Haunted Wyoming

43 haunted destinations cataloged across Wyoming, spanning 19 counties. The collection features museum, haunted hotel, and haunted house — every listing verified with family ratings, accessibility info, and practical visit logistics.

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Top 6

Prison / Reformatory

Wyoming Frontier Prison

Rawlins, WY

Construction of the Wyoming Frontier Prison began in 1888 and completed in December 1901, opening with 104 cells, no electricity, no running water, and minimal heating. Over its operational history, 13,500 people were incarcerated there and 14 death sentences were carried out — nine by hanging and five in the gas chamber added in 1936. The prison closed in 1981 when a new facility opened near Rawlins.

$$ Guided tours: all ages (dogs on leash welcome). Ghost hunts: 18+ with photo ID. Family: Moderate

Theater / Performance Venue

Historic Atlas Theatre

Cheyenne, WY

The Atlas Theatre building went up in 1887 at the corner of West Lincolnway and Capitol Avenue in downtown Cheyenne. Converted from a confectionery-and-offices block into a theatre in 1908, it has served as a movie house, a nightclub, and, since 1966, a home for the Cheyenne Little Theatre Players, who bought it in 1971. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Sheridan Inn

Sheridan, WY

The Sheridan Inn opened on May 27, 1893, and was hailed as the finest hotel between Chicago and San Francisco. Buffalo Bill Cody, who held a part interest in the property, made it the auditioning headquarters for his Wild West Show, hiring riders, ropers, and trick shooters from the Inn's broad front porch.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

Museum / Historical Site

Sweetwater County Library

Green River, WY

The Sweetwater County Library in Green River, Wyoming, opened in 1980 on land that served as Green River's first official cemetery from 1862 until the early twentieth century. During multiple construction and renovation projects from 1926 forward, human remains were repeatedly found on the site, including during the 1978–1979 library construction.

$ All Ages Family: High

Museum / Historical Site

Fort Bridger State Historic Site

Fort Bridger, WY

Fort Bridger was established in 1843 by mountain man Jim Bridger and Louis Vasquez as a fur trading post and resupply stop on the Oregon, California, and Mormon trails. The U.S. Army took control in 1858 during the Utah War and operated the fort as a military outpost until 1890. The site is now a 37-acre Wyoming state historic site with 27 surviving historic structures.

$ All Ages Family: High

Museum / Historical Site

Fort Laramie National Historic Site

Fort Laramie, WY

Fort Laramie originated in 1834 as a private fur-trading post called Fort William on the North Platte River in present-day Wyoming. The U.S. Army acquired the site in 1849, making Fort Laramie the largest and best-known military post on the Northern Plains. The fort was abandoned in 1890; it became a National Monument in 1938 and a National Historic Site in 1960.

$ All Ages Family: High

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Casper — 7

Museum / Historical Site

Casper Elks Lodge No. 1353

Casper, WY

The Casper Elks Lodge No. 1353 building was completed in the early 1920s on the corner of E 7th and Center Streets and has served as the home of the local Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks ever since. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Museum / Historical Site

Crimson Dawn Park & Museum

Casper, WY

In 1929 the artist and writer Neal Forsling moved with her two daughters to a one-room log cabin on Casper Mountain and began inventing stories about witches who live on the mountain and reveal themselves on Midsummer's Eve. She donated the homestead to Natrona County in 1973 to preserve it, and it is now the Crimson Dawn Park & Museum.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Haunted House / Historic Home

Ivy House (Former B&B, Now Turning Point Self-Help Center)

Casper, WY

The Ivy House was built in 1916 by Mr. and Mrs. White in Casper, Wyoming, on the edge of the Rocky Mountains. After Mrs. White's death in 1995 it became a bed and breakfast in 1996, and in 2009 the property was sold to Turning Point Self-Help Center.

$ All Ages (exterior viewing only) Family: High

The historic Rialto building at 100 E 2nd Street in downtown Casper, Wyoming

Haunted Dining / Bar

Rialto Soda Fountain (Rialto Building)

Casper, WY

The Rialto building at 100 E 2nd Street in Casper opened in 1922 as McDonald's Cigar Store and added a soda fountain in 1925, becoming the Rialto Soda Fountain and Cigar Store. The Panos family ran it from 1929 into the 1980s. Rob and Vivian Piotter reopened the soda fountain in June 2018.

