Haunted things to do in Grand Junction
Looking for haunted places & dark-history spots in Grand Junction? These 11 are the genuinely strange ones — Atomic Legacy Cabin, Captain Smith’s Cabin, Driggs Mansion Ruins 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 Grand Junction they'd never find on their own.
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Atomic Legacy Cabin
In March 1943, Army lieutenant Philip Leahy bought a 55-acre gravel pit behind Orchard Mesa’s cemeteries — Gu…
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Captain Smith’s Cabin
In 1911, Captain Henry A. Smith — Civil War veteran, tombstone carver, sixty-five years old — leaned three st…
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Driggs Mansion Ruins
Laurence La Tourette Driggs ghostwrote Eddie Rickenbacker's Fighting the Flying Circus and invented the pulp…
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Marble Mill Site Park
The marble that became the Lincoln Memorial got sawed and polished here, in a mill that ran from 1907 to 1941…
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Redstone Castle (Cleveholm Manor)
Coal baron John Osgood spent $2.5 million in 1902 on Cleveholm — 42 rooms of Tiffany light fixtures, Stickley…
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Valley Curtain Site at Rifle Gap
On August 10, 1972, Christo and Jeanne-Claude strung 200,000 square feet of orange nylon across this gap, 1,2…
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Whispers From The Past Ghost Walk
Rhonda Steele is a fifth-generation Grand Junction local who spent five years digging through downtown’s dirt…
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Alpine Tunnel West Portal
Bored through the Continental Divide in 1881 by the Denver, South Park & Pacific Railroad, the Alpine Tunnel…
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Crested Butte Cemetery
On the north edge of town along Gothic Road, Crested Butte's Victorian-era cemetery holds the evidence of a b…
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Gunnison Pioneer Museum
Seven developed acres on the east edge of Gunnison hold 42 historic structures that form one of Colorado's mo…
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Ute Cemetery
Established in 1880 when a Texas prospector died of mountain fever before Aspen had any formal burial ground,…