States · 22 entries
Utah
The deepest coverage on this site. Western Utah holds a mail route across an empty desert, a Polynesian ghost town, a wartime prison camp and a silver canyon with twenty four residents, all within a few hours of Salt Lake City.
Covered here: 6 ghost towns, 2 historic sites, 2 landmarks across 7 counties, 9 of them with exact coordinates. Each entry says what is left standing, how to reach it and what the place used to be.
Places
Iosepa Tooele County · Ghost town Topaz War Relocation Center Millard County · Historic site Ophir Tooele County · Ghost town Gold Hill Tooele County · Ghost town Camp Floyd Utah County · Historic site Antelope Island Davis County · Landmark Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge Juab County · Landmark Grafton Washington County · Ghost town Thistle Utah County · Ghost town Sego Grand County · Ghost town
The Pony Express crossing
Twelve station sites run west from Cedar Valley to the Nevada line. They are covered in order as a single route rather than as separate entries.
V · Lookout Pass Onaqui Mountains, Tooele County, Utah VI · Davis Mountain and Skull Valley Skull Valley, Tooele County, Utah VII · Simpson Springs 40.0378, -112.7864 · Tooele County, Utah VIII · The Old Riverbed Great Salt Lake Desert, Tooele County, Utah X · Dugway Pass and Black Rock Station Dugway Range, Tooele County, Utah XI · Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge 39.8581, -113.3669 · Juab County, Utah XII · Fish Springs to Boyd Station Snake Valley approach, Juab County, Utah XIII · Willow Springs Station 39.8978, -113.7086 · Callao, Juab and Tooele counties, Utah XIV · Round Station, Deep Creek Canyon and Overland Canyon Deep Creek Range, Juab County, Utah XV · Canyon Station and Deep Creek Canyon Overland Canyon, Juab County, Utah XVI · The Canyon Station attack Overland Canyon, Juab County, Utah XVII · Deep Creek Deep Creek Range, Utah and Nevada line
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- California · 3
- Arizona · 2
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- Idaho · 2
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- New Jersey · 1