Haunted Arizona

126 haunted destinations cataloged across Arizona, spanning 17 counties. The collection features haunted hotel, museum, and haunted dining — every listing verified with family ratings, accessibility info, and practical visit logistics.

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Dawn light on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, Coconino County, Arizona

Outdoor / Natural Site

Grand Canyon National Park

Grand Canyon Village, AZ

Grand Canyon National Park encompasses 1,217,262 acres of canyon, plateau, and Colorado River corridor in northern Arizona. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed the Grand Canyon a national monument in 1908; Congress established the national park on February 26, 1919. The park's South Rim Grand Canyon Village Historic District and North Rim Grand Canyon Lodge are landmarks of early National Park Service architecture.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

The southern portion of the Manning House in Tucson, Arizona, seen from the southeast — a 1907 Henry Trost design in mixed Spanish Colonial, Prairie, and Italian Renaissance styles

Haunted House / Historic Home

Manning House (El Rio Health Center)

Tucson, AZ

Tucson Mayor Levi Howell Manning had the house designed by architect Henry Trost and built between 1907 and 1908 on ten acres along what is now Paseo Redondo. The eclectic building fused Spanish Colonial, Territorial, Italian Renaissance, and Prairie styles into one of the city's most ambitious private residences of its era. Manning, who served as mayor in 1905, died in 1935; his family sold the property, which passed through the Elks Club, the City of Tucson, private developers, and ultimately the Concannon family before El Rio Community Health Center acquired it in 2013.

$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Oliver House

Bisbee, AZ

The Oliver House was built in 1909 by Edith Ann Oliver and her husband Henry Oliver to house executives of the Calumet & Arizona Mining Company. The building was converted to a bed and breakfast in 1986 and operates today as a historic inn in Bisbee, Arizona.

$$$ 18+ for overnight ghost-hunt programs; daytime visits all ages Family: Moderate

Sunset view of Sabino Canyon in the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson, Arizona, showing rugged canyon walls in golden evening light

Outdoor / Natural Site

Sabino Canyon Recreation Area

Tucson, AZ

Sabino Canyon in the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson has been a human-use corridor for at least 12,500 years — from Clovis culture hunters through Cochise culture and Hohokam agriculturalists who farmed the canyon between roughly 1000-1300 CE. Incorporated into the Catalina Forest Reserve in 1902 and the new Coronado National Forest in 1908, the canyon was developed as a recreation area in the 1930s when Civilian Conservation Corps and WPA crews built the nine stone bridges, Sabino Dam, and the lake that still define the lower canyon.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Interior of the Spirit Room bar in the Connor Hotel, Jerome, Arizona

Haunted Dining / Bar

The Spirit Room (Connor Hotel bar)

Jerome, AZ

The Spirit Room is the ground-floor saloon of the Connor Hotel, built by David Connor in 1898 on Main Street in Jerome during the town's copper-mining boom. The hotel burned twice in its early years, closed in 1931 as the mining economy collapsed, and was later restored; the bar operates today as a live-music venue.

$$ 21+ Family: High

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Boothill Graveyard

Tombstone, AZ

Boothill Graveyard is Tombstone's first city cemetery, founded in 1878 to receive the dead of the booming silver-mining town. Between 1879 and 1884, about 300 people were buried here, including roughly forty percent who died violently or suddenly. Notable interments include three men killed in the 1881 O.K. Corral gunfight. The cemetery fell into disuse, was nearly lost as a dump, and was restored by the city beginning in the 1940s.

$ All Ages Family: High

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Tucson — 21

Aerial survey view of 22nd Street Antique Mall

Aerial survey · USDA NAIP

Other Dark Tourism Site

22nd Street Antique Mall

Tucson, AZ

The 22nd Street Antique Mall is a multi-vendor antique store on Tucson's east side, in business since 2005. It occupies a large retail building with a second-floor space of more than 5,000 square feet used for seasonal events, and it has become locally known for the paranormal accounts collected by its staff.

$ All Ages Family: High

Museum / Historical Site

Bloom Elementary School

Tucson, AZ

Bloom Elementary School operates as an active educational facility in Tucson, Arizona's Pima County school system. Located at 8310 East Pima Street, the school serves kindergarten through fifth-grade students. A female principal's death at the school is the reported source of the paranormal activity.

$ School Hours Only Family: High

Haunted House / Historic Home

Charles O. Brown House

Tucson, AZ

The Charles O. Brown House at 40 W. Broadway is likely Tucson's oldest surviving structure, with roof beams tree-ring dated to the late 1840s. The south wing was built in Mexican Adobe style; the north house added in Anglo-Territorial style in 1876. Charles O. Brown built the Congress Hall Saloon nearby and served on Tucson's first city council. His wife Clara acquired the property in 1870 and lived there until her death in 1932 at age 86. The Arizona Historical Society owns the building.

$ All Ages Family: High

El Tiradito wishing shrine with candles and offerings against a weathered adobe wall in Tucson's Barrio Viejo

Other Dark Tourism Site

El Tiradito (The Wishing Shrine)

Tucson, AZ

El Tiradito has marked a corner of Tucson's Barrio Viejo since at least the 1870s, associated with folk legends of a man killed there and buried on the spot. The city deeded the lot to preserve the shrine in 1927, and in November 1971 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places — the only shrine in the U.S. dedicated to a sinner, not a saint.

$ All Ages Family: High

Adobe ruins of the Fort Lowell hospital walls in Tucson, Arizona, with desert vegetation in the foreground

Museum / Historical Site

Fort Lowell Park & Ruins

Tucson, AZ

Fort Lowell was established in 1873 as a US Army supply depot and command center during the Apache Wars, providing logistical support for operations against Geronimo and other Apache leaders. The fort was officially decommissioned in 1891 following the end of the Apache campaign. The ruins were preserved as a public park in Tucson, and the Arizona Historical Society operates a museum on the grounds.

$ All Ages Family: High

Theater / Performance Venue

Fox Tucson Theatre

Tucson, AZ

The Fox Tucson Theatre opened on April 11, 1930, as a combined vaudeville and movie house. After closing in 1974 and standing vacant for 25 years, the building was purchased in 1999 by the non-profit Fox Tucson Theatre Foundation for $250,000 and reopened in 2006 following a multi-year, multi-million-dollar restoration.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Hotel Congress

Tucson, AZ

The Hotel Congress opened in 1918 as a railroad hotel adjacent to Tucson's Southern Pacific Depot, designed by the Los Angeles architectural firm William and Alexander Curlett. On January 22, 1934, a basement fire inadvertently exposed John Dillinger and his gang, who had been hiding on the third floor using aliases — setting off a chain of events that ended in Dillinger's transfer to Indiana and eventual death in Chicago.

$$$ All Ages; Haunted Hotel Tours 18+ (check venue) Family: Moderate

Haunted Dining / Bar

Li'l Abner's Steakhouse

Tucson, AZ

Li'l Abner's Steakhouse occupies an adobe building northwest of Tucson that served as a Butterfield Overland Stage stop in the 1880s and later as a cattle station. The restaurant opened in 1947 and has operated as a mesquite-grill steakhouse ever since, owned by the Hoffman family since 1981.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

Other Dark Tourism Site

Old Tucson Studios

Tucson, AZ

Old Tucson was constructed in 40 days in 1939 by Columbia Pictures for the film Arizona, then opened to the public as a tourist attraction in 1960. It has been used in over 300 film and television productions. On April 24, 1995, an arson fire destroyed nearly 40 percent of the studio, causing $10 million in damage; the park reopened after nearly two years of reconstruction.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Museum / Historical Site

Pima County Historic Courthouse

Tucson, AZ

Designed by architect Roy Place and completed in 1929, the Pima County Courthouse is considered the finest Spanish Colonial Revival building in Arizona. Its defining feature — an elegant blue-tiled dome — appears on the official Pima County seal. The building gained national attention in January 1934 when John Dillinger and three gang members were captured in Tucson and held for four days before extradition, with the public paying fees to walk past their cells.

