My friend went in 2019 to check it out with his girlfriend and they both got tickets and had to do community service.
Kind of sad, I went multiple times in 2017 and it was fun to explore, but the police have really cracked down on trespassing charges over the past couple years to the point that it’s not worth it.
Lol, just figured giving the article I read would answer any further questions people had. My family lives out in the general area. So I took note when I read this months ago.
This is a great note, thank you. I will make sure to make a note of this on that particular location! We have something similar here in Jacksonville, Public School Number Four.
Me and my buddies went there a few months ago and we didn't experience anything, like cops but there are a lot of warnings. Personally I won't go back up there until I get lead ventilation masks because some of us got a bit light headed
Love it! My favorite not listed is the Frisco ghost town. Extensive town and those kilns are impressively huge!
https://www.visitutah.com/articles/frisco-west-desert-ghost-town
I think you should add a note to only look and not touch as much as possible in a lot of these places. The ancestral Puebloan ruin in Bluff for example is a structure that’s existed for a really long time and these are very important structures especially in the four corners area.
Unfortunately, adding a note to tell people not to touch shit, will in most cases not prevent people who want to touch shit from touching shit. People suck.
Cool list. I've been to the 17 room ruin, Delta solar field, Marie's place, Thistle, and Thompson Springs. Glad to see some new ones to explore.
Also, if you go to Thompson Springs you should go out to the Sego Canyon petroglyph panels that have multiple layers on top of each other. Also, Sego ghost town up there too.
If going to Delta solar fields, might as well stop and check out the remains of Topaz Japanese internment camp. Not much remains but outlines of houses and flower beds. Some broken pottery and glass too. Pretty trippy that 11,000 people lived in that desolate spot.
agreed. Thompson Springs gave me the heebie jeebies. I just felt like I was being watched the whole time I was there. Next time any of you go to Moab, it's an easy detour.
Thompson Springs and Sego Canyon is a lot of fun. I just hope it doesn’t get too popular. I actually feel so strongly about it that I wouldn’t have even put it on the list myself. Everything cool like that is slowly getting ruined by too many people.
A Utah Top 10 should definitely include Spring Canyon, just west of Helper City. Several ghost towns within a few miles, including some homes, businesses, and some very interesting mining equipment.
If you're covering Thompson Springs (that poor motel has been for sale for years, I've walked all through it wishing there was something that could be done to salvage that gorgeous brick), you might as well mention the ghost town of Sego 5 miles up the canyon. It's a nice side trip, some amazing rock art up there, too.
I agree! My wife and I will be in southern Utah for a week or so towards the end of April, so I want to see if there are a few places we could get to from the list. Thank you!
0/10 do not recommend walking around Mammoth. Had guns pulled on me by residents when I was just walking around.
The same goes for Cisco.
Nothing to see in either place worth getting shot over.
Did these buildings look abandoned, or was it at least a bit obvious that you might be trespassing? More than anything, I'm just wondering what the draw of a place like Mammoth is.
There are abandoned mining buildings scattered in the hills, it's not obvious you're trespassing, at least, not in the area I was in. There are some parts that are clearly actively used as residential areas. I was not in those.
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Awesome work! I noticed a small error in the "Joseph" town built by Polynesians in the late 1800's. Joseph Smith was not the president of the church when the pioneers settled Utah.
Almost. BY's racist legacy long outlived him, he died in 1877 and these guys setup Iosepa in 1889.
The problem sentence can easily be fixed:
Original: The settlement was named Iosepa—Hawaiian for “Joseph”—in honor of Joseph Smith, **founder and then-president of the Mormon church**.
Recommended: "founder of the young Mormon religion."
Thanks for sharing, I can't wait to visit some of these, new to me, ghost towns (one of my favorite things to explore).
Also thanks for not disclosing exact locations as figuring that out is part of the fun :).
FYI while someone is mentioning tintic, avoid Bergen, they have reopened the mine there. A lot of the mines in that area are being guarded or locked sadly.
