Bingham Canyon, Ghost town in Salt Lake County, United States

Bingham Canyon is a former town in Salt Lake County, United States, now a ghost town. It was located in a narrow canyon on the eastern slope of the Oquirrh Mountains, but today the site has been entirely removed by the nearby open-pit mine.

The first settlers, Thomas and Sanford Bingham, arrived in 1848, and the town grew after gold and silver were found in 1863. It was incorporated in 1904 and reached its peak in the 1920s, but the expanding mine gradually consumed it, and the last buildings were torn down in 1972.

The town was once a patchwork of neighborhoods, each with its own ethnic character, such as Carr Fork for Scandinavians and Highland Boy for southern and eastern Europeans. Today, only memories and old photographs keep alive the names of places like Copperfield and Frog Town.

There is no town left to visit, only the huge mine that swallowed it. The area is best seen from a distance or through historical records, as access is limited and the landscape is industrial.

At its height, the town stretched for about seven miles along a single narrow road that wound up the steep canyon floor. Few people know that the site is now buried under the waste rock of one of the largest open-pit mines in the world.