Ghost Town Trails

Road-trip index

Ghost Towns near Albuquerque

The survey records 338 vanished or historical sites within 100 miles of Albuquerque, NM. Here's what's closest — and which places have full records worth planning a day around.

Charted towns within range

Golden, NM~28 mi

Near-Abandoned

On the Turquoise Trail, near the site of the first gold rush west of the Mississippi.

Cabezon, NM~45 mi

Verified Ghost Town

An adobe ranching village beneath a volcanic neck, on the flood-cut Rio Puerco.

White Oaks, NM~106 mi

Near-Abandoned

A gold boomtown that dared the railroad — and lost.

Chloride, NM~134 mi

Near-Abandoned

A silver camp where the general store sat locked and fully stocked for sixty years.

Dawson, NM~151 mi

Vanished Place

Nine thousand people, two of America's worst mine disasters, one field of white crosses.

Mogollon, NM~169 mi

Near-Abandoned

A gold-and-silver camp folded into Silver Creek Canyon at the end of a knuckle-white road.

Closest surveyed sites — records pending

Kemp, NM~16 mi
Las Cocinitas, NM~16 mi
Fruitvale, NM~17 mi
Montezuma, NM~21 mi
Frost, NM~21 mi
Tejon, NM~23 mi
Hagan, NM~25 mi
Agua, NM~25 mi
Coyote, NM~26 mi
Ortiz, NM~33 mi

Every one of these is on the national atlas map — zoom into the Albuquerque area to see them in place.

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