Halloween Lakeside Trail is located near Manchester at Partridge Lakes Fisheries. The trail features a host of spooky characters and lights set amongst the woods and around a lake. I visited it on Thursday night, which was the opening night. Before entering the trail, I enjoyed a tasty hot chocolate and marshmallow s'mores, which were warmed by the fire. The trail is not scary and is perfect for children. There are illuminations, robotic Halloween figures, Halloween decorations and props, food and drink, actors dressd up and interacting, and plenty of places along the way to get photographs.
Before going into the trail, we listened to a video about the objective of the trail, which is geared to children. The children have to find ingredients for a potion to help the witch. We headed through a light tunnel with some Halloween decorations.
We were greeted by friendly-looking ghosts.
I enjoyed the beautiful lights reflecting onto the water.
Next up was the pumpkin and scarecrow portion of the trail.
I met a witch taming a dragon.
We then went through a spider tunnel.
There was a large display of creepy decorations, including many skeletons spread around. Some of the displays were set up for group photographs.
Some illuminations of pumpkins and bats were projected over the lake.
Last up was the witch area.
At the end of the trail were more actors with "magical tricks", who were constructing the potions to help the witch that we learned about at the beginning of the trail.
Overall, this Halloween trail was fun. The nights will be getting darker earlier once the time change happens on Saturday night, and this is a perfect event to help get everyone in the mood for spooky season. Halloween seems to get more popular each year as it is fun to dress up and see the decorations.
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