Overview

Custer and Bonanza are ghost towns with a past. In the 1800s, they were the most important mining towns in the Yankee Fork. These sister cities had the basics of a small western town – a school house, post office, jail and union hall. There was even a baseball team! But as the mining business went downhill, so did the towns. Now a few remote structures are left, waiting for visitors to spook at the faintest creak or wind. Stop by the museum in the old school house and the gift ship inside the Empire Saloon. Free gold panning demonstrations occur frequently. Picnic lunches are recommended.