Ghost Town Trails

Road-trip index

Ghost Towns near Baltimore

The survey records 1,628 vanished or historical sites within 100 miles of Baltimore, MD. Here's what's closest — and which places have full records worth planning a day around.

Charted towns within range

Daniels, MD~11 mi

Vanished Place

A Patapsco mill town evicted by its owner, then finished by Hurricane Agnes.

Matildaville, VA~41 mi

Vanished Place

George Washington's canal town — ruins fifteen miles from the Capitol.

Frick's Lock, PA~84 mi

Verified Ghost Town

A Schuylkill Canal hamlet emptied in the shadow of a cooling tower.

Centralia, PA~106 mi

Near-Abandoned

The coal town condemned over a fire that is still burning underneath it.

Batsto, NJ~108 mi

Historic Townsite

The Pine Barrens iron town that armed Washington's army.

Eckley Miners' Village, PA~124 mi

Historic Townsite

North America's most complete anthracite patch town — saved by a film crew.

Closest surveyed sites — records pending

Claremont, MD~3 mi
Minersville, MD~3 mi
Shoresville, MD~3 mi
Masonville, MD~4 mi
Holabird Homes, MD~4 mi
Riverview, MD~4 mi
Cylburn, MD~5 mi
Winans, MD~6 mi
Asylum, MD~6 mi
Hollins, MD~6 mi

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

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