Haunted Colorado

133 haunted destinations cataloged across Colorado, spanning 50 counties. The collection features haunted hotel, museum, and outdoor — every listing verified with family ratings, accessibility info, and practical visit logistics.

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The Mediterranean Revival style Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Broadmoor

Colorado Springs, CO

The Broadmoor was established in 1918 by Colorado Springs philanthropists Spencer and Julie Penrose. Built on land adjacent to Cheyenne Lake at the base of Cheyenne Mountain, the resort development built upon the legacy of Count James Pourtales, a wealthy Prussian who had developed the original casino on the property in the 1890s. The Broadmoor has expanded significantly with additional buildings constructed between 1961 and 2001, becoming one of Colorado's premier luxury resorts.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

Victorian Queen Anne mansion exterior at 2555 West 37th Avenue in Denver's Potter-Highlands neighborhood

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Lumber Baron Inn & Gardens

Denver, CO

The Lumber Baron Inn is a Scottish immigrant-built 1890 Victorian mansion in Denver's Potter-Highlands neighborhood. Originally home to John Mouat, a lumber mill owner, the property later fell to disrepair and was divided into apartments. On October 13, 1970, two young women — Cara Lee Knoche, 17, and Marianne Weaver, 18 — were found murdered in what is now the Valentine Suite. Both cases remain open cold cases.

$$$ All Ages Family: Low

Museum / Historical Site

Museum of Colorado Prisons

Cañon City, CO

The Museum of Colorado Prisons in Cañon City occupies a former state women's prison built in 1935, sharing a stone wall and armed towers with the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility, which has operated continuously since 1871. The museum opened June 18, 1988, following a legislative approval in 1986 to convert the women's cell house into a heritage institution covering 140 years of Colorado prison history.

$ All Ages (18+ for paranormal investigation nights) Family: Moderate

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Beaumont Hotel

Ouray, CO

The Beaumont Hotel opened in Ouray, Colorado on July 25, 1887, built during the silver boom that transformed the San Juan Mountains. The Beaumont hosted Theodore Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, and a roster of mining-era guests, then sat largely closed from the 1960s until a multi-year restoration returned it to operation in 2003.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

The historic Baldpate Inn lodge outside Estes Park, Colorado, home of the 20,000-key collection

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Baldpate Inn (Seven Keys Lodge)

Estes Park, CO

The Baldpate Inn opened in 1917 in Estes Park, Colorado, built by newlywed homesteaders Gordon and Ethel Mace on a property they began developing in 1911. The Maces named the inn after the fictional setting of Earl Derr Biggers' 1913 mystery novel 'Seven Keys to Baldpate.' The inn became famous for its key-giving tradition and the resulting Key Room, which now holds more than 20,000 keys. The Smith family has owned the property since 1986; in recent years it has also operated under the name Seven Keys Lodge.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted Dining / Bar

Briarhurst Manor

Manitou Springs, CO

Dr. William Bell, a London physician and co-founder of Manitou Springs, began building Briarhurst as his summer estate in 1872. The main house was completed by 1874, burned in January 1886, and was rebuilt and occupied again by 1888. The Bell family returned to England in 1890. After decades of private use, the manor operated as a fine-dining restaurant until late 2024.

$$ All Ages Family: High

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Museum / Historical Site

Byers-Evans House Museum

Denver, CO

Built in 1883 for William Byers, founder of the Rocky Mountain News, this Italianate Victorian was sold in 1889 to William Gray Evans, son of Colorado's second territorial governor. The Evans family lived here until 1981, when they donated the house to History Colorado, which now operates it as the Center for Colorado Women's History.

$ All Ages Family: High

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Cheesman Park

Denver, CO

Denver's first municipal burial ground was established on this site in 1858 by city founder William Larimer under the name Mount Prospect Cemetery. Intended as a prestigious burial ground, it instead served primarily as the resting place for the poor, transient, and unclaimed. By 1890 the city decided to convert the space to a public park, contracting in 1893 with E.P. McGovern to relocate the remains at $1.90 per body. McGovern bought child-sized coffins, hacked adult bodies into pieces to fill them, and was fired when a Denver Republican expose appeared on March 19, 1893. The removal was stopped. An estimated 2,000 to 3,000 bodies remain.

$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Crawford Hotel at Denver Union Station

Denver, CO

Denver Union Station opened June 1, 1881, as a 500-foot pink rhyolite depot with a 180-foot clock tower — the tallest building in the West at the time. An electrical fire destroyed the central hall in 1894. Architects Gove & Walsh rebuilt it in Beaux-Arts granite, reopening in 1914. The station reached peak traffic of 50,000 daily visitors during World War II, then declined steadily as car and air travel supplanted rail. A $54 million restoration completed in 2014 converted the third and fourth floors into the 112-room Crawford Hotel.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

The Romanesque Revival sandstone facade of Dora Moore School, an 1890 historic landmark in Denver's Capitol Hill neighborhood.

Other Dark Tourism Site

Dora Moore K-8 School

Denver, CO

Dora Moore ECE-8 School opened in 1890 as Corona School, making it Denver's oldest continually operating school building. The school was renamed in 1929 (or 1939 by some accounts) to honor Dora Moore, who served as principal for 35 years and significantly shaped Denver's public education system. Notable alumni include actor Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and former First Lady Mamie Eisenhower. The building is listed on the National Historic Registry.

$ All Ages Family: High

True Crime Site

Equitable Building

Denver, CO

The Equitable Building at 730 17th Street was completed in 1892 for the Equitable Life Assurance Society of New York at a cost of $1.5 million. Designed by Boston firm Andrews, Jaques & Rantoul in Italian Renaissance Revival style, its nine stories made it Denver's tallest building until 1911. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and converted to individually owned condominiums in 2000.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Haunted Dining / Bar

Josephina's Restaurant (now Corridor 44)

Denver, CO

Larimer Street in Denver is the city's oldest commercial block. The building at 1433 Larimer, in what is now Larimer Square, served as a speakeasy during the Prohibition era (1920-1933). Josephina's Restaurant operated at this address from 1974 until its closure roughly thirty years later. The space was subsequently divided between Rioja and Corridor 44, a champagne bar that opened in 2005.

$$ 21+ Family: Low

Ground level exterior view of the Montclair Civic Building (Molkerei) in Montclair Park, Denver, Colorado on a sunny day

Asylum / Hospital

Molkerei (Montclair Civic Building)

Denver, CO

Baron Walter von Richthofen built the Molkerei in 1888 as a tuberculosis sanitarium offering his 'Swiss milk cure'—patients drank fresh unpasteurized milk and inhaled barn effluvium through floor grates above the stables. After the milk cure fell from favor, the building converted to asylum use, and in 1908 Denver acquired the property as Montclair Park's community anchor. It is now a designated Denver Landmark and NRHP-listed property, completely restored in 2003–2004.

