V&T Haunted Graveyard Train

The V&T Railway has hauled tourists between Virginia City and Gold Hill on 150-year-old rail for decades. On Halloween weekend it runs the route at night, and the route happens to pass the Gold Hill Cemetery, where actual Comstock miners have been buried since the 1860s.

The Haunted Graveyard Train is a four-mile, 40-minute round trip with a stop at the Gold Hill graveyard, costumed characters working the open-air cars, and the dark high desert doing the atmosphere for free. It’s a family-level scare, closer to ghost story than gore, and it sells out fast: 2026 runs just three nights, October 29 through 31, with tickets from $19 to $26.

If your Halloween plans involve one weird, only-in-Nevada thing, a night train past a Gold Rush graveyard is a strong candidate.