Road-trip index
Ghost Towns near Sacramento
The survey records 1,278 vanished or historical sites within 100 miles of Sacramento, CA. Here's what's closest — and which places have full records worth planning a day around.
Charted towns within range
Verified Ghost Town
A gold-rush boomtown of 8,000, kept in arrested decay since 1962.
Vanished Place
Mark Twain's first mining town — dismantled brick by brick.
Vanished Place
A silver town so dry that water cost more than whiskey.
Verified Ghost Town
A company mining camp preserved whole — with ichthyosaurs buried next door.
Near-Abandoned
Where Mark Twain lasted two weeks as a miner. A shady canyon keeps a few residents still.
Near-Abandoned
Nevada's biggest city in 1906. About 225 people live in what's left.
Closest surveyed sites — records pending
Every one of these is on the national atlas map — zoom into the Sacramento area to see them in place.