Cerro Gordo Ghost Town located in Death Valley is considered one of the best ghost towns in California. It is privately owned and operated by the Cerro Gordo Historical Society. Because this is on ...

The following has been edited for length and clarity. In 2018, my friend sent me a listing for Cerro Gordo, an abandoned mining town in California. "This might be your next project," he joked.

Brent Underwood moved from Austin to the abandoned mining town of Cerro Gordo, California, in 2020. He spent three years living there alone working to bring a relic of the past back to life.

The former American Hotel in Cerro Gordo, a ghost town nestled in the Inyo Mountains of California. This hotel burned down in 2020, though Underwood is working to rebuild it with volunteers.

Cerro Gordo is a historic 19th-century mining town in the Inyo Mountains. But the ghosts here aren’t just long-gone miners, they’re the consequences of short-term thinking.

In the summer of 2018, Brent Underwood got a text in the middle of the night from a friend saying, "Look at this ghost town for sale!" Within a month, Brent had purchased Cerro Gordo, California ...