Road-trip index
Ghost Towns near Phoenix
The survey records 194 vanished or historical sites within 100 miles of Phoenix, AZ. Here's what's closest — and which places have full records worth planning a day around.
Charted towns within range
Historic Townsite
A gold camp below the Superstitions, rebuilt board by board as a tourist town.
Historic Townsite
Arizona's richest gold mine, its hanging tree, and a privately restored boomtown.
Near-Abandoned
A near-ghost on the old railroad grade, kept alive by one desert bar.
Vanished Place
A vanished rail stop on the Gila, marked by five beehive coke ovens.
Historic Townsite
Rich Hill's gold camp, named for a scoundrel — now a prospectors' RV hideaway.
Verified Ghost Town
A company smelter town named by acronym, its stack still standing in the desert.
Closest surveyed sites — records pending
Every one of these is on the national atlas map — zoom into the Phoenix area to see them in place.