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Mogollon, New Mexico: One of the Wildest Mining Towns in the Wild West.

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Nestled deep within the Mogollon Mountains in western New Mexico, it was quite a feat getting to this once flourishing mining town. The tiny, former town of Mogollon sits approximately 12 miles from the nearest actual "town", Glenwood (population: 139), and only 3 miles of that is highway. The rest is a 9-mile precarious road, …

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Grafton, Utah: “The most photographed ghost town in the West”.

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The expansive Utahan desert, right outside of Grafton. Tucked down a bumpy, 3-mile partial dirt road, sits a little known and extremely cool ghost town. Located in the southwestern corner of Utah, not a soul lives in this completely deserted place, which is probably very creepy at night (there are ranch homes nearby, but nobody …

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