Kitsault keeps appearing on lists of ghost towns. I pretty much guessed from the title. There are some YouTube tours of Kitsault.
It’s a great ghost town because it went from fully occupied to empty pretty much overnight. The mine announced it was closing, and pretty much everyone left. It was pretty effectively mothballed against the day the mine reopened, but here we are 40 years later looking at remarkably well preserved eighties vintage houses.
It’s also remote enough you aren’t going to get random vandals trashing the place. Plus, it was never technically abandoned. It’s owned by somebody, and there are periodically plans around the mines, tourism, resorts, etc. So some maintenance is done.
I thought this was going to be about Barkerville until I saw 1980s….
Kitsault keeps appearing on lists of ghost towns. I pretty much guessed from the title. There are some YouTube tours of Kitsault.
It’s a great ghost town because it went from fully occupied to empty pretty much overnight. The mine announced it was closing, and pretty much everyone left. It was pretty effectively mothballed against the day the mine reopened, but here we are 40 years later looking at remarkably well preserved eighties vintage houses.
It’s also remote enough you aren’t going to get random vandals trashing the place. Plus, it was never technically abandoned. It’s owned by somebody, and there are periodically plans around the mines, tourism, resorts, etc. So some maintenance is done.