$ All Ages Family: High

The Pioneer Hotel building in downtown Tucson, Arizona

True Crime Site

Pioneer Hotel (Pioneer Building)

Tucson, AZ

Designed by Tucson architect Roy Place and opened December 12, 1929, the Pioneer Hotel was an 11-story Spanish Colonial Revival building at 100 N. Stone Avenue that served as the social and commercial center of downtown Tucson for four decades. On December 20, 1970, a fire broke out on the fourth floor during a Hughes Aircraft Christmas party, killing 29 people in what remains Arizona's deadliest building fire.

$ All Ages Family: High

Exterior of Embassy Suites by Hilton Tucson East (formerly Radisson Suites Tucson) on East Speedway Boulevard with desert landscaping

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Radisson Suites Tucson (now Embassy Suites by Hilton Tucson East)

Tucson, AZ

The hotel at 6555 East Speedway Boulevard in Tucson operated for decades as the Radisson Suites Tucson. It rebranded as Embassy Suites by Hilton Tucson East following a full renovation in 2019. The property is on the city's east side near major medical and shopping corridors.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

Museum / Historical Site

Presidio San Agustín del Tucson

Tucson, AZ

Spanish soldiers under Captain Hugh O'Conor selected the site on August 20, 1775, and construction of the Presidio San Agustín del Tucson followed the next year. After archaeological work between 2001 and 2006, the northeast corner of the fort was rebuilt and opened as a museum in 2007 at 196 N. Court Avenue.

$ All Ages Family: High

Theater / Performance Venue

Rialto Theatre

Tucson, AZ

The Rialto Theatre was built in 1919 and opened in 1920, designed by Los Angeles architect William Curlett in an extravagant Art Nouveau style with painted murals and a $7,500 Kilgen pipe organ. It operated as a cinema before being repurposed as a live music venue and remains one of downtown Tucson's most active cultural spaces.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Exterior view of the Cathedral of Saint Augustine in Tucson, Arizona, showing the Mexican baroque stone facade

Other Dark Tourism Site

St. Augustine Cathedral

Tucson, AZ

The Catholic presence in Tucson traces to a presidio chapel established in the 1770s. The current cathedral building dates to an 1897 brick construction on the site of the 1858 parish church. The distinctive Mexican baroque stone facade was added in 1928 and rededicated in 2011 following a major renovation.

$ All Ages Family: High

Asylum / Hospital

St. Mary's Hospital

Tucson, AZ

St. Mary's Hospital in Tucson was dedicated in 1880 and is recognized as Arizona's first hospital. It was established by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, who had traveled west from St. Louis a decade earlier as part of the order's frontier mission. The hospital remains an active acute-care facility within the Carondelet Health Network.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Haunted Dining / Bar

The Owls Club

Tucson, AZ

The Owls Club cocktail bar opened in November 2016 in a downtown Tucson building that housed the Bring Funeral Home from 1928 to 2014. Developers Ron Schwabe and Marcel Dabdoub renovated the former mortuary into a two-story bar. The Owls Club name borrows from a turn-of-the-century bachelors' social club housed in a separate Henry Trost-designed mansion.

$$ 21+ Family: High

Theatrical Haunted Attraction

The Slaughterhouse

Tucson, AZ

The building at 1102 W. Grant Road opened in the 1950s as a meatpacking plant, reportedly operating as Farmer John's, and was abandoned in the 1970s. In 2009 it was converted into a multi-room seasonal haunted attraction, and by 2020 the attractions were combined into one of the longest haunted-house walkthroughs in the country. The 2026 run marks its 22nd season.

$$ Minimum 13 recommended; not suited to young children Family: Not Recommended

Theater / Performance Venue

University of Arizona — Centennial Hall

Tucson, AZ

Originally named the Auditorium, the building was constructed in 1936 and opened in April 1937 as the University of Arizona's main performance hall. A roughly $4 million renovation in 1985 coincided with the university's centennial year, and the building was renamed Centennial Hall.

$$ All Ages; varies by event Family: High

Aerial survey view of University of Arizona — Modern Languages Building

Aerial survey · USDA NAIP

Other Dark Tourism Site

University of Arizona — Modern Languages Building

Tucson, AZ

The Modern Languages Building is an active classroom and office building on the University of Arizona campus in Tucson, housing language departments and a lecture auditorium. Campus folklore holds that human remains were found during construction in the mid-1960s, a claim that is not corroborated in primary sources.

$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted House / Historic Home

Z Mansion

Tucson, AZ

Construction of the Church Avenue mansion began in 1898 for Charles Wright, an attorney and former Colorado attorney general who had moved to Tucson in 1888. After Wright's death in 1900, the home passed to the Zellweger family, who held it for decades; it later became the events venue known today as the Z Mansion.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Phoenix — 12

Aerial survey view of 19th Avenue and Northern Avenue

Aerial survey · USDA NAIP

Other Dark Tourism Site

19th Avenue and Northern Avenue

Phoenix, AZ

The Good Shepherd Home for Girls, built in 1942, operated at 19th Avenue and Northern from 1947 to 1981 as a residential institution for girls aged 12-18 adjudicated by juvenile courts and state agencies. The facility was operated by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, a Catholic religious order. The historic building was preserved and incorporated into a modern strip mall complex developed in 1959, with subsequent renovations in 2004.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Aerial survey view of 51st Avenue and Indian School Road

Aerial survey · USDA NAIP

Outdoor / Natural Site

51st Avenue and Indian School Road

Phoenix, AZ

51st Avenue and Indian School Road form a significant intersection in west Phoenix, Arizona. The location is a documented active urban intersection serving residential and commercial areas.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Aerial survey view of 55th Ave and Northern

Aerial survey · USDA NAIP

Cemetery / Burial Ground

55th Ave and Northern

Phoenix, AZ

A cemetery is located in the area of 55th Avenue and Northern Avenue in Phoenix, Arizona. The burial ground represents a historical community cemetery serving the greater Phoenix area.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Asylum / Hospital

Arizona State Hospital All Souls Cemetery

Phoenix, AZ

Arizona's first psychiatric institution opened in January 1887 on 160 acres east of Phoenix. Its on-grounds All Souls Cemetery contains approximately 2,400 graves dating to 1888, with most unmarked and the burial field enclosed by chain-link fencing topped with razor wire. A 2023 Phoenix Magazine investigation documented the forgotten population: among those buried are an emancipated former enslaved person, an 11-year-old boy, and a girl committed for epileptic fits. The cemetery has received no systematic maintenance in decades.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Prison / Reformatory

Arizona State Prison Complex - Phoenix

Phoenix, AZ

Arizona State Prison Complex - Phoenix, specifically the Flamenco Unit, opened in 1985 as a 105-bed psychiatric hospital for adult males. The facility's primary function is housing inmates with mental health issues and those in protective or maximum security custody. The Flamenco Unit represents a contemporary correctional mental health facility rather than a historical institutional site.

