Licking-Riverside Historic District (Covington, KY) · Featured in the Northern Kentucky CVB's Kentucky After Dark program · Roebling Suspension Bridge corridor
River City Tours is a small Northern Kentucky operator running walking tours of Covington and Newport, Kentucky, guided in 2026 by Chris, a locally reviewed tour guide. Its flagship Covington product, the Ghosts of Covington Haunted History Tour, walks roughly two miles through the Licking-Riverside Historic District, a riverfront neighborhood of well-preserved 19th-century homes directly across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, Ohio.
The tour begins at the John A. Roebling statue on Riverside Drive, near the Kentucky approach to the Roebling Suspension Bridge, and proceeds through the district past historic homes, a former mansion-turned-cultural-center, and river-adjacent commercial sites. The tour has been featured in the Northern Kentucky Convention & Visitors Bureau's Kentucky After Dark passport program, which highlights the region's haunted-travel attractions.
The operator does not maintain a standalone operator-owned website as of this listing; its current, actively updated booking presence is on major OTA platforms (GetYourGuide, Viator, TripAdvisor, Marriott Activities, Expedia), where reviews as recent as August 2026 confirm ongoing operation.
Sources
- https://www.tripadvisor.com/AttractionProductReview-g39299-d27455137-Ghosts_of_Covington_Haunted_History_Tour-Covington_Kentucky.html
- https://www.meetnky.com/northern-kentucky-after-dark/
- https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g60993-d25929580-Reviews-River_City_Tours-Cincinnati_Ohio.html
Multiple stop-specific hauntings (see individual tourStops entries)True-crime and murder/suicide history presented alongside ghost lore
The operator's own tour description frames the Ghosts of Covington route as a mix of ghost lore and documented true crime: stories tied to people who escaped slavery, river ship captains, and Civil War-era soldiers, plus accounts of murders and suicides in the district's historic buildings. Individual stop-level legends (the Gray Lady at Carneal House, Sarah Shinkle at the Shinkle Townhouse, the horseback rider at the Henry Bruce Mansion, the child's ghost at Baker-Hunt, and the elevator and lights at Molly Malone's) are documented independently on each stop's own corpus entry.
This summary describes what the tour covers per the operator's own marketing, not an independent verification of every claim made on the walk.
Media Appearances
- Northern Kentucky Convention & Visitors Bureau (Kentucky After Dark)
