Yes, if this is your first visit and you want the places of 1692 explained where they happened: a guided walk costs from $25 for 90 minutes to $35 for two hours. No, if you only want the Memorial and Charter Street — both are free and 135 m apart.
Key takeaways
Updated 5 Oct 2026 · prices checked 5 Oct 2026
If you decide a guide is worth it, these three walks give the clearest value. The 1692 Witchcraft Trials Walk is the cheapest guided walk at $25 and the most reviewed in Salem — 373 reviews at 4.18 on GetYourGuide. Secrets of Salem Hidden History Walking Tour costs $35 and gives the most structure: nine stops in two hours from 210 Essex Street, 4.47 from 210 reviews. The Witch Trial History and Salem Haunts walk is one hour for $29, and the highest rated of the walks with more than a hundred reviews: 4.53 from 162.
All three are walks in the center of Salem, all three offer free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start, and none needs a car.
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The places of 1692 are small and scattered between modern shops: a granite memorial on Liberty Street, a burying ground beside it, a judge’s house on Essex Street. Without a guide they read as a list of addresses; with one they become a sequence — who was accused, where they were examined, where the judges are buried. For $25 to $35 you get that story in 90 minutes to two hours, which is the main reason most visitors book.
If you already know the story, choose the walk by the places it names. The Witch Trial Walking Tour names three of the five places of 1692 — the Memorial, Charter Street and the Witch House from outside — for $29.99. No walk in Salem lists Proctor’s Ledge, the site of the hangings; four day trips from Boston do.
The Witch Trial Walking Tour is the one walk its partner marks as suitable for all ages, 90 minutes for $29.99. The coach day from Boston is not suitable for children under 5, and one walk in town is 21+ with ID.
The 1692 Witchcraft Trials Walk says in its own words that the tour is wheelchair accessible and the route fairly flat, and Salem 101 General History Tour says the same. Secrets of Salem and Ultimate Witches are listed as not suitable for wheelchair users.
The walks on this site are history walks about the trials of 1692. If you want ghost stories and haunted houses after dark, our sister site covers night and ghost tours; the Witch Trial History and Salem Haunts walk is the one history walk here that also names haunted buildings.
The free route covers more than people expect. The Salem Witch Trials Memorial on Liberty Street is free and open dawn to dusk; the Charter Street burying point is 135 m away, about two minutes on foot; the Witch House at 310½ Essex Street is 769 m, about ten minutes, and costs $17 to go inside. The Salem Witch Museum is a seated presentation for $19 an adult.
What the ticket adds is a person who knows the order of events and the people behind each address. The 1692 walk promises the events that led to the trials, the places linked to the judges and the accused, and the stories of those accused; Secrets of Salem adds the arc from a Puritan town to the Witch City across nine stops. That difference — a story rather than a list — is what $25 to $35 buys.
If you are on the fence, walk the free route first and book a guide for the next morning: every walk on this site can be cancelled free up to 24 hours before the start.
Skip a paid walk if all you want is a photo at the Memorial and the burying point: both are free and two minutes apart. Skip Secrets of Salem if you cannot walk more than a mile — its partner says so itself — and take the one-hour Haunts walk or the flat 1692 walk instead.
Read the reviews before the cheapest option: the self-guided audio tour costs $10 and is rated 3.48 from 12 reviews, the lowest on this site. Among the guided walks, Ultimate Witches and Witchcraft of Salem is rated 3.8 from 79 — the only guided walk below four.
The two walks below carry the most reviews in Salem: the 1692 Witchcraft Trials Walk, 373 reviews at 4.18, and Secrets of Salem, 210 at 4.47. The quotes are short extracts from GetYourGuide reviews with the reviewer’s first name and month; the full reviews are on the partner page.
“Packed with tons of information and stories, this 90 minute tour satisfied the little girl history geek in me.”
“No need for fancy costumes, just book this tour guide who has all the information you need.”
Three checks before paying. Start times appear only on the partner calendar for your date — the listings do not publish them. The 1692 walk meets at 8 Central Street, the brick 1805 Custom House with purple signs; Secrets of Salem meets outside the Salem Five bank at 210 Essex Street, and its partner asks you to arrive 15 to 20 minutes early. And every walk on this site offers free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start.
Price per person: $25, $35 and $29. Length: 90 minutes, two hours and one hour. The 1692 walk is the cheapest and the only one of the three marked wheelchair accessible; Secrets of Salem has the most stops; the Haunts walk is the shortest and names the Memorial.
Yes. On a first visit a guide turns scattered addresses into one story of 1692, and a walk costs $25 to $35 for 90 minutes to two hours. Start with the 1692 Witchcraft Trials Walk on a budget or Secrets of Salem for nine stops; both offer free cancellation up to 24 hours before.
For most visitors, yes: it is the cheapest guided walk in Salem and the most reviewed, 373 reviews at 4.18. It covers a little over a mile with eight to ten stops in 90 minutes, and its partner calls the route fairly flat and wheelchair accessible.
If you want the fuller story, yes: Secrets of Salem is two hours and nine stops against 90 minutes, rated 4.47 from 210 against 4.18 from 373. It is not suitable for wheelchair users and covers more than a mile, so the 1692 walk is the better pick in those cases.
Yes, but book ahead: Haunted Happenings runs through October, Salem counted 1.1 million visitors last October, and Salem Witch Museum tickets are sold online only that month. Every walk on this site can be cancelled free up to 24 hours before, so booking early costs nothing if plans change.
Yes, with the right walk. The Witch Trial Walking Tour is the one walk marked suitable for all ages, 90 minutes for $29.99. The coach day from Boston is not suitable for children under 5, and one walk in town is 21+ with ID.
Only if you want transport and entries arranged. The coach day from Boston costs $190 and includes Salem Witch Museum and House of the Seven Gables entry; the train from North Station takes about 36 minutes and costs $8 each way, and a walk in Salem starts at $25.
It shows you the places but not the story. The Memorial and the Charter Street burying point are free and 135 m apart; the Witch House is $17 inside. Walk it on your own if you know the history; book a guide if you want to know who stood trial and why.