Road-trip index
Ghost Towns near Tucson
The survey records 200 vanished or historical sites within 100 miles of Tucson, AZ. Here's what's closest — and which places have full records worth planning a day around.
Charted towns within range
Verified Ghost Town
A company smelter town named by acronym, its stack still standing in the desert.
Verified Ghost Town
Arizona's best-preserved mining camp — schoolhouse, jail, and a bloody border history.
Historic Townsite
The depot town for Tombstone — scene of a train robbery foiled by one lawman.
Vanished Place
A vanished rail stop on the Gila, marked by five beehive coke ovens.
Near-Abandoned
The gold camp that emptied Tombstone — general store still standing proud.
Verified Ghost Town
Turquoise, then copper, then a restored jail with its own museum keys.
Closest surveyed sites — records pending
Every one of these is on the national atlas map — zoom into the Tucson area to see them in place.