Goldfield Ghost Town

Goldfield Ghost Town is a reconstructed mining settlement between Apache Junction and the Superstition Mountains, established in 1893 and since renovated in full as a visitor attraction. The site holds a narrow-gauge railroad, livery stables, a reconstructed bordello and a small history museum, and staged gunfights are performed through the day. A gold-panning exhibit operates on the ground worked by the original camp.

Where it is

Goldfield Ghost Town is a historic site near Apache Junction, in Pinal County. It is one of the historic sites in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.

How this ranking was reached

No official visitor count is published for Goldfield Ghost Town, so its score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. That is why the low confidence above is not higher. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page, and every axis is broken out under Facts and sources at the foot of this page.

Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.

Mentioned in

• Arizona's 27 ghost towns publish no visitor count, and 22 of them are still read about — Not one abandoned settlement in this database records an official visitor figure, yet together they drew 136,163 Wikipedia reads in 2024.

Sources

• Coordinates and designations: Wikivoyage(opens in a new tab)
• County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
• Official site: http://www.goldfieldghosttown.com/(opens in a new tab)

Record last verified 2026-08-12.