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San Diego Gaslamp Ghosts and Crime Walking Tour
San Diego
Important Information
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Wheelchair accessible
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Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
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Service animals allowed
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Specialized infant seats are available
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Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
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All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
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Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
Cancellation policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
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Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
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If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
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This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
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Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
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Walk San Diego's famous Gaslamp Quarter and hear its real history learning about the crime, the scandal, and the ghost stories that outlived them.
You'll walk the old Stingaree with a group small group, through the blocks where gambling halls, brothels and bought-off cops ran the show. Then we get to who stayed behind: Room 309 at the Horton Grand, the 200-odd urns tucked inside the Davis-Horton House, the basement below the Balboa Theatre, and a speakeasy that used to be the city morgue.
Every story here is on the record. Look it up when you get home. In between stops there's the smaller stuff most guides skip, building to one last story at the oldest building downtown before we finish be...
Highlights
2 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
2 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Local recommendations
Professional storytelling guide
Gratuities
Meeting Points
Departure
Horton Plaza Historic Park
Your tour guide will be waiting by the Broadway Fountain — 900 4th Ave, San Diego, CA 92101 (corner of 4th & Broadway). Open, well-lit public square, easy to find after dark.
Return
Gaslamp Quarter Sign
Your tour will end near the Gaslamp Quarter Sign, a very well lit and central area a couple blocks from where the tour started.
San Diego Gaslamp Ghosts and Crime Walking Tour
San Diego
About
Walk San Diego's famous Gaslamp Quarter and hear its real history learning about the crime, the scandal, and the ghost stories that outlived them.
You'll walk the old Stingaree with a group small group, through the blocks where gambling halls, brothels and bought-off cops ran the show. Then we get to who stayed behind: Room 309 at the Horton Grand, the 200-odd urns tucked inside the Davis-Horton House, the basement below the Balboa Theatre, and a speakeasy that used to be the city morgue.
Every story here is on the record. Look it up when you get home. In between stops there's the smaller stuff most guides skip, building to one last story at the oldest building downtown before we finish be...
Highlights
2 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
2 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Local recommendations
Professional storytelling guide
Gratuities
Meeting Points
Departure
Horton Plaza Historic Park
Your tour guide will be waiting by the Broadway Fountain — 900 4th Ave, San Diego, CA 92101 (corner of 4th & Broadway). Open, well-lit public square, easy to find after dark.
Return
Gaslamp Quarter Sign
Your tour will end near the Gaslamp Quarter Sign, a very well lit and central area a couple blocks from where the tour started.
Itinerary
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Horton Plaza Park
Horton Plaza Park, anchored by the 1910 Broadway Fountain, is the open public square at the gateway to San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter — the well-lit meeting point where this haunted history ghost walk begins as the gas lamps come on.
20 minutes
2
Balboa Theatre
The Balboa Theatre is an ornate 1924 landmark in San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter, beautifully restored as a downtown performing-arts venue. Night-shift workers have long reported disembodied voices in its basement dressing rooms — some too frightened to return.
20 minutes
3
Prohibition Lounge
We will stop outside the exterior of Prohibition Lounge, a hidden Gaslamp Quarter speakeasy behind an unmarked "law office" door at 548 Fifth Avenue. Atmospheric and vintage today, the building served as San Diego's city morgue in the 1860s — and staff still sense they're not alone after closing.
20 minutes
4
Horton Grand Hotel
The Horton Grand Hotel is a restored 1880s Victorian hotel and one of San Diego's most famously haunted buildings. Room 309 is said to be home to the ghost of gambler Roger Whittaker, with guests reporting shaking beds and wardrobe doors that open on their own.
20 minutes
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Gaslamp Museum at the Davis-Horton House
We will stop outside The Davis-Horton House, the oldest building in downtown San Diego (1850) and a former hospital — where nearly 200 forgotten urns were found in the floorboards in 1984. Now the Gaslamp Museum, it's known for self-closing medicine drawers, a phantom cat, and Victorian-era apparitions.
20 minutes
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Gaslamp Quarter
The Gaslamp Quarter is the historic 16-block heart of downtown San Diego — Victorian architecture by day, and by night the notorious former "Stingaree" of crime, vice, and ghosts. The tour ends beneath its iconic neon archway, the district's most recognizable landmark.