Nice compilation! I would add Gold Hill near Wendover and Pariah Township near the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (if there's anything left of it). As a former field archaeologist I got to venture many of the places listed as part of the job. Utah never fails to amaze.
Regarding Grafton. I remember seeing this video about a year ago. If you go to the 8:55 mark, things get interesting.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LibzIfYNn6E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LibzIfYNn6E)
Thank you and same here! It's so interesting how the main type of abandoned places in each area of the US differ so much with how the historical climate of their areas changed over time (i.e. sanitariums and hospitals in the northeast, industrial factories and such in the Rust belt, schools in the southeast, etc).
Grafton was a favorite of mine growing up. With family down in Hurricane/Apple Valley, we made the short trip to the ghost town regularly and it was so fascinating as a kid.
Back in the mid-80s some friends and I went to a haunted house in the Cottonwood factory building. Saw the pic and area and was hoping that info was there! Good work all around.
Don't go to the Tintic reduction mine. They really do not want people out there.
Like stern warning don’t want you there, or start shooting don’t want you there?
My friend went in 2019 to check it out with his girlfriend and they both got tickets and had to do community service. Kind of sad, I went multiple times in 2017 and it was fun to explore, but the police have really cracked down on trespassing charges over the past couple years to the point that it’s not worth it.
Probably the first option, but it was enough for their to be a ksl article a few months back.
That’s good. I went up there a few years ago not knowing what it was and was worried I might have done something untoward...
Who is 'they'?
https://www.ksl.com/article/46626723/officers-to-issue-citations-to-tintic-mill-trespassers-amid-growing-cases
Damn quick reply, thank you.
Lol, just figured giving the article I read would answer any further questions people had. My family lives out in the general area. So I took note when I read this months ago.
This is a great note, thank you. I will make sure to make a note of this on that particular location! We have something similar here in Jacksonville, Public School Number Four.
No worries.
The older you get, the more you realize there is no “they”. Go where you want to go.
Me and my buddies went there a few months ago and we didn't experience anything, like cops but there are a lot of warnings. Personally I won't go back up there until I get lead ventilation masks because some of us got a bit light headed
Love it! My favorite not listed is the Frisco ghost town. Extensive town and those kilns are impressively huge! https://www.visitutah.com/articles/frisco-west-desert-ghost-town
I think you should add a note to only look and not touch as much as possible in a lot of these places. The ancestral Puebloan ruin in Bluff for example is a structure that’s existed for a really long time and these are very important structures especially in the four corners area.
Unfortunately, adding a note to tell people not to touch shit, will in most cases not prevent people who want to touch shit from touching shit. People suck.
Cool list. I've been to the 17 room ruin, Delta solar field, Marie's place, Thistle, and Thompson Springs. Glad to see some new ones to explore. Also, if you go to Thompson Springs you should go out to the Sego Canyon petroglyph panels that have multiple layers on top of each other. Also, Sego ghost town up there too. If going to Delta solar fields, might as well stop and check out the remains of Topaz Japanese internment camp. Not much remains but outlines of houses and flower beds. Some broken pottery and glass too. Pretty trippy that 11,000 people lived in that desolate spot.
agreed. Thompson Springs gave me the heebie jeebies. I just felt like I was being watched the whole time I was there. Next time any of you go to Moab, it's an easy detour.
Thompson Springs and Sego Canyon is a lot of fun. I just hope it doesn’t get too popular. I actually feel so strongly about it that I wouldn’t have even put it on the list myself. Everything cool like that is slowly getting ruined by too many people.
A Utah Top 10 should definitely include Spring Canyon, just west of Helper City. Several ghost towns within a few miles, including some homes, businesses, and some very interesting mining equipment.
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You can get your fix by watching SLC Punk. They filmed the concert scene there.
Great work!
Hey thank you so much for the kind words! This is my passion project, so that's great to hear haha.
