We are beyond honored to be supported by these great businesses!
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Meet Mellow Mushroom: Title Sponsor and Sponsor of The Enchanted Forest
We are over the shroom with love and gratitude for our title sponsor: Mellow Mushroom!
They have been a huge ‘pizza’ the haunted trail’s success since 2017.
It might sound cheesy, but when we came to Gerry Mahon to pitch our partnership, they made sure all our perperon-needs were met! Sliced right out of our biggest dreams, We could not have wished for a more perfect sponsor to join our team!
In the mood for something warm and delicious? Mellow Mushroom has your taste buds covered! Make your way over to the Mellow booth to trick or TREAT yourself to a slice of yummy pizza or a cup of hot chocolate. This year the game field is sponsored by our friends at Mellow Mushroom. The monster sized games are as big as their pizza slices, which you can also buy on your way into the line! Two locations to purchase, one ‘supreme’ sponsor! Thank you Mellow Mushroom for making sure the Haunted Trail is the greatest thing since sliced pizza.
Meet Asheville Plays: Sponsor of the Circus Scene
AHHH!sheville Plays, created in 2012 by Arica Haro and Hans Banzer is a local company specializing in creating customized memorable events and team building adventures. They created this entire event as well as the pirate ship escape room in pirates cove! They also made the snack wagon selling those delicious donuts! If you are looking for game rentals, unique team building or employee appreciation activities, need a snack wagon at your next gathering, or are interested in having a larrrrger than life pirate party, check them out at ashevilleplays.com! Asheville Plays- it’s all fun and games.
Meet Altitude Real Estate Group: Sponsor of the Mad Doctor Scene
Let’s be frank-
The housing market can have you feeling like you are fighting a monster!
Altitude real estate group is ready to help you find the home perfectly ‘formulated’ to your needs AND your budget!
Wake up! In your new home sooner than you think;
We know you’ll feel revived when hear your new house keys ‘clink’
Looking to sell, or aiming to buy
Austin and Sarah at Altitude won’t let any ‘parts’ of your experience go awry!
Meet Firewalker Hot Sauce: Sponsor of the Floor Is Lava Scene
Want to excite your taste buds with no regret?
Are you looking for a tasty sauce that makes you smile, not sweat?
FALL into flavor with Firewalker Hot Sauce!
The perfect sauce to intensify any dish without overpowering it.
Firewalker Hot Sauce is locally made by Franco and Ali Donahue who share the Asheville mentality of all art and nothing artificial! No artificial preservatives, No GMO’s, no sugar, No need to refrigerate.
Take a firewalk on the wild side and try some today!
Meet Rocket Fizz: Sponsor of the Alien Disco
Rocket Fizz Asheville beams in as our Alien Scene sponsor! They are serving up cosmic confections and other-worldy sodas that are truly stellar! For some wonderfully fizzy fun, park your space ship at their downtown shop that is packed with candy classics, funny soda pops and sugary novelties that are sure to abduct your taste buds. You can also visit their booth in the festival tent for a taste RIGHT NOW and store coupons for later. Thank you Rocket Fizz Asheville for showing The Haunted trail the sweet side of the universe.
Meet Thermo Fisher: Sponsor of the Spellbound Academy
We are toad-ally excited to have our witches school scene sponsored by Themo Fisher Scientific this year! Making the world healthier, cleaner, and safer might sound like a magic spell but our friends at Thermo Fisher have got the process down to a science! It takes courage to have an idea, and our haunted trail witches can teach you a bravery spell to muster up all your inner courage so you can Step ahead, and step beyond. Thermo Fisher Scientific: Champions of science!
Meet Mast General Store: Sponsor of Tombstone Town
Generally speakin, our wild western walk through the town of tombstone is a ‘mast’ see! Thank you kindly to mast general store for sponsoring our western scene this season. Located on biltmore avenue in downtown asheville, they’ve got everything you dream of all under one roof. Gifts, housewares and inbetween- Thank you Mast General for joining us for another Halloween!
