It seems I'm not alone... — 3 months ago
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visit a ghost town
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Untitled — 9 months ago
Not worth it!
I did not hear anything…. and we were suppossed to. not worth it!
Untitled — 10 months ago
Worth doing!
i love ghost towns, but they make me feel so sad… it’s so hard to imagine them bustling and full of life. i wish i could go back in time and witness them in their heydays
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Cripple Creek, Colorado — 1 year ago
Worth doing!
This has been on my list for a while, when I realized that I’ve already done this, years ago. I went here with my family on vacation… touristy, but still a lot of fun! I’d like to visit more ghost towns, maybe some here in California.
Research — 1 year ago
Bannack, Montana, a well preserved ghost town that is now a State Park.
Pennsylvania
Byrnesville, Pennsylvania
Centralia
Frick’s Lock, Pennsylvania
Ingleby
Livermore
Pithole, Pennsylvania
Scotia, Pennsylvania
Wehrum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ghost_towns_in_the_United_States#Pennsylvania
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Ghost towns — 1 year ago
Worth doing!
I’ve made somewhat of a start on this… I googled “Southern California ghost towns” and narrowed it down to a few that really like they’d be neat to visit… Calico, which is an authentic ghost town which was turned into a sort of amusement park in the earlier part of the 1900’s but which still has quite a bit of the original town, cemetery, etc. Some fake gunfights and stuff like that that sound a lil bit hokey and tourist-trappish, but sounds like it’d be a fun little day trip.
Two other places are almost next to each other (at least on the map), Randsburg and Garlock. Both used to be mining communities… The main feature of Garlock, I believe, is a tunnel that goes all the way through a mountain. Apparently this guy was mining, and going deeper and deeper, and before he knew it he’d popped clear out of the other side of the mountain. Nearby is Randsburg, which is a “living ghost town”, meaning a few people still live there. A lot of buildings still standing, a couple working saloons among other things.
I decided on these three because most of the other ghost towns were either too far, or on private property, or else were nothing more than one or two foundations.
