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Visit Garnet Ghost Town, Granite County, Montana
Preserved 1890s gold-mining town home to compact log cabins with period furnishings. -
Visit Garub Train Station, Namibia
The abandoned Garub Railway Station in Namibia is located in the Namib desert on the road to Luderitz. -
Visit Giles, Utah
Giles is a ghost town located along the Fremont River in the Blue Valley of Wayne County, Utah, United States. The town was inhabited circa 1883–1919. In the early 1880s, several settlements in Wayne County were started by Mormon farmers under the leadership of Hyrum Burgess. By 1883 some Burgess family members had moved to the Blue Valley area, constructing a ... -
Visit Gillett, Arizona
Gillett, Arizona, (the name is frequently misspelled as "Gillette" on maps and documents) is a ghost town in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States. It has an estimated elevation of 1,362 feet (415 m) above sea level. Historically, it was a stagecoach station, and then a settlement formed around an ore mill serving the Tip Top Mine, on the Agua Fria River in Yav... -
Visit Gilman (Eagle Mine), Colorado
Gilman is an abandoned mining town in southeastern Eagle County, Colorado, United States. Founded in 1886 during the Colorado Silver Boom, the town later became a center of lead and zinc mining in Colorado, centered around the now-flooded Eagle Mine. The townsite is a victim of vandalization, and the town's main street is heavily tagged. There are only a few intact wi... -
Visit Gleeson, Arizona
Gleeson is a ghost town situated in southeastern Cochise County, Arizona, United States. It has an estimated elevation of 4,924 feet (1,501 m) above sea level. The town was first settled as Turquoise in the 1870s in what was then the Arizona Territory, then later re-established as Gleeson in 1900. The area was initially settled as a mining camp called Turquoise after ... -
Visit Glenrio Historic District, New Mexico and Texas
Glenrio, formerly Rock Island, is an unincorporated community in both Deaf Smith County, Texas, and Quay County, New Mexico, in the United States. Located on Route 66, the ghost town sits on the Texas/New Mexico state line. It includes the Glenrio Historic District which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. The community was founded in 1903 ... -
Visit Goffs, California
Goffs, an unincorporated community in San Bernardino County, California, is a nearly empty one-time railroad town at the route's high point in the Mojave Desert. Goffs was a stop on famous U.S. Route 66 until 1931 when a more direct road opened between Needles and Essex. Goffs was also home to workers of the nearby Santa Fe Railroad, with Homer east, Fenner south, and... -
Visit Gold Butte, Nevada
The ghost town of Gold Butte is what remains of a mining settlement active from around 1905 to 1910. Little is left at the site, but you can spot a couple of foundations, two graves and several old mine shafts. Gold Butte is protected as part of the Gold Butte National Monument, which includes ancient petroglyphs. One site, called 21 Goats, depicts what are now believ... -
Visit Gold Center, Nevada
Gold Center was a mining town in Nye County, Nevada. Located in the Bullfrog Mining District south of Tonopah, Gold Center was established in December 1904 with a United States Post Office being authorized on January 21, 1905. The town began publishing its own newspaper in 1907. The location of the town was ideal as it was on the stagecoach route to Rhyolite and Beatt... -
Visit Golden Cactus Ghost Town Museum, Pearsonville, California
The Golden Cactus Ghost Town Museum is located along Route U.S. 395 in Pearsonville, California. -
Visit Goldfield (Mammoth Gold Mine), Arizona
Back in the 1890's Goldfield boasted 3 saloons, a boarding house, general store, blacksmith shop, brewery, meat market and a school house. Just when it looked like the town would outgrow Mesa, the vein faulted, the grade of ore dropped and the town died a slow painful death. After several unsuccessful attempts to reopen the mines, the town did come to life again from ... -
Visit Gold Point, Nevada
Gold Point, Nevada is a well preserved ghost town in Esmeralda County, Nevada. The area that would become Gold Point was first settled by ranchers and a few miners during the 1880s. The small camp of Lime Point was formed a few hundred yards west of the present town, at an outcropping of limestone. When new discoveries of gold and silver established the major mining t... -
Visit Grafton Ghost Town, Utah
Grafton is a ghost town, just south of Zion National Park in Washington County, Utah, United States. Said to be the most photographed ghost town in the West, it has been featured as a location in several films, including 1929'sIn Old Arizona—the first talkie filmed outdoors—and the classicButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The nearest inhabited town is Ro... -
Off-road to Grand Gulch Mine (BLM 1002), Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument, Arizona
Grand Gulch Mine was a very profitable copper mine in the Arizona strip, located along BLM 1002 road in Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument in Arizona. Because the mine was a wealthier mine, the buildings are still in relatively good shape, so it’s worth the trip to check out. This drive can be a long one, so plan for the whole day and bring plenty of food ...
