Wild West
Ghost towns
Bodie, Oatman, Centralia: abandoned places from the gold rush, mining and Route 66 – some preserved as state parks, some only ruins.
- 17
- ghost towns in this area
- 1
- states/provinces with entries
- 1844
- oldest founded
By state
Florida 17
Ghost town
Fort Dallas
Foto: No machine-readable author provided. Averette assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Ghost town
Rosewood
Ghost town
Muscogee
Foto: Pensacola, Fla. : The Southern States Lumber Co., [ca. 1903]., Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
Ghost town
Fort Brooke
Foto: Charleston, S.C. : T.F. Gray and James, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
Ghost town
Acron
Ghost town
Atsena Otie Key
Ghost town
Fort Drum
Ghost town
Gulf City
Ghost town
Vicksburg
Ghost town
Magnolia
Foto: The original uploader was Noles1984 at English Wikipedia., Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
Ghost town
Ellaville
Good to know
- Many ghost towns are on gravel roads – check whether your rental car is allowed there.
- Bring enough water and fuel: there is often no gas station or signal for hours.
- Don’t enter ruins or mines – they can collapse. Take nothing: it is prohibited in state parks.
Sources: Wikidata (CC0), Photos: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence per image) · Last checked on 19 September 2026