Road-trip index
Ghost Towns near Seattle
The survey records 483 vanished or historical sites within 100 miles of Seattle, WA. Here's what's closest — and which places have full records worth planning a day around.
Charted towns within range
Vanished Place
A Cascade railroad town whose last resident held out for decades against a city.
Verified Ghost Town
A Cascade gold-and-silver camp you can only reach on foot, wrecked by its own river.
Verified Ghost Town
A copper company town in the North Cascades, reachable only by boat and foot.
Verified Ghost Town
A hotel, a schoolhouse, and a mill still standing on the Similkameen border.
Vanished Place
A wheat-country ghost on US-2, remembered for its schoolhouse and its murders.
Historic Townsite
An outdoor-museum ghost town in the Okanogan Highlands, near the Canadian line.
Closest surveyed sites — records pending
Every one of these is on the national atlas map — zoom into the Seattle area to see them in place.