$ Restricted Access Family: Low

Theater / Performance Venue

Orpheum Theatre

Phoenix, AZ

The Orpheum Theatre opened January 5, 1929 as a 1,800-seat vaudeville and movie palace built by partners Jo E. Richards and Harry Nace during Hollywood's golden age. Designed in Spanish Baroque Revival style with an atmospheric ceiling simulating a starlit Mediterranean sky, it operated as a movie theater under various names through the 20th century before being acquired by the City of Phoenix in 1984, restored, and reopened in 1997 as a performing arts venue. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Museum / Historical Site

Pioneer Living History Museum

Phoenix, AZ

The Pioneer Living History Museum is a 90-acre open-air museum in north Phoenix dedicated to Arizona territorial life from 1863 to 1912. Founded by the Pioneer Arizona Foundation in 1956 and inaugurated February 15, 1969, the museum preserves 30 original and reconstructed pioneer-era buildings including the Gordon Schoolhouse, originally built in Gordon Canyon and moved over 150 miles to the site.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Museum / Historical Site

Rosson House Museum

Phoenix, AZ

The Rosson House was built in 1894-1895 as the Phoenix residence of Dr. Roland Lee Rosson, a physician who served briefly as Phoenix's mayor in 1895-1896, and his wife Flora Murray Rosson. Designed by San Francisco architect A. P. Petit in the Eastlake-influenced Queen Anne style, it was the most modern home in territorial Phoenix, featuring electric lights, hot and cold running water, and a telephone. After the Rossons sold and moved to Los Angeles in 1897, the house passed through several owners and later operated as a boarding house before being acquired and restored by the City of Phoenix in the 1970s.

$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Hotel San Carlos

Phoenix, AZ

Hotel San Carlos opened on March 20, 1928, as a seven-story, 175-room downtown Phoenix hotel and quickly became a stop for Hollywood's Golden Age — Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Mae West, Gene Autry, and Marilyn Monroe among them. The building stands on the site of Phoenix's first school, the 1874 Little Adobe, and remains in continuous operation as a boutique hotel.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Exterior of the Tovrea-era Stockyards Steakhouse building at 5009 East Washington Street in Phoenix, Arizona, showing the white stucco facade with bull sculpture and desert landscaping

Haunted Dining / Bar

Stockyards Steakhouse & 1889 Saloon

Phoenix, AZ

The Stockyards opened in 1947 in the heart of Edward A. Tovrea's massive Phoenix Stockyards, then the world's largest cattle feedlot at roughly 40,000 head on 200 acres. The original building was destroyed by fire in 1953 and rebuilt in 1954 with the 1889 Saloon and Rose Room restored to their pre-fire designs.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted House / Historic Home

Bouvier-Teeter House

Phoenix, AZ

The Bouvier-Teeter House is an 1899 Midwestern-style bungalow built by cattleman and flour miller Leon Bouvier in what is now Phoenix's Heritage Square. In 1911, Eliza Teeter — a widow with six children — traded her Tempe farmland to Bouvier for the home and ran it as a boarding house for over five decades. She lived in the house until her death there in 1965 at age 96.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted House / Historic Home

Wrigley Mansion

Phoenix, AZ

The Wrigley Mansion was built between 1929 and 1931 by chewing-gum magnate William Wrigley Jr. as a 50th-anniversary gift for his wife Ada Foote Wrigley. The 16,000-square-foot, 24-room hilltop home — the smallest of the family's five residences — was barely complete before William Wrigley Jr. died there on January 26, 1932. The Wrigley family used the property as a winter residence into the 1970s before selling it to Western Savings, which operated it as a private club. Today it operates as a restaurant, private club, and event venue with public tours.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Tombstone — 11

Haunted Dining / Bar

Big Nose Kate's Saloon

Tombstone, AZ

The Grand Hotel opened on September 9, 1880, at 417 E. Allen Street — Tombstone's most lavish lodging, with sixteen walnut-furnished rooms and three chandeliers in the lobby. It burned on May 25, 1882, leaving only the seven arches and the original long bar. The rebuilt structure has operated as a saloon ever since.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Theater / Performance Venue

Bird Cage Theatre

Tombstone, AZ

The Bird Cage Theatre opened on December 26, 1881, in Tombstone, Arizona, operating simultaneously as a variety theater, saloon, gambling hall, and brothel. Over its eight-year run, 26 documented deaths occurred on the premises, and 140 bullet holes remain preserved in its walls and ceiling.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Boothill Graveyard

Tombstone, AZ

Boothill Graveyard, founded in 1878 in Tombstone, Arizona, holds approximately 250 burials from the silver-mining boomtown's most violent years. The cemetery includes the graves of three men killed at the 1881 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and is among the best-known Western frontier cemeteries.

$ All Ages Family: High

True Crime Site

Brunckow's Cabin

Tombstone, AZ

Built in 1858 by German mining engineer Frederick Brunckow near the San Pedro River, the adobe cabin became the site of at least 21 documented killings between 1860 and 1890 — more per square foot than any other recorded location in territorial Arizona.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Buford House

Tombstone, AZ

The Buford House was constructed in 1880 by George Washington Buford, one of Tombstone's original settlers who made his fortune in Texas mining. The house is one of Tombstone's oldest and most historically significant structures. The property witnessed multiple tragic deaths including three children during a diphtheria outbreak and a violent incident in 1888 involving a rejected suitor.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Haunted Dining / Bar

Crystal Palace Saloon

Tombstone, AZ

The Golden Eagle Brewery opened on this corner in 1879, was destroyed in the May 1882 Tombstone fire, and was rebuilt and renamed the Crystal Palace Saloon, reopening July 22, 1882. It is the longest continuously operating saloon on Allen Street and witnessed the Earp-era conflicts directly — Virgil Earp was ambushed on December 28, 1881, just outside the building.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Haunted Dining / Bar

Nellie Cashman's Restaurant (Russ House)

Tombstone, AZ

The Russ House opened in December 1880 at the corner of 5th and Toughnut Streets in Tombstone, established by Sal Anderson and Jacob Smith and named after the original Russ House in San Francisco. Nellie Cashman, known as the 'Angel of Tombstone,' co-operated the establishment with Joseph Pascholy from 1881 until 1886. Cashman offered affordable meals and lodging to miners and the destitute during Tombstone's silver-boom years. The building now operates as a bed and breakfast.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

True Crime Site

O.K. Corral Historic Site

Tombstone, AZ

On October 26, 1881, a 30-second exchange of gunfire on Fremont Street adjacent to the O.K. Corral killed Billy Clanton, Tom McLaury, and Frank McLaury and wounded Virgil and Morgan Earp and Doc Holliday. The site is now a ticketed museum with daily reenactments and is among the most visited heritage sites in the American Southwest.

