Flagstaff Ghost Tour FAQ: Answers From the Guides

Book online through our secure Peek booking calendar (every tour page has a Book Now button), or call or text us at (928) 224-0518. Booking a few days ahead is recommended: tours are small groups, Friday and Saturday departures regularly sell out, and October is our busiest month of the year.

Full refund when you cancel 24 or more hours before the tour; no refund under 24 hours. Tours run rain, snow or starlight; if we ever cancel a departure, you get a full refund or a free rebooking, your choice.

Ours are. Flagstaff and Prescott ghost tours run nightly in every season (winter tours in the snow are a local favorite), and Tucson runs through the year with summer departures timed after sunset. Check each tour's booking calendar for tonight's availability.

Adults $29, students $25 and children $22 for the 75-minute Original Flagstaff Ghost Tour. The adults-only Mountain Town of Madness is $39 for adults and $35 for students. The Route 66 Centennial Walking Tour and the Flagstaff Mural Tour are each $29 for adults, with student and child rates on both. Full refund when you cancel 24 or more hours before the tour; no refund under 24 hours.

Most tours are 75 minutes to 2 hours and cover about one easy mile of historic downtown sidewalks at a storyteller's pace. Wear comfortable shoes; Flagstaff sits at 7,000 feet, so bring water and a layer even in summer.

Our tours are outdoor walking tours that stop directly outside the haunted landmarks while your guide tells the documented stories of what happened inside. Many stops, like Flagstaff's Hotel Monte Vista and the Weatherford, are public buildings you can walk into on your own after the tour, and we tell you exactly where to look.

No actors, no jump scares, no costumes. Our tours are documented history with the dark parts left in, which most guests find scarier. If a ten-year-old asks a question, our guides can answer it honestly without giving anyone nightmares.

Yes. Freaky Foot Tours is Arizona owned and operated, founded in Flagstaff in 2015 by a mother-and-son team who have lived there for more than 30 years. We were Flagstaff's first locally owned ghost tour company, and the Tucson and Prescott tours run the same way: local guides, original research, no franchise scripts.

Yes, and ours came first: Mountain Town of Madness is the original adults-only (18+) haunted tour of downtown Flagstaff, running Friday and Saturday nights at 9 PM from Wheeler Park. It covers the true-crime cases and after-dark history we leave off the family tour.

Guests seem to think so: Freaky Foot Tours is Flagstaff's most reviewed tour company, rated 5.0 on Google from more than 675 reviews, and voted Best of Flagstaff for guided tours three years running (2023, 2024 and 2025). The tour is one mile of documented history, told by local guides, for less than the cost of dinner downtown.

Route 66 turns 100 in 2026, and Flagstaff is celebrating all year. Our 90-minute Route 66 Centennial Walking Tour, the only Route 66 walking tour in the USA, departs daily at 6 PM from the flagpole in Heritage Square and is made possible with partial funding provided by the Historic Route 66 Association of Arizona. Adults $29, students $25, children $22.

Yes. The Route 66 Centennial Walking Tour covers 1.3 miles of the Mother Road daily at 6 PM from Heritage Square, and the Flagstaff Mural Tour walks half a mile of downtown street art on Thursday, Friday and Saturday mornings at 10 AM from the Orpheum Theatre. Both are all-ages, history-first walks with no hauntings required.

No. Our Flagstaff tours stay on city sidewalks and never go below ground. Plenty of the stories involve what happened beneath and inside these buildings, and your guide points to exactly where. The downtown route covers about one mile with frequent stops at a storyteller's pace.

Yes. We lead tours rain or shine, wind or snow, and we carry umbrellas for anyone who needs one. Northern Arizona weather can change a dozen times a day, so we have gotten good at judging it; if extreme weather ever forces a cancellation, we tell you at least an hour before departure and you choose a full refund or a free rebooking.

Flagstaff sits at 7,000 feet elevation: evenings run 20 to 30 degrees cooler than Phoenix. Bring a warm layer even in July, wear comfortable walking shoes, and in winter dress for snow. The tour runs about one mile at an easy pace.

Our regular ghost and history tours are all-ages: the stories are true history told honestly, not jump scares, and kids 8 to 12 usually love them. We recommend 13+ for the darkest material on the ghost tours. Two experiences are adults-only: Mountain Town of Madness in Flagstaff is 18+, and the private Spirits With The Spirits pub crawl is 21+.

