Ghost Town Trails

Road-trip index

Ghost Towns near El Paso

The survey records 124 vanished or historical sites within 100 miles of El Paso, TX. Here's what's closest — and which places have full records worth planning a day around.

Charted towns within range

Lake Valley, NM~91 mi

Historic Townsite

Home of the Bridal Chamber — a cave of nearly pure silver you could chip out by lamplight.

Lobo, TX~121 mi

Verified Ghost Town

A whole West Texas town for sale — abandoned in 1991, later bought by Germans.

Chloride, NM~129 mi

Near-Abandoned

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

Shakespeare, NM~138 mi

Historic Townsite

The town renamed by a diamond hoax survivor — kept honest by one ranch family.

White Oaks, NM~144 mi

Near-Abandoned

A gold boomtown that dared the railroad — and lost.

Toyah, TX~161 mi

Near-Abandoned

The oldest town in Reeves County, drying up beside the Texas and Pacific tracks.

Closest surveyed sites — records pending

Corpus Christi de la Isleta, TX~10 mi
Modoc, NM~41 mi
Border City, NM~68 mi
Monista, NM~78 mi
Cienega, NM~84 mi
Pinery, TX~98 mi
Cedar Grove, NM~100 mi

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

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