Spook-Track-Ula in Scottsdale is a ride on the Halloween side

Halloween Spook-Track-Ula includes a spooky but family-friendly train ride at McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park through Oct. 31. (Photos: Jill Adair/**DigitalFreePress.com**)

By Jill Adair | Digital Free Press

Halloween enthusiasts of all ages can enjoy Spook-Track-ula at McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park, 7301 E. Indian Bend Road in Scottsdale, through Oct. 31.

In addition to festive seasonal decorations and trick-or-treating in the park, the highlight of the evening (nightly from 6 to 9:30 p.m.) is the Paradise & Pacific Railroad ride through an impressive area of frights — giant skeletons, man-eating spiders, an alien invasion, jack-o-lantern saguaro cacti, haunted graveyard, terrifying clowns and much more.

Tickets are $15 per person and the fee reserves a one-and-a-half-hour block of time from 6 to 7:30 p.m. or 8 to 9:30 p.m. (with a limited capacity of 650 per time slot.) Admission includes unlimited train and carousel rides. Children 2 years old and younger are free.

The Model Railroad Building is also decorated for the Halloween and open for viewing the park’s tiniest trains.

Food and drinks are available for purchase in Hartley’s General Store.

The 30-acre park is operated by the city of Scottsdale’s Parks & Recreation Department.

For tickets or more info, click here.

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Jill Adair is a journalist, photographer and copy editor with 35+ years of professional experience. She taught reporting and editing at ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication for eight years. She has extensive experience with website building/management software WordPress and in writing website content. She has taught writing to children with city of Mesa’s community education program. Her first book, “The Mesa Easter Pageant: 80 Years of Sharing the Story of Jesus the Christ,” was published in 2022.

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