Overlanding to Idaho’s Best Ghost Town
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We are exploring Ghost Towns of wild west beginnings of Idaho on an overlanding adventure!. Will, Kate, Chris, and Elsje meet up with Nick and Liz from @ZagRunner to visit the iconic Idaho ghost town of Silver City in the Owyhee Mountains. Along the overlanding route Will discovers a secret memorial to a father and grandfather on the backside of a random boulder in the Idaho Owyhee mountains. The group then visits the ghost town of Silver City, which is incredibly intact and they learn the history of the life and death of the citizens in the town and the town itself before finding an incredible car camping spot along the Owyhee River.
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The path you took up is great, we made it up there in a 1998 Saturn SC1
Ya that road up the SS was pure butter. I want to go up again..but take the rougher trails just for fun! Thanks for watching!
The best overlanding channel on TH-cam. Period.
Dang. Thanks..that's a massive compliment!
Trail Recon and The Story Til Now ain't got nothing on you! Seriously tho, the quality of your videos is amazing. I always feel like I'm riding right along with you. Also, love that you linked your friend's TH-cam channel at the end. That's what this is supposed to be all about. Instead of only one of us growing, we all grow together.
@@ExtremeDailyDrivers 100% agree with the "we all grow together" sentiment. That's really important to me...and Nick makes awesome videos, so why not help folks watch awesome content?? Brad and Shaun have incredible channels and make top notch videos..so to be mentioned in the same sentence as them is a massive compliment. Those two have been really kind to me as a smaller channel and helped me out from time to time (both did a collab with me earlier this year) so I have a ton of respect for those guys. The sheer amount of videos they make is incredible...hopefully I can figure out how to produce better AND faster this year!
@@Venture2Roam Agreed. Love their channels you can throw Ozark Overland in there too. Awesome channel. I gave Nick a sub and probably wouldn't have found his channel without your suggestion. I've seen your collaboration videos with those other guys and love that everyone participated and it went to a good cause. Keep doing your thing. We're all watching.
Hello glad i found this trip to Silver city area i have been there about 15 or more times next time check out the hotel and the pie lady and husband the inn keeper 🏆🤔
Great video! You visited some beautiful and interesting places.
Thanks Rob!
Your production value really is great. Love how you pop up the thumbnail of the person talking on the radio. Really nice touch. Of course, the content is top-notch as well.😉
Thank you!!!!
Just watching this fully for the first time! Will you kill it every time. LOVED THIS ONE! So good.
Thanks Greg! I need to get over to your channel and catch up!
Thanks. Great video....heading that way in June. Can hardly wait! Life is short...but it's wide!
Thank you. Very true about wide life....I like that...might steal it from you and use it a video one of these days 😎
Cannot wait to retire in the next couple of years and spend some time out west. Check out the Florida Adventure Trail for something totally different then what you explore. Greetings from Florida.
Another creator friend of mine @baptismoverland just finished the FAT. I'd love to get down there and try it one of these days. Thanks for watching!!!
Wow this video is amazing, you put it together very well. I particularly liked the music you paired with the video. It fit the story quite nicely. Thanks for bringing us along on this adventure. I'm a sucker for history, this video checked alot of my boxes for a good overland trip. I can't wait to see your next adventure.
Thanks Jason. I too love a good history session (obviously). This one had less "Wheeling" and more kind of light exploring/adventuring..but what we didn't do on the trails, we made up for with the stories we found along the way. I have a ton of vids in the que to shoot and edit right now...but the next trip video will likely be Boulder Basin...that one has a little more "wheeling" I have no idea how I'll edit it (I never do) so hoping it turns out as good as this one :)
Why does this TH-cam video feel like Art? 10/10 quality entertainment
Thank you. That’s the best compliment/comment I’ve had in a while. So glad you enjoyed it!
I’m so impressed on your storytelling and how you’ve grown/improved in your craft. You are a rock star at putting music to the words and scenes. Thanks. Always enjoy your content.
Thank you, that’s such a huge compliment!! I really appreciate it!
You're making it really hard to not just pack up and move out there!! I truly love how well you dive into the history of places as much as you can. Thank you for get another great video!!
Thank you thank you than you. I really do love learning the stories of the land..then trying to do them a little bit of justice in these videos. Silver City was packed with it...I barely even scratched the surface!
love the thoughts...great introspection in an adventure format!
Thanks Ian...getting out there has a way of making me "think" about stuff lol.
Dude, so fun to see your story from this trip! Can’t wait to do another one!
Thanks Nick. Looking forward to watching your version!
incredible video Will. Fellowship of The Rings was a great comparison. Thought it right before you said it. The memorial was special too. Loved this one.
