The OK Corral was just the beginning. Walk Tombstone's 12 documented stops. 5 free, self-guided.
Tombstone is home to 12 documented ghost-tour stops spanning 6 years of history. This self-guided ghost tour covers 12 stops across the city, from Crystal Palace Saloon (1879) to Rose Tree Museum. 5 stops are free — no guide, no schedule. Walk at your own pace after dark.
The Crystal Palace Saloon opened in 1879 at the height of Tombstone's silver boom, when the town swelled to 7,000 fortune-seekers. Inside these walls,...
Built in 1882 for $50,000, the Cochise County Courthouse dispensed frontier justice until 1929. Seven men hanged from the gallows in the courtyard, th...
The building now known as Big Nose Kate's opened in 1881 as the Grand Hotel, the finest lodging in Tombstone during the silver boom. Mary Katherine Ho...
Ellen "Nellie" Cashman arrived in Tombstone in 1880, an Irish immigrant who had already survived the brutal mining camps of British Columbia and the C...
John Philip Clum founded the Tombstone Epitaph on May 1, 1880, and the newspaper has published continuously ever since — the oldest still-operating pa...
Endicott Peabody — who would later officiate Franklin D. Roosevelt's wedding and become one of America's most influential Episcopal clergymen — came t...
Fremont Street in 1881 was ground zero for Tombstone's violence. The vacant lot near this building was the actual site of the Gunfight at the O.K. Cor...
In 1885, a young bride named Mary Gee received a rose cutting sent from Scotland by her homesick relative — a Lady Banksia rose, a thornless white var...
On October 26, 1881, photographer Camillus S. Fly was inside his studio at 312 Fremont Street when gunfire erupted in the vacant lot next door. The Gu...
The Tombstone ghost tour includes 12 documented stops covering 6 years of documented history.
The first 5 stops are completely free — no account required. To unlock all 12 stops, a History Nearby premium subscription is $4.99/month or $49.99/year.
No. This is a self-guided tour you can start anytime. Each stop includes the address, a map pin, and the story tied to that location. Follow the suggested stop order or move at your own pace.
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 Tombstone tour is Crystal Palace Saloon at Crystal Palace Saloon, 436, East Allen Street, dating back to 1879.
5 stops free in Tombstone. No guide, no schedule — walk at your own pace after dark.
Last updated February 22, 2026. Researched by the History Nearby editorial team.