It’s the image planners had hoped for when they envisioned Ramsey Town Center. But once Edgerton passes the cluster of town homes where she lives with her boyfriend, the sidewalk ends.

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 ...

Experts say that Nevada has up to 600 ghost towns throughout the state. Many have left no traces other than historical records and a set of coordinates leading to a barren patch of land with ...

Major mining operations ceased in 1942 and by the 1960s, a ghost town was all that remained. Stan Paher, who wrote about Gold Point in his book, "Nevada Ghost Towns & Mining Camps," ranks Gold ...