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Ghost Town Attractions In California

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California is a U.S. state in the Pacific Region of the United States. With 39.5 million residents, California is the most populous state in the United States and the third largest by area. The state capital is Sacramento. The Greater Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation's second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, with 18.7 million and 8.8 million residents respectively. Los Angeles is California's most populous city, and the country's second-most populous, after New York City. California also has the nation's most populous county, Los Angeles County; its largest county by area, San Bernardino County; and its fifth most d...
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  • 1. Shasta State Historic Park Redding
    Shasta is a census-designated place in Shasta County, California, United States. Shasta sits at an elevation of 843 feet . The 2010 U.S. Census reported Shasta's population was 1,771. Shasta State Historic Park located at Shasta is a ghost town and California State Historic Park.
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  • 3. Ballarat Death Valley National Park
    George Robert Johnston , better known as the Ballarat Bandit or as John Doe #39-04, was a Canadian-born burglar who gained nationwide attention as he spent the last several years of his life hiding from police in Death Valley National Park. The nickname of Ballarat Bandit was given to Johnston in accordance to where his criminal career began, inside of the town of Ballarat, California.
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  • 4. Skidoo Mill Death Valley National Park
    Skidoo was an unincorporated community in Inyo County, California. The geographical location of the old town site lies at an elevation of 5,689 feet . Skidoo is a virtual ghost town located in Death Valley National Park. It is on the National Register of Historic Places.
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  • 5. Bodie California
    Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States, about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe. It became a boom town in 1876 and following years, after the discovery of a profitable line of gold, and suddenly attracted several thousand residents. It is located 12 mi east-southeast of Bridgeport, at an elevation of 8379 feet . The U.S. Department of the Interior recognizes the designated Bodie Historic District as a National Historic Landmark. Also registered as a California Historical Landmark, the ghost town officially was established as Bodie State Historic Park in 1962. It receives about 200,000 visitors yearly. Since 2012, Bodie has been administered by the Bodie Foundation, which uses the tagline Protecting Bodie's ...
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  • 6. Paramount Ranch Agoura
    Paramount Ranch Racetrack was a racetrack located at Paramount Ranch in the Santa Monica Mountains in Agoura Hills California. A total of seven races were held at Paramount Ranch from 1956-1957. After a series of fatalities in short proximity to each other, the track gained a reputation for being a dangerous circuit. After two seasons, Paramount Ranch Racetrack was closed.
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  • 8. Calico Ghost Town Yermo
    Calico is a ghost town and former mining town in San Bernardino County, California, United States. Located in the Calico Mountains of the Mojave Desert region of Southern California, it was founded in 1881 as a silver mining town, and today has been converted into a county park named Calico Ghost Town. Located off Interstate 15, it lies 3 miles from Barstow and 3 miles from Yermo. Giant letters spelling CALICO can be seen on the Calico Peaks behind the ghost town from the freeway. Walter Knott purchased Calico in the 1950s, architecturally restoring all but the five remaining original buildings to look as they did in the 1880s. Calico received California Historical Landmark #782, and in 2005 was proclaimed by then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to be California's Silver Rush Ghost Town.
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  • 9. Bodie State Historic Park Bridgeport California
    Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States, about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe. It became a boom town in 1876 and following years, after the discovery of a profitable line of gold, and suddenly attracted several thousand residents. It is located 12 mi east-southeast of Bridgeport, at an elevation of 8379 feet . The U.S. Department of the Interior recognizes the designated Bodie Historic District as a National Historic Landmark. Also registered as a California Historical Landmark, the ghost town officially was established as Bodie State Historic Park in 1962. It receives about 200,000 visitors yearly. Since 2012, Bodie has been administered by the Bodie Foundation, which uses the tagline Protecting Bodie's ...
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  • 10. Dublin Gulch Shoshone California
    Not to be confused with the Dublin Hills in Northern California. The Dublin Hills are a mountain range in Inyo County, California. The highest point in the Dublin Hills is 2,523 feet.The Dublin Hills are in a desert region of California which is close to the town of Shoshone, California. The Dublin Gulch leads from the Dublin Hills to Shoshone.To the south of the Dublin Hills is the town of Tecopa, which is home to 150 people. From Tecopa, one can reach the Dublin Hills by taking the Old Spanish Trail Highway and then turning right on CA 127, which runs parallel with the Hills to Shoshone.
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