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Baker City, Oregon
Photo: Ian Poellet, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Greenhorn boomed from about 1910 to 1915 with two hotels, a post office, fire hydrants, stores and saloons, then collapsed after the 1942 gold-mining ban. Cabins and buildings stand among lodgepole pines, and its 1910 jail was famously carted to nearby Canyon City one night in 1963.
Remote forest site; check conditions and access with the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest.
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