in the blink of an eye, that shit was on fire! Now I could understand the joy of NASCAR as I was watching a miniature version of it and the crowd was visibly horrified but more importantly, entertained. The kid struggled with his seat belt then finally hopped out in a rush and the Haunted Trails staff came with a fire extinguisher and the fiasco was over.
Just another day at Haunted Trails.
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I have two reviews for this place - i ran summer camp last year and after taking the kids to a place that bored the living crap out of everyone i detoured the bus driver into randomly coming here, where we were greeted with free ice cream for all the kids and a sweet deal for pizza and tokens. Haunted Trails kept all the kids busy, kids from all ages, with video games, go carts, mini golf, etc. It was a kick ass field trip. I spent a random Tuesday night after bball practice with my buddy Amie on a mission to win a giant Stewie doll (actually I wanted Brian dressed as a banana but that wasnt in the cards). The games are limited, which is the only issue...there's only so much to do or play to win stuff. Yet i did have the best "monster mix"...which is basically a blizzard with m&m's...but with a lot more m&m's mixed in. It was truly the best thing ever! Ive eaten here before, they have great messy fries and nachos for cheap, along with the typical drinks. No weightwatchers meals here, folks. The pizza is average yet cheap and edible, and the staff is very helpful, if not proactive.
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It's important that you know, that somewhere on the outskirts of Chicago (Burbank), there exists a mini-golf course where all of the fountains are dyed red to resemble blood...not because it's Halloween, not because people have died in them (though this is a possibility), but simply because these trails....they's haunted!
p.s. when i was a scout, I could get extra tokens for bringing in a report card that had good grades.
Not sure about the age cut off for this...
But, if you've failed everything in your adulthood like I have, you may want to bring some extra bones.
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I've loved coming here since childhood. I think I remember having my birthday party here too once!
Whats not to love about Haunted Trails? The Go Karts, ghost garbage cans, the minature golf course, fountains of blood. Although some things aren't the same. Like my biggest favorite about Haunted Trails, the arcade room. Way back when it had the best up and coming games out there. I remember playing Survival Arts, Tekken Tag Tournament, Marvel VS Capcom, Generation X (Aerosmith!). Now its its been stripped bare bones with a few old machines still standing. Plus anyone remember the Headless Horseman in front of the ticket room?
I will always love this place if only for nostalgic reasons. Its definitely a place you need to experience once in your life however.
Haunted Trails is like just fucking great!!!! This was one of the highlights of my little life when I was 9 years old! A SUPERNATURAL THEMED MINI GOLF PLACE! There are giant monsters and "blood" lakes and silly screaming haunted houses on the golf course and it's just really fun! They also have creepy carnie rides that aren't fun but you ride them anyway, a crummy looking go-kart track, batting cages, and two seperate arcades. The first one is more win your ticket type of games and the second one has DDR and "violent" games and that's where all the 15 year olds who are desperate for pussy hang out.
It can get really crowded here on weekends and it costs more too, but weeknights aren't nearly as expensive and you're not stuck waiting forever for your turn. I seriously loved coming here SO MUCH when I was a kid. I always loved Halloween and blood and guts and monsters and this was just the perfect place ever in my mind. Too bad I'm a shitty mini golf player. More of my balls (hehe) have ended up in Blood Lake than I care to admit.
This is SUCH a great place to bring your kids! It's silly, fun, kooky, and just wow...Haunted Trails is awesome!
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Every time I remember this place, I think of the fact that I need to go there again before it closes. Rumors to this effect have been circulating for years, but to my knowledge, it still stands.
Haunted Trails was the site of many a childhood birthday party (never my own, and I was so jealous of the birthday kid, who got to stand in the fabled Money Machine--a glass box that blew dollar bills around while the chosen child frantically tried to collect as many as possible), Brownie/Girl Scout pizza parties, and general Friday nights in high school, being too young and broke to go anywhere interesting and too unhip to be invited to any parties.
Mini golf.. God. A few bucks got you 18 holes, a club, and a neon ball--which, if you were lucky, you did not chip into the blood bath on the sixth (?) hole. Challenging to hit your ball into a haunted house and a ghost's mouth while Frankenstein loomed menancingly. One of my oldest stuffed animals (Chompy the shark) came from an impromptu competition that my brother and I ended up winning (illegally, I might add.. the host took pity on me and gave me the prize after a hole-in-eight.)
