Pit area decorating has really taken off in size and scope.

As haulers have gotten larger, the area has expanded to make larger and grander pit decorations. This year one pit area had a complete magic show set up. Not just slight of hand card trick, but full-on magic illusions. People being cut in half and things you would see at a small Vegas venue. 

Small ghost towns erected in adjoining pit areas. Interactive haunted houses inside of stacker trailers.

The bar was set high this year as Doug Watts and his family from Utah and his friends, Larry and Jen Azcuenaga, decided to go all out. They made a giant enclosed awning 15 feet wide down the entire side of Watts’s stacker trailer and toterhome. 

Constructed in this dark enclosed area, Watts and friends had a haunted house complete with interactive props and real “live” spooks and ghouls for the enjoyment of those who dared enter it.

At one point there was a huge line of people waiting to go through the haunted house during the trick or treating time.

And as other racers heard about the Watts haunted house and went to check it out, you could see that some were thinking, “Oh, you want to play like that? Well it is on you now, buddy, you just wait.”

The other trend that seems to be happening is that fans are now coming out for the trick or treating and then stay to watch the “air show.” A family who were attending their first time drag race stated, “We heard it was a very safe place to trick or treat and then when we watched the wheelie contest. We will definitely be back to watch other races and back next year to trick or treat.”