Haunted Colorado

42 haunted destinations cataloged across Colorado, spanning 28 counties. The collection features haunted hotel, outdoor, and museum — every listing verified with family ratings, accessibility info, and practical visit logistics.

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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

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

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

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

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

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Denver — 5

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

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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

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

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

Colorado Springs — 2

British Home Shop building exterior, Colorado Springs

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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

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

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

Thornton — 2

Brittany Hill tower structure overlooking Denver metropolitan area

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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

A curving two-lane rural road through agricultural land along Colorado's South Platte River

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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

Aurora — 1

Art Deco facade of the historic Fitzsimons Building on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colorado

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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

Boulder — 1

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

Castle Rock — 1

Mountain ridge and pine-edged fairway at the entrance to Castle Pines Golf Club

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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

Evergreen — 1

The Brook Forest Inn, located at 8136 South Brook Forest Road in Evergreen, Colorado. The property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Object location39° 34′ 46″ N, 105° 22′ 56″ W View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap 39.579444; -105.382222

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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

Florence — 1

Two-story red brick Renaissance Revival Florence Hotel, Florence, Colorado

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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 Collins — 1

The Helmshire Inn building on South College Avenue in Fort Collins, Colorado

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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

Fort Morgan — 1

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

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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 Junction — 1

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

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

Exterior of the Clarion Hotel and Conference Center in downtown Greeley, Colorado, formerly the Ramkota Hotel

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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

Littleton — 1

Alfred Packer's grave with bench and wolfstone in Littleton Cemetery, near S Prince St, Littleton, Colorado

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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

Manitou Springs — 1

The mountainside Miramont Castle in Manitou Springs, Colorado, with its mix of Queen Anne and Moorish architectural elements

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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

Mead — 1

Rural cemetery in Mead, Colorado with 19th-century headstones

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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

Ouray — 1

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

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

Poncha Springs — 1

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

Pueblo — 1

Historic grave markers at Pioneer Cemetery, the oldest cemetery in Pueblo, Colorado

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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

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

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