Trail of Horrors starting in Ocean Pines tonight

OCEAN PINES, Md. – It’s Halloween season, and in Ocean Pines, things could get a little spooky. The 5th. Annual Trail of Horrors opens October 17th.

Recreation & Parks Director Debbie Donahue said this was something to focus on the holiday season. “Since we can’t trick or treat in Ocean Pines because of no street lights, we provide this fun opportunity.”

The event has been inside the community center for previous iterations. Donahue said the event will haunt a new location.

“We chose not to do it in the building this year, and to move it to one of our walking trails. It will be at the White Horse Park boat ramp walking trail.”

Admission is $8 per person. It will run from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. on October 17th through 18th. And then October 25th to 26th.

Visitors will traverse dangerous paths with unsettling sights and scary surprises.

Ocean Pines Event Coordinator Joshua Vickers says the spooky Ocean Pines event came from his time in Selbyville. “I brought the brainchild over here to Debbie and Timmy, and we’ve been doing it for about four years now.”

Donahue expects upward of 800 people to show up at the event. “We give them just enough scary to be fun, just enough not too scary, but they keep wanting to come back.”

Adding that if you want to have a scary Halloween season, check out the trail.

“Walking in the trail at night time is already kind of creepy, so when you’re adding all the extras for the haunted house, it makes it more fun and scary.”