$ All Ages Family: High

Museum / Historical Site

Molly Brown House

Denver, CO

The Molly Brown House in Denver was the home of philanthropist and Titanic survivor Margaret Brown from 1894 until her death in 1932. Designed by architect William A. Lang in 1889 in a mixed Queen Anne and Richardsonian Romanesque style, the house has operated as a museum under Historic Denver Inc. since 1971 after a public campaign saved it from demolition.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Oxford Hotel

Denver, CO

The Oxford Hotel opened in 1891, designed by architect Frank E. Edbrooke, who also designed the nearby Brown Palace Hotel. It was Denver's first downtown hotel. In 1898, a woman named Florence Montague killed her married lover and then herself in Room 320 after discovering his infidelity. The hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Croke-Patterson-Campbell Mansion, Denver, Colorado — Chateauesque Manitou sandstone exterior

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Patterson Inn (Croke-Patterson-Campbell Mansion)

Denver, CO

The Croke-Patterson-Campbell Mansion was built in 1891 for Thomas B. Croke, a Denver merchant and state senator, at a cost documented in period accounts. Croke reportedly entered the finished building once and sold it without offering an explanation. Senator Thomas M. Patterson acquired the property, which later passed to the Campbell family. The building is constructed of Manitou sandstone in the Chateauesque style. It opened as the Patterson Inn in 2013.

$$$ 18+ Family: Low

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Riverside Cemetery

Denver, CO

Riverside Cemetery was established in 1876, the year Colorado was admitted to the union, as a replacement for Denver's overcrowded City Cemetery. It is the oldest continuously operating cemetery in Denver, with more than 67,000 burials including hundreds of Colorado veterans, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

$ All Ages Family: High

Brown Palace Hotel in Denver Colorado, 1892 triangular red granite hotel with eight-story atrium

Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Brown Palace Hotel and Spa, Autograph Collection

Denver, CO

The Brown Palace Hotel opened in 1892, built by Denver real estate developer Henry Cordes Brown on a triangular plot at 17th and Broadway. Constructed of Colorado red granite and Arizona sandstone with a distinctive eight-story atrium topped by stained glass skylights, it has operated continuously for over 130 years. Every U.S. president since Theodore Roosevelt — except one — has stayed at the hotel.

$$$ All ages Family: High

Cripple Creek — 9

Aerial survey view of Bronco Billy's Casino

Aerial survey · USDA NAIP

Other Dark Tourism Site

Bronco Billy's Casino

Cripple Creek, CO

The building at 233 E Bennett Ave in Cripple Creek traces to the Turf Club saloon established in 1896 during the height of the Cripple Creek gold rush. It later operated under several names before becoming part of the Bronco Billy's Casino complex.

$ 21+ Family: Moderate

Theater / Performance Venue

Butte Theater

Cripple Creek, CO

The Butte Theater on Bennett Avenue is a historic Cripple Creek opera house rebuilt after the April 1896 fires that devastated the city. Associated with the Imperial Casino, it has operated as a performance venue for more than a century and is reportedly haunted by a ghost named Jack, linked to the nearby fire department.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Aerial survey view of Colorado Grande Casino (Fairley Brothers and Lampman Building)

Aerial survey · USDA NAIP

Other Dark Tourism Site

Colorado Grande Casino (Fairley Brothers and Lampman Building)

Cripple Creek, CO

The Fairley Brothers and Lampman Building at 300 E Bennett Ave in Cripple Creek was constructed in 1896 during the gold rush era that transformed the city. It now houses the Colorado Grande Casino, one of the surviving historic commercial buildings in a district rebuilt after two devastating fires in 1896.

$ 21+ Family: Moderate

Museum / Historical Site

Cripple Creek District Museum (Midland Terminal Depot)

Cripple Creek, CO

The Cripple Creek District Museum occupies the 1895 Midland Terminal Railroad Depot, built when the Colorado Midland Railway extended a branch line into the booming gold camp. The depot was the railroad's showcase facility and served the district through the peak mining years.

$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Hotel St. Nicholas

Cripple Creek, CO

The Sisters of Mercy, a Catholic order known locally as the 'walking nuns,' established themselves in Cripple Creek in 1894. Their permanent hospital — a three-story brick building designed by architect John J. Huddart at a cost of $12,000 — opened March 12, 1898, receiving miner Elijah Ayers as its first patient. The Sisters departed in 1924 after thirty years of service. The building later served as a nursing home, then sat abandoned before reopening as a hotel in 1995.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Imperial Hotel

Cripple Creek, CO

Built in 1896 after the fire that destroyed most of Cripple Creek, the Imperial Hotel opened as the Collins Hotel and became a centerpiece of the mining town's post-fire recovery. In the early 20th century it was managed by George Long, an English immigrant who ran the property with his wife and raised their children there.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

The entrance gate to Mount Pisgah Cemetery in Cripple Creek, Colorado, photographed in August 2017

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Mt. Pisgah Cemetery

Cripple Creek, CO

Mt. Pisgah Cemetery was established in 1895 when Horace W. Bennett and Julius A. Myers of Denver donated 40 acres on the eastern slope of Mount Pisgah to the Mount Pisgah Cemetery Association. Burials actually predate the formal donation—the earliest on record is James Gozad, who died May 11, 1892. The cemetery grew rapidly as Cripple Creek's population swelled past 30,000 following the 1890 gold discovery.

$ All Ages Family: High

Prison / Reformatory

Outlaws and Lawmen Jail Museum (Old Teller County Jail)

Cripple Creek, CO

The Teller County Jail at 136 W Bennett Avenue was built in 1901 during the height of Cripple Creek's gold rush to handle the criminal caseload generated by a population that had topped 30,000. The two-story brick facility operated continuously until 1992, housing an estimated twelve cells and processing thousands of inmates over its 90-year run.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Palace Hotel and Casino

Cripple Creek, CO

The Palace began in 1893 as a two-story wooden building housing Dr. William J. Chambers's drug store on Cripple Creek's main commercial strip. It burned in the catastrophic April–May 1896 Cripple Creek fires that destroyed most of downtown, and was rebuilt as a three-story brick structure with sandstone trim. The Chambers family eventually sold the property in 1928, and it passed through several owners before reopening as a hotel and casino in 1977.

$ All Ages Family: High

Manitou Springs — 9

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Avenue Hotel Bed and Breakfast

Manitou Springs, CO

The Avenue Hotel opened in 1886 as a boarding house serving railroad travelers arriving in Manitou Springs during the Pikes Peak gold rush era. Manitou Springs was a significant resort and health destination in the late 19th century, drawing visitors seeking the town's mineral springs and mountain climate.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Outdoor / Natural Site

Cave of the Winds Mountain Park

Manitou Springs, CO

Brothers George and John Pickett discovered the cave entrance in Williams Canyon in 1880 during a hike with Rev. Roselle T. Cross. Ohio stonecutter George Washington Snider excavated the passages that year, uncovered the large chamber he named Canopy Hall, and began offering guided tours in February 1881 — making Cave of the Winds one of the oldest continuously operating show caves in the United States.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Haunted Dining / Bar

Craftwood Inn

Manitou Springs, CO

Roland Boutwell, an English craftsman, built the structure at 404 El Paso Blvd in 1912 as a showroom for his copper-work business. The Arts and Crafts-style building later became a restaurant and remains in operation as Craftwood Inn, a fine-dining destination known for Colorado game cuisine and its mountain-view setting in Manitou Springs.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Crystal Valley Cemetery