Ah, nostalgia. Haunted Trails marked various moments of my childhood and adolescence, from triumphantly "winning" Chompy the shark to batting cages to being caught making out with my high school boyfriend outside the arcade. Good times.
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EEEEE! I love this place so freaking much.
A giant skull at the 18th hole? Check.
Ghost garbage cans? You got it.
Houses that moan at you when you hit your ball into them? Hell yes.
Batting cages? Three kinds of skee-ball? Spider stomping DDR? YES, YES, and TRIPLE YES!
I loved the ghostie trash cans and all the fun haunted things. The best part was winning enough tickets to "buy" a squeaky toy whale so annoying that my companion threatened to take out his squeaker. What a jackass. Actually that isn't the best part. The best part is that both me and my bff got one so we can make a squeaky whale harmony to terrorize my companion and anyone else that crosses us.
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My fella makes fun of me whenever I beg him to take me here. He thinks it's lame, but I love it! Mini golf, batting cages, go carts, arcade, and a pizza place, what more do you need?
I first read about it in Joe Meno's book "Hairstyles of the Damned" (a great book about growing up punk on the Southwest Side of Chicago). When I realized that it actually existed, I knew I had to check it out. It's campy, slightly downtrodden, and lots of fun. The haunted houses, ghosts for trash cans, monsters, and huge Frankenstein statue all add to the Haunted Trails experience. Going here reminds me of my high school days when I would cut out of last period with my friends and we'd go mini golfing.
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When I was 8 years old I got a surprise visit from my pen pal, Carrie. Our parents arranged an awesome sleep over weekend that involved horseback riding, trips to the mall, and haunted trails. Unfortunately on our way to haunted trails I stuck my gum in Carrie's hair. We spent a good half hour trying to get the damn thing out, only making it worse. Eventually one of the arcade workers had to cut it out with a pair of scissors. I don't think Carrie ever answered my letters back after that.
Anyways...it's nice to know that Haunted trails hasn't changed much in almost 2 decades. Sure the arcade games my have been updated, or there are some new rinky dink rides, but essentially, it's 1988 all over again. This time I made sure not to stick gum in my friend's hair.
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I have been coming here for years. Not just as a kid either. It turns out to be a good place to go on a fun date. They have a miniature golf course that has a ghostly theme, with all the water traps and fountains running with a red colored water. Not only that they have go-carts for adults and children, and batting cages for both baseball and softball. Tired of outdoor activities, go inside to the game room and indulge in the childhood fun of skee-ball, shooting games, video games, and all kinds of carnival type games. Starting in mid to late September, they have a fairly decent haunted house. They of course mainly cater to a younger crowd, and have a special party room where they serve mediocre pizza. But no matter what, this is just a really cool place to go, kids or no kids.
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OMG!!! I can't believe I'm the first one to rant and rave about the go-karts here!!! I had a very competitive father growing up, Kinda of Ricky Bobby "If your not first- You're last" thing going on, which has had a MAJOR impact on how I do...well...EVERYTHING!
I can remember one time my brother, uncle, father and I went as a special treat, We had to be separated, my dad went with my brother and I went with my uncle and these 2 other suburban bratty chicks, that I still want to punch in the face. First one practically knocked me over to take the #11, it wasn't faster, just had my lucky number (which I had commented about while in line next to her). So we pull outta the gate, she is in front of me swerving all over the track so I can't get around her, till the 2nd to last lap when we hit the "S" curve and she goes wide, I knock the back quarter panel of her go kart and spin her out to hear my father scream-"THAT'S MY GIRL!!" She got stuck on the tire edging for the last lap and the guy couldn't get her out. I'm evil but I took first place that's all that mattered to me!!!
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Some say it's haunted.
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Good variety of fun for all ages. I enjoyed HT when I was 11 years-old and I enjoy HT now, and I'm a bit older. Clean restaurant with great service.
Loves it!! My friends almost made me puke on one of the rides but I am still very excited to go back!
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