These Five Former Boomtowns Invite You To Step Into the State’s Mining History On the northern edge of the Mojave Desert sits the remnants of a former boomtown. There, visitors are greeted by ...

Nevada is home to more than 600 ghost towns. Most are vestiges of the region’s mining boom-and-bust era, which began with the discovery of gold near present-day Dayton in 1849 and continued into ...