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
Jarbidge, NV~127 mi
Near-Abandoned
One of America's last gold rushes — and its last stagecoach robbery.
Tuscarora, NV~159 mi
Near-Abandoned
A silver camp with one of Nevada's largest Chinatowns — now a world-known pottery school.
Metropolis, NV~175 mi
Vanished Place
A prairie metropolis planned on paper. The desert had other plans.
Bannack, MT~191 mi
Verified Ghost Town
Montana's first territorial capital — fifty buildings you can walk through.
Unionville, NV~240 mi
Near-Abandoned
Where Mark Twain lasted two weeks as a miner. A shady canyon keeps a few residents still.
Closest surveyed sites — records pending
South Boise, ID~3 mi
Howell, ID~13 mi
Neal, ID~14 mi
Blacks, ID~14 mi
Aikman, ID~17 mi
Marsh, ID~22 mi
Bugtown, ID~24 mi
Sands, ID~37 mi
Sinker, ID~38 mi
French, ID~41 mi
Every one of these is on the national atlas map — zoom into the Boise area to see them in place.