ghost town links click on state

[ohio fred]

http://www.ghosttowns.com/ghosttownsusa.html might help for doing research

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

You unselfishness in sharing with your peers is much appreciated...you are a good man. Thank you! Kelley (Texas)

 

[ohio fred]

It is winter here time to do some research.Probably warm were your at you can probably hunt all year around

 

[Freddy13]

Thank You! This will be a fun time! I am just getting back in to the detecting after a 15 year hiatus but will definately check out Birds and Makanda in Illinois.
My Bro-in-law was born and raised in Birds and I helped move his parents out of there when the '96 flood hit.

Will be interesting to hunt!

Again, Thanks fer the info!

 

[ohio fred]

n/t

 

[NICKSAN]

If you peruse the forums on that ghost town website you will find they are pretty hardcore against metal detecting at ghost towns, Although it is a great resource for us.

 

[ohio fred]

n/t

 

[ixlr8]

Has anyone ever hunted a ghost town called Rhyolite? It's in death valley just over the border in Nevada, Looks interesting.

Steve

 

[ohio fred]

n/t

 

[ohio fred]

Just looked it up and that does look like a very interesting place to hunt.

 

[RacerX]

Has anyone ever hunted a ghost town called Rhyolite? It's in death valley just over the border in Nevada, Looks interesting.

Yes, Rhyolite is a huge tourist attraction and right on/near a main road. Such well known ghost towns are hit pretty hard as would be the case with most that would be listed on this site. The best ghost towns (for metal detecting) are hard or near impossible to find. The only way you know you have found it is by the amount of metal in the ground and possibly some non native tree's/shrubs.

NV is a great state for ghost town hunting. Most of the land is public and open to overland travel. Get in your 4x4 and start hitting the deep back roads (be sure to take more than one vehicle, a satellite phone of Spot locator). It won't be too long before you find old mining towns not listed in many (if any) books.

This website is a fun tool but the most effective way to use it is as a starting point. i.e google the town and sometimes your google search mentions other smaller towns. Then google those. The deeper you get the less likely the town is clean of all signals.

A good example of what I'm saying - Go to the state of NV on this site, then to Pershing county, There are 3 ghost towns listed in Pershing county when infact Pershing county alone has literally hundreds of ghost towns.

We just hit a ghost town last sunday in CA. Absolutely no evidence of it's past existance with the exception of a few shallow dips that were cellar holes. If you didn't know the town was once there these dips would be overlooked easily as a natural occurance. Google search brings almost nothing and certainly nothing to go on. Only 2 coins this past sunday (both found by my brother) but lots of seated coins and neat relics have been found there in the past.

 

[RacerX]

Heres a single modern day pic of rhyolite for anybody interested.

This ghost town is huge with a huge amount of town remains and buildings still somewhat intact.

 

[ixlr8]

RacerX,

Great advice, I knew it seemed to good to be true. I guess finding a good ghost town is like finding any good spot to hunt. Research and trial and error.

 

[ohio fred]

There was a guy on who used google earth and he pointed out cellar holes and some old sites says he uses often and after i looked at what he posted i could see were he was talking about

 

[Old Katz]

It would be great if you could get hold of one of these little
one man choppers. I saw it used in a Garrett Video. It looks likes
a goe cart with chopper bladdes. He used it to look for ruins from high up.

I also use google earth but I found that Bing Maps is also good.

My only complaint with Bing and Google maps is you can't get closer in;
alot of these places won't give you a bird's eye view.

Katz

 

[ohio fred]

They have a guy in my area who uses a small helicopter remote control to inspect property and other things from the air when the site is kind of in accessible.It has a small camera on it or a small something and i think it feeds back to a computer.