Aerial survey · USDA NAIP · public domainThe hillside burial ground where gunslinger Doc Holliday was laid to rest in 1887 — his exact grave remains unmarked and unknown
Trailhead at 12th St and Bennett Ave, Glenwood Springs, CO 81601
Research updated June 2026
Age
All Ages
Cost
Free
Cemetery open to the public at no charge; Ghost Walk events held by the Glenwood Springs Historical Society in October require separate tickets
Access
Limited Access
Steep hillside trail from 12th Street; unpaved paths between grave sections with significant elevation gain
Equipment
Photos OK
Est. 1885 · Burial site of Doc Holliday (November 8, 1887) · Kid Curry (Hole-in-the-Wall Gang) interred here · Annual Ghost Walk hosted by Glenwood Springs Historical Society since at least the 1990s
Doc Holliday — born John Henry Holliday in 1851 in Griffin, Georgia — arrived in Glenwood Springs in May 1887, seeking relief in the mineral hot springs after years of advancing tuberculosis. He was 36 years old and had outlived most of his contemporaries from the O.K. Corral era. He checked into the Hotel Glenwood at 8th and Grand Avenue, where he spent the last months of his life.
On November 8, 1887, Holliday died at the hotel. He was buried at Linwood Cemetery, then known as a small hillside graveyard accessed by a steep trail from town. The wooden marker placed at his grave did not survive, and the cemetery's early record-keeping was inconsistent enough that no one can confirm precisely where he lies. A cenotaph marker erected decades later acknowledges this uncertainty directly.
The Glenwood Springs Historical Society has organized an annual Ghost Walk at Linwood for decades each October, using the cemetery's documented residents — Holliday, Kid Curry (a Hole-in-the-Wall Gang associate who also died in Glenwood Springs), and others — as the foundation for a historically grounded theatrical event. The walk has become a significant regional tradition, with actors portraying figures whose documented deaths at this location give the event unusual historical specificity.
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The uncertainty of Holliday's grave has made Linwood a site of recurring paranormal claims since the mid-20th century. Without a confirmed location to focus attention, accounts tend to be diffuse: visitors report an unsettled feeling along the upper hillside paths, and some Ghost Walk participants have described experiences they attribute to Holliday's presence near the cenotaph.
Kid Curry, also buried at Linwood after being shot by a posse in 1904, adds a second documented violent death to the cemetery's roster. Ghost Walk actors report that performing on these grounds, particularly in the section near Curry's grave, feels different from theatrical staging elsewhere — a claim consistent with what guides at other historically grounded cemeteries have noted.
The annual event organized by the Historical Society stops well short of claiming verified paranormal activity, framing the experience as history theater. Still, the combination of two nationally recognized figures from the frontier era dying and being buried here, with one grave lost and the other the scene of a gunshot death, gives Linwood a documented historical density that drives continued visitor interest beyond the October event.
Notable Entities
A self-guided walk through Linwood Cemetery's hillside grounds, including a visit to the cenotaph marker for Doc Holliday. Since no confirmed grave location exists, the marker serves as a memorial rather than an authenticated burial site.
An annual October event organized by the Glenwood Springs Historical Society, featuring costumed actors portraying Doc Holliday, Kid Curry, and other historical figures buried at Linwood. Running for decades, it draws regional crowds and is among the most recognized ghost walk events in western Colorado.
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