10 Dirt-Cheap Wyoming Ghost Towns You'll Swear Are a Scam

10 Dirt-Cheap Wyoming Ghost Towns You'll Swear Are a Scam There is a town in the high plains of eastern Wyoming where a single man purchased an entire historic settlement, complete with a massive brick YMCA, a train depot, and a gaping crater in the earth, for less than the cost of a two-bedroom apartment in most American cities. It sits in a state known for billionaires buying up mountain valleys, yet this town holds an archaeological secret that predates the Egyptian pyramids by nearly ten thousand years. That town is waiting for you at number one, and everything else on this list has to earn its way there. Wyoming isn’t the state people picture when they think about real estate bargains or forgotten industrial history. They picture Yellowstone, Jackson Hole, maybe a sprawling cattle ranch. Here is a number that surprises most people. Researchers estimate the state has over 100 ghost towns scattered across its high deserts and mountain passes, more than most people ever work into their picture of Wyoming at all. From the Black Hills to the Wind River Range, there is a scattered chain of towns left behind by gold panics, uranium busts, shifting highways, and in one case, a devastating wall of snow. Some of these places have fewer than ten people left. Some have been sold off for pennies on the dollar to anyone willing to take on the liability of the toxic ground beneath them. Stick with me through all 10 towns, because the order matters, and the last one rewrites human history on this continent. #wyoming #hiddengems #smalltown #travelusa