Walk Santa Fe's most haunted locations. 23 stops, self-guided. 3 stops free. No guide, no schedule — just you and the dark.
Four centuries of conquest left Santa Fe saturated with ghosts. The Palace of the Governors, built in 1610, witnessed the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, when indigenous warriors drove the Spanish out and burned the city. Julia Staab, wife of German merchant Abraham Staab, died in the 1890s inside what is now La Posada — staff still report her moving through the halls. At Loretto Chapel, a mysterious carpenter built the impossible spiral staircase in 1878, then vanished without collecting payment. This self-guided tour hits 13 free stops along the historic plaza and acequia trails, from San Miguel Chapel — the oldest church in the continental U.S. — to the Scottish Rite Temple where Masonic secrets and Moorish architecture collide.
Fort Marcy was built in 1846 by General Stephen Watts Kearny after the American conquest of New Mexico — constructed on a hill overlooking the Santa F...
Guests have reported glimpsing a ghostly woman dressed in white, her sorrowful gaze fixed on the window as if waiting for someone. This historic inn h...
You stand before Loretto Chapel, built in 1878 for the Sisters of Loretto. The chapel is famous for its spiral staircase—two complete 360-degree turns...
You stand before La Posada de Santa Fe, once the private mansion of Abraham and Julia Staab. He was a German-Jewish merchant who built his fortune sup...
Built in 1610 as the seat of Spanish colonial power, the Palace of the Governors has witnessed more bloodshed than any building in the American Southw...
In 1882, German-Jewish merchant Abraham Staab built his wife Julia the finest mansion in Santa Fe — a three-story French Second Empire house, the firs...
You stand at the oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States, constructed in 1610. This adobe palace has witnessed four centurie...
San Miguel Chapel stands as the oldest church structure in the continental United States, its adobe walls first raised around 1610 by Tlaxcalan Indian...
You stand before the oldest church structure in the continental United States, built around 1610 for Tlaxcalan Indians who accompanied Spanish colonis...
You stand before Archbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy's monument to French Romanesque architecture, constructed 1869-1886 to replace the old adobe parish chu...
The Oldest House sits at the southern end of De Vargas Street in the Barrio de Analco, its adobe walls dating to at least 1646, though the foundation ...
You stand beside Acequia Madre, the mother ditch, Santa Fe's oldest irrigation canal, constructed in the early 1600s to bring water from the mountains...
Major José D. Sena built this grand hacienda in the 1860s as a family compound, its thirty-three rooms arranged around a central courtyard in traditio...
Archbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy arrived in Santa Fe in 1851 and found a crumbling adobe parish church he considered unworthy of God. He tore most of it ...
You stand before what's marketed as the oldest house in the United States, a low adobe structure on De Vargas Street. The claims are exaggerated—dendr...
The colonial-style home at 122 Grant Avenue was built in the early 1900s for the Hayt-Wientge family, prominent Santa Fe merchants. The house changed ...
You stand before the Masonic temple on Paseo de Peralta, constructed 1911-1912 in a style the architect called Moorish Revival—pink stucco, crenellate...
The Santuario de Guadalupe holds the distinction of being the oldest shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe in the United States, its construction spanning f...
You stand before the Federal Courthouse on Cathedral Place, a dignified building from 1889 that has served as the center of American law in New Mexico...
You stand where the Exchange Hotel once dominated this corner of the plaza, a massive three-story structure that served as Santa Fe's grandest accommo...
The Lensic Theater opened in 1931 as a movie palace, its Moorish Revival interior dripping with fake minarets, balconies, and a ceiling painted to res...
Fairview Cemetery has served as Santa Fe's primary burial ground since the 1880s, its graves spanning the full arc of New Mexico's territorial and sta...
You stand at the end of the Santa Fe Trail, where 900 miles of wagon ruts from Missouri terminated at this plaza. From 1821 to 1880, the Trail funnele...
The Santa Fe ghost tour includes 23 documented haunted locations.
The first 3 stops are completely free — no account required. To unlock all 23 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 4.5 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 Santa Fe tour is Fort Marcy at Fort Marcy (ruins), Prince Avenue, Santa Fe.
3 stops free in Santa Fe. No guide, no schedule — walk at your own pace after dark.
Last updated February 22, 2026. Researched by the History Nearby editorial team.