Great Adventure: What 4 New Mazes Cost Beyond Admission

Six Flags Great Adventure opens Fright Fest on Friday 18 September with four new haunted mazes, and the useful thing to know before you buy anything is how much of the night does not need them. Five scare zones, live entertainment and rides after dark are included with admission, the park said in its announcement.

The mazes are the part that costs extra, and that split is the whole planning decision. Our guide to the Haunted Attractions Pass at Jackson covers the tiers; this is what each side of the line actually contains.

Four New Mazes, Two of Them Original

The new mazes split evenly between licensed horror and the park’s own material, which is a more balanced ratio than most chain haunt events manage.

JASON: Blood Reign takes guests into the woods around the summer camp of the Friday the 13th franchise. Final Destination: Death’s Playground builds a maze around the premise of the film series, where a premonition reveals a chain of events moments before it happens.

The two originals are Twisted Holidays and Deadwood Cabin. Neither carries a film licence, which means the park is spending its own creative budget alongside the licensing, not instead of it.

They join returning licensed houses The Conjuring Universe and Army of the Dead, plus other original mazes. Four licensed properties running in one event is a substantial rights bill for a single park.

“With four new haunted mazes, major horror franchises, the return of Dead Man’s Party and an entire park that transforms after dark, this is a Fright Fest built to deliver big scares and even bigger thrills,” said Mike Fehnel, the park president.

The Free Half of the Night Is Unusually Large

Haunt events normally gate the good material behind an upcharge and leave the included portion thin. Great Adventure’s included half is not thin this year.

Five named scare zones transform whole sections of the park. Carnevil puts maniacal clowns across The Boardwalk. Zombies take Exile Canyon. Restless souls hold Plaza De La Muerte. The undead surround Bloody Fountain. Pirates and sea creatures roam Curse of Blackbeard’s Bounty.

All five are included with park admission, as is the live entertainment and riding the coasters after dark. Dead Man’s Party returns as part of that programme rather than as an add on.

The five zones sit in five separate sections of the park, so the walking between them is a real part of the evening. Our Great Adventure park map guide shows where The Boardwalk, Exile Canyon and Plaza De La Muerte sit relative to each other.

So a family that buys admission and nothing else still gets five themed areas, a show lineup and night rides. That is a real evening, and it is worth knowing before anyone assumes the pass is compulsory to attend.

The run itself is just over six weeks. Opening on 18 September and closing on 1 November spreads the event across most of the autumn calendar rather than concentrating it in the last two weekends of October, which is where haunt crowding normally peaks.

That matters for the included half in particular. Five scare zones and night rides on a late September Friday are a very different evening from the same five zones on the Saturday before Halloween, and the admission that opens them costs the same either way.

How the Pass Tiers Actually Stack

The access structure has three layers and they are cumulative rather than alternative, which is the part that trips people up at the gate.

Layer one is valid park admission, a Season Pass or a membership. Layer two is a Haunted Attractions Pass, which is what opens the mazes. Layer three is the Express version of that pass, which adds priority access.

The park lists a one night Haunted Attractions Pass, an All Season Haunted Attractions Pass for eligible passholders and members, and the Express upgrade. Six Flags’ own event page also sells bundles pairing admission with maze access on the same night, valid on select nights across the whole run.

Processing fees of up to 9.99 dollars plus applicable taxes apply, and the bundles are sold online only. None of that is unusual, but it means the advertised starting price is not the checkout price.

Online only also means the bundle is not a gate decision. If the mazes are the reason for the trip, that purchase is something to settle before leaving home rather than something to add at the turnstile once the night has already started.

Three Six Flags Parks, One Jason Maze

An observation worth recording, because it explains why a licensed maze appears in three places at once.

JASON: Blood Reign is running this season at Great Adventure, at Carowinds in Charlotte and at Kings Island in Ohio. All three are Six Flags parks, and all three list it on their own event pages as new for 2026.

That is a shared build rather than three coincidences. A chain that licenses a franchise once and installs the same concept at several parks spreads the rights cost across the estate, which is how a mid sized regional park ends up with a maze carrying a major film name.

For a visitor it has a practical edge. If you have already done JASON: Blood Reign at another Six Flags park this autumn, the headline new maze at Great Adventure is not new to you, and the two originals are where your pass money goes further.

What Has Not Been Published

The announcement does not give a full maze count for 2026, only the four new ones and the named returning houses, so how many houses a pass actually opens is not stated.

Operating hours for the event nights are not in the announcement either. Select nights is the published pattern, and the specific dates sit on the park calendar rather than in the release.

Nor is there a stated price for any pass tier. The park lists starting from figures with processing fees on top, which is not the same as a published price for a given night.

The park has also not said whether Twisted Holidays and Deadwood Cabin are permanent additions or single season builds. That is the open question whenever a park funds its own material alongside a licence.