$ All Ages Family: High

Theater / Performance Venue

Schieffelin Hall

Tombstone, AZ

Albert Schieffelin, brother of Tombstone founder Ed Schieffelin, built the hall with partner William Harwood in 1881. It opened June 8, 1881, as the largest and most elaborate theater between El Paso and San Francisco, seating 575 across a 119-by-59-foot adobe structure. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Tombstone Bordello Bed & Breakfast

Tombstone, AZ

The white clapboard building dates to 1881, when it operated as a brothel in Tombstone's red-light district on Seventh Street. In 1923, it was relocated to West Allen Street to prevent demolition when a school was built. It has operated as a bed and breakfast under the current owner since at least the early 2000s.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Prison / Reformatory

Tombstone Courthouse State Historic Park

Tombstone, AZ

Built in 1882 at the peak of Tombstone's silver boom, this red-brick Victorian courthouse served as the Cochise County territorial sheriff's office, jail, and execution ground. On March 28, 1884, five members of the Bisbee Massacre gang were simultaneously hanged in the courtyard — the first legal executions in Tombstone. John Heath, convicted for his role in organizing the same massacre, was separately lynched from a telegraph pole six weeks earlier, on February 22, 1884. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1972, the courthouse is now an active Arizona State Historic Park.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Bisbee — 10

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Haunted Hotel / Inn

Oliver House Bed and Breakfast

Bisbee, AZ

The Oliver House was constructed in 1908 in Bisbee, Arizona, by Edith Ann Oliver and her husband Henry Oliver, a mining tycoon with the Calumet & Arizona Mining Company. The brick structure was designed as executive housing. The building evolved through functions: executive residence, boarding house, and contemporary bed and breakfast. Documented records indicate 27 deaths occurred at the property, though historical records may be incomplete.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Bisbee Grand Hotel

Bisbee, AZ

Built in 1906 to accommodate mining executives visiting Bisbee's copper operations, the Bisbee Grand was renovated around 1986 into its current Victorian-themed appearance. The hotel offers 13 uniquely decorated rooms and a ground-floor saloon that serves both guests and Bisbee residents.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Bisbee Inn / Hotel La More

Bisbee, AZ

The building at 45 OK Street opened in 1916 as a lodging house for Bisbee's copper miners. Built by S.P. Bedford and leased the following year to Kate La More, it has operated as a hotel under various owners ever since and runs today as the Bisbee Inn / Hotel La More.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Clawson House Inn

Bisbee, AZ

The Clawson House was built in 1895 by Spencer Clawson, a manager connected to Bisbee's copper mines, as a hillside mansion above the town. It later became a bed-and-breakfast and still operates as a small inn.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Museum / Historical Site

Cochise County Courthouse

Bisbee, AZ

The Cochise County Courthouse opened August 2, 1931, designed by Tucson architect Roy Place in the Southwest regional variation of Art Deco. The Phelps Dodge Corporation donated the Quality Hill land after the county seat moved from Tombstone to Bisbee in 1929. The building is a contributing property to the Bisbee Historic District, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Copper Queen Hotel

Bisbee, AZ

The Copper Queen Hotel was constructed between 1898 and 1902 by the Phelps Dodge Corporation to accommodate investors and dignitaries visiting its Bisbee copper mining operations. Completed in 1902 and predating Arizona's 1912 statehood, the hotel is the oldest continuously operating hotel in the state.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Museum / Historical Site

Copper Queen Mine Tour

Bisbee, AZ

The Copper Queen Mine operated continuously from 1877 through 1975, producing 8 billion pounds of copper under ownership of Phelps Dodge Corporation. During that period, 387 workers died in documented mine accidents. The mine is also historically connected to the 1917 Bisbee Deportation, in which Phelps Dodge and local law enforcement forcibly loaded 1,186 striking miners into cattle cars and abandoned them in the New Mexico desert.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Inn at Castle Rock (Former Hospital)

Bisbee, AZ

Bisbee's first mayor, John Joseph Muirhead, built the inn in 1895 as a boarding house for miners. The structure — one of the largest wooden buildings in early Bisbee — stands over Apache Springs, discovered in 1877 by Lt. John A. Rucker and civilian tracker Jack Dunn when they first identified the copper deposits in the surrounding rock.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Letson Loft Hotel

Bisbee, AZ

The building at 26 Main Street was constructed in 1883 as the Goldwater-Castaneda Mercantile Store, opened by Joseph Goldwater. It survived Bisbee's Great Fire of 1908. After the mercantile relocated, James Letson opened the Mansion House Hotel in 1890; the property became widely known as the Letson Hotel by 1902. The building was restored in 2005–2006 as the Letson Loft Hotel and was again restored following a Valentine's Day 2024 fire, reopening in March 2025.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted Dining / Bar

St. Elmo Bar

Bisbee, AZ

St. Elmo Bar opened in 1902 in Bisbee's Brewery Gulch and is recognized as the longest continuously operating bar in Arizona. The Gulch held dozens of saloons during the copper-mining boom, and the bar has survived Prohibition and the decline of the mines.

$ 21+ Family: Moderate

Jerome — 8

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Connor Hotel

Jerome, AZ

David Connor built the Connor Hotel in 1898 in Jerome, Arizona, then a booming copper-mining town on the side of Cleopatra Hill. The hotel burned to the ground twice in its early decades — Connor was one of only two Jerome business owners carrying insurance — and closed in 1931 before being restored and reopened as a boutique hotel.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Ghost City Inn

Jerome, AZ

Ghost City Inn occupies a building constructed around 1890 as a boarding house for workers at the nearby copper mines of Jerome, Arizona. Over the next century it served as a private home (the Garcia House), restaurant, spiritual retreat, funeral home, and art gallery before being converted into a bed-and-breakfast in 1994.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

The historic Jerome Palace building, now The Haunted Hamburger restaurant, on Clark Street in Jerome, Arizona

Haunted Dining / Bar

The Haunted Hamburger / Jerome Palace

Jerome, AZ

The building at 410 Clark Street dates to the 1890s, when it served as a boarding house for workers of the United Verde Copper Company during Jerome's mining boom. It became a private residence by the mid-20th century, operated as a restaurant called the Jerome Palace in the 1970s, and reopened on May 3, 1994, as The Haunted Hamburger.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Aerial survey view of Jerome Cemetery (1897–1942)

Aerial survey · USDA NAIP

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Jerome Cemetery (1897–1942)

