Ghost Towns of New Mexico

NEW MEXICO LEGENDS

Ghost Towns & Mining Camps of

New Mexico

With inhabitants dating back some 10,000 years, New Mexico's story is rich with history, from the Ancient Puebloan Indians, to Spanish explorers, pioneers traveling along the Santa Fe Trail, and prospectors in the 19th century. These many folks left their "footprints," not only along the many old trails in the "Land of Enchantment," but also on the many ruins and ghost towns that remain.

From abandoned pueblos, to old mining camps, to deserted railroad and ranching towns, New Mexico is left with hundreds of ghost towns and historic sites to explore.

Old buildings line Mogollon's main street today,

Kathy Weiser, February, 2008.

Ghost Towns, Ruins and Mining Camps:

Along the Dry Cimarron

Folsom

Gardiner

Johnson Mesa

Sugarite

Ancho - Returning to Nature

Chloride - Center of the Apache Mining District

Colfax - An Unsuccessful Prospect

The Ghosts of Dawson

Dawson Vintage Photographs

Elizabethtown - Gone But Not Forgotten

Elizabethtown Vintage Photographs

Endee to San Jon - Ghostly Stretch of 66

Fort Union - Protecting the Santa Fe Trail

Ghosts Beyond Tucumcari

Montoya

Newkirk

Cuervo

Glenrio - A Route 66 Casualty

Indian Country Ghost Towns

Jicarilla - Still Gold in Them Thar Hills

Lake Valley - Silver Mining Heydays

Lincoln - Wild Wild West Frozen in Time

McKinley County Ghosts

Gamerco

Mogollon - Surviving All Odds

Monticello Canyon Ghost Towns - Placita and Monticello

Shakespeare - Born Again and Again

Steins - A Railroad Ghost Town

Turquoise Trail Scenic Byway

Golden, New Mexico Has Seen Better Days

Los Cerrillos - Two Thousand Years of History

Madrid - A Ghost Town Reborn

White Oaks - Livliest Town in the Territory

Winston - Mining & Ranching in Sierra County

Take nothing but photos - leave nothing but footprints - break nothing but silence - kill nothing but time.

--Explorer's Code

Atop Johnson Mesa this lonely

barn sits silent, Kathy Weiser,

September, 2008.

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Ruins of old building at Parage, New Mexico ,

December, 2004, Kathy Weiser.

The Mutz Hotel in Elizabethtown, New Mexico, September, 2004, photo by Robert Garcia.

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