Manitou Springs, CO

Established in 1890 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Crystal Valley Cemetery on the hillside above Manitou Springs is the final resting place of Emma Crawford, a young woman who came to the area seeking a tuberculosis cure and died in 1891. Her story took an unlikely turn in 1929 when her coffin, originally buried on Red Mountain, was unearthed by heavy rains and slid down the slope into a gulch.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Theater / Performance Venue

Iron Springs Chateau Melodrama Dinner Theater

Manitou Springs, CO

Iron Springs Chateau is among the oldest surviving structures in Manitou Springs, Colorado, and has operated continuously as a public venue through the late 19th and 20th centuries. It now functions as a melodrama dinner theater on Ruxton Avenue, a street historically associated with access to Pikes Peak and the Cog Railway.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Museum / Historical Site

Miramont Castle

Manitou Springs, CO

Miramont Castle was built in 1895 as a private home for French-born Catholic priest Jean Baptist Francolon. It combines nine architectural styles across forty rooms and 14,000 square feet. The Sisters of Mercy purchased it in 1904 for use as a tuberculosis sanatorium. The Manitou Springs Historical Society acquired the property in 1975 and opened it as a museum in 1977.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Museum / Historical Site

Miramont Castle Museum

Manitou Springs, CO

French-born Catholic priest Father Jean Baptiste Francolon designed and built Miramont Castle in 1895, incorporating nine architectural styles across 14,000 square feet. When the neighboring Montcalm Sanitarium burned in 1907, the Sisters of Mercy took over Miramont and operated it as a tuberculosis sanatorium until 1928. The Manitou Springs Historical Society has operated it as a house museum since 1976, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Onaledge Bed and Breakfast

Manitou Springs, CO

Onaledge was built in 1912 by English craftsman Roland Boutwell, who constructed the adjacent Craftwood Inn during the same period. The English Tudor structure at 336 El Paso Blvd has operated as a bed and breakfast and is one of Manitou Springs' most frequently cited haunted accommodations, documented by guests, psychics, and independent investigators across multiple decades.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Cliff House at Pikes Peak

Manitou Springs, CO

Canadian entrepreneurs built the original inn in 1874 as a stopping point along the Leadville stage route. Edward E. Nichols acquired and renamed it Cliff House in the 1870s, eventually growing it to 265 rooms. On a night in 1913, night watchman Albert Whitehead was shot by two masked intruders demanding access to the safe; he died two days later. The crime was never solved.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Colorado Springs — 7

Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Antlers, A Wyndham Hotel

Colorado Springs, CO

General William Jackson Palmer opened the first Antlers Hotel in June 1883, naming it for his trophy collection on display inside. A fire at the adjacent D&RGW freight depot burned it to the ground on October 1, 1898. Palmer rebuilt with Italian Renaissance architecture in 1901. That structure was torn down in 1964 and replaced by the current 14-floor tower, which opened March 20, 1967.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

Aerial survey · USDA NAIP

Other Dark Tourism Site

British Home Shop

Colorado Springs, CO

The British Home Shop operated as a specialty retail store in Colorado Springs, offering imported British goods, home items, and merchandise reflecting British culture. Located at 4721 North Academy Boulevard, the shop operated from its opening until its closure by 2026. The storefront was known within the Colorado Springs paranormal community for consistent documented paranormal activity.

$ All Ages Family: High

Museum / Historical Site

North Cheyenne Cañon Park

Colorado Springs, CO

North Cheyenne Cañon Park was established in 1885 when Colorado Springs voters approved a bond issue to purchase 640 acres of canyon land. The lower falls were called Helen Hunt Falls from the early 1900s in honor of Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, a Colorado Springs poet and Native American rights advocate who died in 1885 and walked the canyon regularly. The name was made official in 1966. The park grew with a 1907 donation of 480 acres by Colorado Springs founder General William Jackson Palmer.

$ All Ages Family: High

Theater / Performance Venue

Colorado Springs City Auditorium

Colorado Springs, CO

Completed in 1923 at a cost of $424,910, the Colorado Springs City Auditorium is a Classical Revival civic landmark at 221 E Kiowa Street. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995, it served as the city's primary venue for concerts, theater performances, and graduations throughout the 20th century.

$ All Ages Family: High

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Evergreen Cemetery

Colorado Springs, CO

Established in 1871, Evergreen Cemetery is Colorado Springs' primary historic burial ground and a National Register of Historic Places property. The 220-acre site was developed under the administration of the city's parks department and includes the graves of General William Jackson Palmer and other figures significant to El Paso County's 19th-century settlement.

$ All Ages Family: High

Outdoor / Natural Site

Gold Camp Road Tunnels

Colorado Springs, CO

The Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek District Railway — known as the Short Line — blasted nine tunnels through the mountains above Colorado Springs in the late 1890s to connect the city with the Cripple Creek gold fields. After the railroad ceased operations, the right-of-way was converted to a public toll road in 1922 and eventually a free road. Tunnel #3 collapsed in 1988 and was never repaired.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Museum / Historical Site

Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum

Colorado Springs, CO

Designed by architects Archie Gillis, Angus Gillis, and August J. Smith, the granite Italianate courthouse with its domed clock tower opened in 1903 and served El Paso County until 1973. The Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum relocated here in 1979, bringing a collection that eventually grew to over 60,000 objects.

$ All Ages Family: High

Fort Collins — 7

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Armstrong Hotel

Fort Collins, CO

The Armstrong Hotel opened in 1923 on South College Avenue in Fort Collins during Prohibition, when Old Town was known for bootlegging. During World War II, the building served as U.S. Army barracks. It has operated continuously as a hotel since then and celebrated its centennial in 2023.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted House / Historic Home

Avery House

Fort Collins, CO

Franklin Avery, a civil engineer who surveyed and helped plat Fort Collins, built this sandstone house in 1879. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 and is now operated as a museum by Poudre Landmarks Foundation.

$ All Ages Family: High

True Crime Site

Happy Lucky's Teahouse (Old Town Firehouse & Jail)

Fort Collins, CO

The building housing Happy Lucky's Teahouse in Fort Collins' Old Town was once the city's firehouse and municipal jail. On October 29, 1888, James Howes was held here after murdering his wife in broad daylight. An outraged mob stormed the jail that night, held guards at gunpoint, removed Howes, and hanged him from a construction site nearby — the only documented vigilante lynching in Fort Collins history.

$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Helmshire Inn

Fort Collins, CO

The Helmshire Inn is a small lodging property at 1204 South College Avenue in Fort Collins, Colorado. The inn appears in regional travel directories and review aggregators, but its documented history beyond basic listing information is sparse. Local paranormal coverage from The Group real-estate community blog and Fort Collins haunted-places aggregators preserves the inn's ghost tradition, which rests on a single Shadowlands-era account.

$ All Ages Family: High

Museum / Historical Site

Linden Hotel Building (Nature's Own)

Fort Collins, CO

The Linden Hotel was built in 1882 in Fort Collins' Old Town district and served as lodging through the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its most notable long-term resident was Frank Miller, a sharpshooter who performed with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show before losing his business and family and living out his final years in the hotel.

$ All Ages Family: High

Museum / Historical Site

Museum of Art Fort Collins (Old Post Office)

Fort Collins, CO

The building at 201 S College Avenue opened on October 31, 1912, as the Fort Collins federal post office. It was constructed on the site of the Camp Collins military cemetery, established in 1862, where contractors reportedly removed only six of an unknown number of interred soldiers before construction began.

