Springs Preserve is bringing back its Haunted Harvest festival for four nights this October, and organizers are already warning families not to wait too long to grab tickets. The family-friendly fall event runs October 22 through 25, 2026, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. each night at the 180-acre campus near downtown Las Vegas.
According to FOX5 Vegas, tickets go on sale September 17 and are available online only, with attendance capped and officials saying the event is expected to sell out. Admission runs $8 for Springs Preserve members and $14 for nonmembers, and children age 2 and under get in free. Members also get exclusive presale access before tickets open to the general public, and every guest must reserve a spot in advance on the Springs Preserve website rather than buying at the gate.
What's Inside the Gates
Once inside, families can wander through trick-or-treat stations set up across the grounds, along with Halloween-themed activities, live entertainment, and craft tables scattered throughout the property, per the station's report. The Boo-tanical Garden trail is one of the festival's centerpieces, winding through the preserve's Desert Botanical Garden with what organizers describe as ghostly surprises tucked among the plants.
For families wanting extra time before the crowds thicken, the same account notes limited early-entry tickets are available starting at 4 p.m. each night, ahead of the main 6 p.m. start.
Getting There and Getting In
Because on-site parking fills quickly during high-attendance family events like this one, the venue directs overflow parking to the nearby Meadows Mall once the main lots reach capacity, according to Springs Preserve. The venue also runs a completely cashless operation, accepting only credit, debit, or mobile wallet payments, and enforces metal detector checks at entry along with a ban on full-face costume masks for guests 18 and older at Haunted Harvest.
A Campus Built Around Water History
Haunted Harvest is one of several signature events the preserve runs each year. The venue also hosts the Black History Month Festival in February, per Vegas PBS.
The Springs Preserve was built around the original natural spring system that once served as the primary water source for the valley's early residents. Those springs stopped flowing naturally in 1960 as groundwater pumping expanded, a shift that eventually pushed Las Vegas to rely on Lake Mead for roughly 85 percent or more of its water supply, according to Atlas Obscura.
That history is part of why the site continues to draw state investment. In June, the Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources awarded more than $19 million in Conserve Nevada grant funding to the preserve to build a hands-on science center and an immersive Colorado River exhibit at its OriGen Museum, part of a $42 million statewide grant package for outdoor recreation and conservation projects — a windfall Hoodline detailed in June.
Beyond Haunted Harvest, the campus houses permanent attractions including Boomtown, an imaginative replica of 1905 Las Vegas, and the Waterworks Museum, according to the Nevada tourism site Travel Nevada. The Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas, also sits on the property.
