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.
Near-Abandoned
Arizona's oldest mining town — with murals painted on the rocks by a purple-haired prophet.
Historic Townsite
A radio evangelist's mineral-springs resort, named to be the last word in the dictionary.
Near-Abandoned
Gold camp turned Route 66 legend, where the burros own the street.
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.
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.