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Hike to Beveridge Ghost Town, Inyo Mountains, California
Beveridge Ghost Town lies at an elevation of 5587 feet (1703 m) in northeast of Lone Pine in Inyo Mountains, California. Beveridge began as a mining town. The name honors John Beveridge. A post office operated at Beveridge from 1881 to 1882. -
Off-road to Bickel Camp, El Paso Mountains, California
Bickel Camp and its cabin is a historic 1930's era mining camp close to Ridgecrest, California, in the El Paso Mountains. Thanks to the Garlock fault, geothermal action, and other geological events, the El Paso Mountains are a picturesque, colorful, and mineralized area. Native Americans revered Black Mountain, the highest elevation within the El Paso range at just ov... -
Visit Big Bell, Western Australia
Big Bell is a ghost town in Western Australia near the town of Cue, established in 1936, and was home to the Big Bell Gold Mine. Mining ceased in 2003 and the plant was dismantled and transported to the Westonia minesite in 2007. It is a former railway branch terminus in Western Australia's Murchison Region. The first train arrived in Big Bell on 6 January 1937, howev... -
Visit Birkat Al-Mawz, Oman
Birkat Al-Mawz is a ghost town located onthe road from Muscat to Nizwa in Oman. It was abandoned in 1959, right after the Jebel Akhdar campaign. The Al Hajar Mountains are full of abandoned villages, but Birkat al Mawz is possibly the largest, and definitely the easiest to explore. Part of the village still functions, so any dwellings that cower in the shade of Jebel ... -
Visit Blinman Mine, South Australia
Blinman has some distinctions in its story. It is the highest surveyed town in South Australia at 615 metres and the first town settled in the Flinders Ranges and the only town within the Flinders Ranges and not on the edge like Hawker, Beltana, Leigh Creek etc. It is located in the Hundred of Carr which was declared in 1877. The first white settlement in this region ... -
Visit Bodie State Historic Park, California
Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States, about 75 miles (120 km) southeast of Lake Tahoe. At one point in time in the late 1800s, Bodie was once home to about 8,000 people and there were over 65 saloons and 0 churches along its mile-long Main Street! It is located 12 miles (19 km) east... -
Visit Bogenfels, Namibia
A settlement developed in the area after diamonds were discovered. In 1950, it was evacuated and has remained a ghost town since. A narrow-gauge railway line once ran to Kolmanskop. Settlements that lie abandoned in the Sperrgebiet and can be visited only on an organised tour. -
Visit Bombay Beach, California
Bombay Beach is located on the Salton Sea and is the lowest community in the United States, located 223 feet (68 m) below sea level. Bombay Beach is located on the east shore of the Salton Sea and like many communities along its shores, has had to contend with fluctuating water levels. A berm now protects the west end of the town, but a portion of the town beyond the ... -
Visit Bonnie Claire Ghost Town, Nevada
Bonnie Claire is a ghost town located in Nye County, Nevada. The settlement is located on the edge of Sarcobatus Flat adjacent to Nevada State Route 267. The mines of Slate Ridge lie to the northwest and the northernmost spur of the Amargosa Range, the Grapevine Mountains, is just to the south of the townsite. Bonnie Claire Flat extends to the southwest between the Sl... -
Visit Bouse, Arizona
Bouse is a town and ghost town in La Paz County, Arizona, United States. Founded in 1908 as a mining camp, the economy of Bouse is now based on tourism, agriculture, and retirees. The population was 996 at the 2010 census. It was originally named Brayton after the store owner John Brayton Martin. Arizona State Route 72 passes through the community, leading northwest 2... -
Visit Brigham City, Arizona
Brigham City is a ghost town in Navajo County, Arizona, United States. Founded by member of The Church of Latter-day Saints near the present city of Winslow in 1876, it was one and one-half miles north of Winslow's current city center, along the Little Colorado River. It was organized as a Latter-Day Saints ward in 1878, but by 1881 it had been abandoned. Twenty Mormo... -
Visit Bristol Wells Town Site, Nevada
Bristol Wells, also known as National City, Bristol City and Tempest, is a ghost town in Lincoln County, Nevada. The mining town was located on the west side of Bristol Mountain, 14 miles (23 km) northwest of Pioche, Nevada. The first mining claims were staked in 1870. The district was organized the next year when the settlement of National City grew around the N... -
Visit Bruce, South Australia, Australia
Bruce is an old ghost town near Quorn on the Willochra Plains. Station built 1881 when the Peterborough to Quorn railway was built. A grand stone railway station in the desert. -
Visit Bullfrog (Nevada)
Bullfrog is a ghost town in Nye County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. It is located at the north end of the Amargosa Desert about 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Beatty. Less than 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Bullfrog are the Bullfrog Hills and the ghost town of Rhyolite. The two ghost towns are about 120 miles (190 km) northwest of Las Vegas, 60 miles (97 km) south of Goldfield,... -
Off-road to Burgess Mine (French Spring Trail), Inyo Mountain Wilderness Area, California
The Burgess Mine Trail is located in the Inyo Mountain Wilderness Area. This 8.0-mile long trail starts at 4,600 feet at the end of the French Spring Road in Owens Valley.
