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Private Walking Tour of Santa Fe Plaza's Haunted Hotels and Historic Buildings
100 Sandoval St (Hilton Santa Fe), Santa Fe, NM 87501
Research updated August 2026
Age
All Ages
Cost
$$
Ghostwalkers Tour: $40 per person, minimum of 4 guests. Pricing per the operator's own site.
Access
Wheelchair OK
Outdoor walking tour of downtown Santa Fe around the historic Plaza, with stops inside historic hotels.
Equipment
Photos OK
Santa Fe Plaza National Historic Landmark District · Santa Fe adobe hotel architecture
Historic Walks of Santa Fe has operated in downtown Santa Fe for more than two decades under owner Carol Imrie-Mui, whose guides are drawn from local museum docents. The company's core business is general history, art-gallery, and culinary walking tours of the Santa Fe Plaza and Canyon Road districts, alongside its Ghostwalkers tour, which the Travel Channel featured in an episode of "Mysteries of Route 66."
The Ghostwalkers tour draws on Santa Fe's well-documented adobe architecture and hotel history, including stops at La Posada de Santa Fe (the historic Staab House) and La Fonda on the Plaza, both independently documented elsewhere in this corpus. The Albuquerque Journal has covered the company's guided tours, including their ghost-story offerings, as part of its coverage of Santa Fe tourism.
Sources
The Ghostwalkers tour covers stories the operator has collected about Santa Fe's haunted buildings, including the reported haunting of Julia Staub at La Posada de Santa Fe, tied to the hotel's history as the Staab family mansion, and a local legend involving a bride's death connected to La Fonda on the Plaza. The tour has been running for years and was featured in a Travel Channel episode of "Mysteries of Route 66."
This is the tour operator's own marketing material and collected local legend, not documented history independently verified for this listing. The two hotel stops each carry their own independently sourced history and haunting accounts elsewhere in this corpus.
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A roughly 90-minute private walking tour covering Santa Fe's haunted legends, including stories tied to La Posada de Santa Fe (Staab House) and La Fonda on the Plaza. Tickets are $40 per person, minimum of 4 guests; all tours are private and reservations are required. Meets on the Historic Santa Fe Plaza at 10 AM.
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Named stop on the Ghostwalkers Tour, tied to the operator's account of Julia Staub's reported haunting.
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