There's a specific Flagstaff evening that we think is one of the best things you can do in northern Arizona. It takes about three hours, costs less than a nice dinner, and you'll leave with ghost stories, stickers, and the strong suspicion that you need to move to Flagstaff.
Here's how it works.
7 PM: The Ghost Tour
Freaky Foot Tours runs nightly ghost tours through downtown Flagstaff. The tours are 90 minutes of haunted hotels, frontier-era saloons, unsolved mysteries, and the kind of local history that doesn't make it into the guidebooks.
The company has over 1,100 five-star reviews across its Arizona tours. It was named Best of Flagstaff for guided tours in 2023, 2024, and 2025. The guides are locals who know the buildings, the stories, and the ghosts (alleged) personally.
The downtown Flagstaff haunted history tour covers the same Route 66 corridor where Weird & Wild West is based. You'll walk past The Wild Below during the tour. Your guide might be wearing W&WW merch while telling you about the haunted hotel across the street.
That's not a coincidence. Freaky Foot Tours and Weird & Wild West share a founder. Same Flagstaff love, different expressions.
Leaving the kids at home? Mountain Town of Madness is the adults-only tour, for guests 18 and up.
8:30 PM: The Neon Walk
After the tour ends, don't go straight to your car. The neon signs along Route 66 are lit up, the Weatherford Hotel is glowing, and downtown Flagstaff at night is one of the most photogenic small towns in the West.
Walk the block between Heritage Square and San Francisco Street. The vintage signs, the warm light from restaurant windows, and the sound of live music drifting from somewhere you can't quite identify. This is Flagstaff at its best.
9 PM: The Wild Below
The Wild Below is at 120 N San Francisco St Unit J, right in the heart of the downtown corridor you just walked on the ghost tour.
The full Weird & Wild West collection lives here. Every design, every product type. Plus in-store exclusives and test prints that haven't made it to the website yet. The space itself is worth seeing: original art on the walls, warm lighting, good music.
Pick up a sticker of one of the buildings your ghost tour guide just told you about. That's the ecosystem working the way it's supposed to: stories create connection, connection creates meaning, meaning makes a $5 sticker feel like a piece of the place you just experienced.
The Connected Experience
This evening works because Flagstaff's downtown is walkable, the businesses are connected, and the stories carry from one stop to the next. Ghost tour to neon walk to art shop, all within a few blocks, all part of the same community.
No other Arizona town offers this specific combination. The ghost tours, the Route 66 neon, the original artist merch in a Masonic Temple basement. It's Flagstaff's thing.
Book It
Freaky Foot Tours ghost tours depart nightly from Wheeler Park, 212 W Aspen Ave. Book the Downtown Flagstaff Haunted History Tour. The Wild Below is at 120 N San Francisco St Unit J. No reservation needed, just walk in. Hours vary.
Written in the basement of a 1917 Masonic Temple: The Wild Below, 120 N San Francisco St Unit J, Flagstaff, AZ 86001. Every design mentioned above is an original by Brigitte De Marco of Prickle & Pine Designs, printed to order in 2–5 business days and shipped free.