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*** If your event date is cancelled due to unsafe weather conditions, your make-up date is the Sunday immediately following your original ticketed date. Plan to arrive that Sunday and follow the same time entry to the trail experience as your original ticket. ***
Times & Tickets
- Gates open: 5:30 p.m.
- Last gate entry: 9:30 p.m.
- All tickets will be scanned at the Gatehouse upon entry
- Trail Entry Begins: 7:00 p.m. (every 30 minutes)
- Last Trail Entry: 9:00 p.m.
Your ticket time is your trail entry time, not your suggested arrival time. Please plan to arrive early to allow time for parking, walking to the trail entrance, and enjoying food, drinks, shopping, and vendors before your trail experience begins.
Steps After Arrival
- Park in Visitor Parking
- Enter via Garden Galleries
- Head to Missouri Barn and Silo
Add-on Fire Feast | $58/person ($38 when bundled with VIP Fast Pass with Discount Code: VIPFIRE) | Limited Capacity | Purchase Here
- 6:30-8:30 p.m. nightly during Dark Forest
- Admission not included. Add on with any admission type.
- Located adjacent to Missouri Barn
- Pop-Up fire performances
- Specialty fire-themed cocktails & mocktails
- Nightly menu cooked on an open wood fire
- VIP Fire Feast area for VIP Fast Pass ticket holders with Fire Feast tickets
VIP Fast Pass Tickets | $98 | Limited Capacity | Purchase Here
- Admission and VIP parking is included in ticket price
- Move to the front of the line any time between 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
- Two drink tickets
- Limited-edition T-shirt. Indicate preferred shirt size in ticket options below. (One shirt per VIP ticket)
- Access to private seating area and bar along the Dark Forest trail
- Access to VIP Fire Feast area (only if Fire Feast add-on is also purchased)
TICKET POLICY
BY PURCHASING TICKETS TO DARK FOREST, YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT:
- Tickets are non-refundable and non-exchangeable.
- Be sure you have selected the correct date and time above.
- Advance online purchase is recommended. Tickets will be sold at the door if available, but each time slot is limited.
- One Parking ticket is required per vehicle. (Parking is included in VIP Fast Pass option.)
- Dark Forest is a PG-13 experience. Tickets are the same price for all ages.
- MEMBERS:
- Members are required to purchase admission tickets for this signature event.
- Members are NOT required to purchase Parking, it is included as one of your member benefits.
- Please have all tickets, and Member card ready to be scanned at the Gatehouse.
- Pets are prohibited.
- Strollers and wagons are NOT permitted on the Dark Forest haunted walk due to narrow pathways and uneven terrains.
- Visitor Discretion Advised: Dark Forest is a one-mile hike outdoors on unpaved trail through the woodlands with rugged and natural terrain. Guests can expect limited visibility (including but not limited to fog, low to no lighting), uneven and narrow natural paths with loose terrain (including loose soil, wood chip, and gravel surfaces), and hills with potentially steep inclines and declines. Attraction uses: fog, strobe lights, flashing lights, and other intense lighting features, low to no path lighting, intense sound, steep inclines/declines, and rugged, uneven, narrow, unpaved, loose, and natural terrain.
- A $2.00 processing fee applies to each transaction.
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- Photography Waiver:
- When visiting Powell Gardens, you enter an area where photography, audio, and video recordings may occur. By entering the premises, you consent to your image and likeness being used and published, without compensation, for advertising and promotional purposes. You voluntarily release Powell Gardens from any liability regarding any such publication, whether now known or hereafter devised, on account of such usage. To learn more about our photography policy visit https://powellgardens.org/visit/faq/
After completing your purchase, you will receive two emails from Powell Gardens. Click the hyperlink on your "eTicket" email and show the barcode tickets at the gate during check-in.
KNOW BEFORE YOU GO
Follow this link for answers to the most frequently asked questions about Dark Forest: https://powellgardens.org/dark-forest/