Jerome, AZ

Jerome's hillside cemetery on Hogback Ridge holds burials from 1897 to 1942, reflecting the town's arc from copper-boom settlement to near-ghost town. Estimated at roughly 400 graves, fewer than 40 markers survive — cemetery records were discarded in the 1950s, and many immigrant miners were buried without markers from the start. Headstones document deaths by gunshot wound, mining accident, and disease in one of Arizona's most violent frontier communities.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

True Crime Site

Jerome Crib District / 'Husband's Alley' (Sammie Dean murder site)

Jerome, AZ

Below Main Street, along Hull Avenue, Jerome's red-light district occupied a row of small one-room 'cribs' during the copper-mining boom; locals called the alley 'Husband's Alley.' In 1931 a woman known as Sammie Dean was found strangled in her crib, and the case was never solved.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Jerome Grand Hotel

Jerome, AZ

The Jerome Grand Hotel occupies the 1927 United Verde Hospital building on Cleopatra Hill in Jerome, Arizona. The hospital served the United Verde copper mine workforce until its 1950 closure. The Altherr family purchased the building in 1994 and opened it as a hotel in 1996.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Aerial survey view of Jerome Sliding Jail

Aerial survey · USDA NAIP

Other Dark Tourism Site

Jerome Sliding Jail

Jerome, AZ

Built in 1905 as Jerome's third jail, the concrete structure was designed to contain the mining town's volatile population. In 1938, repeated underground dynamite blasts from copper mining operations destabilized the hillside beneath it, sending the cell block sliding approximately 225 feet down Cleopatra Hill and onto Hull Avenue. Jerome routed the road around it rather than demolish it. The Jerome Historical Society acquired the structure in 2017 and has since stabilized it.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Mile High Inn (Clinksdale Building)

Jerome, AZ

The Clinksdale Building was constructed in 1899 with 18-inch thick walls designed to resist the fires that regularly swept Jerome's mining-era wooden structures. It later became the site of Madam Jennie Bauters' bordello during the town's copper-boom years. Bauters herself was killed in 1906 by her lover Clement near Gold Road, reportedly in a jealousy dispute. The building has operated as a bed-and-breakfast inn in the modern era.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Prescott — 8

True Crime Site

Bashford-Burmister Building (Tis Art Gallery)

Prescott, AZ

The Bashford-Burmister Building on Cortez Street is one of Prescott's prominent late-1800s commercial blocks, associated with the Bashford-Burmister Company, a major northern Arizona mercantile firm. The site is linked in local history to James Fleming Parker, a train robber who killed a court official during a jailbreak and was hanged in Prescott in 1898.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Theater / Performance Venue

Elks Opera House (Elks Theatre)

Prescott, AZ

Built in 1905 for Prescott's Elks Lodge No. 330, the Elks Theatre hosted plays, operas, boxing matches, and political rallies before transitioning to a movie house from 1910 to 1983. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and completed a $1.75 million renovation in 2010.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Hassayampa Inn

Prescott, AZ

The Hassayampa Inn opened in 1927, designed by architects Trost & Trost in a Mission/Spanish Revival and Italian Renaissance Revival style. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 29, 1979, and is a member of Historic Hotels of America. The 67-room hotel has operated continuously on Gurley Street in downtown Prescott for nearly a century.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

Exterior of the 1927 Hassayampa Inn on East Gurley Street in downtown Prescott, Arizona

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Hassyampa Inn

Prescott, AZ

The Hassayampa Inn opened on November 20, 1927, designed by the El Paso firm of Trost and Trost in a blend of Spanish Colonial Revival and Italian Renaissance Revival styles. Financing came from the Prescott Kiwanis Club's public subscription campaign, with local residents becoming shareholders. The inn has been a member of Historic Hotels of America since 1996.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Hotel St. Michael

Prescott, AZ

The Hotel St. Michael opened June 1, 1901, built by John Duke on the site of the Hotel Burke, which had burned in the catastrophic Whiskey Row fire of July 1900. Duke used bricks salvaged from the fire's rubble in the new construction. The 110-room building operated for decades as Prescott's premier hotel and later as a rooming house, with its register appearing as last known address on 32 death certificates.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Hotel Vendome

Prescott, AZ

The Hotel Vendome in Prescott, Arizona was built in 1917 and sits two blocks from Courthouse Plaza. Abby Byr and her husband purchased the hotel in 1921 but lost it to tax debt; the new owners retained them as managers and gave them Room 16 to live in. When her husband left to obtain medicine for her tuberculosis and never returned, Abby refused to eat or drink. She and her cat Noble both died in Room 16.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Haunted Dining / Bar

Palace Saloon (Whiskey Row)

Prescott, AZ

The Palace opened on Whiskey Row in 1877 and is Arizona's oldest continuously operating bar. The original hand-carved Brunswick bar survived the 1900 fire that leveled Whiskey Row when patrons carried it across the street; the rebuilt two-story masonry saloon reopened in 1901.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Theater / Performance Venue

Prescott Fine Arts Association (Old Sacred Heart Church)

Prescott, AZ

The Prescott Fine Arts Association theater occupies the former Sacred Heart Catholic Church at 208 North Marina Street. The Gothic Revival church served the parish from the 1890s until its last services in 1969, when the congregation moved to a new building and the old church was sold and converted into a performing arts center.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Flagstaff — 7

Theater / Performance Venue

Doris Harper-White Community Playhouse

Flagstaff, AZ

Constructed in 1923 as a community hall, the building at 11 W. Cherry Avenue subsequently served as a private home, a boarding house, and the Flagstaff Public Library before Theatrikos Theatre Company moved in around 1988. In 2002, the venue was renamed in honor of Doris Harper-White, a founding member and longtime arts advocate for the company.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Museum / Historical Site

Flagstaff Public Library (Former Emerson School)

Flagstaff, AZ

The Flagstaff Public Library stands on the site of Emerson School, which opened in the fall of 1883 as Flagstaff's first elementary school and moved to the Aspen Avenue location around 1895. The original schoolhouse was condemned in 1980 and demolished to make way for the current library building. The school's nearly 90-year run means the site has accumulated multiple layers of community memory and, eventually, legend.

$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted House / Historic Home

Milligan House

Flagstaff, AZ

The Milligan House was built around 1899 by J.C. Milligan, a Flagstaff Justice of the Peace and brickmaker, and designed by architect James M. Creighton. Constructed from locally quarried red sandstone and brick with more than 4,000 square feet of living space, it was one of the more substantial private residences in early Flagstaff and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Hotel Monte Vista

Flagstaff, AZ

The Hotel Monte Vista opened January 1, 1927, funded by Flagstaff taxpayers after a 1924 public fundraising campaign organized by astronomer V.M. Slipher. It was one of the only American hotels built entirely from public funds at the time. During the 1940s and 1950s, it hosted John Wayne, Bing Crosby, Jane Russell, Gary Cooper, and Spencer Tracy, who filmed Westerns in the surrounding terrain.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Aerial survey view of Morton Hall, Northern Arizona University

Aerial survey · USDA NAIP

Other Dark Tourism Site

Morton Hall, Northern Arizona University

Flagstaff, AZ

Morton Hall opened in 1914 as a women's dormitory on the northern edge of what was then Arizona State College. Named for faculty member Mary Morton Pollock, it is one of the oldest surviving buildings on the NAU campus and reflects the Colonial Revival style with Neo-Romanesque entryway elements common to the north campus buildings of that era.

