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Nights Of The Jack - An Immersive Halloween Experience

Returning to Calabasas for it's 7th year!

August 25, 2024

LA’s leading immersive Halloween experience, Nights Of The Jack, is back this year for the 7th year. Welcoming over 100,000 people every year, greater LA area residents, families and celebrity fans alike are expected to return to King Gillette Ranch in Calabasas for the annual event. Tickets are on sale now at NightsOfTheJack.com, and the 33-day experience kicks off beginning Friday, September 27, 2024 through November 3, 2024.

The ultimate family-friendly Halloween event and celebrity jam-packed destination will be returning with mile-long walking trail with 20+ immersive scenes, pumpkin carvers, hundreds of photo moments, merch shop, face painting, psychic, AR photo moments and digital carnival games. This year, we’ll also experience new light technology that is sure to amaze everyone, AR selfie moments and digital carnival games for prizes alongside unparalleled lantern art activations and tons of new photo moments. 

Nights Of The Jack is Halloween fun for everyone. Adults, families and children alike are welcome and won’t want to miss this hair-raising feast for the senses. Spooky but never scary, kids will love the enchanted renditions of their favorite characters in pumpkin-form and have fun amongst the big multi-sensory scenes. Adults will appreciate the artistry and craftmanship of the elaborate sets and be able to enjoy alcohol from two full bars. Everyone can enjoy picking out Halloween gifts and light-up items from the souvenir shop.




Nights Of The Jack offers a premium food and beverage experience, including some of LA’s best food trucks. The Spookeasy is a high-end full bar and will have ample Halloween treats for adults, including top shelf spirits, cocktails, craft beer and wine. There will also be sweet treats, coffee, hot cider and cocoa nightly, with special additional dessert trucks on Wednesdays. 

"We are thrilled to be returning to King Gillette Ranch with Nights Of The Jack this year," said Ben Biscotti, Nights of the Jack co-founder. "It’s the perfect setting for the spooky destination and immersive world we create in Calabasas. We are continuing to evolve and love that we are such a big part of so many family’s Halloween celebrations every year.”

Main Attractions:

  • Immersive Walking Trail - nearly 1 mile of bright Halloween lights, themed scenes and hand-carved festival jack-o'-lanterns
  • Digital Carnival Games – interactive games such as axe throw and jack-o'-lanterns      toss for prizes
  • AR Selfies –immersive backgrounds with ghosts and ghouls throughout the trail      so everyone comes home with amazing photos
  • Art Installations – unparalleled lantern art activations and more
  • Pumpkin Carver – watch live pumpkin carvings from experts and see real pumpkins      get turned into Halloween masterpieces
  • Face Painting – themed and festival face painting options for all ages
  • Psychic– stop by our resident psychic and have your palm read, tarot card reading, energy reading or love and compatibility reading
  • Souvenir Shop – purchase fun light-up items and Halloween gifts 
  • The Spookeasy – where adults can enjoy craft beer, wine and cocktails 
  • Food Trucks – LA’s best food trucks on rotation to fuel all of the Halloween fun


Details:

  • Dates: Nights of the Jack will be open to the public for 33 dates, beginning September 27 through November 3
    • September 27 (Opening Night and Friends & Family Night) 
    • September 27-29 (Opening Weekend)
    • October 3–13
    • October 15-27
    • October 29-31
    • November 1-3
  • Times: 6:00pm – 10:30pm
  • Location: King Gillette Ranch: 26800 Mulholland Hwy, Calabasas, CA 91302
  • Tickets: www.nightsofthejack.com 
  • Price:      
    • Weekdays: $26.99-34.99
    • Fridays:      $34.99-39.99
    • Saturdays:  $44.99-49.99
    • Sundays:    $34.99-39.99
    • 2 years and under are free admission.
    • Each ticket will grant you access to the event at the day and time of selected slot.

Nights Of The Jack is also available for private events and corporate sponsorships and features a private 100-person VIP bar that can be closed off for private parties.




Here's a little bit of Calabasas’ history from the very location that inspired the event. According to legend, dating back to 1824, a rancher from Oxnard spilled a wagonload of pumpkins in Calabasas while on the way to Los Angeles and later, hundreds of pumpkins sprouted alongside the road.


Nights of the Jack
September 27- November 3, 2024
6:00 pm - 10:30 pm
King Gillette Ranch
26800 Mulholland Hwy
Calabasas, CA 91302