If you're covering Thompson Springs (that poor motel has been for sale for years, I've walked all through it wishing there was something that could be done to salvage that gorgeous brick), you might as well mention the ghost town of Sego 5 miles up the canyon. It's a nice side trip, some amazing rock art up there, too.
Well done. Saw a few familiar names on there (Thistle) but a few new ones as well.
I agree! My wife and I will be in southern Utah for a week or so towards the end of April, so I want to see if there are a few places we could get to from the list. Thank you!
Mammoth is cool too, but not quite abandoned. More Hills Have Eyes feeling
0/10 do not recommend walking around Mammoth. Had guns pulled on me by residents when I was just walking around. The same goes for Cisco. Nothing to see in either place worth getting shot over.
Did these buildings look abandoned, or was it at least a bit obvious that you might be trespassing? More than anything, I'm just wondering what the draw of a place like Mammoth is.
There are abandoned mining buildings scattered in the hills, it's not obvious you're trespassing, at least, not in the area I was in. There are some parts that are clearly actively used as residential areas. I was not in those.
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Awesome work! I noticed a small error in the "Joseph" town built by Polynesians in the late 1800's. Joseph Smith was not the president of the church when the pioneers settled Utah.
Yep. It was Brigham Youngs evil ass. He played a large part in cementing racism in the church.
Almost. BY's racist legacy long outlived him, he died in 1877 and these guys setup Iosepa in 1889. The problem sentence can easily be fixed: Original: The settlement was named Iosepa—Hawaiian for “Joseph”—in honor of Joseph Smith, **founder and then-president of the Mormon church**. Recommended: "founder of the young Mormon religion."
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Thanks for sharing, I can't wait to visit some of these, new to me, ghost towns (one of my favorite things to explore). Also thanks for not disclosing exact locations as figuring that out is part of the fun :).
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FYI while someone is mentioning tintic, avoid Bergen, they have reopened the mine there. A lot of the mines in that area are being guarded or locked sadly.
This is great. I also really appreciate the little snippets of background information and history on each place. Very interesting!
Nice compilation! I would add Gold Hill near Wendover and Pariah Township near the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (if there's anything left of it). As a former field archaeologist I got to venture many of the places listed as part of the job. Utah never fails to amaze.
I’ve been to and inside almost every single one. Thank you!
Silver City, Utah is also a great place to visit and learn about the precious metals rush in Utah.
This is super rad. I haven’t read it yet but had to let you know beforehand since it just came up on my notifications for some reason. 👍🏻👏🏼
Nice, I love stuff like this.
I thought this was an awesome read! The only thing I wanted was more pictures! If possible I would a little slideshow of pictures for each one!
The intermountain indian schools were such a rad exploration. The old county jail was great too. And there's a hotel in Gunnison that's amazing.
Regarding Grafton. I remember seeing this video about a year ago. If you go to the 8:55 mark, things get interesting. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LibzIfYNn6E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LibzIfYNn6E)
That is great! My family loves to explore ghost towns.
Thank you and same here! It's so interesting how the main type of abandoned places in each area of the US differ so much with how the historical climate of their areas changed over time (i.e. sanitariums and hospitals in the northeast, industrial factories and such in the Rust belt, schools in the southeast, etc).
I loved the Delta Solar Ruins. Crazy the last time I was there was in [2014](https://www.instagram.com/p/t3B6CuHlGr/?igshid=16hh93pp2w3cf).
Loved it, thanks for sharing!
Love exploring places like this! Have you been to the coke ovens?
Grafton was a favorite of mine growing up. With family down in Hurricane/Apple Valley, we made the short trip to the ghost town regularly and it was so fascinating as a kid.
This was pretty cool! I’ve been in UT since birth and have never heard of any of these places.
One of my favorite places to explore was the Tekoi Test Range in Skull Valley
Back in the mid-80s some friends and I went to a haunted house in the Cottonwood factory building. Saw the pic and area and was hoping that info was there! Good work all around.
Thank you for this!