$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted Dining / Bar

Walrus Ice Cream (former Dinnebeck's Cafe site)

Fort Collins, CO

The building at 125 W. Mountain Ave. has been a Fort Collins commercial staple since Dinnebeck's Cafe opened here in 1920. Beneath the current ice cream shop, the underground space once served as the Old Town morgue, and a jail cell from the same era is said to survive below. A 1927 family photo of cafe founder Charlie Dinnebeck is displayed in the current shop.

$ All Ages Family: High

Pueblo — 6

A former administrator's building at Colorado State Hospital (once the Colorado Insane Asylum) in Pueblo, Colorado, photographed by Carol M. Highsmith.

Asylum / Hospital

Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo Museum

Pueblo, CO

The Colorado State Insane Asylum opened in Pueblo in 1879 as the first state psychiatric institution in Colorado. By the 1960s the facility held nearly 6,000 patients, making it one of the largest psychiatric hospitals in the American West. In 1992, construction crews unearthed 155 unmarked patient graves on the campus grounds.

$ All Ages Family: Low

Museum / Historical Site

Hose Company No. 3 Fire Museum

Pueblo, CO

Built in 1889 to serve the Pueblo Fire Department, Hose Company No. 3 operated as an active firehouse until 1979. It is one of two surviving firehouses in Pueblo that retains its original brass pole, making it a rare surviving example of Victorian-era fire station architecture in southern Colorado.

$ All Ages Family: High

Theater / Performance Venue

Pueblo Memorial Hall

Pueblo, CO

Pueblo Memorial Hall was constructed as a World War I memorial and dedicated in 1919 by President Woodrow Wilson in a ceremony recognizing the city's war dead. The 1,600-seat theater has served as Pueblo's primary large-scale performance venue for over a century.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Aerial survey view of Pueblo Pioneer Cemetery

Aerial survey · USDA NAIP

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Pueblo Pioneer Cemetery

Pueblo, CO

Pioneer Cemetery in Pueblo, Colorado, established in 1870, is the oldest cemetery in the city. The land was acquired by Mahlon Thatcher from the federal government in 1870, and the grounds hold the graves of many of Pueblo's earliest pioneers, business leaders, and Civil War veterans, including a Soldiers and Sailors section set aside for veterans and their spouses.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Museum / Historical Site

Pueblo Union Depot

Pueblo, CO

Constructed between 1889 and 1890 in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, the Pueblo Union Depot served as the primary passenger rail terminal for southern Colorado at the height of the railroad era, processing more than 18,000 passengers daily during peak operations. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 and today houses the Pueblo Railway Museum.

$ All Ages Family: High

Museum / Historical Site

Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum

Pueblo, CO

The Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum sits on the grounds of the former Pueblo Army Air Base, which operated as one of the largest heavy bomber training installations in the United States during World War II. The base trained thousands of bombardiers and crews for B-24 and B-29 missions. After the war, the grounds were converted to civilian use, and the museum was established to preserve the military aviation history of the site.

$ All Ages Family: High

Boulder — 5

Haunted House / Historic Home

Arnett-Montgomery House

Boulder, CO

The Arnett-Montgomery House was built in 1880 and designated a City of Boulder historic landmark in 1979. The house is associated with the Montgomery family, including Walter Montgomery, a 10-year-old who died in 1902 after falling ill during a trip to a mountain mining camp with his father.

$ All Ages Family: High

Theater / Performance Venue

Boulder Theater

Boulder, CO

The Boulder Theater opened in 1936 as an Art Deco cinema on 14th Street and was designated a City of Boulder historic landmark in 1980. The building was originally called the Curran and operated as a movie house; it later converted to a live music and event venue. In 1944, long-time manager George Paper died in or adjacent to the building.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Columbia Cemetery

Boulder, CO

Columbia Cemetery was established in 1870, making it Boulder's oldest permanent burial ground. The 10.5-acre site holds approximately 6,500 individuals including pioneer settlers, mining-era figures, educator Mary Rippon, and Tom Horn — a frontiersman who was later convicted of murdering a 14-year-old in Wyoming and executed in 1903.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

True Crime Site

Macky Auditorium (University of Colorado Boulder)

Boulder, CO

On July 9, 1966, botany student Elaura Jaquette was murdered in Macky Auditorium's west tower by Joseph Dyre Morse, a university custodian. Morse was convicted and sentenced to 888 years in prison; he confessed to the crime in 1980. The University of Colorado holds Jaquette's official case police records and honors her memory with a plaque on Norlin Quadrangle.

$ All Ages Family: High

Theater / Performance Venue

Macky Auditorium

Boulder, CO

Macky Auditorium at the University of Colorado Boulder opened in 1922 as part of the Norlin Quadrangle Historic District. In July 1966, janitor Joseph Dyre Morse murdered 20-year-old CU student Elaura Jeanne Jaquette in the building's west tower — one of the most documented violent incidents in the university's history.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Durango — 5

Haunted Dining / Bar

El Moro Spirits and Tavern

Durango, CO

The building at 945 Main Ave in Durango was the site of a fatal law enforcement shooting in January 1906. Durango Deputy Marshal Jesse Stansel shot La Plata County Sheriff William Thompson during an altercation; Thompson died from his injuries. The address operated through multiple businesses before El Moro Spirits and Tavern opened in 2013.

$ 21+ Family: High

Haunted Hotel / Inn

General Palmer Hotel

Durango, CO

General William Jackson Palmer — Civil War veteran, founder of Colorado Springs, and builder of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad — built the hotel in 1898 to serve passengers arriving on the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad. The 39-room property has operated continuously since 1898 and sits within Durango's designated National Historic District on Main Avenue.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Jarvis Suite Hotel

Durango, CO

The Jarvis Suite Hotel opened in 1888 as a residential and commercial building in downtown Durango, Colorado, built during the silver-era growth that transformed the city along the Denver and Rio Grande narrow-gauge railway corridor. The building has operated continuously and is among the older surviving commercial structures on the downtown grid.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Rochester Hotel

Durango, CO

Built in 1892 as the Peeples Hotel during Durango's silver boom, the Rochester Hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996 and has operated continuously as a hotel property for over 130 years. The building is one of Durango's surviving examples of Victorian-era commercial hospitality architecture.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Strater Hotel

Durango, CO

Cleveland pharmacist Henry Strater built his namesake hotel in Durango in 1887 at a cost of $70,000, envisioning it as a destination for travelers on the Denver and Rio Grande Railway. The hotel went bankrupt in 1895 following the silver panic, was acquired by a consortium of Durango businessmen in 1926, and was designated a National Register of Historic Places charter member in 1989.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Grand Junction — 5

Haunted Dining / Bar

Dolce Vita Restaurant

Grand Junction, CO

The building at 336 Main Street in Grand Junction was constructed around 1900 and served as the home of the Treece Furniture Company from 1928 to 1973, a 45-year span that defined the building's commercial identity in downtown Grand Junction before it transitioned to restaurant use.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Aerial survey · USDA NAIP

Other Dark Tourism Site

Elks Lodge #575

Grand Junction, CO

Built in 1913 on the former Colorado Avenue red-light district, the Grand Junction Elks Lodge #575 was constructed after the city's reform movement had pushed brothels and saloons out of the commercial center. The building's subterranean tunnel network — a remnant of the district's underground connections — survived the reformers' campaigns.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Located near Drumheller, Alberta this canyon is part of the Horseshoe Canyon network in the Alberta Badlands.

