Originally called Turquoise, Gleeson is one of several ghost towns near the famous Wild West town of Tombstone. Also, beware if you take off with an artifact from town – a curse reportedly comes with it until the item is returned. Today, its 100-or-so buildings are maintained by the California parks system, which protects the town in “an arrested state of decay,” keeping the buildings standing but making few other alterations.īodie is 13 miles off of Highway 395 down a dusty, bumpy road in an isolated area, so make sure you have plenty of gas.
Once the mine shut down, so did the town, all but abandoned by the early 1900s. The town boomed during the Gold Rush days, with an estimated 10,000 residents in 1880, more than 60 saloons and a red-light district. Near the Nevada state line east of California’s Yosemite National Park, Bodie is one of the most famous ghost towns in the U.S., in part because it’s so well preserved. Here are a few of the more popular ghost towns in the Southwest: Many are still fairly well-preserved, though, and offer visitors a chance to see a piece of history – even if it is in pieces. Ghost towns dot the landscape all across the southwestern United States, once-thriving cultural hubs abandoned and left in shambles. “Now, that’s all that’s left.”ĭeath Valley Junction wasn’t the only town to feel the boom and bust of the Old West mining days. “There wasn’t much reason for people to stick around, other than to stay at the hotel or visit the opera house,” the Amargosa’s Bob Muldowney said during a tour of the opera house. Once the mine shut down, the people left, leaving the U-shaped hotel and the opera house attached to it at the center of what is now considered a ghost town. – The Amargosa Hotel was once a hub of activity, the Spanish Colonial-style buildings filled with workers from the Pacific Coast Borax company.
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