Best of Flag · Guided Tour Company · Voting closes Saturday, October 31
There are two ways to vote, and doing both goes further than you'd think. Each one takes under a minute, and it keeps a locally owned, family-run tour company on top of a list that visitors read before they book.
Text 651 to (928) 494-2394, then vote online at azdailysun.com/contests/best-of-flag. Both take under a minute.
Two Ways To Vote
Voting closes Saturday, October 31. Do one now and the other when you get a second; doing both goes further than you'd think.
From your phone
One text. The number belongs to the Arizona Daily Sun's contest line and the code is ours. On a phone, the button below opens a text with the code already typed; just hit send. On a computer, send it from your phone.
Then online
The button below lands you on our category at azdailysun.com/contests/best-of-flag. If you arrive at the front page instead, the path is:
The Record
Best of Flag is the Arizona Daily Sun's readers' choice contest, a Flagstaff tradition since 2001. It is decided by the people who live here, which is why it means more to us than any badge on a booking site.
A fourth win would come from the same streets, saloons and hotel corridors our guides walk every night. The 2026 vote is open now and closes Saturday, October 31.
On The Record
"Voted Best of Flagstaff 2023, 2024, and 2025"
Discover Flagstaff, flagstaffarizona.org, the city's official destination marketing organization
View the listingTripAdvisor's #1 Nightlife Activity in Flagstaff since 2021
2,800+ verified reviews across every platform guests use
Every award, ranking and clipping, linked to its source, on our press page
Why Guests Keep Voting
Awards look nice on a shelf. The stories are the point. Here is what the people who voted were voting for.
Co-founder Susan Johnson researched Flagstaff's founding families before a single tour ran. Three books with The History Press and a weekly history column in the Arizona Daily Sun came out of the same desk.
Our guides internalize the research and tell it their own way, which is why guests ask for them by name in the reviews and why no two nights are quite the same.
Started in Flagstaff with less than $150, five generations of Arizona roots, and still run by the family that founded it. Nobody in a head office somewhere else decides how we treat you.
30,000+ guests have walked with us, and the reviews are public on Google, TripAdvisor, Viator, GetYourGuide and Airbnb. Every one is quoted verbatim on our reviews pages, with a name, a month and a link.
Why Your Vote Matters
Most of the people who take a Flagstaff tour do not live here. They plan from a search result or a booking app, where the top of the page goes to whoever spends the most on ads, and national brands and booking platforms spend more than a family-owned company in a mountain town ever will.
Best of Flag is the one list those visitors read that money cannot climb. It is decided by locals, in print, once a year. When a traveler sees "Voted Best of Flag" next to our name, they are seeing what Flagstaff decided, and they book local because of it.
That choice stays in town. Our guides live here. The research is done here. The stories are about the buildings you walk past every day. Every vote for a locally owned business is a vote for the version of Flagstaff that visitors come to see.
Before You Vote
Two ways, and you can do both. Text 651 to (928) 494-2394. Then go to azdailysun.com/contests/best-of-flag, open Services, then Guide Tour Company, and pick Freaky Foot Tours. Each takes under a minute.
Voting closes Saturday, October 31, 2026. Winners are announced by the Arizona Daily Sun in December.
Best of Flag is the Arizona Daily Sun's annual readers' choice contest, a Flagstaff tradition since 2001. Locals vote across dozens of categories, from restaurants and bars to services and activities, and the winners are announced each December in print and online.
No. The online ballot is free, and the text vote is a standard text message to a local number. Your carrier's normal messaging rates apply, the same as any text.
Yes. Arizona Daily Sun readers voted Freaky Foot Tours Best of Flag for Guided Tour Company in 2023, 2024, 2025, three years running. Discover Flagstaff carries the same line on its listing: "Voted Best of Flagstaff 2023, 2024, and 2025".
Voting closes Saturday, October 31
Text 651 to (928) 494-2394, then vote online at azdailysun.com/contests/best-of-flag. Both take under a minute. Then come walk the stories the town keeps voting for.
Not voting tonight? Book the original Flagstaff ghost tour or call or text (928) 224-0518 with any question.