$ All Ages Family: High

Museum / Historical Site

Riordan Mansion State Historic Park

Flagstaff, AZ

Riordan Mansion is a 13,000-square-foot Arts-and-Crafts duplex built in 1904 for the brothers Timothy and Michael Riordan, who ran the Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and helped develop Flagstaff's lumber, railroad, and banking industries. The two wings, one for each brother's family, are joined by a shared central billiard room. The house was designed by Charles Whittlesey, architect of the Grand Canyon's El Tovar Hotel, and is now a state historic park.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Weatherford Hotel

Flagstaff, AZ

The Weatherford Hotel opened January 1, 1900, as Flagstaff's premier lodging, attracting Theodore Roosevelt, Zane Grey, William Randolph Hearst, and Wyatt Earp. Designed by builder John W. Weatherford, the three-story brick structure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Yuma — 7

Historic 1877 photograph of Castle Dome Landing mining settlement in Yuma County, Arizona

Museum / Historical Site

Castle Dome City

Yuma, AZ

Castle Dome City was founded in 1863 in what is now Yuma County, Arizona, after prospector Julian Dennis discovered silver in the Castle Dome Mountains. At its peak the town reportedly held more than 3,000 residents and supported the surrounding 300-mine Castle Dome Mining District. The mines operated intermittently until 1979 and have been restored as an open-air museum.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Two-story Spanish Colonial Revival Lee Hotel building on South Main Street in Yuma, Arizona

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Hotel Lee

Yuma, AZ

Completed in 1917 by Mary Darcy, the Lee Hotel is a two-story, 30-room Spanish Colonial Revival building at the corner of South Main Street in downtown Yuma. It is the oldest surviving hotel building in the city and has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1984.

$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted Dining / Bar

Lute's Casino

Yuma, AZ

Lute's Casino occupies a downtown Yuma building constructed in 1901 that once held a dry-goods store and hotel. R.H. Lutes acquired the property in 1947, and the business is recognized as the oldest continuously operating pool hall in Arizona. The structure adjoins the old Lyric Theater and the upstairs Central Hotel space.

$ All Ages Family: High

Theater / Performance Venue

Lyric Theater

Yuma, AZ

The Lyric Theater is the former silent-movie house occupying part of the downtown Yuma building that also contains Lute's Casino. It dates to the early 20th century, operated as a movie theater into the late 1970s, and is now a vacant portion of the historic Main Street structure.

$ All Ages Family: High

Museum / Historical Site

Sanguinetti House Museum and Gardens

Yuma, AZ

Eugene Francis Sanguinetti arrived in Yuma at around age 15 in the early 1880s and built a commercial empire spanning groceries, mortuary services, ice, and utilities. Known as the 'Merchant Prince of Yuma,' he married Lyla Redondo and had three children. His daughter Rose Marie donated the family home to the Arizona Historical Society in the 1970s, transforming it into a museum.

$$ Minimum 13 Family: Moderate

Yuma Territorial Prison historic adobe sallyport main gate entrance, Yuma, Arizona

Museum / Historical Site

Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park

Yuma, AZ

Yuma Territorial Prison operated from 1876 to 1909 on a bluff overlooking the Colorado River in Yuma, Arizona. It held 3,069 prisoners during its 33-year operation, including 29 women. The facility became a state historic park and has been voted by USA Today readers as the Best Haunted Destination in the nation.

$ All Ages; after-dark tours may have age recommendations Family: Moderate

Prison / Reformatory

Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park

Yuma, AZ

Yuma Territorial Prison opened on July 1, 1876, on a granite bluff overlooking the confluence of the Gila and Colorado Rivers. It operated for 33 years until September 15, 1909, confining 3,069 prisoners including 29 women. The site is now Arizona's third state park, established in 1961, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Globe — 4

Theater / Performance Venue

Cobre Valley Center for the Arts (1906 Gila County Courthouse)

Globe, AZ

The Cobre Valley Center for the Arts occupies the second Gila County Courthouse, a three-story building roughly eighty feet square built in 1906-1907 in downtown Globe. After the courthouse was vacated, the building stood empty until 1984, when it reopened as a community arts center. It now houses galleries and a theater used by a local performing troupe.

$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted Dining / Bar

Drift Inn Saloon (Rabogliatti / International House Building)

Globe, AZ

The Drift Inn Saloon occupies the International House, a roughly 6,000-square-foot adobe building put up on Broad Street in the early 1900s by the Italian-immigrant Rabogliatti brothers. The ground floor held a café, a saloon, and a store; the upstairs operated as a brothel known as the International Rooms. The building was the scene of two documented 1907 deaths in its Room 18 and remains a working saloon today.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Prison / Reformatory

Gila County Jail (1910 Jail)

Globe, AZ

Built in 1910 and operational through 1976, the Gila County Jail was constructed for an Arizona Territory still two years from statehood, incorporating cell hardware repurposed from the Yuma Territorial Prison. The single-lever Pauly Company mechanism controlling the cell block was transported from Yuma by mule train. The building housed the county's convicted and accused for 66 years across three stories of reinforced concrete.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Noftsger Hill Inn

Globe, AZ

The Noftsger Hill Inn was originally the North Globe Schoolhouse, built in 1907 and operating as Globe's primary elementary school until it closed in 1981. After renovation, the building reopened as a bed and breakfast. The conversion preserved the original classroom structure, with each former classroom becoming an oversized guest suite.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Florence — 3

Prison / Reformatory

Arizona State Prison Complex Death House

Florence, AZ

Arizona State Prison Complex - Florence is Arizona's oldest operational state prison, established in 1910. The death house, located in Housing Unit 9, contains the execution chamber. Arizona has carried out approximately 100 death sentences since 1910, using hanging (until 1934), gas chamber, and lethal injection methods. The original execution method was hanging with a trap-door system; gas chamber replaced hanging in 1934 following a botched execution in 1930.

$ Restricted Access Family: Not Recommended

Prison / Reformatory

Arizona State Prison Complex – Florence

Florence, AZ

Built by inmates and opened in 1908 to replace the Yuma Territorial Prison, the Florence complex became Arizona's sole execution facility in 1910. Roughly 100 executions have been carried out there — by hanging until 1934, then by gas chamber, and later by lethal injection. The facility includes the original death row cell blocks and the execution chamber that has been in service across three distinct methods of capital punishment.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Museum / Historical Site

Pinal County Courthouse

Florence, AZ

Completed February 2, 1891, the Second Pinal County Courthouse was designed by architect James M. Creighton in Late Victorian Revival style at a cost of $34,765. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and hosted some of Arizona's most consequential frontier-era legal proceedings.

