Ghost Train
Professional Haunt
Griffith Park’s Travel Town
5202 Zoo Drive - Los Angeles, CA 90027
Phone: (323) 662-8030
E-Mail: info@lals.org
Website: www.lals.org
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2008 DATES & HOURS: October 17-19, 24-26, 29-31, from 7:00 to 10:00pm nightly. Click here for the event’s flier.
PRICE: $5 suggested donation
PARKING: Free
PARKING PROBLEM: Not so much problem as confusion. The official address for Travel Town is 5202 Zoo Drive, but the entrance gate for this address is closed at night. The Ghost Train’s dirty parking lot is perhaps a quarter mile east. This is a dark road in the middle of Gritth Park with few cross streets and almost no street lights, but you will see the lights, artificial fog, and customers when you reach the miniature train area.
HISTORY: The Los Angeles Live Steamers Railroad Museum has been presenting their “Ghost Train” since 2001. Run by train enthusiasts, the non-profit corporation runs their 7 1/2-inch gauge model trains free of charge every sunday. For Halloween, the path is decorated with a series 30 elaborately spooky scenes.
Copyright 2008 Steve Biodrowski
INFORMATION: The ride is ideal for child-sized riders, but adults can manage if they do not mind squatting down on the tiny trains for the approximately 20-minute duration.
SCARE FACTOR: Is it scary? Not really. The Ghost Train is more spooky. In a way, it’s like driving past a series of well decorated yard haunts, with lots of colorful ights, Jack O’Lanterns, skeletons, giant spiders, and other displays. Nothing jumps out at you. Most of the figures are mannequins; a few have some kind of mechanics to make them pop up.
BOTTOM LINE: Are you a parent looking for something to do with your children for Halloween in Los Angeles? This is the place to go.