Walk Napa's most haunted locations. 13 stops, self-guided. 3 stops free. No guide, no schedule — just you and the dark.
Behind the tasting rooms and vineyard tours, Napa Valley hides a body count. Napa State Hospital opened in 1875 and warehoused over 5,000 patients at its peak — ice-bath hydrotherapy, lobotomies, and a cemetery holding 3,000 numbered graves with no names. At Beringer Vineyards, founded in 1876, Chinese laborers hand-carved seventeen tunnels into volcanic rock; at least three died in cave-ins, and tour groups still hear picks striking stone during early morning setups. A brakeman was crushed between rail cars at the Napa depot in 1891, and a steam whistle from a locomotive that no longer exists sounds down the tracks. Sam Brannan built Calistoga's resort in 1859 and died broke and insane in 1889 — his relocated cottage at the Sharpsteen Museum reeks of whiskey in a building where none is allowed. This self-guided tour hits 13 free stops from the 1880 Opera House to the Bale Grist Mill, where the 36-foot waterwheel turns on its own.
The Goodman Library opened in 1901, a Carnegie-era temple of books donated to the city of Napa by George Goodman, a local banker and philanthropist. T...
You stand before the Napa River Inn, built in 1884 as the Napa Valley Mill and later converted to feed and grain storage before its transformation int...
You descend into the Rhine House wine tunnels at Beringer, California's oldest continuously operating winery, founded by the Beringer brothers in 1876...
You stand at the Bale Grist Mill, a thirty-six-foot wooden waterwheel and stone building constructed in 1846 by Edward Bale. The mill ground grain for...
You watch Old Faithful erupt, one of only three geysers in the world to earn the designation. It shoots boiling water sixty feet into the air every th...
You approach the Victorian mansion at Spring Mountain, built in 1885 and later famous as the filming location for the 1980s television series Falcon C...
You hike Mount St. Helena to the abandoned Silverado Mine, where Robert Louis Stevenson honeymooned in 1880, squatting in a bunkhouse while recovering...
You stand in the Napa Valley Museum, a modern building constructed on land that once held the Yountville Veterans Home, established in 1884 for disabl...
You enter the Napa County Courthouse, built in 1878 in the Second Empire style, with a mansard roof and a tower that dominates downtown Napa. The buil...
You stand in the Sharpsteen Museum, a diorama-filled tribute to Calistoga's founder, Sam Brannan, who built a resort town around the hot springs in 18...
The Napa ghost tour includes 13 documented haunted locations.
The first 3 stops are completely free — no account required. To unlock all 13 stops, a History Nearby premium subscription is $4.99/month or $49.99/year.
No. This is a self-guided walking tour. Each stop includes the address, a map pin, and the full haunting story. Walk at your own pace, start anytime, and take any route you like.
Plan for approximately 2.5 hours. This accounts for walking between stops and reading each haunting story. You can also split it across multiple evenings.
The most visited stop on our Napa tour is Goodman Library at Goodman Library, 1st Street, Napa Abajo.
3 stops free in Napa. No guide, no schedule — walk at your own pace after dark.
Last updated February 22, 2026. Researched by the History Nearby editorial team.