Twilight Trail
First appearance	Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004)
Latest appearance	Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) (2024)
Greater location	Twilight Town
Inhabitants	Crazee Dayzees,Hyper Goombas,Hyper Clefts,Amazy Dayzees

Twilight Trail is a large woodsy trail that connectsTwilight Town toCreepy Steeple. It is found during the events ofPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. Twilight Trail is a dark area full of bare trees and dark green grass; the ground on which Mario must travel is purple in color. During Chapter 4 of the game,Mario must travel back and forth throughout these woods many times in order to findThe Letter "p" and defeatDoopliss.

To reach the dark forest section of Twilight Trail, Mario must obtain theShop Key lying past a fallen tree withKoops's ability to unlock theTwilight Shop storeroom; obtain aBlack Key hidden in a small shack just outside of town to open the storeroom'sblack chest and obtain theTube Mode ability, which is required to slide under the fallen tree blocking the way; and enter apipe (leading to the forest) hidden by a haystack, whichFlurrie must blow away with her ability.

Flurrie is needed throughout the trail crossing the dark forest to reveal passages that enable Mario to continue forth. In these woods, many enemies can be found; it is also hard to avoid contact with these enemies, as the paths in which they travel are considerably narrow. Towards the end of the forest, a large rock must be pushed in the background by Mario in order for its larger version in the path to move. Twilight Trail is also the home for the dangerousAmazy Dayzees.

In a yellow? Block in the woods' first screen, anEarth Quake can be retrieved. In the second screen, a red ? block holds theHammer Throw badge.

Enemies[edit]

Formations[edit]

Forenemy formations in Twilight Trail, seeList of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy formations § Twilight Trail.

Collectibles[edit]

In the remake, the grass sticking out of the ground can both be squished for one Coin at random.

Field[edit]

Item	Location	Location image
		Original	Remake
Black Key	In the first screen to the right of Twilight Town, it is in the wooden shack near the entrance. Required to progress.
Shop Key	In the third screen to the right of Twilight Town, it is to the right of the fallen tree.Mario gets it withKoops in Chapter 4. Required to progress.

Blocks[edit]

Item	Location	Location image
		Original	Remake
Coin	In the wooden shack in the first screen, 10 of them in the Coin Block.
	In the second screen, in the middle in ? Block.
	In the second screen, near the exit, 10 of them in the Coin Block.
	In the south of the first forest screen, 10 of them in the Coin Block.
Earth Quake	In the first forest screen, it is in the yellow ? block in the northeast.
Hammer Throw	In the second forest screen, it is in the red ? block on the path.

Remake only[edit]

Item	Location	Location image
Mushroom Super Mushroom	In the first two Brick Blocks in the second area.
Coin	In the second screen, southeast of the ? Block in the Coin Block.

Hidden blocks[edit]

Main article:List of hidden blocks in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Item	Description	Block un/revealed ()	Block un/revealed ()
Super Mushroom	In the second area from Twilight Town, Mario should find a ? Block, then jump up from it to reveal the hidden ? Block.
Coin Block	In the dark wooded area with the boulder that must be pushed, Mario should jump left of the first hole to reveal the hidden ? Block (covered by a tree in the foreground).

Shine Sprite[edit]

Location	Location image
	Original	Remake
In the third forest screen, it is behind the last tree before Creepy Steeple.

Star Pieces[edit]

Location	Location image
	Original	Remake
In the third screen to the right of Twilight Town, it is behind the fallen tree.
In the third screen to the right of Twilight Town, it is behind the pipe that leads to the forest.

Area Tattles[edit]

• "This is Twilight Trail. Kind of a depressing little road, don'tcha think? I feel like something bad's GOTTA be at the end of it. ...Maybe I'm just superstitious."
• "This is more of Twilight Trail. A lot of enemies around here, seems like. Hey, by the way, Mario... Is it me, or has the moon been getting bigger? Not... Not that I'm scared or anything! Re...Really!"
• "This is Twilight Trail. Looks like some seriously spooky woods over there. I hear some of the villagers go there to collect herbs. That's totally insane (GCN) /reckless (Switch)... I'd NEVER go someplace like that on my own, not for a million coins!"
• "We're in the woods now. It's really dark here, so watch where you step..."
• "I feel like something's just gonna pop out of that thicket and attack us! Like what? Well, it could be... Stop it! I don't wanna think about what it might be! Suh-Suh-Scary..."
• "Yup, still in the woods... It's getting awfully dark around here... If there were like, a big hole in the ground, you'd probably fall in without seeing it. Flurrie would float right over it, so I'm sure SHE'S not worried..."

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In-game map description[edit]

• A forest trapped in a perpetual state of dim twilight. One must watch one's step while navigating the paths.

Names in other languages[edit]

Gallery[edit]

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  Mario andYoshi encounter aHyper Paragoomba andHyper Spiky Goomba.

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References[edit]

• Haunted forests
• Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door locations

• Articles with unsourced foreign names