Outdoor / Natural Site

Horse Thief Canyon

Grand Junction, CO

Horsethief Canyon, west of Grand Junction near the Colorado National Monument, served as a transit corridor for horse thieves operating in the Grand Valley in the 19th century. Stolen horses were driven through the canyon's hidden reaches before being sold. Law enforcement eventually confronted a group of thieves in the canyon in a shootout that left several dead, including reportedly some of the horses.

$ All Ages Family: Low

Aerial survey view of Orchard Mesa Cemetery

Aerial survey · USDA NAIP

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Orchard Mesa Cemetery

Grand Junction, CO

Orchard Mesa Cemetery is the oldest cemetery in Grand Junction, holding the graves of city founder George A. Crawford, newspaper publisher Walter Walker, Civil War soldiers in unmarked graves, and other early Mesa County settlers from the late 1870s onward.

$ All Ages Family: High

Museum / Historical Site

Whitman School

Grand Junction, CO

The Whitman School was built in 1925 near the site of the Park Opera House, a Grand Junction entertainment venue that operated in the early 20th century and was demolished in the mid-1930s. Two deaths occurred at the opera house: actor Hal Newton Carlyle died backstage in 1908, and Ethal Renick, a 20-year-old, collapsed and died in the theater aisle from heart failure during a performance.

$ All Ages Family: High

Leadville — 5

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Delaware Hotel

Leadville, CO

The Delaware Hotel was built in 1886 during Leadville's silver boom. On March 14, 1899, Mary Coffey was shot in the spine by her husband Jerry as she fled down a staircase; she died from her injuries days later. The hotel is documented in Roger Pretti's published book 'Lost Between Heaven and Leadville' and has been associated with sightings of Horace Tabor and Doc Holliday.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Museum / Historical Site

Leadville Heritage Museum

Leadville, CO

The Leadville Heritage Museum is housed in the Lake County Jail building completed in 1901, constructed at the north end of Harrison Avenue during Leadville's post-boom transition. The building served as the county jail for decades before conversion to a museum, and its Victorian institutional architecture is largely preserved.

$ All Ages Family: High

Museum / Historical Site

Matchless Mine and Baby Doe's Cabin

Leadville, CO

Elizabeth 'Baby Doe' Tabor, second wife of silver magnate Horace Tabor, refused to leave the Matchless Mine after Tabor died bankrupt in 1899, honoring his instruction to 'hold onto the Matchless.' She lived alone in the mine's one-room cabin for 36 years in increasingly dire poverty and was found frozen to death on the floor on March 7, 1935.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Haunted Dining / Bar

Silver Dollar Saloon

Leadville, CO

The Silver Dollar Saloon has operated continuously at 315 Harrison Ave in Leadville since 1879, when it opened as the Board of Trade Saloon. The bar displays the actual rope used in Leadville's last public hanging and historical photographs of local executions. Doc Holliday and Molly Brown are documented in local history as regulars during the 1880s.

$ 21+ Family: Moderate

Theater / Performance Venue

Tabor Opera House

Leadville, CO

Horace Tabor built the Tabor Opera House at 308 Harrison Ave in Leadville and opened it in 1879, making it one of the most ornate theaters west of the Mississippi at the time. The building hosted performers including Houdini and Oscar Wilde. It was later owned for decades by Evelyn Furman, who documented visitor encounters with the building's ghosts before her death.

$ All Ages Family: High

Longmont — 4

Theater / Performance Venue

Dickens Opera House

Longmont, CO

Built in 1881 and expanded in 1905, the Dickens Opera House served as home to the Longmont Ledger newspaper, Farmers National Bank, and Longmont College before settling into its current role as a performance venue and tavern on Main Street.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Aerial survey view of Ed Jones Building (former Milo G. Rice Undertaking)

Aerial survey · USDA NAIP

Other Dark Tourism Site

Ed Jones Building (former Milo G. Rice Undertaking)

Longmont, CO

Constructed in 1897, the building initially housed the Milo G. Rice Undertaking firm, with a working mortuary in the basement accessed by a street-level chute used to slide bodies down from the sidewalk. The chute has since been concreted over.

$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Imperial Hotel (Javastop Coffee / The Speakeasy)

Longmont, CO

The palatial Zweck Hotel opened in 1881, was purchased by the Allen family in 1894 and renamed the Imperial, and operated as a lodging property for 50 years before closing in 1971. The building now houses apartments, a restaurant, and Javastop Coffee.

$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted House / Historic Home

Sandstone Ranch (Morse Coffin House)

Longmont, CO

Built in 1860 along the St. Vrain River, Sandstone Ranch was established by pioneer Morse Coffin and his brother George. George Coffin went on to serve as Weld County treasurer and Longmont mayor before being killed by an unknown assailant in 1905.

$ All Ages Family: High

Trinidad — 4

Museum / Historical Site

A.R. Mitchell Museum of Western Art

Trinidad, CO

The A.R. Mitchell Museum occupies a historic 1906 commercial building in the Corazon de Trinidad National Historic District, formerly the Jameison Dry Goods Store. It houses the Western and Hispanic folk art collection of Trinidad-born illustrator Arthur Roy Mitchell.

$ All Ages Family: High

Exterior of the 1882 Frank G. Bloom Mansion in Trinidad, Colorado, operated by History Colorado

Haunted House / Historic Home

Bloom Mansion (Trinidad History Museum)

Trinidad, CO

Built in 1882 for Frank G. Bloom, a prominent cattle baron and banker who helped shape southern Colorado's economy in the post-Civil War era, the Bloom Mansion is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is operated today by History Colorado as part of the Trinidad History Museum complex.

$ All Ages Family: High

Museum / Historical Site

Cokedale Mining Museum

Trinidad, CO

Cokedale was founded in 1906 by the American Smelting and Refining Company (ASARCO) as a company coal-mining town in Las Animas County. It is one of the best-preserved coal camps in Colorado and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Tarabino Inn

Trinidad, CO

The Tarabino Inn was built in 1907 by Italian immigrant brothers who came to Trinidad to work in the coal mines. The elaborate Victorian Italianate home passed through several owners before operating as a funeral home for many years, then was converted to a bed and breakfast.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Cañon City — 3

Greenwood Cemetery in Cañon City, Colorado, with YMCA Mountain visible in the background, photographed November 2017

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Greenwood Cemetery (Woodpecker Hill prisoner section)

Cañon City, CO

Greenwood Cemetery, established in 1865 as Cañon City's principal burial ground, received its first Colorado State Penitentiary inmates in 1871. The southwestern section, later nicknamed Woodpecker Hill after woodpeckers destroyed the original wooden grave markers, served as the de facto prison cemetery for a century. The final inmate burial in the main prisoner section took place in 1971.