$ All Ages Family: High

Williams — 3

Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Grand Canyon Hotel

Williams, AZ

The Grand Canyon Hotel opened in Williams, Arizona, in the early 1890s as the Boyce Hotel and is widely billed as the oldest hotel in the state. It sat empty for roughly three decades from around 1970 before Amy and Oscar Frederickson bought and restored it, reopening in 2005.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted Dining / Bar

Sultana Bar

Williams, AZ

The Sultana opened in 1912 on Williams' Route 66 strip and holds what local accounts describe as the longest continuously held liquor license in Arizona. Over the decades the building also served as a billiard parlor, dance hall, and early movie house, and a network of tunnels runs beneath the downtown block.

$ 21+ Family: Moderate

The historic two-story brick Red Garter Inn building in Williams, Arizona

Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Red Garter Inn

Williams, AZ

The Tetzlaff Building was built in 1897 by tailor August Tetzlaff and originally held a ground-floor saloon and an upstairs brothel of eight cribs. The saloon and brothel ran until the mid-1940s; the building was restored in 1979 and now operates as the Red Garter Inn, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Apache Junction — 2

Outdoor / Natural Site

Lost Dutchman State Park / Superstition Wilderness

Apache Junction, AZ

Lost Dutchman State Park was established in 1977 adjacent to the Tonto National Forest. It preserves 320 acres at the gateway to the 160,000-acre Superstition Wilderness, whose association with Jacob Waltz and his alleged gold mine has drawn searchers — and in more than 30 documented cases, claimed their lives — since the 1870s.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Outdoor / Natural Site

Superstition Mountains

Apache Junction, AZ

The Superstition Mountains encompass 159,757 acres of designated wilderness east of Phoenix, managed by the U.S. Forest Service within Tonto National Forest. The range has deep significance to Apache and Akimel O'odham peoples, whose traditions describe the mountains as the dwelling place of Thunder God and a passage to the lower world. European and American settler contact produced the enduring Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine legend beginning in the 1870s.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Grand Canyon National Park — 2

Haunted Hotel / Inn

El Tovar Hotel

Grand Canyon National Park, AZ

El Tovar Hotel opened in 1905 on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, built from local limestone and Oregon pine at a cost of nearly $250,000 for the Fred Harvey Company in conjunction with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Designed by Charles Whittlesey, it opened four years after Fred Harvey's death and predated the Grand Canyon's designation as a National Park by four years. Early guests included Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, George Bernard Shaw, and Zane Grey.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

Two rock formations as seen from Rim Drive just west of Grand Canyon Village: Brahma Temple (left) and Zoroaster Temple (right).

Many Grand Canyon rock formations are named after concepts in non-Western religions.

Outdoor / Natural Site

Maricopa Point

Grand Canyon National Park, AZ

Maricopa Point is a South Rim viewpoint on the West Rim Drive of Grand Canyon National Park, accessible by the free Hermit Road shuttle. The Civilian Conservation Corps worked extensively on the canyon's South Rim from 1933 onward, building trails, walls, and safety railings. The stone safety railings that line the rim in this section were constructed by CCC crews during the New Deal era.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Kingman — 2

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Brunswick Hotel

Kingman, AZ

Built in 1907–1909 by businessmen John Mulligan and J.W. Thompson, the Brunswick Hotel was the first three-story building in Mohave County and the tallest structure between Albuquerque and San Bernardino. Constructed of locally quarried tufa stone, it offered Waterford crystal stemware and solid brass beds. A business dispute in 1912 split the building in two with a dividing wall; the halves were reunited in the 1960s. The hotel is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing structure in the Kingman Commercial Historic District.

$ All Ages Family: High

Ghost Tour / Walking Tour

Kingman Historic Ghost Walk

Kingman, AZ

The Kingman Historic Ghost Walk is an annual October event produced by the Beale Street Theater, a community theater in downtown Kingman. Guides lead ticketed groups through the historic core of the city, where costumed actors and performers retell Kingman's history alongside ghost stories drawn from both the town's past and present-day downtown business owners. The walk runs two alternating routes and ends each tour with a group 'Thriller' dance.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Mesa — 2

Aerial survey view of 8th Avenue and Extension

Aerial survey · USDA NAIP

Outdoor / Natural Site

8th Avenue and Extension

Mesa, AZ

The intersection of 8th Avenue and Extension Road in Mesa, Arizona, is the site of a documented traffic fatality involving a child struck by an intoxicated driver. The specific date and identity of the victim remain unclear in available sources, though the incident is embedded in local oral history.

$ All Ages Family: Low

Haunted Dining / Bar

The Landmark Restaurant (Former)

Mesa, AZ

The Landmark Restaurant building was originally a Mormon church built in 1908. It was sold in 1954 to Producers Insurance Company, became the first campus of Mesa Community College in 1963, was converted to a restaurant in 1973, and opened as the Landmark Restaurant in 1981. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places. The Landmark closed permanently and the building is currently vacant.

$ All Ages Family: High

Tempe — 2

Haunted Dining / Bar

Casey Moore's Oyster House (W.A. Moeur House)

Tempe, AZ

The W.A. Moeur House was built in 1910 for William and Mary Moeur, a prominent Tempe family whose civic contributions included helping organize the local school system. William's younger brother Benjamin later served as Arizona's Governor from 1933 to 1937. The house became a restaurant in 1973 and Casey Moore's Oyster House in 1986.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Exterior of the 1910 W.A. Moeur House at 850 S Ash Avenue in Tempe, Arizona, a Colonial Revival home operating as Casey Moore's Oyster House restaurant

Haunted Dining / Bar

KC Moore's Bar and Grill

Tempe, AZ

The building operating as Casey Moore's Oyster House was constructed in 1910 as the W.A. Moeur House. William Moeur was a founding member of Tempe's first school board and a key figure in early Maricopa County education. His brother Benjamin B. Moeur became Governor of Arizona from 1933-1937. William died in the home in 1929 from a cerebral hemorrhage near the fireplace; Mary Moeur died in an upstairs bedroom in the 1940s. The house became a restaurant in 1973.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Wickenburg — 2

Overview of the Vulture Mine site near Wickenburg, Arizona — the abandoned gold mine that spawned Vulture City ghost town, discovered by Henry Wickenburg in 1863

Ghost Tour / Walking Tour

Vulture Mine / Vulture City Ghost Town

Wickenburg, AZ

Vulture City grew up around the Vulture Mine, discovered by Prussian prospector Henry Wickenburg in 1863. It became Arizona's most productive historic gold mine and the heart of a boomtown of thousands, complete with a hanging tree used for frontier justice. The site is now a preserved ghost town open for tours.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Aerial survey view of Wickenburg Massacre Site

Aerial survey · USDA NAIP

Battlefield / Military Site

Wickenburg Massacre Site

Wickenburg, AZ

On November 5, 1871, six passengers aboard the Wickenburg–Ehrenburg stagecoach were killed in an ambush approximately six miles west of Wickenburg on the La Paz road. Among the dead was Frederick Wadsworth Loring, a 22-year-old Atlantic Monthly correspondent whose death drew national attention and accelerated federal debate over Arizona Territory's management of Native American relations. The perpetrators are identified in military records as Yavapai warriors from the Date Creek Reservation, though the full sequence of events leading to the attack remains disputed by historians.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Alpine — 1

Aerial survey view of Diamond Rock Campground

Aerial survey · USDA NAIP

Outdoor / Natural Site

Diamond Rock Campground

Alpine, AZ

Diamond Rock Campground sits at 7,890 feet on the East Fork of the Black River in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests of eastern Arizona. The 12-site campground includes three Adirondack-style three-sided shelters built by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the 1930s, predating large RV-camping conventions.

