Ghost Towns in Utah

Irontown was founded in 1868, as a second attempt to mine iron from the nearby Iron Mountain.

Almost all that remains of a town dedicated to supporting the First Transcontinental Railroad.

Only ruined buildings and abandoned charcoal kilns remain of this once bustling Wild West boom town.

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

A cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

This former rail stop in Utah was abandoned, repopulated by some nostalgic friends, and now is home to a single DIY aviator who lives in a hangar.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.