What it was like
Minnie, Daisy, and Clarabelle come out as the Sanderson Sisters, and Ernesto de la Cruz holds court somewhere he appears nowhere else on earth. That only happens when a park stops being itself for the night.
Not decorations bolted onto a normal day. A different version of the place entirely, after dark, on select nights from late summer through Halloween. This year Madame Leota hosts a Haunted Mansion street party that reads less like a parade and more like a seance that got loose, happy haunts materializing down the street. On some evenings Ichabod Crane comes through at a dead sprint with the Headless Horseman behind him.
Veterans treat the Treat Trails as a guided tour of the park's stranger corners, each one staffed by something that does not exist in daylight. Five hours that move faster than any full day, separately ticketed, with the late-October dates going first.
Buy one for the friend who still plans their entire autumn around this. They will get emotional about it.