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Sidetrack Adventures explores abandoned ghost towns, forgotten places, and hidden history across the wild landscapes of the American West.
2026
Journey through California's most mysterious locations: a road plagued by phantom hitchhikers and supernatural legends, and an abandoned desert town.
Journey through abandoned Desert Center and a highway sealed for 40 years. Two forgotten California destinations frozen in time, miles from civilization yet worlds away.
Five corners, one epic road trip. Follow along as we explore California's hidden corners and uncover the stories behind this unique geographic challenge.
Discover the forgotten route of U.S. Highway 395. Once stretching from San Diego to Canada, over 100 miles vanished from official maps in 1979.
Two forgotten desert towns tell contrasting tales of ambition and excess. Venture into the Mojave to uncover the mining history of Ragtown and Stedman.
Journey through Nevada's historic silver mining heartland on Highway 395, exploring charming towns, abandoned landmarks, and the rugged landscapes that shaped the Silver State.
Remote adventurers trek to California's inaccessible northeast corner to locate a historic 1872 monument, uncovering the region's secrets and surprising history along the way.
Deep in Arizona's Sonoran Desert lies Ironwood Forest, one of America's most overlooked national monuments.
Venture into the remote Peloncillo Mountains to uncover the dark history of Doubtful Canyon, where Apache raids and stagecoach ambushes once terrorized travelers on the frontier.
Rising 6,000 feet above the desert, Horseshoe Meadows Road conceals a hidden past.
Explore the ghost towns and forgotten stretches of historic Highway 80, once a coast-to-coast route now bypassed by Interstate 8. Discover what remains.
Travel an abandoned desert highway frozen in time since 1927. Discover ghost towns, old mines, and forgotten relics along a once-vital route that shaped the American Southwest.
Two ancient civilizations vanish beneath Lake Mead's waters. Discover the Lost City and the ghost town of St. Thomas, Nevada.
Discover Government Canyon's hidden layers of history: a 1800s frontier mystery, Civil War-era wagon roads, and 104-million-year-old dinosaur tracks frozen in stone.
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2026
A dead-straight road slices 50 miles through the Mojave, eerily aligned toward Palmdale, its purpose unknown, its origin debated, and its silence unsettling.
Opened in 1933, the Ridge Route Alternate carved a scenic path through Piru Gorge, once a vital highway, now partly submerged beneath Pyramid Lake, its past hidden in the desert.
The Mojave Megaphone looms over the desert, a strange steel structure with no known origin. Was it for railroads, or something more mysterious?
Highway 395 winds through California’s remote northeast, where sparse towns and quiet landscapes reveal deep roots in the state’s pioneer past.
Once a lively Route 66 stop, Two Guns, Arizona is now a haunting ghost town, its ruins, abandoned zoo, and the eerie Apache Death Cave echoing its dark past.
The Appian Way, Rome’s “Queen of Roads,” began in 312 BC, an ancient highway of empire, lined with ruins and history, still echoing the footsteps of the past.
Once vital desert stops, Halloran Springs and Summit now lie abandoned, faded relics of old highways, forgotten stories, and hidden history along today’s Interstate 15.
Deep in Monitor Valley lies Nevada’s true center, a remote land of hot springs, wild horses, and forgotten roads where history and isolation quietly endure.
A lone phone booth in the Mojave became a global obsession, drawing callers to the desert, where abandoned mines and strange landscapes tell its story.
In WWII, Camp Bouse hid a secret mission in the Arizona desert, where soldiers tested a mysterious “Gizmo,” leaving behind traces of one of America’s most hidden camps.
Ortega Highway winds from San Juan Capistrano to Lake Elsinore, a scenic yet perilous route through mountains, waterfalls, and historic Southern California landmarks.
Cadiz Road once linked Los Angeles to Phoenix, but now lies nearly forgotten, its vanished towns and desert scars quietly marking a lost Mojave route.
Agua Caliente Road leads to Sundad, a mysterious Arizona ghost town, abandoned since the 1960s and now a canvas of desert rock art and unanswered questions.
Highway 395 winds through California’s Eastern Sierra, a road trip of ghost towns, ancient monuments, and strange stories that feel straight out of the Twilight Zone.
Biosphere 2 in Arizona tested human survival in a sealed, self-sustaining Earth, revealing the fragile complexity of life inside a miniature planet.
The Johnson Canyon Railroad and Tunnel, opened in 1882, braved Arizona’s rugged canyons, marked by shootouts, accidents, and one of the West’s most perilous rail lines.
Williamson Valley Road winds 70 miles through Arizona, tracing centuries of history- from Native trails to stagecoaches- past bridges, cemeteries, and timeless desert scenery.
Nine miles from Tombstone, Millville and Charleston once thrived on silver, then faded by 1889; today, one has marked ruins and the other lies hidden.
Near Tombstone lie the ruins of the Clanton Ranch- once the stronghold of the notorious Cochise County Cowboys, where outlaws and legends of the Old West collided.
Steven Bryant
Host