$ All Ages Family: High

Aerial survey view of The Townsend Hotel (now Townsend Justice Center)

Aerial survey · USDA NAIP

Other Dark Tourism Site

The Townsend Hotel (now Townsend Justice Center)

Casper, WY

Built in 1923 by businessman Charles H. Townsend and designed by Garbutt, Weidner & Sweeney, the five-story Townsend Hotel was Casper's premier hotel and a hub of its early social and political life. Closed in 1982 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, it was purchased by Natrona County, renovated in 2008-2009, and reopened as the Townsend Justice Center.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Ghost Tour / Walking Tour

US Ghost Adventures Casper

Casper, WY

US Ghost Adventures runs its Casper program, marketed under 'Casper Ghosts' and 'Casper Haunts,' as a nightly downtown walking tour meeting outside Lou Taubert Ranch Outfitters and covering the Wonder Bar, the Rialto building, the Odd Fellows Building, and Fort Caspar Museum.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Other Dark Tourism Site

Wonder Bar (former)

Casper, WY

The Wonder Bar building at 256 S Center Street in Casper dates to 1914. The Wonder Bar name moved to this location around 1937. It was a long-running downtown saloon, briefly renamed Rock Bottom in 1988 after a run of violence near the bar. After a 2016-2017 renovation and reopening, the bar closed permanently in 2019, and the building was redeveloped as a steakhouse.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Cheyenne — 5

Museum / Historical Site

Cheyenne Depot Museum

Cheyenne, WY

The Union Pacific Railroad built the Cheyenne Depot in 1886-1887 as its largest station west of Council Bluffs, Iowa. Designed by Van Brunt & Howe in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, the sandstone landmark anchored downtown Cheyenne for nearly a century. Restored in the 1990s, it now houses the Cheyenne Depot Museum, founded in 1993, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2006.

$ All Ages Family: High

Victorian-era brick officers' quarters at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming

Battlefield / Military Site

F.E. Warren Air Force Base (Fort D.A. Russell)

Cheyenne, WY

Fort D.A. Russell was established in 1867 near Cheyenne to protect Union Pacific railroad construction crews from conflicts with Native peoples whose land the railroad crossed. It became F.E. Warren Air Force Base in 1947 and is now headquarters for Air Force Global Strike Command's 90th Missile Wing, making it one of the oldest continuously occupied military installations in the country.

$ 18+ Family: Moderate

Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Historic Plains Hotel

Cheyenne, WY

The Plains Hotel opened with a lavish grand opening on March 9, 1911, in downtown Cheyenne, then nicknamed 'The Magic City of the Plains.' The five-story, roughly $250,000 hotel featured 100 guest rooms, three elevators, private baths, and a telephone in every room, an extraordinary luxury for its era. It still operates today as The Historic Plains Hotel at 1600 Central Avenue.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Other Dark Tourism Site

St. Mark's Episcopal Church

Cheyenne, WY

St. Mark's Episcopal Church is the oldest Episcopal parish in Wyoming, established in 1868. Its Gothic Revival stone building at 1908 Central Avenue was designed by architect Henry M. Congdon and constructed between 1886 and 1888, with first services held August 19, 1888. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

$ All Ages Family: High

St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Cheyenne — a stop on this tour.

Ghost Tour / Walking Tour

US Ghost Adventures Cheyenne

Cheyenne, WY

US Ghost Adventures operates its Cheyenne program under the consumer brand Cheyenne Ghosts, running a nightly downtown walking tour from the Wyoming State Capitol Building.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Laramie — 5

Haunted Dining / Bar

Buckhorn Bar & Parlor

Laramie, WY

The Buckhorn Bar & Parlor at 114 East Ivinson Avenue is Laramie's oldest bar, established in 1900 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Its second floor operated as a brothel into the 1950s and became the upstairs Parlor in the early 1970s. The bar is known for a bullet hole in the mirror behind the bar and for ghost lore reported by staff. It has remained a fixture of downtown Laramie and the University of Wyoming community for more than a century.

