Wyoming Ghost Towns Travel Guide

Fighting Fort Washakie’s South Fork Fire
Trying to hike the heat of summertime’s big, ferocious fires is part enthralling, part a straddling of the fine line between fortitude and stupidity.

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Gebo
Too many towns to stop at one this month! If you think the mining life out West was the good life, think again. The miners had it a little better than the canaries though – but only a little.

Heart Mountain
The remains of a large World War II Japanese-American internment camp can be found off the Old Yellowstone Highway, at Heart Mountain.

Jeffrey City
Mike Jamison’s first entry for this unique ghost town guide focuses on Jeffrey City, all but deserted after nuclear accidents made uranium rather unpopular.

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Sweetwater Mining District, Part I
The gold is less in the ground and more in the trees – and that alone is reason to see the former and restored towns of this vast region.

Sweetwater Mining District, Part II
Mike happens upon a stone circle – but you’ll have to find that yourself. However he will share the health spa he found. Anyone for a dip in Radium Springs?

Yellowstone Pompeii
War on terrorism? Anthrax? Please. Mike examines one of the world’s biggest threats: a rumbling super-volcano in the U.S.’ most popular national park.

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Japan’s WW II Balloon Bombing of Western National Forests
Six months between 1944 and 1945 saw a bombing campaign on U.S. soil. Mike contends that history will help us better deal with the present.