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Colorado Ghost Towns
There are also some ghost towns in Colorado that are also interesting to visit. As a matter a fact speaking of the subject, there are many sites available that have photographs of the old ghost towns in the West and descriptions of the most noteworthy ones.
The old towns vary from one remaining shack to a collection of buildings that can be recognized. These are many times buried in the brush and vegetation of the region and are not easy to get to sometimes. Some people prefer the silent “haunted” places and find them interesting places to take photographs of.
If you are interested in going out and exploring some interesting ghost towns, we will give you some suggestions on where you can go. California, State Route 49 has a lot of places with reminders of the gold rush days. This is additionally a very scenic route for people that love taking photographs.
If you are traveling around this area, it would be worth it to turn off onto the little side roads to see what you are able to find. Some of the places that are definitely worth while taking a look at are Angel’s Camp, Altaville, Sutter’s Creek, Chinese Camp, Amador, Fiddletown, and Douglas Flat; there are additionally a bunch of little settlements that can be found off the main road that are located close to these places.
Another interesting area you can visit is the back of the Sierra Nevada, which consists of the eastern flank. In this place you can find Bodie and Masonic and they are both located near Bridgeport on the U.S. 395 north of Mono Lake. These two towns are on dirt roads, the road that goes to Masonic branches off of State Route 182 and the one that leads to Bodie that goes east just south of Bridgeport.
Arizona also has some very interesting places as well. You may want to check out the east side of the Colorado River – Ehrenburg, La Paz and Quartzsite are all within a few miles of Blythe on the Interstate 10. Another place you may want to check out is the small town of Congress, which is just north of Wickenburg on U.S. 89. This place has actually been rebuilt, however the ruins of the old town are around there or four miles north of Congress on a dirt road. Another interesting place that can be found in Arizona is close to Prescott, on Lynx Creek, which is where Arizona’s first gold was discovered.
There is another area that is worth checking out as well. During the winter or fall as well as the spring, you have the Panamint region that is located on the western edge of Death Valley. You can go east and then north from China Lake, go through Trona and then north around thirty miles. At this point you can start searching and exploring the dirt roads. There used to be two main settlements located here which were Ballarat and Panamint. Both of these are actual ghost towns and are basically not occupied by anyone.
Within this same desert area there is additionally a place that is called Garlock, and it is basically an area of around twelve or more ruins on a dirt road that runs from Randsburg in the south of the China Lake, over to State Route 14. Randsburg is actually not a ghost town because there are people that live there, but the area that is around it has a lot of old mine shafts and remains of a gold rush.