$ 21+ Family: High

Exterior of the Cooper Mansion in Laramie, Wyoming, a 1921 Mission and Pueblo Revival home now used by the University of Wyoming

Haunted House / Historic Home

Cooper Mansion (Cooper House, University of Wyoming)

Laramie, WY

The Cooper Mansion in Laramie was designed and built in 1921 by Laramie architect Wilbur Hitchcock for the children of Frank Cooper, a wealthy English-born rancher and oil and mineral-rights investor who died in 1918. Richard, John, and Barbara Cooper based the house in part on a property in Santa Barbara, California, and its combination of Mission Revival and Pueblo Revival styling is unusual for Wyoming. The University of Wyoming acquired the property in 1980 and now houses its American Studies program there. The mansion was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

$ All Ages Family: High

Museum / Historical Site

Knight Hall (University of Wyoming)

Laramie, WY

Knight Hall is a Collegiate Gothic stone building on the University of Wyoming campus in Laramie, built by the Works Progress Administration with a core completed in 1941 and a west wing added in 1946. Designed by architect Wilber Hitchcock, it served for decades as a women's dormitory before being converted to administrative offices. It is named for Emma Howell Knight, UW's first full-time dean of women. The site had earlier been part of an early Laramie cemetery whose burials were relocated in the 1870s and 1880s.

$ All Ages Family: High

Museum / Historical Site

Laramie Plains Civic Center

Laramie, WY

The Laramie Plains Civic Center at 710 Garfield Street was constructed in 1878 as the East Side School, making it the oldest school building in Wyoming. The building served as a school until 1979 and became a civic center in 1982. Its 167,000 square feet now include a theater, gymnasium, ballroom, and the original east wing classrooms.

$ All Ages Family: High

Historic facade of Wyoming Territorial Penitentiary stone main building in Laramie Wyoming

Prison / Reformatory

Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site

Laramie, WY

Wyoming Territorial Prison was built in 1872 in Laramie with two-foot-thick walls of hand-quarried limestone trimmed in red sandstone. It operated as a federal penitentiary until 1890 and then as Wyoming's first state prison until 1901, when operations transferred to Rawlins. Notable inmates included Butch Cassidy, who served 18 months in the broom factory beginning in 1894. The site was restored in 1991 and is on the National Register of Historic Places.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Cody — 3

Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Chamberlin Inn

Cody, WY

The Chamberlin Inn grew from a boarding house Agnes Chamberlin opened in 1903 across from the Cody Enterprise, where she worked for Buffalo Bill Cody. Over about 14 years several buildings were combined into a hotel. Ernest Hemingway stayed in 1932. After several name and ownership changes, it was restored and reopened as the Chamberlin Inn, an operating boutique hotel.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Buffalo Bill's Irma Hotel

Cody, WY

Buffalo Bill's Irma Hotel opened on November 1, 1902, in Cody, Wyoming. William F. Cody spent approximately $80,000 of his own funds building the property and named it for his youngest daughter, Irma. The hotel was conceived as a stopover for visitors traveling to Yellowstone National Park.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

Buffalo Bill's Irma Hotel in Cody — a stop on this tour.

Ghost Tour / Walking Tour

US Ghost Adventures Cody

Cody, WY

US Ghost Adventures operates its Cody program under the consumer brand Cody Ghosts, running a nightly downtown walking tour from the Buffalo Bill Center of the West.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Banner — 1

Aerial survey view of Fort Phil Kearny State Historic Site

Aerial survey · USDA NAIP

Battlefield / Military Site

Fort Phil Kearny State Historic Site

Banner, WY

Fort Phil Kearny was established in July 1866 at the confluence of Big and Little Piney Creeks, on land Red Cloud's Lakota Sioux considered treaty-protected territory. For the 22 months of its existence, the post averaged more than one soldier killed per week. On December 21, 1866, Crazy Horse led a decoy party that lured Lt. Col. William Fetterman and 80 men over Lodge Trail Ridge into an ambush by roughly 1,500 Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors. The 81 dead represented the Army's worst defeat in Plains warfare up to that point.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Buffalo — 1

