Author: Jason Smith - Page 18 - United States Ghost Towns

Diamond City, South Dakota Ghost Town

Located in Montana (not South Dakota), Diamond City’s gold rush riches and vigilante tales paint an intriguing portrait of frontier boom-and-bust.

Curious pioneers built Devoe in 1883, but this South Dakota ghost town’s promise vanished when railroads chose different paths.

Crumbling ruins of a once-bustling Black Hills railroad town reveal Deermont’s forgotten legacy in South Dakota’s rugged frontier past.

Concealed beneath Deerfield Lake’s waters lies a haunting Black Hills ghost town with secrets waiting to be uncovered.

Journey through Dansby’s abandoned streets, where a $720 million gold rush legacy still echoes in South Dakota’s Black Hills.

Between crumbling foundations and abandoned rail tracks, Dacy’s haunting remnants tell tales of a Black Hills boomtown gone silent.

In this abandoned Black Hills boomtown, gold-hungry miners unleashed a toxic legacy that still haunts South Dakota’s landscape today.

Mysterious concrete dinosaur guards an abandoned South Dakota railroad town, where pioneer dreams turned to dust in 1980.

Deep in South Dakota’s Black Hills, Copper Camp’s abandoned mines and crumbling buildings whisper tales of frontier ambition and untold hardships.

Amidst South Dakota’s grasslands lies Conata, a forgotten railroad town where prairie dogs now dance through haunting ruins.