A Suitably Spooky Setting

For the next three weekends in October this state park holds Haunted Hollow, which includes “haunted hayrack rides and spooky campsite decorating”. In driving around the park we’ve found the route for the hayrack ride, and it looks like it will be a good one.

At the northern edge of the park is the site of the old town of St. Deroin. There is not much left, a brick schoolhouse and a small building that was a broom making shop. It is the park road to this site that will be the route of the ride.

The one-way road winds down to the river through a ravine in these steep hills. Even at noon it was shaded and lonely looking.

Special effects have been added that make the picnic groves a bit forbidding.

From the townsite we took a walk up a steep and gnarly path…

to the old “half-breed” cemetery. Although not part of the route, it fit the mood.

The park road back out was even more confined, running up a narrow old cut.

No way to escape the ghouls…

waiting along the way.

Even the trees managed to look menacing. In an open wagon at dusk this route is bound to create some shivers.