What are the haunted bars in Flagstaff?
Downtown, the two most talked about are the Hotel Monte Vista's cocktail lounge and the Weatherford Hotel's bars, both 1900s hotels with long guest-told histories that the Flagstaff Ghost Tour walks past nightly. South of the tracks, the stories belong to the old red-light district: the blocks around Mikes Pike, South San Francisco Street and South Beaver Street, where the Spirits With The Spirits crawl drinks and where Historic Brewing's Barrel + Bottle House occupies a building with several past lives.
Is there a haunted bar crawl in Flagstaff?
Yes. Spirits With The Spirits is Flagstaff's 21+ haunted pub crawl, run by Freaky Foot Tours on the Southside: three bar stops from Mother Road Brewing to Historic Brewing's Barrel + Bottle House, about two hours, with ghost stories and true crime told between rounds. It runs private for groups most nights and sells public seats on dated nights.
Is Mother Road Brewing haunted?
We do not claim it is. Mother Road is the crawl's first stop because of where it stands: a 1920s-era laundry building on Mikes Pike, the pre-1934 Route 66 alignment, a few steps from the tracks that built the town. The stories told there are about the railroad and the blocks around it, not the brewery.
What is on the Southside of Flagstaff?
The neighborhood south of the BNSF tracks and north of Northern Arizona University: breweries and taprooms, restaurants, the old Basque boarding houses, Our Lady of Guadalupe church, and the blocks that were Flagstaff's red-light district from the 1880s into the 1910s. Mikes Pike, South San Francisco Street and South Beaver Street are its main streets.
Can I do a self-guided haunted bar crawl in Flagstaff?
You can walk the Southside and downtown on your own any night; the bars are public and the streets are a few blocks apart. What you cannot get without a guide is the research: which building was which boarding house, where the 1916 case happened, which stories hold up in the newspapers and which do not. The guided crawl covers that in about two hours.
What is there to do in Flagstaff at night for adults?
Flagstaff's nightlife runs on breweries and historic hotel bars across downtown and the Southside, plus live music at the Orpheum and the hotels. For a 21+ night with a storyline, Spirits With The Spirits pairs three Southside bar stops with the neighborhood's haunted history; for a walk without the bars, Mountain Town of Madness is the 18+ ghost tour on Friday and Saturday nights.
The short version: the bars are public, the addresses are no secret, and the doors open for anyone 21 and over. What the buildings did to earn their reputations is the part you cannot look up on a menu. South of the tracks, that is the crawl's job: see the Southside route. Downtown, the Flagstaff Ghost Tour walks past the hotel bars nightly.
