Niles Scream Park Raises More Than $100,000 For Charities

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The Niles Scream Park has been able to donate more than $109,000 to non-profits thanks to a successful season. Park Manager Aaron Smith tells WSJM News that’s in spite of COVID prompting the park to use a reservation system and take other precautions.

“We had our doubts when the season started, for sure,” Smith said. “We were kind of expecting half of what we would normally do, and to put that into proceeds back into the community, $50,000 if we were lucky.”

The park is a non-profit, and it determines which organizations get support by asking the volunteers who run the place each fall.

“The top group this year was Boy Scout Troop 541 with over $21,000. Some of the other top ones were the Make A Wish Foundation with just over $11,000. We had Haunters for Hope, which is a branch of the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life.”

Smith says the Niles Scream Park’s 47th year was still its third best. Since 1996, it’s donated more than $2.1 million. They’re already planning for next year, which Smith says will hopefully be more normal.