Road-trip index
Ghost Towns near Pittsburgh
The survey records 868 vanished or historical sites within 100 miles of Pittsburgh, PA. Here's what's closest — and which places have full records worth planning a day around.
Charted towns within range
Thurmond, WV~181 mi
Near-Abandoned
A railroad town in the New River Gorge where the main street is the tracks.
Centralia, PA~193 mi
Near-Abandoned
The coal town condemned over a fire that is still burning underneath it.
Closest surveyed sites — records pending
Allegheny, PA~1 mi
Blackburn, PA~18 mi
Clokeyville, PA~19 mi
West Middletown, PA~26 mi
Turkeyfoot, WV~29 mi
Esther, PA~30 mi
Blackhorse, WV~32 mi
Braithewaite, WV~32 mi
Tunnelville, PA~32 mi
Jeffersonville, OH~33 mi
Every one of these is on the national atlas map — zoom into the Pittsburgh area to see them in place.