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
Metropolis, NV~168 mi
Vanished Place
A prairie metropolis planned on paper. The desert had other plans.
Jarbidge, NV~199 mi
Near-Abandoned
One of America's last gold rushes — and its last stagecoach robbery.
Hamilton, NV~217 mi
Verified Ghost Town
Twelve thousand people at 8,000 feet — for about three years.
Tuscarora, NV~229 mi
Near-Abandoned
A silver camp with one of Nevada's largest Chinatowns — now a world-known pottery school.
Closest surveyed sites — records pending
Fort Douglas, UT~3 mi
Redwood, UT~4 mi
Cottonwood, UT~8 mi
Bennion, UT~9 mi
Lark, UT~20 mi
East Layton, UT~22 mi
Tad Park, UT~30 mi
Wilson, UT~33 mi
Marriott, UT~34 mi
Mercur, UT~35 mi
Every one of these is on the national atlas map — zoom into the Salt Lake City area to see them in place.