Category: New Mexico - United States Ghost Towns

El Moro, New Mexico Ghost Town

Under the shadow of ancient inscribed cliffs, this haunting New Mexican ghost town holds centuries of untold stories waiting to be discovered.

Tragic mine explosions and 350 haunting iron crosses tell the story of Dawson, a once-thriving New Mexico coal town.

Once a thriving Route 66 town, Cuervo’s crumbling adobe ruins whisper stories of a railroad paradise lost to interstate progress.

Prospectors struck silver in Cuchillo, but the once-thriving New Mexico mining town now harbors haunting tales and hidden treasures.

Sinister deaths and Apache raids brought a sudden end to this silver boomtown’s brief but dramatic chapter in New Mexico’s mining history.

Following Pancho Villa’s infamous 1916 raid, this desert border town’s haunting remains tell tales of bustling commerce and military drama.

Frontier ghosts linger at Cloverdale’s lone stone building, where 200 settlers once thrived near the Mexican border.

A progressive coal mining town near Gallup banned saloons and built modern amenities, but today only ruins remain of Clarkville’s unique experiment.

Abandoned in the 1930s, Clairmont’s haunting ruins tell tales of New Mexico’s copper mining glory days and frontier prosperity.

Ghostly echoes of outlaws and gunfights still haunt Cimarron’s historic St. James Hotel, where bullet holes tell tales of Wild West violence.