Sierra Vista sits in the heart of some of the most significant historical sites in the American Southwest. The nearby town of ...

Although it was once a booming mining spot, this ghost town in Arizona is now a museum where visitors can learn more about ...

For years, I passed the Two Guns exit on Interstate 40 east of Flagstaff without giving it a second thought. It was just ...

Today, Adobe Manor has 16 renovated units for families and individual renters. Adobe Manor offers Section 8 affordable housing, and Chavez rents some of the units to Catholic Charities, a nonprofit ...

Other, lesser-known towns were often just as raucous as Tombstone and Deadwood. Jerome, Arizona, for example, was once called "the wickedest town in the West" because of its proliferation of bars, ...

Visits to one of Arizona’s most intact ghost towns will soon be a thing of the past. After more than 30 years of welcoming tourists, the private owners of Ruby will permanently close the ...

Once a booming mining town with newspapers, an ice cream parlor, and even an auto dealership, Courtland is now the only ghost town on Arizona’s Ghost Town Trail with zero residents. We explore its ...

That’s Prescott, Arizona in a nutshell—a charming mountain town where affordability meets adventure. In a world where retirement destinations often come with yacht-club price tags, Prescott stands out ...

However, the town declined in the subsequent decades as promising mining booms in Montana, Arizona, and Utah lured men away from Bodie. The get-rich-quick, single miners who came to the town in ...

The remnants of Nevada’s abandoned boomtowns and settlements are scattered across the desert, if you know where to look. Experts say that Nevada has up to 600 ghost towns throughout the state.

Mining ceased altogether in 1953. Jerome is considered a "ghost town" not only because it was once abandoned, but because of its stories about the undead.

It never expanded the way other Arizona ghost towns once had, housing only a mill, post office, several stores and a population of 25 in its heyday. The town was inconsistently abandoned ...