Clifton

Abandoned Clifton Mining District camp at the north end of the Deep Creek Mountains, predecessor to nearby Gold Hill. Gold discovery in the late 1850s–1860s led to a short boom (hotel, saloon, stores) before decline by the mid-1870s as activity shifted north. Surface remains today include foundations, rock walls, an old building/cellar cluster, and scattered townsite traces on public-access dirt roads — field ghost-town visit without entering mine workings.