The Historic Occidental Hotel, a restored brick frontier hotel on Main Street in Buffalo, Wyoming

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Historic Occidental Hotel & Saloon

Buffalo, WY

The Occidental opened in 1880, a decade before Wyoming statehood, and grew into one of Buffalo's grand hotels on the Bozeman Trail. Its guest list runs from Calamity Jane and Butch Cassidy to Teddy Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover, and writer Owen Wister drew on the cowboys and outlaws he met in its bar for his 1902 novel 'The Virginian.'

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Devils Tower — 1

Devils Tower, on west bank of Belle Fourche River, south of Hulett. Crook Wyoming. Circa 1900. Plate 17, as Ives Three Color Process, in U.S. Geological Survey. Professional paper 32. 1905, figure 1 in U.S. Geological Survey. Folio 150. 1907.

Outdoor / Natural Site

Devils Tower National Monument

Devils Tower, WY

Devils Tower, known to many Plains tribes as Mato Tipila or Bear Lodge, is an 867-foot igneous butte in the Black Hills region of northeastern Wyoming. It was the first site designated as a U.S. National Monument, declared by President Theodore Roosevelt on September 24, 1906. The name 'Devils Tower' originated with a 1875 military expedition in which an interpreter mistranslated a Lakota name as 'Bad God's Tower.'

$ All Ages Family: High

Encampment — 1

Aerial survey view of Battle Lake and Slaughterhouse Gulch

Aerial survey · USDA NAIP

Outdoor / Natural Site

Battle Lake and Slaughterhouse Gulch

Encampment, WY

Battle was a short-lived mining camp in Wyoming's Sierra Madre Range, founded in 1898 to support the Ferris-Haggarty Mine on Battle Pass. The town reached its peak between 1898 and 1905 as a freight stop for ore moving from the mine to the Encampment smelter, then declined when copper prices collapsed and the world's-longest 1902 aerial tramway was built around it.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Evanston — 1

Asylum / Hospital

Wyoming State Hospital

Evanston, WY

The Wyoming State Hospital was authorized as the Wyoming Insane Asylum by the Territorial Legislature in 1886 and opened in Evanston on May 15, 1889. Designed in part by Cheyenne architect William Dubois, the campus comprises fifteen contributing brick buildings on a hill south of downtown. The first patients arrived by Pullman rail car from Jacksonville, Illinois. The original 1889 building burned in 1917; the surviving cluster of buildings is listed on the National Register.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Hartville — 1

Haunted Dining / Bar

Miners and Stockmen's Steakhouse and Spirits

Hartville, WY

The back bar at Miners and Stockmen's was carved by German brewmasters in 1862, shipped to New York, and freighted west to Fort Laramie's officers' club before moving to the Hartville Opera House and, around 1942, to its present building in Hartville, Wyoming. The 1862 date and the bar's continuous use make the business Wyoming's oldest, in a town whose early history included cattle rustlers, shootouts, and a 1901 incorporation aimed at keeping gambling out of reach of distant Cheyenne authorities.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

Jackson — 1

Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Wort Hotel

Jackson, WY

The Wort Hotel opened in downtown Jackson in late summer 1941, built by brothers John and Jess Wort on land their father Charles had homesteaded since 1893. A 1980 fire gutted much of the building, and it reopened in 1981. The hotel's Silver Dollar Bar, added in 1950 and inlaid with 2,032 Morgan silver dollars, remains its best-known feature, and the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Kemmerer — 1

Museum / Historical Site

Hamsfork Museum

Kemmerer, WY

The Hamsfork Museum, previously known as the Fossil Country Museum, is housed at 400 Pine Avenue in Kemmerer, Wyoming, the seat of Lincoln County. The museum preserves the area's coal mining heritage, fossil history, and early settler life, including the story of J.C. Penney's original mother store that opened in Kemmerer in 1902.

