Road-trip index
Ghost Towns near Las Vegas
The survey records 233 vanished or historical sites within 100 miles of Las Vegas, NV. Here's what's closest — and which places have full records worth planning a day around.
Charted towns within range
Vanished Place
The town Hoover Dam drowned — and the drought gave back.
Verified Ghost Town
They called it The Widowmaker. The gold was real; so was the dust.
Verified Ghost Town
Concrete ruins of a five-year gold boom, minutes from Death Valley.
Historic Townsite
A Mojave silver boomtown rebuilt by the founder of Knott's Berry Farm.
Verified Ghost Town
An adobe schoolhouse under Zion's cliffs — the most filmed ghost town in the West.
Near-Abandoned
Nevada's biggest city in 1906. About 225 people live in what's left.
Closest surveyed sites — records pending
Every one of these is on the national atlas map — zoom into the Las Vegas area to see them in place.