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Seasonal 90-minute guided walking tour of haunted downtown Idaho Falls, running June through October from Civitan Plaza.
510 Park Ave, Idaho Falls, ID 83402
Research updated June 2026
Age
All Ages
Cost
$
Approximately $15 per person. Reservations required; credit-card bookings must be cancelled at least 24 hours ahead.
Access
Wheelchair OK
Paved downtown sidewalks; the operator describes the tour as wheelchair friendly.
Equipment
Photos OK
Seasonal (June-October) guided ghost tour of downtown Idaho Falls · Operated by Kathy Nave, who describes herself as a psychic medium · Meets at Civitan Plaza, 510 Park Ave; runs ~90 minutes for ~$15 · Stops include the Colonial Theater and the Rogers Building · Themed around a downtown tunnel system and a 'Ghost Alley'
Ghost Walk Idaho Falls is a downtown walking tour built around the history and ghost lore of Idaho Falls' older commercial core. It is operated by Kathy Nave, who guides the tour herself and describes herself as a psychic medium. According to the tour's own materials and local coverage, she has spent years researching the area's past.
The tour operates seasonally, opening around mid-June and running through October, with tours offered on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights. It meets at Civitan Plaza, 510 Park Ave, and runs approximately 90 minutes for about $15 per person; reservations are required and the operator lists a 24-hour cancellation policy for credit-card bookings. The route is described as wheelchair friendly.
The walk covers a set of historic downtown buildings and a 'Ghost Alley,' along with a recurring theme of a downtown tunnel system. Stories told along the route include brothels, lost children, murders, and suicides; recurring stops are the Colonial Theater, with its 'Lady in Green' legend, and the Rogers Building, the former Rogers Hotel.
The tour has been covered by East Idaho News and BYU-Idaho Radio and carries independent visitor reviews on travel platforms confirming it as an active, regularly operating attraction. As with any ghost tour, the historical claims made along the route range from documented local history to operator-told legend, and HauntBound notes where a stop's story is undocumented on that location's own page.
Sources
The Ghost Walk's content is the lore itself: the tour exists to retell the haunting stories attached to downtown Idaho Falls. The most prominent of these is the 'Lady in Green,' a woman said to have died at the Colonial Theater (then the Paramount Theatre) around 1962, whose presence staff and tour guests associate with moans, self-illuminating dressing-room lights, and the sound of a woman crying.
Other recurring stops carry their own narratives: the Rogers Building, the former Rogers Hotel, where the operator tells of a child named Amy; and Ford's Bar, where lore describes a cowboy who objects to anyone sitting on his particular barstool. A downtown tunnel system threads through several of the stories as a connecting theme.
These accounts are presented by the operator as a mix of researched local history and ghost lore. Several of the specific stories, including the Amy narrative, are not independently documented in newspaper archives, and HauntBound flags that uncertainty on the individual venue pages rather than presenting the tour's claims as established fact.
Notable Entities
An approximately 90-minute guided walking tour led by Kathy Nave through downtown Idaho Falls, covering historic buildings, a 'Ghost Alley,' and stories of brothels, lost children, murders, and suicides tied to the area's downtown tunnel-system theme. Stops include the Colonial Theater and the Rogers Building.
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