Thanks Caleb! Looking forward to seeing your next vid.
Love your videos, you do a great job narrating them . I'm big time jealous of all the wheeling opportunities you have in Idaho beautiful state, keep the videos coming !
Thank you. We do love Idaho. Hoping to expand our travels a bit this year too. Appreciate the kind words!!
Another great video. Silver City is an amazing place to go, explore and learn about the history. Plus the homemade pies they make at the hotel are delicious.
Thank you! I definitely need to go back when the hotel is open.
Great video Will, Silver City and Three Forks on the river....I don't think it can get much better than that! Great story telling once again!
It was a jam packed weekend...wish we could have done the hotsprings too...looking forward to seeing NIck's vid on that!
I really appreciate your steady stream of adventure videos. Always so well done and entertaining. Thanks for taking the time to share.
Thank you! I so appreciate you taking the time to watch them, it's a total blast to know other people find these videos entertaining!
Just ordered my RTT, should be hitting the trails in the next couple weeks here on the east coast! Thank you for the inspiration!
Woohoo! Hope you have some great adventures in that thing. Which one did you get?
@@Venture2Roam I ordered the OVS Nomadic 3, I am going to get the OVS 270 LT awning, and just beefed up my suspension with Fox2.0 Shocks, and Old Man Emu 2.0" heavy duty springs. The adventures are so close I can taste them. I will DM you on insta so you can see the rig.
@@Mrplast1kma Very cool!
Found your channel recently, and man, I've just got to say ... the quality of your videos, drone shots, editing, storytelling and narration are superb. Some of the very best Overland content I've seen on TH-cam.
As someone who creates / edits video, I know how much effort goes into it, and the love you put into these videos absolutely shows.
Keep up the amazing work!
Thank you so much! As a creator yourself you probably know how each video is a labor of love...it's soooo cool to me that folks are actually watching and enjoying them...blows my mind.
Watched some of your vids. Really nice work man!
@Venture2Roam oh yeah, 100%! Those who don't edit video like this will never know all that goes into it (but that's OK).
But I totally agree ..... it's a pretty surreal feeling when people choose to watch & enjoy the videos I put out (albeit on a much smaller scale than you at the moment. Haha)
@Venture2Roam thanks man, much appreciated! I'm still learning a lot with each video I put together. Like you said .... it's a labor of love!
Always enjoying watching your video 🎉
Thank you!!!
Yup, you have one life, live it 👍 another great trip and vid Will!
Thanks Christoff..can't wait to check out your latest vid!
Wow! Amazing video!!
Thank you so much! So glad you gave it a watch!
Great video!
Thank you!!
Beautiful. My dad told me about Silver City. Bucket list.
It’s a gem for sure. Hope you get to visit it soon!
Wow Will and Kate you make incredible content and continue to inspire us to learn more so we can be better. Thank you so much for your story telling and cinematography.
Thank you!!! This is such a nice compliment. I’m so glad you are enjoying the vids!!
Why have I not seen this channel before?!?! Awesome stuff. Thanks
I’m so glad you found us!!!!
I am enjoying your channel very much, the adventure and history of the locations you share are very interesting. Thanks for sharing
Thank you so much for watching, and I really appreciate the kind words!!
What a great video . Thanks 🇺🇸
Thank you!!!
Great video as always Will. Man that was a crazy find of that memorial. Maybe it’s a place he always visits. Crazy how intact Silver City is for a ghost town and Three Forks is just WOW!
Thanks Gari...take your pic of where you want to go when you come out!
You do a wonderful job. Love your passion and takes on the outdoors. The history you tell about the places you explore..
Thank you so much!!
I love Silver City, really enjoyed going up there often back on the day.
It was my first time...and I was super impressed. I'd like to go back when there's less people visiting though..maybe a shoulder season. Thank you so much for watching!
Sooo epik awesome beautiful video 👍🤘
Thank you!!!!
Fantastic vid. I'm heading out to Idaho this summer for part of the BDR and some other roaming. Thanks for the cool info.
Right on. Thank you. I love the BDR..had so much fun driving it/filming it last year. Cheers!!
Excellent insight into Silver City...new to Boise (NOT from CA lol) , rode my Harley to check it out...quickly realized not gonna happen, but "I'll be back" when my ZR2 arrives for sure!
So glad you liked it. That would be a great summer ride. Welcome to Idaho!! Being from CA doesn’t matter to me. As long as you respect the trail and pack out what you pack in we’re all good 😀
Look like you all had a great time. Pretty cool you guys met up with zagrunner
Thanks man. Nick and Liz are really nice people. I'm sure we'll do more with them.
