Guests at the Santa Monica Pier have one last shot at a free walk through Pacific Park's Funhouse this Halloween weekend, but there's a catch worth knowing: the attraction is closing for good right after. Anyone who visits a ticket booth and simply says “Trick or Treat” on Saturday or Sunday will get in at no cost, and then the nine-room haunt shuts its doors permanently.
According to Pacific Park, the complimentary offer runs both days, October 31 through November 1, and applies to guests who utter the Halloween phrase at the booth. The Funhouse's final day of operation is confirmed for Sunday, closing out a run that began just over a year ago. As the Santa Monica Daily Press reports, Pacific Park's director of sales and marketing, Steve Garcia, said Halloween weekend offers guests one final chance to experience the Funhouse, and that the park plans to bring something new and exciting to the space.
What's Inside the 2,800-Square-Foot Attraction
The Funhouse spans 2,800 square feet across nine rooms packed with optical illusions, tricky layouts and unexpected surprises, per the same pacpark.com announcement. Visitors might also run into Sprinkles the Clown somewhere along the way, though that encounter is described as a possible surprise rather than a guarantee. The attraction opened as an all-ages walk-through experience in September 2025, according to the station's report from dailynews.com.
The design behind the scenes came from EPIC Entertainment Group, which built the Funhouse specifically for Pacific Park at the Santa Monica Pier, according to blooloop.com. That same account notes that seasonal adaptability was built into the design from the start, allowing for Halloween-themed lighting, music, scenic dressing and performer-driven scares — a feature that lines up with the holiday send-off planned for this weekend.
A Nod to the Pier's Toonerville Past
The Funhouse was conceived as a tribute to the Toonerville Funhouse, a Santa Monica-area attraction whose theme and design drew from the old “Toonerville Trolley” comic strip, per pacpark.com's history page. That earlier funhouse first appeared at Ocean Park Pier in 1926 and later resurfaced at Pacific Ocean Park beginning in 1958, before Pacific Ocean Park itself was shuttered and abandoned in 1967. The new Funhouse's closing, then, echoes a history of boardwalk attractions that eventually give way to something new.
Pacific Park itself remains open and free to enter, with ride and game admission priced separately. The park bills itself as Los Angeles' only admission-free amusement park, offering 12 amusement rides, 14 midway games, five food offerings at Snackville and retail beach shops, according to amusementtoday.com. Among its signature rides are the Pacific Wheel, billed as the world's only solar-powered Ferris wheel, and the West Coaster, a steel roller coaster that races 55 feet above Santa Monica Bay.
Pacific Park is located at 380 Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, and the park can be reached for more information at 310-260-8744. For now, the Funhouse's closing marks the end of a short but eventful chapter for the pier's latest homage to its own funhouse history — one last weekend to say the magic words before the rooms go dark.
