From our friend @rachelincincy of the Cincinnati Enquirer.

Held in the park's Soak City water park area, the family-friendly event includes a petting zoo, costume contests, trick-or-treating and visits from the Peanuts gang.

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/entertainment/nightlife/recreation/2014/09/05/kings-islands-halloween-haunt-returns-sept-19/15139383/

Awesome addition for the families:

From the article...

New this year, a special Dog Zone area will be reserved for dog-owners and their pets at Snoopy's Halloween Party with attractions and local retailers offering dog-friendly products and services. The first 1,000 dogs each Sunday will receive a premium item

Wait... they're letting park guests bring their pets into the park? That seems like a small liability. Plus, guests with pets will then find themselves restricted to this sole area and can't visit (or spend) elsewhere at Kings Island... unless they paid the $20 for the Pet Care Center outside the main gate.

They're having a "party" for the growing segment of the population who view their dogs almost as surrogate children, and love to dress them up for Halloween. This is actually a quite smart move, in my opinion.

My dog would not do well with it. I know how she is traveling, being around people she doesn't know and all the smells would drive her crazy. She's a great dog, but she was a stray when we took her in and she freaks if we are out of the "norm"

I miss my dog

I doubt I would have taken her to this though...she never knew how to act around other dogs as she was raised around cats for her entire life.

It's not mentioned in the article so I will ask, is the rest of the park going to be opened during the kids Halloween event? The press release states that everything for the kids will be taking place over at Soak City. I know last year the rest of the park was opened for it, but they also had Halloween stuff with the Dinosaurs Alive trick-or-treating in the dry side. I'm pretty confident that the dry side will be opened but I thought it better to ask than be sorry when I take my daughter up there promising rides only to be met with a moose saying "Sorry Folks...". (Remember, there is no such thing as a dumb question lol...)

The rides are open during the Halloween event.

The article states that the kids' event takes place Sat-Sun 12pm-6pm, starting on Sunday, September 21.

According to the park calendar, Kings Island is open to the public during those hours. (11am-1am Sat, 11am-7pm Sun.)

Note that Kings Island is only open in the evening on Saturday, September 20. The kids' event doesn't start until the following day.

So I assume the dogs cannot ride the train then "go" on the top of the tower?

Terp, who likes to ask questions.

I guess the amount of human feces in the waterpark wasn't enough so...

This event is really not new. It had a different name and no dogs for the last couple of years. The description in the article describes the exact thing from the last two years. The petting zoo is kind of cool and they have a walk through where kids get little knick knacks from fable characters. Also they had a dj playing inappropriate music which was a bonus. Nothing like club music for my toddlers to dance to. Overall it has been a neat event and you can enter through the Soak City entrance.

So I assume the dogs cannot ride the train then "go" on the top of the tower?

Terp, who likes to ask questions.

How about taking a ride on one of the carousels, or Boo Blasters?

Looks like Kings Island's site has been updated with a full list of activities for Snoopy's Halloween Party:

https://www.visitkingsisland.com/daytime/things-to-do/snoopy-s-halloween-party

They had it at Soak City last year. Same event, just a new name. and the addition of the dog days.

Great ! The kiddos love Snoopy and I don't care for haunt this may be something I can do with the kids.

^ That's kind of the idea. Haunt isn't for everyone, so the daytime stuff is more family friendly. This is marketed as a new event, but I can tell you that the previous events were a lot of fun - with even more being added this year.

My really tall 6 1/2 year old who won't normally ride any of the kid rides or linger in that area longer than it takes to get a blue icecream because "it's for babies <insert dramatic eye roll>" went to this yesterday with my mom. I had my doubts that she would like it because it was geared towards little kids, but she LOVED it. She talked about it all last night and this morning and said it was the best time she ever had at King's Island. I was planning to take her next Friday night for some night rides on the coasters but now she only wants to go on Sundays instead so she can play games and ride ponies for $1. Now I'm excited to go check it out too!

Yesterday we went to the Snoopy's Halloween Party. The youngest in our group was 17. I loved the petting zoo. The goats really like to try to escape (my daughter calls them her escape goats). There are several animals including a very lazy (but adorable) kangaroo that lounged in a bag. It is definitely worth going over to check out, especially if you have younger children.

The goat is somewhat agreeable to having selfies taken.

My selfies make me think I probably spend most of my time at KI frightening young children

I enjoyed the petting zoo, too. The waterpark was also where I happened upon the KI Five. I was definitely glad I checked it out.

^ I will have to get Katie to send me her selfie of her and the llama (or alpaca?)

Sorry to double post but here is Princess Sparkles and the alpaca or llama. I know there is a difference. Her new found friend appears to be smiling.

You guys (who were in our group) have to admit that Snoopy's Halloween Party was a pretty darn good time.

Yes it was. You missed me making friends with the goat though. I don't know how I was lucky enough for none of you to witness it. it was a shining moment for me though.

Must resist line about goats having professional courtesy for old goats....

There's a llama...llama llama llama duck!

And my youngest nephew is going to freak when we go. In the good way.

The goats kept getting out. Not trying to escape... just approaching people so they'd pet them.

I love goats. I approached one, who was really excited about my outstretched hand until he realized there was no food in it. Then he totally snubbed me. Guess he didn't want petting.

Next time I'll remember to have some cash for goat food. I had already spent the ones I had on me on games before wandering over Sunday.

The goats are actually awesome. They are very friendly and love to be petted. They are in a small area and get out and walk around. I petted one and it followed me around. One let my daughter keep taking selfies with it. They are probably the best animals I have seen at a petting zoo.

Was this the miniature goats? They were pretty crowded by children when I was there, so I didn't check them out. The one who snubbed me was like four feet tall.

Although, looking at her selfie, that looks like a big one. Guess goats just don't like me