Road-trip index
Ghost Towns near Salt Lake City
The survey records 201 vanished or historical sites within 100 miles of Salt Lake City, UT. Here's what's closest — and which places have full records worth planning a day around.
Charted towns within range
Near-Abandoned
A canyon mining town kept alive by two dozen stubborn households.
Vanished Place
The cradle of modern gold processing — erased so completely only the cemetery is left.
Vanished Place
A Hawaiian village in Utah's Skull Valley — vanished, but never unvisited.
Vanished Place
Drowned by a moving mountain — Utah's costliest disaster, visible from the highway.
Vanished Place
Beehive charcoal kilns beside a vanished Union Pacific town in southwest Wyoming.
Vanished Place
For three years, Utah's fifth-largest city — behind barbed wire.
Closest surveyed sites — records pending
Every one of these is on the national atlas map — zoom into the Salt Lake City area to see them in place.