Salida's West Sackett Avenue Red Light District · The Victorian Hotel · Salida Opera House
US Ghost Adventures, the multi-city ghost-tour network, operates a standardized Salida product under the local consumer brand 'Salida Terrors.' The Shadows, Spooks, and Spirits of Salida Ghost Tour is a roughly 1-mile walking tour meeting nightly by Lowry Rock on the edge of Riverside Park, across the street from the Boathouse Cantina at 228 N F St, covering the Victorian Hotel — a building that operated over the decades as a brothel, tavern, music hall, and butcher shop — the Salida Opera House, and the Palace Hotel.
The tour is corroborated as an operating city program by a GetYourGuide listing for the 'Shadows, Spooks, and Spirits Ghost Tour,' priced from $32 per person with a 4.2 provider rating.
Sources
- https://usghostadventures.com/salida-ghost-tour/
- https://www.getyourguide.com/salida-colorado-l191218/
ApparitionsDisembodied VoicesUnexplained Photographic Anomalies
According to US Ghost Adventures, the Victorian Hotel — which operated as a brothel, tavern, music hall, and butcher shop over the decades — is haunted by victims of drunken shootouts and the 'working girls' who once staffed it. The operator's narration around the West Sackett Avenue Red Light District centers on Laura Evans, a madame who ran a nearby brothel, offered beds to the sick during the Spanish Flu, and died in the 1950s but is said to remain at her former place of business. At the Palace Hotel, the operator attributes reported activity to a figure nicknamed the 'Tall Man,' said to interact playfully with children.
All of this is the tour operator's own marketing material, not documented history independently verified for this listing; it is included here as a description of what the tour covers, not as an endorsement of any specific claim.
