Road-trip index
Ghost Towns near Spokane
The survey records 287 vanished or historical sites within 100 miles of Spokane, WA. Here's what's closest — and which places have full records worth planning a day around.
Charted towns within range
Vanished Place
A wheat-country ghost on US-2, remembered for its schoolhouse and its murders.
Vanished Place
The Silver Valley town so narrow a hotel let the train run through its lobby.
Historic Townsite
An outdoor-museum ghost town in the Okanogan Highlands, near the Canadian line.
Verified Ghost Town
A hotel, a schoolhouse, and a mill still standing on the Similkameen border.
Verified Ghost Town
A copper company town in the North Cascades, reachable only by boat and foot.
Verified Ghost Town
A Cascade gold-and-silver camp you can only reach on foot, wrecked by its own river.
Closest surveyed sites — records pending
Every one of these is on the national atlas map — zoom into the Spokane area to see them in place.