Riverside Cemetery History & Mystery Tours

Denver's oldest cemetery (1876) sits forgotten on 77 acres of dry, overgrown ground in Globeville — National Register-listed, yet on the state's most-endangered-places list, which tells you how few people visit. Beneath the leaning tombstones: Colorado's first governor, Augusta Tabor, Barney Ford, and a miner whose headstone is a hand-carved limestone replica of a mining cabin. The Fairmount Heritage Foundation runs the city's only nighttime cemetery tours plus free daytime walks — history and legend, by lamplight. Most locals don't even know it exists.

The move: Book the evening History & Mystery tour together — you walk the dark grounds hearing the Lester Drake and Jones Mausoleum stories — or do the free Sunday daytime walk if you want it lower-key and lingering.

• 📍 Globeville
• 💸 $
• ⚡ Low-key
• 🌗 Outdoors

Where: 5201 Brighton Blvd, Denver, CO 80216 (Globeville; entrance off Brighton Blvd — tours via Fairmount Heritage Foundation)

Hours: Grounds open daytime; guided tours are scheduled events (free Sunday daytime tours seasonally; History & Mystery / evening tours cluster around fall/October). Check Fairmount Heritage Foundation + Eventbrite for current dates and tickets — sells out.

⚠ Seasonal or scheduled — always check before you go.

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Verified 2026-06-07.