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When you book a trip to Las Vegas, you are probably thinking about gambling, glittering lights and showgirls. Las Vegas has always been a wonder of achievement of what people can do if they set their minds to it, essentially changing a place from a desolate desert area to one of the biggest tourist towns on earth. Through modern inventions like indoor plumbing, air conditioning and running water Las Vegas is no longer a difficult place to live or visit like it once was, nor is it a stopover town where you can re-supply on your way to somewhere else. Las Vegas is now a destination on it's own, and people come from all over the world to see what man can do with enough effort. But if you really want to get a sense about Las Vegas as an area, as well as the history of the region, a tour of some of the ghost towns that surround it is fascinating. Ghost towns of the southwestern United States have a similar history as Las Vegas does, essentially having large amounts of people moving to it in order to seek their piece of some fortune. For much of the abandoned towns of the southwest, that fortune was the silver rush that happened in the mid to late 1800's, where people looking for their fortune packed up their things and relocated to the mountains of the southwest seeking silver or other natural minerals that could be extracted from the ground. Mining towns grew quickly when word spread that a resource like silver or gold had been discovered, and disappeared just as quickly when the mines went dry or the demand for the resource went away. Because there is not a lot of water in the desert to destroy buildings, the classic

If you are planning a trip to Las Vegas and are a fan of ghosts and ghost towns, we have the perfect tour for you. All you are going to have to do is take one day out of your schedule and we will tour you through some of the awesome ghost towns that exist in the desert just outside of Vegas. The majority of these towns have a similar history, coming to life and getting popular due to some form of mining or production that happened in the area, combined with the need for people to work. Some came to these towns to stake their own claim at whatever resource was in demand, others came to work for them. As boom towns grow, others arrive who will provide goods and services for the workers, and generally populations spiked dramatically and sustained until the need for the resources drops off, or the resources are depleted. The bust that follows the boom is what creates the classic ghost town, where crumbling structures remain abandoned in an underpopulated region that once was a functioning town. Ghost towns in the Mojave Desert are unique in that there is not a lot of rain or snow that will cause them to crumble into dust, so the aging process is dramatically slowed down. As a result you will find structures that are over a hundred years old standing in the desert, without upkeep of any kind. The towns are both intriguing and creepy, as though everyone left at once and never came back. Our ghost town tours from Las Vegas start in the morning with a pickup at local stops and then travel to the Hoover Dam. At the dam you can see one of the most impressive man-made structures on earth, and the expanse