The story
Miner's Delight — also called Hamilton City — was the third of the South Pass gold towns, founded in 1868 when gold turned up in the hills east of Atlantic City. Its optimistic name outlasted its luck: the gold boom that filled the district was over by 1870, and Miner's Delight was mostly abandoned within a couple of years.
Unlike South Pass City and Atlantic City, it never came back as a living town. A few people worked the ground on and off for decades, and the last resident finally left in the 1970s, leaving a cluster of weathered log cabins and mine works in the sagebrush.
The Bureau of Land Management now protects the site with a light hand — stabilizing the log buildings to keep them standing while leaving the feel of an abandoned camp. A rough walking path and interpretive panels lead through what is one of the more atmospheric and least crowded ghost towns in Wyoming.
What remains today
A cluster of weathered log cabins, mine works, and foundations, stabilized by the BLM with a walking path and interpretive panels.
Questions from the field
- Can you walk through Miner's Delight ghost town?
- Yes — the BLM keeps the log buildings stabilized and maintains a rough walking path and interpretive panels through the site near Atlantic City, Wyoming. It is free and open, with no services.
From the field
The most valuable part of this record is the part only visitors can write.
Stamp your passport
Check in at Miner's Delight — GPS-verified visits earn an inked stamp.
File a field report
Road conditions, what's still standing, what's gone — your report joins the record.
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Primary sources for this record
- — USGS GNIS feature 1601480
- — Bureau of Land Management — Miner's Delight
- — WyoHistory.org (Wyoming State Historical Society) — South Pass district