Best Abandoned Ghost Towns

[Coco]

So a recent KSL story got me thinking, what is your favorite Ghost Town/Site that you would like to visit? Post up your favorites! Pics and all that good stuff are always good eye candy/reading material.

KSL's 5 Haunting, Beautiful Abandoned Places

The all time favorite place that I would love to explore and see would be Chernobyl. The site of the worst nuclear disaster in history.
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/03/the-chernobyl-disaster-25-years-ago/100033/

 

[Kiel]

frisco down milford is always cool. I love the beehive kilns

 

[cruiseroutfit]

Favorite I've visited? Animas Forks, CO., Grillenburger, Namibia as well as many of the Siberian ghost towns we visited when traveling through Siberia/Russia last fall. My favorite Utah towns would be Gold Hill, Lucin, Frisco, perhaps some of the Swell ghost towns too.

Namibian ghost towns on the Skeleton Coast, these were diamond mines.









Russia:







For ghost town aficionado's, there is a new Utah specific ghost town club, partnered with ExpeditionUtah, Gold Rush Expeditions, Utah Gold Prospectors, Utah Treasure Hunters, etc.

 

[Kevin B.]

There's some cool stuff in Wyoming, too. Atlantic City and South Pass are cool little semi-ghosts, and there's more stuff scattered all through that area. More locally, there's some neat old structure down around Eureka and up along Hwy 30. I haven't seen Frisco or Gold Hill yet, they're on my list.

 

[cruiseroutfit]

There's some cool stuff in Wyoming, too. Atlantic City and South Pass are cool little semi-ghosts, and there's more stuff scattered all through that area. More locally, there's some neat old structure down around Eureka and up along Hwy 30. I haven't seen Frisco or Gold Hill yet, they're on my list.

How could I forget those too... fantastic stuff.

Atlantic City info: http://www.expeditionutah.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1068

While they would be "re-living" ghost towns they have some amazing history. Additionally there are some true ghost towns in the area too, need to get back there soon!

 

[Stephen]

So a recent KSL story got me thinking, what is your favorite Ghost Town/Site that you would like to visit? Post up your favorites! Pics and all that good stuff are always good eye candy/reading material.

KSL's 5 Haunting, Beautiful Abandoned Places

The all time favorite place that I would love to explore and see would be Chernobyl. The site of the worst nuclear disaster in history.
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/03/the-chernobyl-disaster-25-years-ago/100033/

You'll never get near the Chernobyl reactors. But Припять (Prypiat), the abandoned city near the reactors, you might. It's long been on my list of places to visit. A friend and I are working on going there in 2015.

 

[clfrnacwby]

Newly married, my wife and I traveled to the Divide Ride in Montana in 2004. One of the organized trail runs took us to Elkhorn. It was AWESOME.

Not my pictures, but a nice sampling of what's there:

http://www.ghosttowngallery.com/htme/elkhorn.htm

 

[skiboarder]

Eureka. Some people still live there. I might as well be a ghost town.

 

[pELYgroso]

Detroit.

 

[Kevin B.]

Eureka. Some people still live there. I might as well be a ghost town.

The last time I was up in Mammoth, there was lots of new mining activity up in the hills, and several new trailer houses up at the top of the hill. If the mining keeps up, Main Street in Eureka might wake back up. That'd be cool to see.

 

[DAA]

Stateline is pretty good.

All my favorite ghost towns were abandoned about 700 years ago though, Anasazi cities.

Would love to visit many of the South American pyramid sites.

- DAA

 

[ricsrx]

Detroit.

My wifes cousins lives on the out skirts of Detroit, so they visited that ghost town when they were visiting.
LMAO!!

 

[Coco]

You'll never get near the Chernobyl reactors. But Припять (Prypiat), the abandoned city near the reactors, you might. It's long been on my list of places to visit. A friend and I are working on going there in 2015.

Yeah, probably right, but would love to see Priypat and Chernobyl.

Another one for me has been abandoned amusement parks
http://io9.com/the-crumbling-chaos-of-abandoned-amusement-parks-514682250
http://seriouslyforreal.com/serious...ysterious-abandoned-amusement-parks-on-earth/
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/essential-guide-abandoned-amusement-parks

 

[sawtooth4x4]

you should check out Jeffery City, WY. its kind of a The Hills Have Eyes place. It was abandoned in the 90's. It was a town during the last uranium boom. There were a few people living there last summer, when i was working in the area. Since then the mine has been shut down again.

http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/wy/jeffreycity.html

 

[Johnny Quest]

Park City. yea, its not a ghost town anymore, but it was registered on the national ghost town registry up until the 50's or so. There's still some sweet old mining stuff around if you know where to look.

 

[Spork]

Need this one...
Sego, UT

 

[Kevin B.]

Sego is awesome.

Downtown Salt Lake is actually pretty awesome, too, if you're into old buildings. There's a bunch of historic stuff along State, but if you get into the back alleys there's a bunch more that aren't just rehabilitated facades. They're disappearing though, seems like every month I look out my window at work and see another construction crane pop up.

 

[TurboMinivan]

Eureka. Some people still live there. It might as well be a ghost town.

Hmm.

http://www.ghosttowngallery.com/htme/eurekaut.htm

I'm off work tomorrow. I just might drive down there and have a look.

 

[Skylinerider]

Lets see, favorite Utah ghost towns would be Sego, Gold Hill, Stateline, Boston Terrace, Iosepa, Indian Springs, Grafton.

 

[jackjoh]

Death Valley, CA has a few good ones but the best for early 1900's is Bodie, CA because most of the stuff is still there.