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1924 Concrete Hotel With a Small Red-Haired Presence Upstairs
45951 Main St, Concrete, WA 98237
Research updated August 2026
Age
All Ages
Cost
$$
Hotel room rates approximately $85-120/night based on booking platform listings.
Access
Limited Access
Historic multi-floor building; stairs required to access upper floors
Equipment
Photos OK
Est. 1924 · Historic Commercial Building · Pacific Northwest History
Concrete, Washington occupies a narrow stretch of the Skagit Valley in Skagit County, roughly 55 miles east of Mount Vernon and at the western approach to the North Cascades. The town takes its name from the Superior Portland Cement plant that operated here from 1905 until 1968, making it for a time one of the most productive cement production sites in the Pacific Northwest.
The Mt. Baker Hotel was built in 1924 on Main Street in downtown Concrete. Over the following century it cycled through multiple identities — rooming house, liquor store, cafe, barber shop, and office building — before settling into its current form as a boutique hotel with suite-style accommodations. The building's exterior and core structure retain their 1924 character.
The property is part of the organized ghost walk circuit in Concrete, and paranormal investigation teams have documented activity there including loud knocking on second-floor walls and disembodied footstep sounds in the basement stairwell. The Wahauntedhouses.com entry notes audio recordings of footsteps in the lobby while investigators were on the upper floors.
Sources
One description accounts for essentially everything published about this hotel's ghost.
Three haunted-places directories describe a girl of about four on the upper floor, red-haired, in a pink shirt and denim shorts, who tries to push guests toward the staircase without ever quite connecting. The wording tracks so closely between them -- the same age, the same clothes, the same unsuccessful push -- that they read as one entry copied onward rather than three people reporting the same thing.
That distinction matters here more than usual. Repetition can look like corroboration: if three sites say the same specific thing, it feels confirmed. But identical phrasing is evidence of copying, not of three witnesses, and this venue has no first-hand account, dated sighting, named witness or local news report behind the description.
The same directories attach an origin story -- that the child was killed by her mother. No name, no date, no record, and nothing outside that one repeated block of text supports it. A 2025 Cascadia Daily News feature on the area's hauntings does not carry it. We record that the claim circulates and leave it there; a child's death is not something to assert on an aggregator's say-so.
Stay in one of the hotel's 1-bedroom or 2-bedroom suites in the 1924 building at the center of downtown Concrete. Rooms include separate bedrooms, spacious bathrooms with bathtubs, and wet bars. The upper floor is where the apparition of a young red-haired girl is most frequently reported, along with knocking sounds on the second-floor walls and footsteps from the basement stairs.
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