FRIGHT HIKE

DO YOU DARE TO GET SCARED?
​SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17th, 2026

Join us for a 1/2 mile hike through the haunted woods of Fort Defiance.

You never know what you might find, or what might find you!

$10 per person to take this scary jaunt

Lights on Hour 6-7pm
Full Scare 7-9:30pm


​Fort Defiance State Park
175th St
Estherville, IA 51334

Please park at the Shelter house and in the campground. Entrance to Fright Hike is on the Ranger Station House Road just west of the shelter. ​


WOULD YOU LIKE TO VOLUNTEER?

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A group of people in ghost costumes are standing next to a coffin in the woods.
A couple of people are walking down a path in the woods at night.