Haunted things to do in Coeur d'Alene
Looking for haunted places & dark-history spots in Coeur d'Alene? These 11 are the genuinely strange ones — Forest Cemetery Walking Tours (Museum of North Idaho), Coeur d'Alene's Old Mission State Park (Cataldo Mission), Oasis Bordello Museum and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Coeur d'Alene they'd never find on their own.
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Forest Cemetery Walking Tours (Museum of North Idaho)
Forest Cemetery began as the Fort Sherman Cemetery, owned by the U.S. Army from 1877 until the post was decom…
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Coeur d'Alene's Old Mission State Park (Cataldo Mission)
The Mission of the Sacred Heart, built between 1850 and 1853 by Coeur d'Alene tribal members and Jesuit missi…
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Oasis Bordello Museum
Tipped off to an impending 1988 federal raid, the madam and her workers grabbed what they could carry and van…
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Sunshine Miners Memorial
On May 2, 1972 a fire broke out roughly a mile underground at the Sunshine silver mine, and carbon monoxide k…
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Pulaski Tunnel Trail
This two-mile-each-way trail follows Placer Creek to the abandoned mine adit where ranger 'Big Ed' Pulaski he…
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Burke Ghost Town
Crammed into a canyon barely 300 feet wide, Burke was once a silver town so tight that a hotel was famously b…
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Museum of North Idaho Cemetery Walking Tours
The Museum of North Idaho runs guided flashlight-at-dusk and afternoon walks through two of CdA's oldest buri…
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Wallace Paranormal Festival
Launched in October 2025 in a town that bills itself as teeming with ghosts, this festival packs haunted-hist…
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Sprag Pole Inn & Museum / Molly B'Damn's Grave
Murray is the oldest surviving town in the Coeur d'Alene Mining District, a near-ghost-town gold camp born in…
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Center of the Universe, Wallace
A painted manhole cover in the middle of a Wallace intersection is officially proclaimed the Center of the Un…
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Settlers Grove of Ancient Cedars
A hidden grove of western red cedars up to 7 feet across and over 600 years old, tucked along the West Fork o…