Think you’re brave? These 9 haunted houses in Miami and beyond have entirely new mazes for 2026

This freakish haunted carnival at Miami International Mall has been scaring the living daylights out of Miamians for more than 20 years and this time around, they’ve got even more thrills and chills in store at a new location! Finding its new home at Tropical Park, make your way through five nightmarish haunts like and Camp Dead-End Trails Isla de las Muñecas. Beyond the scares, you can expect tons of fun rides and tasty carnival treats.

The Horrorland Scream Park is an annual Jungle Island takeover where you can enjoy the adrenaline rush of walking inside not one, but six haunted houses! Highlights include The Covent, Seven Sins, Nyctophobia and much more. To add to the thrills, there’s bloody carnival games and multiple eerie scare zones with actors waiting to scare you at every corner.

From the creators of Bayside Haunted Nights and No Way Out Miami, this new haunted attraction will unleash fears you never knew you had at The Fair Expo Center. Guests can expect four haunted houses, some of which have yet to be unveiled. Ones we know of so far include an outbreak-themed The Infected and Mitos, a descent into the legends of Latin America.

Prepare to encounter all kinds of eerie delights at Xtreme Action Park’s Nightmare Village this year — just don’t say we didn’t warn you! The indoor park has three different experiences in store this October, from Patches’ Slaughter to The Collection and The Haunting of Duskfield Springs: Six Years Later.

Spend a sinister evening at Davie’s annual haunt, which brings dozens of themed rooms, creepy actors and lighting effects to the Pine Island Multipurpose Center. If you get hungry, they’ll have various vendor booths and baked goods to try. And for the faint of heart, there are opportunities to venture the house on a not-so-scary night without any of the jump scares! Stay tuned for 2026 updates.

Bone-chilling haunted houses, creepy characters and a thrilling carnival await at Palm Beach’s Fright Nights at the South Florida Fairgrounds. This year’s haunts have not yet been revealed, but previous years have boasted houses like Autumn of Terror, The Ritual and Watery Grave.

Everybody knows about Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights, one of Orlando’s most notorious haunted attractions. It’s worth the drive to check out the famous theme park transform into a haunted haven, with 10 chilling haunted houses and sinister scare zones. This year’s houses include Sinners, Stranger Things and Evil Dead Burn.

Just minutes from Tampa in Dade City (also a bit of a drive away) is Scream-A-Geddon, a 30-acre park that actually sets itself apart from the others because its actors touch guests, remove them from their groups and zip them up in body bags… with their permission, of course!

If they dare, guests aged 18 and older can wear a glow necklace that allows actors to take them away from their group and deeper into the stories of the haunts. They may even get rolled into an incinerator, find themselves zipped into a body bag or even taken into secret rooms. It all depends on how the monsters are feeling, really.

We couldn’t go without mentioning the legendary Howl-O-Scream, which is scarier than ever and runs across two parks: Busch Gardens Tampa Bay (10165 McKinley Drive, Tampa, FL) and SeaWorld Orlando (7007 Sea World Drive, Orlando, FL). Both events feature spine-tingling houses and scare zones with unexpected horrors lurking around every corner, live shows, themed bars and roller coaster rides.