Prescott's October runs on one square block and the streets around it: Courthouse Plaza, whose biggest Halloween event fills the lawn on Saturday, October 24, and Whiskey Row across Montezuma Street, where the saloons rebuilt after the 1900 fire sit two minutes from where our tour ends. The dated calendar below is the town's October 2026, sourced line by line. Freaky Foot Tours walks the Downtown Prescott Haunted History Tour from the Rough Rider statue on that Plaza nightly at 7 PM, October included; the tour details follow the events.
Every entry carries its 2026 date, plus time, place and cost where the organizer has posted them, and a link to the listing we read. Last updated October 29, 2026; past events come off the list as they pass.
Halloween events in Prescott, October 2026: the dated list
Halloween 2026 has passed in Prescott. The dated Halloween lines above came off this page as each date went by. The walk does not pause for the season: the Downtown Prescott Haunted History Tour leaves the Rough Rider statue on Courthouse Plaza nightly at 7 PM, and the daytime Prescott History Tour leaves the same statue at 10 AM, both per the booking calendar. Day of the Dead continues in Tucson this month:
- Nov 6 to 8: All Souls Weekend in Tucson, with the All Souls Procession, the city's public ceremony of remembrance, walking on Sunday, November 8, 2026: gathering from 4 PM in Barrio Hollywood at Speedway and Grande, procession at 6 PM, finale ceremony at 8 PM in the Mercado District; free to join. Source: allsoulsprocession.org. Freaky Foot Tours has no affiliation with it or with Many Mouths One Stomach, the nonprofit that produces it; our All Souls guide covers how to be a good guest.
- Through Nov 8: Dia de los Muertos Ofrendas Exhibition at the Presidio San Agustin del Tucson Museum, 196 N Court Ave, Tucson, public altars built by museum staff, board members and community volunteers honoring veterans and loved ones, 10 AM to 4 PM Tuesday through Sunday, included with admission. Source: tucsonpresidio.com event page; hours at tucsonpresidio.com.
For the rest of the year, our Prescott page covers both walks and the town, and things to do in Prescott covers the daylight roster; the statewide season, Day of the Dead included, is on Halloween in Arizona.
The rest of Prescott's October 2026: car shows, the marathon, museum days and two Elks Theatre nights
Outside costume season, October in Prescott is festival month a mile up, plus one early-November date in Prescott Valley: car shows on the downtown streets and at the lake, a marathon that starts on Whiskey Row, the Chamber's craft show on the Plaza and a run of Sharlot Hall Museum programs a short walk west on Gurley Street. The Elks Theatre, the 1905 opera house on the ghost tour's route, hosts two of these nights.
The daylight roster beyond the calendar is in things to do in Prescott; the daytime walk we run ourselves is in the next section.
Nightly at 7 PM: the ghost walk from the Rough Rider statue
The Downtown Prescott Haunted History Tour is 90 minutes and about a mile across 14 stops, departing nightly at 7 PM from the Rough Rider statue on Courthouse Plaza, 120 S Cortez St, and ending at the Hassayampa Inn, 122 E Gurley St. One departure a night, groups capped at 20. Tickets are $29 for adults, $25 for students and $22 for children; the tour is all ages and recommended for 13 and up. Arrive 15 minutes early and look for your guide at the statue. You book online through TripWorks, where the calendar shows which October nights still have room; look at Halloween weekend there before you build the night around it. The tour also has a site of its own at prescottghosttour.com.
What you get is documented Prescott history on the sidewalks where it happened: the Great Fire of July 1900 and the night the Palace's bar crossed the street to keep pouring on the Plaza, the Palace Saloon's Phantom Cowboy, the reports from Room 426 of the Hassayampa Inn, the woman in white at the Hotel St. Michael, and the Plaza's own record of frontier justice. There are no actors, no costumes used as scares and no staged jump scares, in October or any other month; the guides wear period dress and carry lanterns, and the history does the work. The full library of sites is in our haunted places in Prescott hub.
October is the busiest month of the year for this walk, and Friday and Saturday nights fill first at 20 guests a night. Reserve early for the weekends and for Halloween week; direct bookings carry a full refund when canceled 24 or more hours before the tour, and weather does not cancel the walk. Our know before you go page covers the meeting point, the route surface and what the elevation does to an evening.
What else Freaky Foot Tours runs in Prescott: the 10 AM walk and private groups
For daylight, the Prescott History Tour covers the territorial capital's founding, its politics and Whiskey Row's rebuilding in two hours with a guide: daily at 10 AM from the same Rough Rider statue, ending at the Hotel Vendome on Cortez Street, $35 adult, $30 student and $25 child, all ages, booked on TripWorks. It finishes by noon. On three Saturdays it shares the ground with the calendar above: October 3 (the craft show on the Plaza, with Cortez Street closed north of the Plaza for the Saddles 100), October 10 (marathon street closures until noon) and October 24 (the 5K starts on the Plaza at 10 AM), so on those mornings check the TripWorks calendar for the departure and allow extra time to reach the statue. Every other October morning it fits before the day's events.
