⭐ Presented in partnership with Quixotic, Dark Forest invites you into an immersive multimedia walk-through experience in the woods at Powell Gardens. Journey through a magical and mysterious nighttime landscape where spellbinding performers, captivating music, creative technology, and brilliant light bring the forest to life. Don’t miss this unforgettable fall experience near Kansas City!
🔥 Upgrade your night ⭐
🎟 Upgrade to VIP Admission for the ultimate Dark Forest experience: skip the queue with anytime entry, relax in exclusive private lounges along the trail, and enjoy complimentary drinks
🍽 Add Fire Feast for a unique open-flame dining experience before your trail entry
Highlights
🌲 Explore a one-mile wooded trail transformed into an immersive nighttime world
🔥 Discover enthralling performances, fire effects, music, projections, and atmospheric lighting
🛍 Enjoy Mystic Faire, featuring local artists, food, specialty drinks, and otherworldly treasures
🍽 Upgrade your night with Fire Feast, a unique open-flame dining experience available as an add-on
⭐ Presented in partnership with Quixotic at Kansas City’s botanical garden
General Info
📅 Date and time: Choose in the ticket selector
🌧 Rain dates: October 18, 25, and November 1
🕒 Time:
- Event : 6:00 PM – 11:00 PM (Gates open at 5:30 PM; last entry at 8:45 PM)
- Trail: 7:00 PM, 7:30 PM, 8:00 PM, 8:30 PM, or 9:00 PM (selected at checkout)
- Fire Feast: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM (flexible timing, independent of trail entry)
⏳ Duration: approx. 1 hour for the trail (feel free to explore the event area from 6:00 PM – 11:00 PM)
📍 Location: Powell Gardens, 1609 NW US Hwy 50, Kingsville, MO 64061
👤 Age requirement: Thursday, October 22 is 21+ only. All other nights are recommended as PG-13, parental discretion advised.
♿ Accessibility: 1-mile unpaved hiking trail with rugged, uneven, and low-lit terrain. Not suitable for mobility devices
🚗 Parking: is $10 per vehicle. Parking is free for Members. VIP Parking area for VIP Fast Pass ticketholders.
❓ FAQs: Please consult the FAQs of this experience here
Description
Step beyond the garden gates and into Dark Forest, where Powell Gardens’ natural landscape becomes a wildly immersive world of beguiling darkness and brilliant light. Wander through a mysterious wooded trail filled with supernatural characters, atmospheric sound, creative technology, projections, fire effects, and unexpected performances. Before or after your trail time, enjoy Mystic Faire near the Missouri Barn and Silo, explore local vendors, grab food and drinks, or upgrade your evening with Fire Feast. Get your tickets now for Dark Forest at Powell Gardens!
- Amazing so fun!!! So unique!!!! The VIP was absolutely worth it! Great food, great drinks, friendly staff, and such unique spooky exhibits!! Will absolutely revisit this and recommend!!!
- Absolutely amazing!! We will return with friends!
- Wonderful!
- Fever proved to be an easy app for ticket retrieval. The Dark Forest experience was outstanding as usual; plus, although we didn’t participate in the Fire Feast, we took advantage of the food fare at the Barn, and the pulled pork sandwiches were excellent. The decor, the Quixotic performers, the organization, and the delightful courtesy of Powell Gardens were exemplary, further inspiring our return for future events.
- Everyone stayed in character very well. Great use of lighting.
- Best Halloween event we’ve been to!
- Amazing and beautiful experience!
- Magical!!!!!
- Awesome!!
- Dancers and lights were amazing!
- Great experience! Very neat atmosphere
- Great experience, well done and never a boring moment.
- First time going and loved it!!
- outstanding presentation
- We enjoyed this. Very well done
Powell Gardens
Powell Gardens, Kansas City's botanical garden, is a 970-acre botanical garden in Kingsville, Missouri, United States, 30 miles east of Kansas City. It features 6,000 varieties of plants, with 225,000...
