25 haunted destinations cataloged across Wyoming, spanning 17 counties. The collection features museum, haunted hotel, and haunted house — every listing verified with family ratings, accessibility info, and practical visit logistics.
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.
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.
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.
Rawlins, WY
The Wyoming Frontier Prison in Rawlins operated as the state's first penitentiary from 1901 to 1981. Now a museum and National Register of Historic Places site, the sandstone facility held more than 13,500 inmates over eight decades and executed 14 men, the last by gas chamber.
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.'
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cheyenne, WY
When the railroad reached Cheyenne in the late 1800s, a network of underground tunnels and service passages was built connecting the depot with several downtown buildings. The passages have long been closed to the public, and officials discourage exploration due to asbestos used in their construction. Rumors that they reach the Wyoming State Capitol remain unverified.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.