@@Venture2Roam we’ve watched a bunch of their videos as well. That’s awesome.
Great trip! Will, this seems to be a "next level video" man. The integration of "soundtrack" with your narration is really something to behold. Song choice for scene was spot on! Thanks for doing this.
What a great compliment. Thank you...I'd be lying if I said I wasn't obsessing over the narration and music lol...so nice to hear you thought it worked!
Thank you great video and travel we are planning a trip to silver city this summer thank you very much Don and Donna Hope idaho
You’ll love Silver City, it’s a really neat place. Thanks for watching!!
Finally getting to Silver City was amazing. Can’t wait to go back via that alternate route! 😁
Sinker Creek here we come!
Your ability to narrate is inspiring!
Thank you! I'm a bit of a nerd that way..but I really love putting the story together.
@@Venture2Roam Well keep it up!
My youngest son and I first went to silver city when he was learning to drive. He just turned 40. We got a bumper sticker that said “don’t mess with me I drive the silver city road”. They apparently have improved the road some since then.
I love that story! It’s much tamer now…but we’re going to take the hard way when we go back.
I really enjoyed this video! I swear, I'm going to drag Brad to Idaho this year because every time I see one of your videos, I get a strong urge to visit your beautiful state and do some exploring. I love ghost towns and would love to see Silver City. You should come to California and check out Bodie because it's an incredible ghost town, now a state park. Thank you for the glimpse of Idaho!
Thank you!!!! Kate says we have abundant excuses to go to San Diego (and I agree)...I've seen a few vids on Bodie, and definitely want to go visit. I could do a whole series just on ghost towns. We have to figure out how to do something like that together one of these days!
@@Venture2Roam That would be an awesome series! The concept is on Brad's list of video ideas!
Fantastic adventure! Great filming and storytelling! My very wise mom tells me it's not about adding years to your life, it's about adding life to your years. This kind of stuff is definitely adding life to your years!
Thank you! That's a really great way to phrase it! I might have to steal that from your mom in one of my vids sometime :)
@@Venture2Roam I think my mom stole it from someone else, so that’s perfectly fine 🤪
Have you ever done sinker creek In your Jeep ? I’ve done it numerous times in a RZR and not sure I’d take my Jeep through there 😂 I’m mean I’m not afraid of pin strips but sinker is another level for a Jeep !!
I'm 100% doing sinker creek in my Jeep lol. Or at least trying it. I was going to go earlier this winter...but the trip had to be rescheduled. It looks so awesome..but ya...it will be tight in the Jeep!
@@Venture2Roam you will love it . Awesome spot for drone shots and 40+ water crossings ! It’s tight and in the spring it’s flowing good through there! Make for a great Vid ! Make sure you skip the Cricket season 😂they fall of the bushes into the rig ‘
I love silver city. I was struck in the same way you were in the cemetery. Life was hard then.
It really put things in perspective on how long we live now vs. then on average. I'm looking forward to going back up and exploring more this summer.
@Venture2Roam yes it did. You see it in other grave yards as well. We took the byway over toward Leslie gulch instead of going over the mountain. Looks like I need to go back and see that country. Good video. You put them together so well.
@@lymasl Thank you!
15:58 " hot springs in all of Oregon" 17:19 "in all of Idaho". My brain was painting a picture of the winding road to the hot springs in OR. Than we jump back to ID. I was like wait what just happened. We teleported.
Lol. I know…because I live and play right in the border, I often forget or mix up if we are in Oregon or Idaho since we’re crossing the border multiple times in a weekend. Sorry about that.
Great video as always, how do you record the conversation while using radio?
I have a fancy radio that records all transmissions on a frequency to an SD card. It's really slick.
It's nice that you respected the memorial. Sadly, not all people will do that. Hope to see this town in the next few years.
Watching the footage back..I couldn't believe I didn't put it together before I opened that box....it literally hit me like a ton of bricks in the moment...clearly someone else had found it because the lock was stripped. I kind of want to go back, and put that stuff in safe out there or something.
@@Venture2Roam They put it there for a reason. Perhaps they wanted others to know what he was like. Still, KUDOS to you for respecting it.
I found a memorial stone in the middle of Nevada one year. Sadly someone took it by the tim I returned the next year.
@@williamolliges2622 One of the reasons I didn't even come close to alluding to where we were is fear that folks would go there and ruin it...I'm hopeful people won't be able to find where we were as I didn't leave any of my normal clues to our whereabouts that night.
@@williamolliges2622 Somewhere in Nevada, an old WWII bomber went down. They recovered the bodies, and some of the debris. Some built a memorial to the crew that perished. But some people have vandalized it. That's sad, and that's why I gave kudos for respecting this memorial.