Meet Devil’s Foot Beverage Company: Sponsor of the Graveyard Ball Scene
Devil’s Foot Beverage Company makes SCARY good, ghoulishly delicious organic farm-to-can craft ‘sodas’. You’ll SCREAM to know their drinks are NEVER made with high fructose corn syrup, artificial flavors, bats wings or brrraaaainnnsss! So jump in your UFO, walk the plank, or hop a haunted train to grab a can of Devil’s Foot!
Keep it Simple, Keep it Fresh, Drink it In
Meet Jeremiah’s Italian Ice: Sponsor of the Hansel & Gretel
Dracula’s favorite ice cream flavor? Vein-ella! One of our new flavor-ite sponsors? Jeremiah’s Italian ice! Jeremiah’s Ice is the sponsor of our Hansel and Gretel scene this season. Thanks to their sponsorship we have been able to sprinkle some extra love onto this crowd favorite scene. Speaking of crowd favorites: Swirl your way into a new dessert with a delicious gelati; a perfect combination of soft serve ice cream and Italian ice. With over 40 flavors, you can be sure to find something to please every member of your family. Frozen treats and zero tricks, Jeremiah’s Italian Ice just opened on Merimon avenue in downtown! Stop by soon and start living life to the coolest!
Meet Olivette Riverside Community & Farm: Sponsor Of The Spooky Garden
Olivette is a community surrounded in nature as far as the eye can see. Carrots and cabbages, flowers for the bees! So magical, you’d think fairies gather in the trees! A great community, events, a working farm, hiking trails and river access, all wrapped up in one address? Yes! I know a place that has “Olivette” and more!
Meet moon io media: Sponsor Of The Black Widow Spider Scene
moon io media creeps into our hearts as our Black Widow scene sponsor! Specializes eBooks and digital storytelling magic, Alice Oglesby creates art that is so captivating you’ll be caught in a creative web! She caught us from the beginning and has been doing all the graphic art for the Haunted Trail and Winter Wonder Walk for 13 years. moon io media is woven with artistry and technical wizardry – no cobwebs in sight! Visit moon io media to explore un-be-weaveably amazing illustration, web design magic that lingers in our mind long after the moon sets. Alice can be commissioned for illustrations for your own special project!
Meet The Bojangles: Sponsor of the Pumpkin Lane
Orange you glad it’s spooky season?! We certainly are! Bojangles Asheville have helped us carve out our pumpkin light walk this year with their support and you better bo-lieve we are so thankful! Spooky may be a season, but it’s always bo-time!
Meet The Breakroom: Sponsor of the Tomato Throw Theater
Joining us this year in an exciting way to say BOO! To hunger is The Break Room Rage Room, sponsors of our brand new interactive tomato throw theater! The jokes are as bad as a rotten tomato, so show our skeleton comic exactly how much his jokes make you want to ‘hurl’! Stress relief therapy is all the ‘rage’ these days, and you deserve a break! Visit Asheville’s number one rage room, the break room, at 1054 Patton avenue- to release your inner beast.
Meet Go Mini: Sponsor of the Creaky Attic
Go Mini’s Asheville is the support behind our creaky attic scene! We can’t convince Eugenia to leave her treasures and we never want Go Minis to leave our sponsorship team! They make it simple to stash forgotten treasures, mysterious boxes, and things that go clunk in the night. Their sturdy, weather-proof and driveway friendly storage units are the perfect place to hide your haunted keepsakes, or just your holiday decorations! For moving and storage solutions that are more efficient than they are errie, call go mini’s asheville!
We are very grateful for our event Host Location
Talk about a match made in moonlight! The Adventure Center of Asheville and Asheville Plays Haunted Trail go together like cobwebs and candles. With the shared “ghoul” of crafting unforgettable family memories, these two local businesses boo-long together! Combining their powers each year to bring unique experiences to all ages of adventurers. Asheville Plays is delighted to haunt the bike trails of the Adventure Center and so eeeek!cited to be hosted at this premiere Asheville location. This partnership keeps Halloween magic for WNC families pedaling forward year after year. Beyod Halloween, ACA offers year-round ziplines, mountain biking, Treetops Park experiences and youth camps, keeping the spirit of advnenture alive every season.
We are very grateful for our Helpful Haunters
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