Thistle survived well into modern times until it was dealt its death blow in 1983 when a landslide triggered a massive flood that effectively washed away the entire town. It was designed as a railroad town in the late 1800s and served as a waypoint between Denver and points west. Unlike many ghost towns in Utah, Thistle wasn't a mining hub nor was it abandoned due to its veins of ore being tapped out. Travel to this area requires remote navigating on the Transcontinental Railroad Backcountry Byway (Read: A View from The Past).
Terrace all but vanished after the shorter line was completed across Great Salt Lake. The railroad town and its population attracted a chain store, imported trees, library, opera house, pleasure garden, a couple of hotels, a school, a public bath and even a justice of the peace who, according to the shot-up interpretive signage at the site, also ran the saloon. At its peak, Terrace reached nearly 1,000 residents, many of whom were likely Chinese, excluded from the census. Terrace's fate was tied to the formation of the Transcontinental Railroad. A few home foundations, gravestones and a distinct white picket fence remain today. Repeated crop failures led to the abandonment of the settlement in 1917 after three miserable years. The ambitious settlers managed to establish a town center, a school and a modest downtown area. About 125 people called the place home after migrating east from Los Angeles in 1914. The founding residents were Russian Christians lured to the area by the promise of cheap land, which turned out to be uninhabitable. The village in northwestern Utah near the Park Valley area was an outlier, both in location and for the fact it wasn't a Mormon settlement. "Russian Settlement" is a placeholder for a town that didn't actually have a formal name. Utah's northern ghost towns dot the upper half of the state, including across the Great Basin Desert west of Salt Lake City and along the Carbon Corridor between Price and Moab. A nearby building has some replicas and historical information about Silver Reef. Today, little remains of the once-bustling mining town, but you can spot foundation remnants, the old Wells Fargo building and the graveyard (where many miners lay, purportedly the outcome of settling their disputes the Western way).
Dhuring the late 1870s and early 1880s, the height of the town’s silver boom, Silver Reef was the most populous place in southern Utah.
A mining town, Silver Reef was the first sandstone location to hold silver and was named for the lode of it that was discovered there. This fading ghost town is located north of St. It was even one of the filming locations for parts of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," among other Hollywood movies. Some say that Grafton is the most photographed ghost town in the West. While you can’t go into the schoolhouse, it’s one of the most pristine abandoned buildings left in all of Utah’s ghost towns and makes for a great photo opportunity. Only the graveyard and a renovated schoolhouse remain. It’s unique because it was established for less than a decade before settlers were forced out due to tensions with Native Americans. The ghost town of Grafton, located south of Zion National Park, was originally settled by Mormon pioneers, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who answered the calling of their prophet and church president Brigham Young to establish towns throughout Utah. First timers should start with Grafton and Silver Creek. Ghost towns like Old Irontown, Stateline and Sego existed in tough desert conditions.
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