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[BigMattFromTexas]

Anyone been to/explored any ghost towns or ruins? Theres two ghost towns in the San Angelo area, Carlsbad, and Ben Ficklin. Theres several ruins at Big Bend National Park. Ben Ficklin is more of ruins, it is now a new housing development, but at Ben Ficklin Cemetery theres still the foundation of old buildings.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3572/3362740839_b694c5252e_o.jpg
Heres some mine ruins at Big Bend
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/IV3nCT2x6Kij5Cby3DJgsg?feat=directlink
 BigMatt

[mightyace]

There's this thread in the Northeast section about Centralia, PA.

[Alps]

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gtusa/usa/ has them listed by state - just pick one at a time.
I've been to Hanton City, RI - www.alpsroads.net/www/hanton/ - and of course, the near-ghost town of Centralia, PA - www.alpsroads.net/roads/pa/centralia/

[florida]

Why is Cedar Key, FL a ghost town? If a place has residents, it's not a ghost town    FAIL!

They should have tried Atsena Otie Key, which is right across the water from Cedar Key. 

But yes, been through quite a few on past road trips. They're always interesting to visit, with all the lore and myths behind what happened to their demise...and sometimes paranormal activity 

[Alex]

Another ghost town, Rhyolite, Nevada was previewed on an episode of Life After People.

Andy and I drove near there last year, but I had no idea it existed at the time. 

[Roadgeek Adam]

Tahawus, NY and Doodletown, NY

I want to go to Tahawus so badly

[PAHighways]

Centralia, PA - a stop on the 2003 and 2004 Harrisburg (Mid-State) Meet

Love Canal, NY - one of the stops on the 2004 Buffalo Meet

[getemngo]

There are a ton of ruins up in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, not too far from where I went to college.  On the (M-26) drive from Hancock to Laurium alone, you'll encounter the Quincy Smelting Works, Mill, and Dredge.  It gives the whole area a nice post-apocalyptic feel.   

[Stephane Dumas]

here in Quebec, there the town of Schefferville in the Nunavut area half-abandonned, who fit the category of ghost town http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Schefferville_Pierre_Bouchard.JPG

[BigMattFromTexas]

I want to go to Chernobyl and Prypiat, Ukraine. both look like interersting ghost cities to go to.
 BigMatt

[Marc]

Pecos, TX.

Also many other towns in west Texas.

[BigMattFromTexas]

Pecos, TX.

Also many other towns in west Texas.

Pecos, Tx isn't a ghost town

[Crewdawg]

been to Bodie CA it is a state park lots of buildings is cool

[yakra]

I've canoed to the site of Flagstaff Maine, photographed where I believed historic ME-149 used to end, and stood on what was either old 149's pavement or a side road's, under about 2 feet of water. I have a couple photos of the obvious bits of old route 16 that are still in service (from Stratton to the campsites along the south shore of the Flagstaff Lake's west end, and Long Falls Dam Rd, going south from the east end to New Portland). But what I really wanna capture is the abandoned roadway creeping into and out of the shallows, still slightly visible in the marshes. cutting overgrown thru isolated spits of land.

[Chris]

Pecos, TX.

Also many other towns in west Texas.

Pecos is a relatively significant town in western Texas with nearly 10,000 inhabitants. It's the last major town along I-20 before you merge onto I-10. Not exactly a ghost town.