$ All Ages Family: High

Outdoor / Natural Site

Phantom Canyon Road

Cañon City, CO

Construction of the Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad through Phantom Canyon began January 1, 1894, connecting Florence and Cañon City to the gold mining districts near Cripple Creek and Victor. The narrow-gauge line rose from 5,197 feet at Florence to 9,396 feet at Cripple Creek over 30 miles of difficult terrain. A flash flood on July 30, 1895 washed out ten miles of track; the railroad recovered. A second, larger cloudburst on July 21, 1912 took out 12 bridges and much of the right-of-way. The track was never rebuilt; remaining materials were removed by 1915. The BLM converted the corridor to a public road, which became part of the Gold Belt Byway.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Haunted Hotel / Inn

St. Cloud Hotel

Cañon City, CO

The St. Cloud Hotel was originally constructed in 1879 in Silver Cliff, Colorado, during the silver mining boom. When Silver Cliff's fortunes declined, the structure was dismantled and moved brick-by-brick approximately 30 miles to Cañon City, where it was reassembled on Main Street by 1890. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is among the more unusual surviving examples of Victorian commercial architecture in Colorado.

$ All Ages Family: High

Central City — 3

Aerial survey view of Central City Masonic Cemetery

Aerial survey · USDA NAIP

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Central City Masonic Cemetery

Central City, CO

The Central City Masonic Cemetery was established in the early 1860s as the mining boom turned the gulch north of town into a permanent settlement. It holds the graves of miners, merchants, and fraternal lodge members who built Gilpin County during Colorado's first gold rush era.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Theater / Performance Venue

Central City Opera House

Central City, CO

Built in 1878 by Welsh and Cornish miners who settled in Gilpin County's gold fields, the Central City Opera House was designated a National Historic Landmark and has hosted the nation's fifth-oldest opera company since 1932.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Teller House

Central City, CO

Built in 1872 for $84,000, the Teller House was Central City's grandest hotel. President Ulysses S. Grant visited in 1873, and the building survived the 1874 fire that destroyed much of the district. In 1936, artist Herndon Davis painted a woman's face in the barroom tile floor.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Glenwood Springs — 3

Museum / Historical Site

Doc Holliday Death Site / Doc Holliday Collection (Bullocks)

Glenwood Springs, CO

The Hotel Glenwood stood at 8th and Grand Avenue from the 1880s until December 14, 1945, when it burned. Doc Holliday died there on November 8, 1887. The Glenwood Historical Society now operates a small museum in the building that replaced it, preserving artifacts from Holliday's final days.

$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Hotel Colorado

Glenwood Springs, CO

Hotel Colorado opened June 10, 1893, built by Walter Devereux, a Glenwood Springs mining investor, at a cost of $850,000. Modeled on the Villa Medici in Rome, the hotel hosted Theodore Roosevelt during his Glenwood Springs visits. In 1943 the U.S. Navy requisitioned the property as a convalescent hospital, and it housed more than 6,500 patients through 1946.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Aerial survey view of Linwood Cemetery and Doc Holliday's Grave

Aerial survey · USDA NAIP

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Linwood Cemetery and Doc Holliday's Grave

Glenwood Springs, CO

Established in the 1880s on a steep hillside above Glenwood Springs, Linwood Cemetery is the resting place of Doc Holliday, who died of tuberculosis here on November 8, 1887. His exact burial location remains unknown due to lost records and a missing wooden marker.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Crested Butte — 2

Crested Butte, Colorado town view 2025 with mountain backdrop

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Crested Butte Cemetery

Crested Butte, CO

On January 24, 1884, a methane gas explosion at the Jokerville Mine west of Crested Butte killed 59 workers, including three boys under 18. The disaster is ranked as the third-deadliest mine explosion in Colorado history. Most victims were buried in a mass grave on the left side of Crested Butte Cemetery, a site that went largely unmarked for over a century before a 2017 rededication added a granite monument listing all the dead.

$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Forest Queen Hotel

Crested Butte, CO

The Forest Queen Hotel opened in 1881 on Elk Avenue in Crested Butte, then a coal and silver mining town. The building operated as a brothel in its early years before transitioning to general hotel use. It remains one of the oldest continuously operating hotels in Colorado.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Estes Park — 2

Outdoor / Natural Site

Rocky Mountain National Park

Estes Park, CO

Rocky Mountain National Park, established by President Woodrow Wilson on January 26, 1915, preserves 415 square miles of Front Range Colorado including Trail Ridge Road, Longs Peak, and the headwaters of the Colorado River. The park's Ute and Arapaho heritage is documented in oral tradition and in early settler accounts including the Legend of Grand Lake.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Stanley Hotel

Estes Park, CO

The Stanley Hotel opened on July 4, 1909, built by Freelan Oscar Stanley, co-inventor of the Stanley Steamer automobile, as a summer resort for wealthy Eastern visitors. Stanley himself had relocated to Estes Park in 1903 seeking relief from tuberculosis, found it, and decided the Rocky Mountain air warranted a proper destination resort. The main building was among the first fully electrified hotels in the American West.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Nathrop — 2

Outdoor / Natural Site

St. Elmo Ghost Town

Nathrop, CO

Duplicate of the 'st-elmo' record. Both entries describe the same preserved 1880 Sawatch Range mining town in Chaffee County, Colorado. Flagged for human review and merge.

$ All Ages Family: High

Outdoor / Natural Site

St. Elmo

Nathrop, CO

St. Elmo, founded in 1880 in the Sawatch Range of central Colorado, reached a peak population approaching 2,000 during the silver and gold boom of the 1890s. The town has been continuously occupied since but never resettled at scale; surviving structures make it one of Colorado's best-preserved ghost towns.

$ All Ages Family: High

Poncha Springs — 2

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Jackson Hotel (Poncha Springs)

Poncha Springs, CO

The Jackson Hotel—originally the Poncha Springs Hotel—was established in 1878, making it the oldest surviving building from Poncha Springs' 1880 founding. It endured fires in 1893 and 1903 and has operated continuously near the junction of US-285 and US-50 in Chaffee County.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Outdoor / Natural Site

Poncha Pass

Poncha Springs, CO

Poncha Pass is a Rocky Mountain pass at 9,019 feet in central Colorado, carrying US Highway 285 between the Arkansas River drainage and the San Luis Valley. Unusual among Colorado passes for running north-south rather than east-west, Poncha was the site of an April 1855 military engagement with Ute peoples in which approximately 40 Utes and one U.S. soldier were killed.

$ All Ages Family: High

Silverton — 2

Aerial survey view of Animas Forks Ghost Town

Aerial survey · USDA NAIP

Outdoor / Natural Site

Animas Forks Ghost Town

Silverton, CO

Established in 1873 at 11,200 feet in the San Juan Mountains, Animas Forks was one of the highest-elevation mining settlements in Colorado. A 23-day blizzard in 1884 buried the town under 25 feet of snow, and a kitchen fire in 1891 destroyed 14 buildings. By the 1920s the town had been abandoned.

