I think I'm missing something; hopefully someone can clear it up for me because it's muddied with all this "parking opens before the event," "people enter at 7" talk and I don't follow Fright Fest anymore because I haven't been in years. But we bought gold passes recently when they were only $50 and are going this Sunday with friends. We're going in the morning and were just planning on staying through to the night, just like we used to years ago, but aren't planning on doing the houses, so we're not worried about wristbands, etc.
So is it changed now from what it used to be? The park closes and everyone gets kicked out until the event starts? We were just planning on... not leaving the park, like the old days, but if the park's gonna close at, say, 5, and we have to wait two hours to get back in just to keep riding stuff, we're definitely just going to call it an early day.