Category: Wyoming - United States Ghost Towns

Shirley Basin, Wyoming Ghost Town

In Wyoming’s high desert, a forgotten uranium boomtown holds Cold War secrets and haunting remnants of America’s atomic age.

Peer into the wild West’s most notorious ghost town, where outlaws, whiskey traders, and vigilante justice once ruled Wyoming’s untamed frontier.

Beneath crumbling walls in Wyoming’s Wind River Valley lies Welcome, a gold rush town where prospectors’ dreams turned to dust.

Beneath the Wyoming prairie lies Walcott’s forgotten story of copper mines, aerial trams, and a bustling frontier town.

Known as a booming railroad town of 6,000 in the 1920s, Van Tassell now stands frozen in time with just 25 residents.

Discover the wild secrets of Tubb Town, Wyoming’s most notorious 1880s boomtown where outlaws and fortune seekers once roamed.

Where gold fever once drew thousands, Duncan’s abandoned buildings now stand frozen in time along Wyoming’s Continental Divide.

Built as a company town during Wyoming’s gas boom, Table Rock’s sudden abandonment left modern homes frozen in time.

Mining brought thousands to Superior, Wyoming, but today this ghost town’s diverse heritage lives on through its haunting ruins.

This abandoned Wyoming mining town once thrived with innovation and diversity, until the iron ore finally ran dry in 1980.