$ All Ages Family: High

Casa Grande — 1

Haunted Dining / Bar

Cafe de Manuel's

Casa Grande, AZ

Cafe de Manuel's operates as an authentic Mexican restaurant in Casa Grande, Arizona, established in 1995. The building formerly functioned as a furniture store and private residential property prior to restaurant use. The structure harbors historical trauma from its commercial and residential operations.

$ All Ages Family: High

Chandler — 1

San Marcos Hotel exterior in Chandler Arizona, 1913 historic golf resort

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Crowne Plaza Phoenix-Chandler Golf Resort (Historic San Marcos Hotel)

Chandler, AZ

The San Marcos Hotel opened November 22, 1913 in Chandler, Arizona as the state's first golf resort. Built by Dr. Alexander Chandler, the property hosted Fred Astaire, Joan Crawford, Bing Crosby, Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart, and President Herbert Hoover during the Hollywood era and operates today as the Crowne Plaza Phoenix-Chandler Golf Resort.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

Cottonwood — 1

Ghost Tour / Walking Tour

Old Town Cottonwood Ghost Walk (Spirit Walk)

Cottonwood, AZ

Old Town Cottonwood grew up along the Verde River in central Arizona as a supply and social hub for the copper towns of Jerome and Clarkdale. Its Main Street strip of saloons, hotels, and storefronts boomed during the early 20th century and again during Prohibition, when the district earned a reputation for bootlegging and vice. The historic core has since been restored and is the setting for several locally run ghost walks.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Douglas — 1

Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Gadsden Hotel

Douglas, AZ

The Gadsden Hotel opened in 1907 in Douglas, Arizona, named for the Gadsden Purchase that defined the region. Cattlemen, ranchers, miners, and businessmen used the five-story, 160-room hotel as a base for the border economy. The original building burned in 1928; the current structure was designed by El Paso architect Henry Trost and opened in 1929.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Elfrida — 1

True Crime Site

Vision Quest Lodge (Cochise Guest Lodge Site)

Elfrida, AZ

The property operated as the Cochise Guest Lodge and Ranch, a dude ranch in Arizona's remote Sulphur Springs Valley. On December 3, 1977, ranch hand James Dean Clark killed four people — ranch owners Charles and Mildred Thumm and two fellow wranglers, Gerald McFerron and George Martin — in a spree that ended with his arrest in El Paso. Clark was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder in 1978 and executed by the State of Arizona on April 14, 1993. The property was subsequently acquired by VisionQuest National, a youth rehabilitation organization founded in 1973, which operates it as a residential program to this day.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Fort Huachuca — 1

Museum / Historical Site

Carleton House (Quarters No. 9), Fort Huachuca

Fort Huachuca, AZ

Carleton House, designated Quarters No. 9 on Fort Huachuca's Colonel's Row, was built in 1880 as the post's first hospital, an eight-bed adobe building with a downstairs morgue. It served as the hospital until the mid-1880s, then was converted to officers' quarters and other uses. It is a contributing structure in the Fort Huachuca National Historic Landmark District.

$ All Ages Family: Low

Glendale — 1

The 1886 Main Mansion at Sahuaro Ranch in Glendale, Arizona, a National Register of Historic Places property once known as the 'Showplace of the Valley.'

Museum / Historical Site

Sahuaro Ranch Park

Glendale, AZ

Sahuaro Ranch was founded in 1886 by William Henry Bartlett, an Illinois native who with his brother Samuel purchased 640 acres west of Phoenix in 1885. Known as the 'Showplace of the Valley,' the commercial fruit and alfalfa ranch was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 7, 1980. The City of Glendale purchased the remaining 17 acres in 1977 and preserved 13 historic buildings.

$ All Ages Family: High

Oatman — 1

Museum / Historical Site

Oatman Hotel

Oatman, AZ

The Oatman Hotel was originally built in 1902 and rebuilt after a fire in 1924, operating during the height of Oatman's gold rush years. The hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Durlin Hotel. The name changed to the Oatman Hotel in the late 1960s. The building no longer offers overnight accommodations, operating today as a museum, restaurant, and bar.

$ All Ages Family: High

Oracle — 1

Museum / Historical Site

Acadia Ranch Museum

Oracle, AZ

Acadia Ranch in Oracle, Arizona, is a historic ranch complex built up between roughly 1882 and 1930 that served at various times as a sheep ranch, guest ranch, boarding house, tuberculosis sanatorium, post office, beauty salon, and morgue. A portion of the property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and it now operates as the Acadia Ranch Museum, home of the Oracle Historical Society.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Paradise Valley — 1

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Hermosa Inn

Paradise Valley, AZ

Cowboy artist Alonzo 'Lon' Megargee purchased six acres in what is now Paradise Valley in 1935 and built his adobe home and studio there, naming it Casa Hermosa. The property became a guest ranch and reputed gambling den during his ownership. Megargee sold the property in 1941 and died in 1960. The site has operated as the Hermosa Inn since the 1940s, evolving into a 43-casita luxury boutique inn anchored around Lon's original adobe home, which today houses the inn's award-winning restaurant.

$$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Sedona — 1

Museum / Historical Site

Sedona Heritage Museum (Jordan Farmstead)

Sedona, AZ

The Sedona Heritage Museum occupies the original Jordan family farmstead in Sedona's Jordan Historical Park. Walter and Ruth Jordan built a one-room red-rock cabin here in 1931 and expanded it across the 1930s and 1940s as their apple orchard grew into a commercial operation. The house opened as a museum in 1998.

$ All Ages Family: High

Vail — 1

Museum / Historical Site

Colossal Cave Mountain Park

Vail, AZ

Colossal Cave Mountain Park preserves a dry limestone cave 15 miles southeast of Tucson that became notorious in the 1880s as a hideout for train robbers. The loot they stashed inside was never found. Frank Schmidt, one of the cave's early developers, spent much of his life documenting and preserving the caverns before his death.

$$ Classic Cave Tour not recommended for children under 5; Ladder Tour ages 12+; Wild Cave Tour ages 16+ Family: Moderate

Winslow — 1

Haunted Hotel / Inn

La Posada Hotel

Winslow, AZ

La Posada opened in 1930 in Winslow as a Fred Harvey railroad hotel on the Santa Fe line, designed by architect Mary Colter. It closed in 1957 and was nearly demolished before being bought and restored in the late 1990s, reopening as a hotel and gallery.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

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