Road-trip index
Ghost Towns near Boise
The survey records 287 vanished or historical sites within 100 miles of Boise, ID. Here's what's closest — and which places have full records worth planning a day around.
Charted towns within range
Verified Ghost Town
Idaho's great preserved mining town — seventy buildings up a dead-end mountain road.
Historic Townsite
A Yankee Fork gold town preserved along the road to the great dredge.
Historic Townsite
A silver-smelter town in a tight canyon, now a state-park ghost town.
Near-Abandoned
A Blue Mountains gold town with a giant dredge parked where the boom used to be.
Near-Abandoned
One of America's last gold rushes — and its last stagecoach robbery.
Near-Abandoned
A Blue Mountains gold town founded on the Fourth of July, now barely hanging on.
Closest surveyed sites — records pending
Every one of these is on the national atlas map — zoom into the Boise area to see them in place.