Both Prescott walks also book privately, for your group on your date with your own guide, and the 20-guest cap per guide holds; larger parties split into parallel departures that leave the Plaza together. Send an inquiry with your headcount, occasion and preferred October dates, or call or text (928) 224-0518; our private tours in Prescott page covers how the booking works.
After the walk: Whiskey Row is two minutes away
The tour ends at the Hassayampa Inn, whose 1927 lobby is worth the detour on the way out, and the Row is two minutes from its door. The Palace serves under the bar its patrons carried out of the 1900 fire; Matt's Saloon holds the honky-tonk end of the block; the Bird Cage pours beneath the 1873 back bar that came out of a second fire in 2012. Hours change with the season, so check before you build the night around one of them. Our page on haunted Whiskey Row tells the block's stories, and the whole evening, dinner through nightcap, is laid out hour by hour in a perfect evening in Prescott.
Staying the night where the stories happened is the better version of the plan: the Hassayampa Inn, the Hotel Vendome at 230 S Cortez St with its Room 16, and the Hotel St. Michael at the corner of Gurley and Montezuma all sit within a few blocks of the statue. Our guide to the haunted hotels of Prescott covers the three, and the drive home to Phoenix is about 100 miles, which is the argument for a room.
What to wear, where to park, and the drive up from Phoenix
Prescott sits at 5,367 feet, and October evenings often land in the 40s once the sun is down, so a jacket, a hat and closed shoes cover every night on this page. That is the whole elevation lecture; the walk is a mile at a storyteller's pace on downtown sidewalks. Rain or snow does not cancel the walk, and the guides carry umbrellas; if Freaky Foot Tours ever calls off a departure, you pick a full refund or a free rebooking.
Downtown parking is free: the Garage on Granite, 135 S Granite St, is a five-story garage a block off the Plaza, and curb spots around Courthouse Plaza carry posted time limits; the marathon organizer notes that a $5 garage fee may apply on October 10. October fills earlier than most months, so give yourself 15 minutes, and note the street closures on this calendar: Cortez Street between Willis and Sheldon, north of the Plaza, on October 3, hours unpublished; the marathon course on the morning of October 10; and the auto show streets on October 17. Rideshare to "Courthouse Plaza, Prescott" lands you within sight of the statue; our downtown Prescott parking guide has the rest. Coming up from Phoenix, the Plaza is about 100 miles and roughly an hour and 45 minutes from central Phoenix, close enough that the 7 PM walk works as an evening trip; if you are stacking Prescott with Flagstaff or Tucson over a weekend, the next section links their October pages.
Halloween in Flagstaff, Tucson and across Arizona
This page is Prescott only. Halloween in Flagstaff covers the mountain town's October, where our ghost tour walks nightly at 7 PM, with an 18+ walk on Friday and Saturday nights, calendar permitting, and Halloween in Tucson covers the Old Pueblo's October, where the Downtown Tucson Haunted History Tour departs Hotel Congress at 8 PM. All three Octobers sit side by side, with three weekend itineraries from Phoenix and the statewide dates, in Halloween in Arizona; if you are still deciding which walk, our roundup of ghost tours across Arizona lines up all three.
Questions people ask
Where does the Halloween-season ghost walk in Prescott start and end?
It starts at the Rough Rider statue on Courthouse Plaza, 120 S Cortez St, and ends 90 minutes later at the Hassayampa Inn, 122 E Gurley St, about two blocks from where it began. Arrive 15 minutes early and look for the guide with the lantern at the statue. Whiskey Row is a two-minute walk from the finish.
Where do you go on Whiskey Row after the tour ends around 8:30 PM?
The Palace, Matt's Saloon and the Bird Cage Saloon all sit on the one block of Montezuma Street facing the Plaza, two minutes from the Hassayampa Inn where the walk ends. Hours shift with the season and the night of the week, so check the bar you want before the tour rather than after. Our guide to things to do in Prescott at night maps the block.
What should I wear for a Prescott ghost tour in October?
A jacket, a hat and closed shoes; October evenings up here often land in the 40s after dark, and the route is a mile of downtown sidewalk. Tours run in all weather, and the guides carry umbrellas.
Book the 7 PM walk for your October night in Prescott
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Book the Downtown Prescott Haunted History Tour on TripWorks: $29 adult, $25 student, $22 child, nightly at 7 PM from the Rough Rider statue on Courthouse Plaza. Book the Prescott History Tour, $35 adult, $30 student, $25 child, daily at 10 AM from the same statue. For a private group on either walk, send an inquiry or call or text (928) 224-0518. Direct bookings carry a full refund 24 or more hours before the tour; everything else about the town starts at our Prescott page.
