In the early 1900s Goldfield was booming. Today, it is virtually a ghost town with abandoned houses and trailers, cars on blocks, and almost no one in sight. About the only action was large trucks traveling on Highway 95 – all traveling at the posted 25 mph speed limit. Like many such Nevada towns, Goldfield’s income is from traffic fines.

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The town center has a number of old items on display, and a building or two looks as if people could actually work in them. To the southeast of town is an area called the International Car Forest of the Last Church, which doesn’t look anything like a church, but more like a junk yard having about 40 automobiles half-buried, nose-down in the dirt – shades of Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, Texas. Some of the graffiti was very well done and almost could be referred to as artwork.

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We photographed the site late in the day with hope that lighting some car interiors with colored flashlights might be interesting, but the weather was very cold and very windy, so we gave up.

 

Driving back through town to our hotel in Tonopah, we noticed most Goldfield houses (almost all were trailers) were dark, the residents probably moved away long ago.​