El Campo Santo Cemetery Tours and Tickets

There are plenty of ways to experience El Campo Santo Cemetery. Looking at ratings and reviews previously given by customers, these are the best tours available right now:

• Haunted San Diego: The Only Ghost Tour With Exclusive Entry

• Old Town San Diego Walking Food Tour: Tequila, Tacos, and Tombstones

• San Diego Old Town Tales, Tacos and Tequila Small-Group Tour

• Ghosts of San Diego Walking Tour

• San Diego Ghosts and Gravestones: A Haunted Trolley Tour

El Campo Santo Cemetery is free for all to visit—but you’ll get the most out of your experience if you go as part of a guided tour. Walking tours that explore San Diego’s Old Town highlights begin at just US$35 per person, while evening ghost tours start at US$30.

El Campo Santo Cemetery is accessible throughout the day. The ideal visiting time depends on your preferences: If you’re most interested in the history and plan to explore other Old Town highlights, then stop by during the day. If you’re after a particularly spooky experience, opt for a nighttime visit.

El Campo Santo Cemetery is open throughout the year. Given San Diego’s famously clement weather, there’s rarely a bad time to visit—although, as it’s quite exposed, you may want to avoid visiting on a hot summer afternoon. It’s worth coming in early November to see its Día de los Muertos displays.

That depends. El Campo Santo Cemetery is not frightening during the day, making it reasonably easy to visit with kids as part of an Old Town tour. However, younger kids who might be afraid of ghost stories should avoid joining the evening tours that stop at the landmark.

Yes, you can take photos at El Campo Santo Cemetery. The site is a centuries-old historical landmark in San Diego and is no longer a working burial site (burials ended in 1880). You can try out your night photography—and ghost-spotting—on an evening excursion.