America’s Best Ghost Towns
The Best Ghost Towns
In the late 1800s, a mining boom in the western United States saw the creation of hundreds of mining towns. But within a few years, the mines ran dry and many of these new towns were abandoned—turning into eerie "ghost towns" that now give people a chance to imagine what life may have been like in the Wild West.
Let's take a look at some of the most infamous ghost towns in America.
Bodie, California
About an hour away from Yosemite National Park is where you'll find one of the largest ghost towns in California: Bodie.
Bodie was a bustling gold mining town, and at one point housed 10,000 residents. Today, visitors can see the remains of an old church, a cemetery, abandoned trucks, and old gas pumps.
Bodie, California
The cool thing about Bodie is that some of the buildings are left exactly as they were, and even have goods dating back to the town's glory days.
The town is now part of the Bodie State Historic Park, which provides ghost tours of the town three nights each year.
St Elmo, Colorado
About 80 miles from Aspen is where you’ll find one America’s best-kept ghost towns: St Elmo. Miners created the town in 1880, when they went looking for gold and silver.
But their days in St Elmo were fairly short-lived and by 1922, the last of the residents abandoned the town.
