Review: "Trail of Fears" in Hilliard

I won some tickets to "Trail of Fears" in a radio contest recently. Since we were in the area, Eric & I decided to go check it out. Admission for this attraction is $10 per person.

Our first impression came from their website.... or should I say myspace page. It reads like a middle schooler wrote it and it's very poorly laid out. The next impression came from the horribly spray painted signs pointing the way on the roads near by. By now you can probably tell where this is going.

Once we got there, the parking lot was almost empty. I have pretty low expectations at this point, but it was free so hey. We walked through the barn full of country knick-knacks for sale and jumped on the hayride back to the "haunted forest." They broke us into smaller groups of 6-8 people and started us through.

The trail itself is heavily fogged and poorly lit which aren't necessarily bad things. Our "tour guide" followed in the back for some reason which just confused us most of the time. The other guy following just kept yelling stupid stuff like "What is that?!?" trying to psych us out. Some of the costumes weren't bad and the performance of the Texas Chainsaw crew was decent, but the rest left a lot to be desired. I spend most of the time laughing!

The worst part was definitely the "maze" though. It was fogged so much that it was hard to breathe and the massive amounts of strobe lights gave me a headache. The fog also gave someone in our group an asthma attack.

All in all we didn't pay for it so I can't complain. I definitely wouldn't pay for it though!