This year marked the sixth year for the Kendallville Park Department’s Trail of Terror. This annual event took place at the Kendallville Sports Complex and Bixler Park. Guests parked at the Sports Complex, where a local softball team was selling hot drinks and candy and a zombie paintball game was set up off in the gravel parking lot. Those looking for some scary fun could take a hay ride over to Bixler Park for $5. On Friday, the first night of the event, there was easily a crowd of over a hundred gathered to wait for their chance to get a ride to the trail by 7:30, and another hundred had showed up by 8:00. The event lasted from 7:00 to 10:30 on both Friday and Saturday.

Guests took a packed hay ride pulled by a tractor over to in to the east side of Bixler Lake, near the camp grounds and the old baseball diamond. Groups were greeted by clowns as they departed their ride. Small group of guests were taken in to the log building for a greeting by a Voodoo witch doctor, who gave them instructions on how to survive their time in “the bayou” and passed around a chicken foot for good luck. After that, the visitors entered the trail of terror, where they wondered a twisting path that covers most of the back corner of the park, making use of everything the area has to offer.

The trail does a good job of confusing even those familiar the park’s layout and makes uses of all the space available. Visitors ducked, slid, crawled, and faced their fears as they made their way through. The Lions pavilion offered a haunted pavilion where guests wondered a maze of halls and tunnel of different heights, resulting in a few bruised foreheads by the end. Spooks like a plane crash, a group of killer clowns, and a haunted Herse where you were the newly departed, and more wait out on the trail waiting for each unsuspecting soul. When the frighten guests finally emerged, they were taken by to safety by a second hayride and returned to the Sport Complex.