Winner 2026Best Walking & Ghost Tour
Freaky Foot Tours
Arizona's Premier Ghost Tour
Why it won: Flagstaff's only locally owned walking-tour company, with more verified five-star reviews than any in-town competitor and back-to-back “Best of Flagstaff” wins.
After dark, when the Route 66 neon starts to hum and the San Francisco Peaks fade to silhouette, Freaky Foot Tours leads small groups through the lamplit brick alleys and back corners of historic downtown Flagstaff. Founded in 2015 by local author Susan Johnson, it is the only locally owned walking-tour company in town — and after a decade it still feels handmade, with guides who tell the city's Wild-West hauntings, true-crime cases and saloon legends like neighbors sharing a secret.
The lineup runs from the flagship Downtown Haunted History Tour to the adults-only “Mountain Town of Madness” true-crime walk, the “Spirits with the Spirits” haunted pub crawl, a Southside Haunted tour and a daytime Mural Art Tour — every one of them on foot, in a walkable downtown, with a guide rather than a recording. The work has drawn more than a thousand five-star reviews and a national spotlight on Travel Channel's The Dead Files.
Highlights
- 1,000+ five-star reviews across TripAdvisor, Viator, Yelp and Google
- Back-to-back “Best of Flagstaff — Guided Tour” winner (2023 & 2024)
- The only locally owned walking-tour operator in Flagstaff
- Featured on Travel Channel's The Dead Files
- Celebrated its 10-year anniversary in 2025
- Five distinct tours, all on foot in walkable downtown Flagstaff
Tours offered
- Downtown Haunted History Tour: The flagship — saloons, hauntings and Wild-West history along the railroad.
- Southside Haunted Tour: The hauntings and history of Flagstaff's Southside neighborhood.
- Mountain Town of Madness: Adults-only true-crime walk through Flagstaff's darker past.
- Spirits with the Spirits: A haunted downtown pub crawl.
- Mural Art Tour: A daytime walk through downtown's public murals and art.
Verification at a glance
- “Best of Flagstaff: Guided Tour” 2023 & 2024
- Featured on Travel Channel's The Dead Files
- U.S. News Travel: #17 Things to Do in Flagstaff
- Listed on Discover Flagstaff (official DMO)
- Only locally owned walking-tour operator in Flagstaff
Mr. Centurion says“I have wandered many a haunted avenue, but few guides command the dark as gracefully as Flagstaff's own. A decade on its feet, a thousand admirers, and not a single recorded voice in the bunch — Freaky Foot Tours wears its laurels well.”