Haunted things to do in Durango
Looking for haunted places & dark-history spots in Durango? These 8 are the genuinely strange ones — Grand Imperial Hotel, Hillside Cemetery, Tomboy Ghost Town & the Social Tunnel 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 Durango they'd never find on their own.
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Grand Imperial Hotel
In 1890, Luigi Regalia shot himself in what is now Room 314, and he never checked out. When crews gutted the…
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Hillside Cemetery
Three thousand graves climb the lower slope of Boulder Mountain above 9,300 feet—no grid, no paths, just head…
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Tomboy Ghost Town & the Social Tunnel
At 11,509 feet in Savage Basin, the Rothschilds of London bought a gold camp for $2 million in 1897 and gave…
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Yankee Girl Mine Headframe
John Robinson sank twenty feet of shaft here in 1882 and sold out a month later for $125,000—too early, becau…
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Alta Ghost Town
Perched at 11,800 feet above sea level in a tight alpine basin south of Telluride, Alta operated from 1877 un…
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Fort Peabody Ruins (Imogene Pass)
At 13,365 feet on the Ouray–San Miguel county line, a cluster of low stone walls is all that remains of Fort…
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Lone Tree Cemetery
Perched at nearly 9,000 feet on the east end of Telluride, Lone Tree Cemetery was dedicated in 1887 when the…
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Ophir Town & Post Office
Named after the biblical land of King Solomon's gold, Ophir clings to a narrow San Juan valley at 9,700 feet…