Category: Ghost town

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Lake Valley Townsite

The mining town of Lake Valley was founded in 1878 after silver was discovered. Almost overnight, the small frontier town blossomed into a major settlement with a population of 4,000 people. Today, silver mining has played out and all that remains is a ghost town. BLM has restored the schoolhouse...

Kelly, NM – Ghost town 0

Kelly, NM – Ghost town

I was directed, by a pamphlet I picked up at the VLA, that there was a small ghoest town just 3.5 miles off route back to the Interstate and I wasn’t going to pass up such an easy target to sight-see and take some photographs. Kelly, misspelled when registered at...

Jerome, AZ 0

Jerome, AZ

Located along a steep hillside full of hairpin turns and shocking drop-offs, this old ghost town has life in it yet. Once called the “Wickedest Town in the West,” Jerome was a budding city of brothels and saloons back at the turn of the century, when copper mining was king....

Rhyolite ghost town 0

Rhyolite ghost town

On our third day of the first road trip in 2011, we stopped at Beatty, Nevada for the night. Just 6 miles outside of town is Rhyolite, a ghost town since the 20’s. It made for an easy afternoon stroll and was easy on the camera as well. After spending...