$ All Ages Family: Low

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Grand Imperial Hotel

Silverton, CO

Built in 1882 at the center of Silverton during the San Juan silver mining boom, the Grand Imperial Hotel is the site of the documented September 1890 suicide of Luigi Regalia, age 42, who shot himself in Room 314 and died the following morning.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Thornton — 2

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Brittany Hill

Thornton, CO

Brittany Hill was constructed in the early 1980s on an elevated lot in Thornton, Colorado. Originally opening as a restaurant with spectacular views of the Denver skyline and Rocky Mountains, it operated in this capacity for decades before being converted into a premier event and wedding venue. The venue features Tuscan-inspired architecture with elegant interior appointments including crystal chandeliers, exposed wood beams, and a distinctive tower structure.

$$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Aerial survey · USDA NAIP

Outdoor / Natural Site

Riverdale Road

Thornton, CO

Riverdale Road is a roughly eleven-mile rural roadway between Thornton and Brighton in Adams County, Colorado, paralleling the South Platte River. The corridor crosses historic agricultural land worked from the 1880s through the mid-twentieth century, much of it by migrant labor from Smelter operations in the broader Denver area.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Aspen — 1

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Hotel Jerome

Aspen, CO

Jerome B. Wheeler, then co-owner of Macy's department store, built the Hotel Jerome in 1889 at a cost of approximately $150,000. It was one of the first buildings west of the Mississippi with full electric lighting, and it became the social hub of Aspen's silver boom. The hotel declined with Aspen after the 1893 silver crash but survived as the town's only operating hotel, managed for decades by former bartender Mansor Elisha.

$$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Aurora — 1

Asylum / Hospital

Fitzsimons Army Medical Center

Aurora, CO

Fitzsimons Army Medical Center opened October 13, 1918, as U.S. Army General Hospital No. 21, established on 577 acres east of Denver to treat soldiers suffering from tuberculosis. Renamed in 1920 for Lt. William T. Fitzsimons — the first American medical officer killed in WWI — the facility grew into the Army's premier medical training center, treating casualties from WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. President Eisenhower convalesced there for seven weeks after his 1955 heart attack. The center closed June 8, 1996, and was redeveloped as the Anschutz Medical Campus.

$ All Ages Family: High

Black Hawk — 1

The Ameristar Casino Resort Spa Black Hawk, located in Black Hawk, Colorado.

Haunted Dining / Bar

The Gilpin Casino

Black Hawk, CO

The building at 111 Main Street in Black Hawk dates to 1896, built by Julius Kline on the site of Black Hawk's first schoolhouse. The structure served various functions — school, hotel, rooming house — across the 19th and 20th centuries before reopening as a casino in 1992 following Colorado's legalization of limited-stakes gaming. Its Mine Shaft Bar in the basement was a local landmark across multiple ownership eras.

$$ 21+ for gambling; dining and hotel may vary Family: Low

Castle Rock — 1

Outdoor / Natural Site

Castle Pines Golf Club

Castle Rock, CO

Castle Pines Golf Club is a private members-only club in Castle Rock, Colorado, founded by oil and gas executive Jack A. Vickers and designed by Jack Nicklaus. The course opened in October 1981 and hosted the PGA Tour's International tournament from 1986 through 2006.

$ Private club — access limited to members and guests Family: High

Creede — 1

Museum / Historical Site

Creede Underground Mining Museum

Creede, CO

Silver was discovered in Creede, Colorado in 1889, and within a year the town had grown from nothing to 10,000 people. It drew some of the frontier era's most notorious figures: Bob Ford (who killed Jesse James in Missouri in 1882) and con man Soapy Smith both operated there. The mines closed in 1985. Local miners subsequently blasted 600 feet of tunnels into the cliff above town to create the Underground Mining Museum, which opened to preserve Creede's silver era history.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Eads — 1

Other Dark Tourism Site

Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site

Eads, CO

On November 29, 1864, Colonel John Chivington led approximately 700 Colorado Territory militia troops in a surprise dawn attack on a peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho encampment on Sand Creek. The camp, led by Cheyenne chief Black Kettle, was flying a United States flag and a white flag of truce. An estimated 150 to 200 people — the majority women, children, and elderly — were killed and mutilated. The massacre was condemned by Congressional investigations at the time and is recognized today as an atrocity. The site was designated a National Historic Site in 2000 and is co-managed by the NPS and the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Englewood — 1

Arapahoe County, Cherry Creek Schoolhouse.

Other Dark Tourism Site

Cherry Creek High School

Englewood, CO

The one-room Cherry Creek Schoolhouse was built in 1874 and served the Cherry Creek School District No. 19 until consolidation forced its closure in 1951. The building sat on Parker Road before being relocated to the Cherry Creek High School campus in 1969, where it was restored as a museum classroom. It is one of Colorado's surviving examples of late 19th-century frontier school architecture.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Evergreen — 1

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Brook Forest Inn

Evergreen, CO

A small cabin was built on this 350-acre property in 1909 as a Westerfield family homestead. After the family abandoned the land during a harsh winter, Edwin and Riggi Welz took possession and established the Brook Forest Inn in 1919, offering running water, electricity, and baths. The inn has operated continuously since 1919 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. The three-story timber-and-stone structure maintains its historic character while serving as a bed-and-breakfast with 16 uniquely appointed rooms.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Fairplay — 1

The two-story wood-paneled Hand Hotel at the edge of Fairplay's Front Street, overlooking the South Platte River

Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Hand Hotel

Fairplay, CO

The Hand Hotel was built in 1931 by Jake and Jessie Hand at 531 Front Street in Fairplay, Colorado, during the tail of the South Platte gold-mining boom. The two-story log-and-wood-paneled lodge has been operating as a bed-and-breakfast continuously since opening in 1932 and is documented in the Library of Congress as a historic Halloween destination.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Florence — 1

Museum / Historical Site

Florence Hotel

Florence, CO

The Florence Hotel was built in two phases in 1890 and 1891, with the south section facing Pikes Peak Avenue and the north section facing Main Street. The two-story red brick building is downtown Florence's only example of Renaissance Revival architecture and is documented by History Colorado and the State Historical Marker program.

$ All Ages Family: High

Florissant — 1

Haunted Dining / Bar

Costello Coffee House

Florissant, CO

The building at 2679 US Hwy 24 in Florissant was constructed in 1886 and served as the private residence of James Castello and his wife Catherine Hughes Castello. James died in the home. Catherine died from burns after her dress caught fire. At least two of their children — Frank's son and daughter — also died in Florissant as young children. The building has operated as the Costello Coffee House for many years.

$ All Ages Family: High

Fort Morgan — 1

Tree-lined trail along the South Platte River at Riverside Park in Fort Morgan, Colorado

Outdoor / Natural Site

Nature Trails at Riverside Park

Fort Morgan, CO

Riverside Park in Fort Morgan, Colorado lies along the South Platte River in Morgan County, approximately 80 miles northeast of Denver. The trail corridor through dense cottonwood and wetland habitat has been a recreational feature of the city for generations. Fort Morgan was established in 1884 and grew as an agricultural center along the South Platte valley.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Grand Lake — 1

Outdoor / Natural Site

Grand Lake

Grand Lake, CO

Grand Lake is the largest and deepest natural lake in Colorado, at approximately 400 feet deep and 600 acres in surface area. It sits at 8,369 feet of elevation at the southwest entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park. The lake was a seasonal site for Ute hunting and fishing for centuries before American settlement; the town of Grand Lake was platted in 1881 as a silver-mining and resort community.

