Ghost Towns and Mines

I’ve been exploring old ghost towns, mines and mining camps for over 25 years. Now that I have my own website I’m trying to get as many of them documented as possible. These fascinating, historic sites are rapidly decaying; many have fallen prey to vandals or fire.

This will be an ongoing process for quite a while, as I have tons of photos to sort and post. Many have never been scanned.

Most the images are fairly small so pages should load reasonably fast.

Some are low resolution scans I transfered from my old computer. Eventually I want to rescan those images to improve the quality and size.

It’s my hope that my photos will be useful as reference to ghost town buffs; and to those who enjoy building scale models of old buildings and mining structures, for model railroads or other purposes.

Email me at raydunakin@aol.com if you have any questions about these sites, new information to provide, or to report broken links. Also, many of these images are available for sale.

Also of interest:

Nevada Trip 2008

I shot a lot of great photos of ghost towns and mines during my latest trip! Click the link above for the whole story.

Native Artifacts

Photos of petroglyphs and other Indian artifacts that I’ve encountered on my trips.

Updated October 2, 2008. Many new sites added!

Note to modelers:

Many of the structures I’ve photographed would make great additions to your model railroad. It is my hope that these photos can be a useful reference resource. If you need larger, higher resolution images, just let me know. Also, in some cases I have additional detail photos that have not yet been posted online.