Fall is Pigeon Forge's second season: the coasters turn haunted, the Parkway dresses for Halloween, and the drives go gold. These nine films are the autumn set — opening on Rocky Top Mountain Coaster twice transformed: Coasts & Goblins (a rolling haunted house, levers in the rider's hands) and 2026's new Zombie Invasion, a military-themed haunt with a pre-show storyline and actors along the track on select September and October nights.

Watch: first looks

3 videos · summaries from the actual guides

Haunted Mountain Roller Coaster - Coast and Goblins - Rocky Top Coaster - Pigeon Forge, TN

The Carpetbagger

The Carpetbagger rides Coasts & Goblins in 2020: the longest mountain coaster in the Pigeon Forge–Gatlinburg area, by his measure, turned into a rolling haunted house for Halloween — levers in the rider's own hands and a very long lift hill of dread.

Key takeaways
  • Coasts & Goblins turns the coaster into a rolling haunted house each Halloween
  • The Carpetbagger measures it as the longest mountain coaster in the Pigeon Forge–Gatlinburg area

NEW Rowdy Bear's Boo Bash in Pigeon Forge | Unlimited Rides, Trick or Treating & More!

Adventure Is Out There

Adventure Is Out There at Rowdy Bear's Boo Bash (fall 2026): the park turned Halloween on select nights, unlimited rides and trick-or-treating. Filmed and narrated in English; only an Arabic auto-translated caption track was available, so it is cataloged here as watch content.

Fall Drive - Foothills Parkway Wears Valley

The Partridge Collective

The Partridge Collective's fall drive along the Foothills Parkway above Wears Valley, filmed in autumn color. Scenic drive footage with music; narration is minimal (27 transcript words).

Halloween nights

Rowdy Bear's Boo Bash (unlimited rides, trick-or-treating), Alcatraz East in Halloween season (Gacy's wallet and millionaire's club card among the artifacts), Evanswood's Haunted Magic Mansion in Sevierville — the magician's own home, 'stay on the designated path' — and the Titanic's after-dark ghost hunt, one of the rare camera-allowed nights.

The fall color

The Foothills Parkway above Wears Valley in autumn color is the page's scenic center, with the Mountain Mile's Tower Shops in their fall-2021 dress for the browse. The gem mine's Halloween buckets ($25 add-ons, a $100 family package) close the page with fall's strangest souvenir math.

Watch: more views

3 videos · summaries from the actual guides

Rocky Top Mountain Coaster’s NEW Zombie Invasion! 🧟 October in Pigeon Forge

Floridians in the Smokies

Opening night of Zombie Invasion (fall 2026), Rocky Top's new military-themed haunt on select September and October nights: a storyline set up by pre-show video, actors along the track, and a self-confessed scaredy-cat riding the longest coaster in Tennessee in the dark.

Key takeaways
  • Zombie Invasion is a military-themed haunt on select September and October nights
  • A pre-show video sets up the storyline before the ride

ALCATRAZ EAST CRIME MUSEUM Pigeon Forge Tennessee Halloween Vibes! SUGGESTION WEEKS DAY 9

Smoky Mountain Family's Halloween-season suggestion-week tour lingers on the personal artifacts: Gacy's wallet, typewriter and millionaire's club card, the Boston Strangler and Night Stalker cases, the BTK killer and Manson, and punishment tools from the Dark Ages.

Key takeaways
  • Gacy's wallet, typewriter and club card are on display
  • Cases covered: Dahmer, Boston Strangler, Ramirez, BTK, Manson
  • Dark Ages punishment tools open the history

Evanswood Haunted Magic Mansion - Sevierville, TN - Haunt in a Magician's Home - Shocking Ending!

The Carpetbagger

The Carpetbagger visits Evanswood's other venue: the Haunted Magic Mansion in Sevierville, the magician's own home turned into a public tour and seasonal haunt — 'stay on the designated path; those who wander do not return.' The companion piece to his Pigeon Forge stage show.

Key takeaways
  • His Sevierville home is a public tour and seasonal haunt
  • The haunt's first rule: stay on the designated path
  • The companion venue to the Pigeon Forge stage show

Timing

Haunt nights are select nights — check the coaster calendars; the color peaks on the parkway weeks before the valley floor. Prices and dates as filmed.

Sources: the 9 videos on this page, filmed in Pigeon Forge, Sevierville and Wears Valley in fall seasons.

Watch: the full set

3 videos · summaries from the actual guides

Titanic - Pigeon Forge, TN - Ghost Hunt

The Carpetbagger

The Carpetbagger joins a Ghost Hunt Weekends night at the museum — one of the rare after-dark events where cameras are allowed — reading the sinking by the deck-angle timeline (the lurch between 2:05 and 2:18 a.m.) and handling a chessboard carved from recovered Titanic wood.

Key takeaways
  • After-dark ghost-hunt events are the rare camera-allowed nights
  • The ship lurched hard between 2:05 and 2:18 a.m., per the deck timeline
  • A chessboard carved from recovered Titanic wood is on display

The Tower Shops At The Mountain Mile in Pigeon Forge Tour (Fall 2021)

Adventure Is Out There

Adventure Is Out There's Fall 2021 tour, the district in its early days: up Teaster Lane in sight of The Island's wheel, a wide turf hub with cornhole and climbing areas, and Cream & Sugar's glitter-floored sweet shop with its $10 artisan shakes.

Key takeaways
  • The Tower Shops sit up Teaster Lane, in sight of The Island's wheel
  • The turf hub has cornhole, seating and kids' climbing areas

PIGEON FORGE GEM MINE Halloween Buckets!

Smoky Mountain Family's Halloween-season visit breaks down the bucket menu as filmed — $500 and $1,000 buckets on display, $25 Halloween add-on buckets, a family package pairing a $100 bucket with four Halloween buckets — then mines a fossil specialty bucket.

Key takeaways
  • Halloween add-on buckets run $25 with any bucket
  • Family package: $100 bucket + four Halloween buckets
  • $500 and $1,000 buckets anchor the high end on display

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