Haunted Parks

7 haunted parks mapped across 5 cities, each with its ghost story, address, and sources.

• Basin Spring ParkPark · Eureka Springs, ARThe small stone-walled park at the heart of downtown surrounds Basin Spring, the mineral spring that founded Eureka Springs in 1879.
• Devil's DenPark · Gettysburg, PADevil's Den is a real maze of massive boulders on the south end of Houck's Ridge at Gettysburg National Military Park, where on July 2, 1863, roughly 3,100 Confederates under John Bell Hood overwhelmed some 2,400 Union defenders in one of the battle's most savage infantry fights, leaving over 1,800 casualties among the rocks.
• Driftwood BeachPark · Jekyll Island, GAOn the northern shore of Jekyll Island, decades of erosion have hollowed out a maritime forest into a boneyard of sun-bleached oaks and pines, their roots clawing the sand like the skeletons of some vast wreck.
• Forsyth ParkPark · Savannah, GASavannah's grand central park, with its famous white fountain, was laid out over former military parade grounds and sits beside the old fever hospital.
• Knoll-Willows Open SpacePark · Estes Park, COThis downtown open space, with a trailhead behind Town Hall and across from the Stanley Hotel, is the modern setting for Estes Park's most famous fireside legend: the Blue Mist.
• Spangler's SpringPark · Gettysburg, PASpangler's Spring sits at the south base of Culp's Hill, where some of the fiercest fighting of the Battle of Gettysburg unfolded on July 2-3, 1863, and where thirsty soldiers from both armies are said to have drawn water during the lulls; the War Department capped the spring in stone in 1895 after years of heavy use.
• Triangular FieldPark · Gettysburg, PAOn July 2, 1863, this small, sloping triangle of stone-walled ground behind Devil's Den became one of the bloodiest patches of the second day at Gettysburg, where the 124th New York "Orange Blossoms" charged into wave after wave of Confederate fire before the Union line was finally crushed.