Nevadaville Ghost Town

A short drive (or roughly an hour's walk uphill) from Central City brings you to Nevadaville, an abandoned mining camp in a high gulch. Most of the wooden buildings have collapsed back into the meadow, but a handful of brick and stone structures still stand — the Masonic hall, the firehouse, several house ruins — scattered along a single dirt road.

There is no visitor centre and no admission; the site is simply there. It rewards a slow wander on a clear day, ideally with a basic understanding of what you're seeing (a printed self-guided tour is available from Central City). The road becomes rough after wet weather, but is passable in a regular car most of the year.

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Once home to several thousand miners and the rival of Central City for the county seat, Nevadaville is almost completely deserted today — except for the Masonic Lodge No. 4, which has continued to hold meetings in the same building since 1861.