In reality it started in the 1980’s when the developer purchased a closed empty mine site NEAR the town of Goldfield. He has ‘borrowed the REAL Goldfield’s history for his fairy tale town. The buildings house shops selling standard tourist fare.

Attractions at Goldfield Ghost Town

• Superstition Zipline.
• Superstition Narrow Gauge Railroad.
• Goldfield Mine Tours.
• Goldfield Ghost Town’s Walking Ghost Tour.
• Apache Trail Tours –Click Here For More Info!
• Superstition Reptile Exhibit.
• Goldfield Gunfighters –Click Here For More Info!
• Eagle Eye Shooting Gallery.

300 ghost towns
Arizona has, by some estimates, nearly 300 ghost towns. Some have been positioned into tourist destinations and employ hundreds in wine tasting rooms, throwback hotels, curated museums. Some contain dozens of people and lean into their “ghost town” reputation with less fanfare.

Tombstone was saved from becoming a ghost town partly because it remained the Cochise County seat until 1929, when county residents voted to move county offices to nearby Bisbee. The classic Cochise County Courthouse and adjacent gallows yard in Tombstone are preserved as a museum.

Tombstone is definitely just for the tourists. The Boot Hill Cemetery is rather interesting and of course, the O.K. Corral where they do an daily re-enactment of the shoot-out. Lots of history there. Bisbee is more into the arts and crafts stuff.

Ruby is a ghost town in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, United States. It was founded as a mining town in Bear Valley, originally named Montana Camp, so named because the miners were mining at the foot of Montana Peak….

If you could possibly stay one night (Bisbee has the most B&B’s in AZ, I believe) and drive to Tombstone the next morning, it would be ideal. Tombstone is great for children and adults, (we really enjoyed it, cheesy or not) and there’s quite a lot to see and do. Birdcage Theater is nice, but pricey and overrated, IMO.

Tombstone is in the 16th percentile for safety, meaning 84% of cities are safer and 16% of cities are more dangerous. This analysis applies to Tombstone’s proper boundaries only. See the table on nearby places below for nearby cities. The rate of crime in Tombstone is 49.09 per 1,000 residents during a standard year.

Ruby Arizona: Our Best Ghost Town. Ruby is the best of the hundreds of Arizona ghost towns, or at least the best preserved of the many in Southern Arizona . Ruby Arizona is about 12 miles south of Arivaca.

1 Bodie, California. Often said to be the best ghost town in the West, the former mining town in the Sierra Nevadas feels frozen in time. Visitors can stroll the deserted streets, peek in the windows of the church, schoolhouse, barbershop, and saloon, and scope out the several old relics that still remain in tact today.

Ruby, Arizona is a ghost town 50 miles southwest of Tucson and 4 miles north of the Mexico border. It is surrounded by the Coronado National Forest in an area of rugged mountains, semi-arid deserts and abundant wildlife.

Jerome Arizona Ghost Town. Picture of Jerome, Arizona. Jerome, Arizona is a ghost town alive and well. From wickedly wild to wildly artistic. Located high atop Cleopatra Hill between Sedona and Prescott, this historic copper and gold mining town founded in 1876.