Road-trip index
Ghost Towns near Reno
The survey records 1,261 vanished or historical sites within 100 miles of Reno, NV. Here's what's closest — and which places have full records worth planning a day around.
Charted towns within range
Historic Townsite
The town killed by the Sawyer Decision — American environmental law's ground zero.
Verified Ghost Town
A high-grade gold canyon whose downstream sister town was swept away by a flash flood.
Vanished Place
Nevada's last great gold-rush hype — a boom built as much on Wall Street as ore.
Verified Ghost Town
A gold camp in the Bodie Hills, always in the shadow of its famous neighbor.
Vanished Place
A quartz-vein boomtown that appeared in weeks and lasted just over a decade.
Vanished Place
Mark Twain's first mining town — dismantled brick by brick.
Closest surveyed sites — records pending
Every one of these is on the national atlas map — zoom into the Reno area to see them in place.