Flagstaff's two most storied hotels face each other downtown: the Hotel Monte Vista, with its phantom bellboy and the infamous Room 305, and the 1900 Weatherford Hotel. Both are stops on our Downtown Flagstaff Haunted History Tour, told with the research behind the book Haunted Flagstaff.

Flagstaff has a strong claim: a century-old downtown, railroad and lumber-camp tragedies, and hotels with documented hauntings like the Monte Vista and Weatherford. Jerome and Bisbee compete on ghost-town atmosphere, but Flagstaff pairs its hauntings with a living downtown, which is why it supports nightly ghost tours year-round.

Co-founder Susan Johnson, author of Haunted Flagstaff, Wicked Flagstaff and The Walkup Family Murders, all from The History Press. She writes the weekly Flagstaff History column for the Arizona Daily Sun and shared the Walkup case on Travel Channel's The Dead Files in 2022. Every story on the tour comes from that same desk: newspaper archives, county records and decades of living here.

By local reputation, yes. The Orpheum Theater is a stop on the Original Flagstaff Ghost Tour, and its stories are among the most asked about on the route. We keep the details for the sidewalk out front, because some payoffs are worth the wait. The Orpheum still operates as a live venue, so you can go back for a show afterward and judge for yourself.

Yes. Every public route in Flagstaff, Tucson and Prescott can run as a private departure for birthdays, work teams, reunions, bachelorette parties and school groups. Several experiences are private-only: the Southside tour, the Spirits With The Spirits pub crawl, the Citizens Cemetery tour and the paranormal investigation, all quoted per group. Call or text (928) 224-0518 or use the contact form and we will build it around you.

Yes. Our private Paranormal Investigation Tour puts EMF meters, spirit boxes and thermal cameras in your hands for two and a half hours at downtown Flagstaff's haunted hotspots, with hands-on evidence review along the way. Groups of up to 15; first-timers welcome. It is quoted per group with no public schedule, so call or text (928) 224-0518 to set a date.

Yes, by private booking. The Flagstaff Cemetery Tour spends 75 minutes and about half a mile inside Citizens Cemetery at 1300 S San Francisco St, among gunslingers, western folk heroes and the mass grave from the 1956 mid-air collision that led to the creation of the FAA. The ground is uneven, so wear sturdy shoes. Quoted per group; call or text (928) 224-0518.

Yes. Spirits With The Spirits is our 21-and-over haunted pub crawl: ghost stories between rounds at three historic downtown Flagstaff bars across about two and a half hours. Drinks are not included. It books as a private experience quoted per group, with no public weekly schedule, so call or text (928) 224-0518 to plan your night.

It is our private-booking tour of Flagstaff south of the railroad tracks: the saloons, railroad stories and working-town history that the downtown route never reaches. The walk covers about one mile in 90 minutes, with the meeting point arranged with your group. Quoted per group; call or text (928) 224-0518 or use the contact form to set it up.

Well-behaved leashed dogs are welcome on our Flagstaff sidewalk tours, the Original Flagstaff Ghost Tour and Mountain Town of Madness. Downtown gets loud and busy on weekend nights, so bring your dog only if crowds will not make them anxious. For Tucson, Prescott or a private tour, call or text (928) 224-0518 before booking and we will confirm for your date.

Our downtown tours follow city sidewalks for about one mile at a storyteller's pace with frequent stops, so many guests with mobility considerations do fine. The one exception is the private Citizens Cemetery tour in Flagstaff, which covers uneven ground. If someone in your group needs an accommodation, call or text (928) 224-0518 before booking and we will do our best to make the tour work.

The Original Flagstaff Ghost Tour meets at Wheeler Park, 212 W Aspen Ave, near City Hall, and departs nightly at 7 PM, with a second 8 PM departure on Fridays and Saturdays. Arrive 15 minutes early to check in with your guide. The tour runs 75 minutes and covers about one mile of downtown Flagstaff sidewalks.

Park in the Wheeler Park lot itself, at 212 W Aspen Ave, beside the meeting spot. Downtown Flagstaff runs on ParkFlag pay-by-plate kiosks; as of July 2026 enforcement ends at 5 PM Sunday through Thursday, so evening tours park free those nights, and runs to 8 PM on Fridays and Saturdays, so pay the kiosk through 8. Our blog guide Where to Park in Downtown Flagstaff for a Tour covers every meeting point block by block.