There are some who believe that Halloween is the best time of year at Fort Steele Heritage Town. Nevada Yates Robart is certainly among them.

Yates Robart is having a busy Halloween season at the Fort. Friday night (tonight), she is directing the murder mystery dinner theatre ?Diary of the Dead,? in the International Hotel Restaurant. On Saturday night, in conjunction with Fort Steele?s popular Halloween Spooktacular, she is taking part in a play she wrote ? ?Heroic Harriet?s Harrowing Halloween.?

?Our little heroine, Harriet, is very down-trodden,? Yates Robart said. ?She has to overcome all sorts of evil, and the evil headmistress (at Wretchminster Witches Academy). She has a magical adventure.?

Yates Robard said the play is a family show. ?There?s nothing too scary. So the really little ones can come, and hopefully there?ll be some things that the adults can get a chuckle out of too.?

Ticket demand for Friday night?s murder mystery has been high ? it?s almost sold out, Yates Robart said. But tickets for next week?s Ghost Tours are still selling.

?The Ghost Tours are like the Gossip Tours we do, but the night-time spooky version. They?re geared more to an adolescent and an adult audience, as they?re going to be pretty scary.

?We?re exploring the darker side of Fort Steele, and some of the unusual and grotesque ways that people died in the 1890s, and there might be a ghost or two while we?re taking our walk.

?And we finish up with apple cider.?

It?s easy enough to get into a spooky state of mind for the occasion.

?I?ve spent five years at Fort Steele, and it?s a great place for your imagination to go crazy,? Yates Robart said.

The Ghost Tours run Oct. 24-31, every night at 7 p.m., and last about one hour.

For more information on Fort Steele?s Halloween Spooktacular, ?Heroic Harriet?s Harrowing Halloween? and the Ghost Tours, call 250-417-6000.