The Silver Belt-McCabe Vein runs more than 2 miles west of the Iron King Mine and southwest to the McCabe-Gladstone Mine. The prevailing country rock includes amphibolitic schist, rhyolite ...

By 1915, Bodie was already largely abandoned, but the last mine didn’t close until 1942. By 1950, Bodie had a population of … zero. Today, the entire ghost town is a California state park.

The Bluegrass Festival at Calico returns on Saturday with a musical lineup of traditional and progressive music artists, demonstrations, old-fashioned activities and more. The festival is slated ...

The Calico Bluegrass Festival returns on Saturday, May 10, featuring traditional and progressive bluegrass music. The festival offers activities such as pig racing, gunfighter duels, clogging ...

Once you hit town, Superior Tours can show you around. It offers a wide selection of packages, starting with an introductory golf-cart tour. The informative ride lasts an hour ($20 per person) and ...

This now-deserted place, often regarded as the "biggest ghost town" in the United States, used to be a regional hub for copper, gold, silver, and zinc mining. The Gold King Mine and Ghost Town in ...

Now, you might be thinking, “A ghost town? Isn’t that just a bunch of old, empty buildings?” Oh, how wrong you’d be! Calico is like a time machine that’ll transport you back to the 1880s faster than ...

Calico isn’t just any old ghost town – it’s a bonafide slice of American history, preserved like a perfectly pickled pepper for us modern-day folk to enjoy. Founded in 1881 during the largest silver ...

Explore these well-preserved U.S. ghost towns, which are all open to visitors. Some of the abandoned towns offer guided tours, artifact exhibits, and reenactments.

BEAHTA DAVIS: Once they could no longer draw silver out of the mine, everybody picked up and left all at one time, leaving it empty and a ghost town. AUMENT: That was in the early 1900s.

Halloween is one of the busiest wedding days of the year for the San Bernardino county clerk. For the first time, they're performing weddings for couples at Calico Ghost Town.