Road-trip index
Ghost Towns near Portland
The survey records 1,511 vanished or historical sites within 100 miles of Portland, OR. Here's what's closest — and which places have full records worth planning a day around.
Charted towns within range
Near-Abandoned
The self-styled Wool Capital of the World, stranded when the railroad moved on.
Near-Abandoned
A shrinking ranch town best known for the four years it was called Rajneesh.
Vanished Place
A Cascade railroad town whose last resident held out for decades against a city.
Near-Abandoned
A high-desert stage-and-wheat town that the railroad simply passed by.
Verified Ghost Town
A Cascade gold-and-silver camp you can only reach on foot, wrecked by its own river.
Historic Townsite
The gold camp with two churches, no saloons, and a cemetery full of no one.
Closest surveyed sites — records pending
Every one of these is on the national atlas map — zoom into the Portland area to see them in place.