Patch's Best 2025 Halloween Yard Haunts: DuPage And Kane Counties

If you're looking for new zombie graveyards, body parts, floating ghosts and devil's playgrounds to explore for Halloween, you've come to the right place. Patch has assembled its annual scary yard tour for 2025, created by some of Chicagoland’s most imaginative and demented exterior decorators.

Given the scary yard tour’s past history of breaking the internet, we have organized the 2025 list by county. So click on the link for the list of scary yards near your house, or go crazy and visit them all.
GET ON THE LIST: We LOVE reader submissions, so we'll be updating the list every FRIDAY leading up to Halloween. So send in your pictures and tell us why your yard haunt is worth a drive-by to lorraine.swanson@patch.com.

Read more about how to get on the list.

See what other counties are doing:

• Cook County/Chicago
• DuPage/Kane Counties
• Lake/McHenry Counties
• Will/Kendall/Grundy/DeKalb

ALSO, check out these lists for more scary yards throughout the Chicago area: Chicago Haunt Builders, Haunted Illinois Directory, Illinois Haunted Houses and We Love Halloween. There's free fun to be had in the days leading up to Halloween, so set your GPS for these spooky standbys and nightmarish newbies.

DuPAGE COUNTY

Aurora

Biltmore Haunts, 2509 Biltmore Circle, Aurora – The Lever family offers a full walk through haunted house that is FREE. This castle-themed haunt features a fire breathing dragon, custom props, jump scares and a spooky atmosphere. Last year, the Levers were featured in WGN and introduced their haunted elevator, for which they charge $5. Open Oct 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, 30 and 31.

Mayhem on McCoy, 3102 Anton Circle, Aurora – There’s plenty of mayhem for everyone at the Bretzing family’s slick display, featuring a haunted cemetery with zombie babies, torture table, bloody butcher, guillotine, shackles, a 12-foot-tall Grim Reaper and much more. Lights are on from 5 to 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, until 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday. The Bretzings are also collecting new gloves, hats, socks and cash donations for our homeless veterans at Featherfist.

Downers Grove

The Haunted Cemetery, 2308 College Road, Downers Grove – The Duncan family’s whimsical haunted cemetery and adorable pumpkin patch are up and running. The spook witches are all out every night for a fun fright. There’s a pirate ship with tentacles that are reaching for the captain and first mate, with octopuses in the yard. The witches' lair has a place for broom parking and victims bubling in a cauldron. The cemetery has a funeral pyre that burns while the display is on. Lit 5 to 9 p.m. daily, weather permitting.

Elmhurst

Live Undead On Lexington, 15w671 Lexington St., Elmhurst – The dead resist their passage into the afterlife. Spirits rise from their crypts and skeletons crawl from the ground near bleeding headstones. Oh, and don’t forget the rotten pumpkin patch. Mike Konieczka’s haunt features static, pneumatic and animatronic props. Most props are either hand made or store bought and modified. The display is a family-friendly cemetery with only a few props that might scare young children. Lights are on 5 to 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, and until 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

Manor of Menace, 250 N Michigan Ave., Elmhurst – Courtney Bowman tells us that everything in this popular Elmhurst haunt is up and running in this red menace of a house.

Naperville

10S193 Alma Lane, Naperville – Nick and Kelli Kopke’s house features lots of large animatronics and other small ghoulish creatures. Find this scary yard in unincorporated Naperville, technically Will County, but separated by a mile from DuPage County.

The Skeleton’s Lair, 4016 Champion Road, Naperville – We always love yard haunts that come with a poem:

Bones in the graveyard where reapers stand guard,
They try to escape, but it’s too hard.
Groans and moans, no matter how loud they shout,
The skeletons are dying to get out.
Step carefully through, but beware the stare—
You're not alone in the Skeleton’s Lair.

Ashley Lopez’s den of skeletons is up and ready for visitors.

Gates of Hell on Edgerton, 1417 Edgerton Drive, Naperville – Lights on dusk till 9 p.m. weekdays, until 11 p.m. weekends.

Finch Family Funtime, 1507 Branford Lane, Naperville – The Finches’ giant 12-foot digital video screen will play funny holiday jib jabs and music videos, including “Thriller” by Michael Jackson and more.