Road-trip index
Ghost Towns near San Francisco
The survey records 725 vanished or historical sites within 100 miles of San Francisco, CA. Here's what's closest — and which places have full records worth planning a day around.
Charted towns within range
Bodie, CA~188 mi
Verified Ghost Town
A gold-rush boomtown of 8,000, kept in arrested decay since 1962.
Aurora, NV~195 mi
Vanished Place
Mark Twain's first mining town — dismantled brick by brick.
Candelaria, NV~237 mi
Vanished Place
A silver town so dry that water cost more than whiskey.
Closest surveyed sites — records pending
Sydney Town, CA~2 mi
Clinton, CA~9 mi
Robert, CA~16 mi
Forbes, CA~17 mi
Golf, CA~17 mi
Miller, CA~18 mi
Bothin, CA~19 mi
Mailliard, CA~20 mi
Irving, CA~24 mi
Rose, CA~24 mi
Every one of these is on the national atlas map — zoom into the San Francisco area to see them in place.