$ All Ages Family: High

Medicine Bow — 1

The historic Virginian Hotel in Medicine Bow, Wyoming, completed in 1911

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Medicine Bow (Virginian Hotel)

Medicine Bow, WY

The Virginian Hotel in Medicine Bow, Wyoming opened in 1911, built by August Grimm, the town's first mayor, and his partner George Plummer. Upon completion it was the largest hotel between Denver and Salt Lake City. It takes its name from Owen Wister's 1902 novel 'The Virginian,' set partly in Medicine Bow, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Powell — 1

Museum / Historical Site

Heart Mountain Relocation Center

Powell, WY

The Heart Mountain Relocation Center operated in Park County, Wyoming from August 1942 to November 1945, confining up to 10,767 Japanese Americans at its peak — making it Wyoming's third-largest city almost overnight. Authorized by President Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066, the camp held nearly 14,000 people across a three-year span, across 650 barracks-style buildings on 46,000 acres of high desert.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Rawlins — 1

Haunted House / Historic Home

George Ferris Mansion

Rawlins, WY

The George Ferris Mansion at 607 West Maple Street in Rawlins, Wyoming was constructed between 1899 and 1903 for George and Julia Ferris. Ferris' wealth came from the Rudefeha (later Ferris-Haggarty) Mine in the Grand Encampment copper district. George Ferris died in a runaway-carriage accident in 1900 before the house was completed; Julia Ferris lived in the finished house until her death in 1931. The mansion was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

$ All Ages Family: High

Riverton — 1

Theater / Performance Venue

Acme Theater

Riverton, WY

The Acme Theater was built in the 1920s in Riverton, Wyoming by Belle Mote, one of Riverton's most prominent businesswomen. Originally hosted live stage shows, vaudeville, and penny shows before transitioning to modern movie theater operations.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Rock Springs — 1

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Park Hotel

Rock Springs, WY

The Park Hotel opened in 1914, built by early Rock Springs pioneer John Park. The three-story brick hotel had 38 rooms, a restaurant, a tap room, a barber shop, and a coffee shop, and it was the largest and most modern hotel in the city through the late 1950s. A fourth floor was added in the 1920s.

$ All Ages Family: Low

Sheridan — 1

Museum / Historical Site

Trail End (Kendrick Mansion)

Sheridan, WY

Trail End is a 39-room Flemish Revival mansion in Sheridan, Wyoming, built between 1908 and 1913 for John B. Kendrick, Texas-born cattleman who served as Governor of Wyoming and a U.S. Senator. Designed by architect Glenn Charles McAlister, the house cost approximately $164,000 to construct. Saved from demolition by the Sheridan County Historical Society in 1968 and transferred to Wyoming State Parks in 1982, the property is now operated as a historic house museum.

$ All Ages Family: High

South Pass City — 1

Museum / Historical Site

South Pass City State Historic Site

South Pass City, WY

Prospectors struck gold at South Pass in the summer of 1867, and the town grew to more than 2,000 residents within a year around the Carissa Mine. In December 1869, local legislator William Bright introduced the bill that made Wyoming the first place in the nation to grant women the vote, and in February 1870 South Pass City resident Esther Hobart Morris became the first woman in the country to hold public office. The state bought the abandoned townsite in 1966 and restored it; it now preserves 23 original buildings and roughly 30,000 artifacts.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Wapiti — 1

Haunted House / Historic Home

Smith Mansion

Wapiti, WY

Francis Lee Smith, a Montana State University-trained architect, began building the Smith Mansion in 1973 as a family cabin in the Wapiti Valley between Cody and Yellowstone. Smith continued adding stories and balconies to the structure for nineteen years until his death from a fall on April 25, 1992.

$ Exterior view only — private property Family: High

Yellowstone National Park — 1

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Old Faithful Inn

Yellowstone National Park, WY

The Old Faithful Inn opened in 1904 as the first of the great national park lodges, designed by 29-year-old architect Robert Reamer in a rustic style that defined a century of park architecture. The seven-story log structure stands within sight of Old Faithful Geyser and remains in continuous operation under Xanterra Travel Collection.

$$$$ All Ages Family: High

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