Field of Screams, West Greenwich: The Haunt Whose Website Became a Plant Nursery

Rhode Island has three haunted attractions of any size. This is the one with the strangest problem.

Field of Screams' website is now a plant nursery.

What we found

Field of Screams runs a haunted hayride and walk-through attractions at Big John Leyden's Tree Farm, 179 Plain Meeting House Road, West Greenwich.

Its former web address — hauntedhayride.net — now serves the tree farm's nursery storefront. Shop hours Monday to Friday, 8am to 4pm. Christmas trees, shrubs, and an invitation to let them earn your business. No Halloween content whatsoever.

The farm is clearly trading and doing well. The haunt's web presence has simply been replaced by the farm's retail site.

What that does and doesn't mean

It is not evidence the hayride has stopped. Plenty of small seasonal operators now run their entire season on social media and let a website lapse or repurpose it. That is a reasonable business decision and says nothing about whether the wagons will roll in October.

It does mean there is no official source confirming it runs, so we have not said it does, and this page carries no dates, no prices and no calendar markup.

It also means every listing still pointing readers at hauntedhayride.net for Halloween information is sending them to a garden centre.

The pattern this belongs to

This is the fifth dead or repurposed domain we have hit across this project, alongside barrettshauntedmansion.com, friendsoffortknox.org, and the two Kennebunkport inns on our coastal Maine page — all with no DNS record at all, all still being linked from roundups.

The businesses in three of those cases are alive and well at different addresses. The listings outlive the businesses they point at, and nobody notices because nobody clicks their own links.

One clarification

There is a Field of Screams in Pennsylvania — a large, well-known, entirely separate operation. Search results mix the two constantly. If you find yourself reading about a massive multi-attraction park with extensive published dates, you are reading about Pennsylvania, not West Greenwich.

What to do

Call the farm, or check their social channels. That is where a small operator announces.

Nothing in Rhode Island is confirmed. Fortress of Nightmares at Fort Adams shows no upcoming dates on its own ticketing platform, and Scary Acres was still showing 2025 when we checked.

If you need a confirmed date, Fright Kingdom in Nashua has published its full season and is about ninety minutes from Providence. Within Rhode Island, Newport's ghost walks run nightly regardless of the haunt season.