Monte Cristo, Washington
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Monte Cristo is a ghost town in Western Washington state, in Eastern Snohomish County.
Financed by John D. Rockefeller in the late 1890s to exploit local gold mines, the venture ultimately proved unprofitable, and mining operations ceased in 1907. It soldiered on as a tourist destination for several more decades, but the county road was flooded out in 1980, and the only remaining business in town, a lodge, burned down in 1983.
Very few original structures are still standing, but the four-mile-long road into town remains popular with hikers and mountain bikers.
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