$ All Ages Family: High

Greeley — 1

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Quality Inn and Conference Center Greeley Downtown (formerly Ramkota / Clarion)

Greeley, CO

The Clarion Hotel and Conference Center, formerly known as the Ramkota Hotel, occupies the downtown Greeley site of the old Chief Theatre. The 146-room property at 701 8th Street has changed brands across decades but retains the address and building footprint that anchor its long-running ghost tradition.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Hartsel — 1

Exterior of the Highline Cafe and Saloon, the former Mountain Muffin Restaurant, along Highway 24 in Hartsel, Colorado

Haunted Dining / Bar

Highline Cafe and Saloon (Former Mountain Muffin)

Hartsel, CO

The Highline Cafe and Saloon (formerly Mountain Muffin Restaurant) occupies an early-1900s commercial building in Hartsel, Colorado, the small Park County community known as "The Heart of Colorado" for its position at the geographic center of the state. The building was an ice cream parlor in the early 1900s before housing a succession of cafes through the 20th and 21st centuries.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Highlands Ranch — 1

Haunted House / Historic Home

Highlands Ranch Mansion

Highlands Ranch, CO

The Highlands Ranch Mansion is a 22,000-square-foot estate house in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, originally built in 1891 by homesteader Samuel Allen Long and expanded by successive owners John W. Springer and Lawrence Phipps Jr. The mansion sits on the historic ranch that became the suburban community of Highlands Ranch and is now operated as a public historic site by the local metro district.

$ All Ages Family: High

La Veta — 1

Museum / Historical Site

Francisco Fort Museum

La Veta, CO

John M. Francisco established this adobe trading post at the foot of the Spanish Peaks in 1862, and the small town of La Veta grew up around it. The fort is the last surviving original adobe fort in Colorado and now operates as the Francisco Fort Museum, run by the Huerfano County Historical Society.

$ All Ages Family: High

Lake City — 1

Museum / Historical Site

Hinsdale County Museum

Lake City, CO

In February 1874, Alferd Packer agreed to guide five prospectors — Shannon Bell, Israel Swan, George Noon, Frank Miller, and James Humphrey — through the snow-covered San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado toward the Los Pinos Indian Agency. When Packer arrived alone at the agency in April 1874, he was visibly well-fed despite the harsh conditions. He gave conflicting accounts of what had happened to his companions. Their remains were discovered in August 1874 by a Harper's Weekly illustrator, John Randolph, near what is now called Cannibal Plateau. Packer was not tried until 1883, when a witness identified him in Cheyenne; he was convicted of manslaughter in 1886 and served 17 years before his sentence was commuted in 1901.

$ All Ages Family: Low

Littleton — 1

Aerial survey view of Littleton Cemetery

Aerial survey · USDA NAIP

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Littleton Cemetery

Littleton, CO

Littleton Cemetery at 6155 S Prince Street is the burial site of Alfred Packer (1842-1907), a Civil War veteran and mountain guide convicted of killing and eating five fellow prospectors during a brutal Rocky Mountain winter in 1874. He was tried twice and spent time in prison before a conditional parole in 1901. He died on April 23, 1907, and was buried with a military funeral.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Loveland — 1

Theater / Performance Venue

Rialto Theater Center

Loveland, CO

Loveland's Rialto Theater opened in May 1920 as a silent movie house and operated continuously through most of the 20th century, closing and then reopening in 1995. A projectionist named Clarence Herrin died of a heart attack in the projection booth on October 8, 1957, while threading the final reel of 'Island in the Sun.'

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Ludlow — 1

Other Dark Tourism Site

Ludlow Massacre Site

Ludlow, CO

The Ludlow Massacre on April 20, 1914 was the bloodiest event of the Colorado Coalfield War, a labor dispute between the United Mine Workers of America and Colorado Fuel and Iron Company — controlled by John D. Rockefeller Jr. Colorado National Guard soldiers and company-paid guards attacked the strikers' tent colony, killing four men, two women, and eleven children. The eleven children and two women died when the tent above their hand-dug cellar shelter was set alight. The site is a National Historic Landmark owned and maintained by the UMWA.

$ All Ages Family: High

Mead — 1

Aerial survey · USDA NAIP

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Mead Cemetery

Mead, CO

Mead Cemetery in Weld County, Colorado contains headstones dating to the 1800s, placing its origins in the post-Civil War settlement era of the American West. Mead itself was incorporated as an agricultural community in Weld County during the late 19th century.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Morrison — 1

Outdoor / Natural Site

Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre

Morrison, CO

John Brisben Walker staged concerts in the natural rock formations from 1906 to 1910, calling the site the Garden of the Titans. The City of Denver purchased the property for $50,000 in 1928. Between 1935 and 1941, Civilian Conservation Corps workers built the amphitheatre using 800 tons of quarried stone and 30,000 pounds of reinforced steel. The venue was dedicated June 15, 1941, with Colorado Governor Ralph Carr and Denver Mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton presiding.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Platoro — 1

Three-story log lodge in a high-altitude San Juan Mountain valley

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Sky Line Lodge

Platoro, CO

Sky Line Lodge was built in 1945 in the gold and silver mining town of Platoro, Colorado, founded in the early 1880s in the San Juan Mountains at an elevation near 10,000 feet. The lodge is a three-story log structure containing a general store, restaurant, and guest rooms, and operates seasonally from Memorial Day weekend through the end of September.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Salida — 1

Haunted Dining / Bar

Amicas Restaurant (former Stewart Mortuary)

Salida, CO

The building at 136 E 2nd St in Salida began as a furniture store around 1890, then served as the Stewart Mortuary for most of the 20th century before transitioning to commercial and restaurant use. It currently operates as Amicas, a pizza and beer establishment.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Silver Cliff — 1

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Silver Cliff Cemetery

Silver Cliff, CO

Silver Cliff Cemetery serves the small mining town of Silver Cliff in Colorado's Wet Mountain Valley. The cemetery has been documented for over a century as the site of unexplained blue-white 'ghost lights' that appear among the headstones at night, most famously profiled in the August 1969 issue of National Geographic.

$ All Ages Family: High

Silver Plume — 1

Historic Silver Plume train station in Clear Creek County, Colorado

Outdoor / Natural Site

Silver Plume (Clifford Griffin Grave / 7:30 Mine Trail)

Silver Plume, CO

Silver Plume is a former silver-mining town in Clear Creek County, Colorado, established around 1870 and incorporated in 1880. The town survived a devastating 1884 fire and a double avalanche in January 1899 that killed several residents. Its most documented ghost story centers on Clifford Griffin, a Cambridge-educated mine superintendent who played violin on a cliff overlooking town each evening from 1880 until June 19, 1887, when he died by self-inflicted gunshot in a grave he had cut from solid rock.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Victor — 1

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Victor Hotel

Victor, CO

Victor, Colorado boomed after gold was discovered in the Cripple Creek district in 1891. The original Victor Hotel structure burned in an 1899 fire that destroyed much of the town. The Woods brothers — Frank and Harry Woods, who founded Victor — rebuilt the hotel in brick and stone, completing the current four-story structure in 1900. The building served simultaneously as a bank (ground floor) and hotel (upper floors), and the fourth floor was used to store bodies in winter when the frozen ground prevented burial.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

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