Late to the game but I'm in it regardless. How many trips like that will I go on?....... man I hope to get to 50. I appreciate all you do and am making Idaho higher up on the list to explore.
I Great comment. It's not my favorite thing to contemplate...but it sure puts time into perspective for me. Thank you so much for the kind words...so glad you are enjoying the content!
You know of course you have again added another few days on our trip to family at Mt Home this summer? At least its her family so no complaints so far. Gonna have to really start thinking about a move, I could spend years in the Owyhees exploring. I don't recognize the beginning road. Which road off 78 did you start with? My sister in law brought us in another way.
We literally drove up Silver City road to get there. We left super late so we needed to drive for time instead of look for fun trails. Mtn home is a great launching pad for like 3 different areas out here…Owyhees, soldiers, and Jarbidge.
Ah, Eastern Oregon.. aka Western Idaho! :-)
It’s a crazy place out there!
I hired a side by side out of Murphy, was going to drive to Silver City but the road was closed from snow
Not sure when it closes...but we were there in October and it was really nice. I'd like to try it in November one of these days...but it's at 6,200 feet in elevation so they get serious snow.
It was the end of March. Had such a good time at the back of Murphy
My grandmother grew up in Silver City… and she and her sisters all lived into their 80s… so not everyone passed away young. Lots of stories. Oh, and by the way, Three Forks is in Oregon - you seemed a little confused about where you were 😁
I’m mostly confused all of the time. I now 3 Forks is technically Oregon…but it’s easy to make that mistake when going back and forth while recording video. So cool to hear about your grandmother being from Silver City, thanks for sharing!
@@Venture2Roam I was reading through the comments to be sure no one else mentioned Three Forks was actually in Oregon. Being an Oregonian, I was ready to pounce!!
That said, outstanding work with your TH-cam channel. I've camped all over the Owyhee area as well. Such a magical place! I appreciate your process of not giving out the actual locations and making people do their own work to find them. I want to assume you know about the many other gem locations out there. Cheers! Devin
@@TheDevindahlgren Thanks Devin. I know I know I know I know...it's easy to forget when you cross over to Oregon when you're out there..I caught that in the edit and was wondering how much I'd hear about it it in the comments. Having lived in both Idaho and Oregon..I would have called it out too :). Thanks for noticing we don't blow up locations. If someone wants to watch my vids and do the homework to find a spot, I have zero problems with that...if a place is a true secret, you won't hear me mention it on camera :)
“Preserverance” makes way more sense than “perseverance”
Love silver city so much. It's the first place I used to take my family who were visiting Idaho from Michigan. You'd be amazed at how many people have no concept of stuff like this being real. They're just stunned by the actual mountains and all the undisturbed nature.
Life gets better when your entire state isn't covered in strip malls and amazon warehouses, I guess.
Living in the south, I hear 'this is god's country' often from old people at the fishing hole, but they have no idea how wrong they are. Idaho is god's country. There is no better place.
My ex and I got her old Taurus up there many a time, too. Should we have done that? Probably not, but was it fun? You bet.
Great comment...great story. Thanks for watching and taking the time to share!
Alvin L Collin’s lived in Nampa. 73 y/o at time of death.
Where did you find that info??
@@Venture2Roam Google. Lol. True People Search.
To be clear this isn’t ghost town. This road used to only be rzr/Jeep/truck accessible the town has done a ton of work.
The road is in extremely good shape now..both of them. What kind of a town would you call it if not a ghost town? An unincorporated community maybe?
@@Venture2Roam it’s just the town of silver city
The locals hate when it’s called a ghost town because people where coming up thinking they could go into every building there. It caused a lot of issues about 3-4 years ago with people who broke a few windows not know it wasn’t a ghost town.
@@reviewmaster8910 If you look at the Nation Register of Historic Places, it's described as a ghost town. Same on Wikipedia. Even "Visit Idaho" has it listed as a ghost town. I think technically it's attached to Murphy..but also...technically it's not a city or town...that said..it's an uncommon type of "ghost" town...much like Shaniko, Oregon...with a ton of it having been purchased privately. People purchased the properties because they thought it was cool to own part of a ghost town and restore it...largely because of its historical significance...so maybe we should find a new term for it...like a Historical District. But I don't think folks are wrong to refer to it as a ghost town since its being described that way at many points of reference.
I found some info on Alvin
Really? DM on Instagram. I'd love to know more.
Awesome! I’ve been trying to find out about him, but no luck. Only could find his last address.
Your trips look like a lot of work. Lots of camera work. Are you always thinking about filming because you feel obligated to the suppliers that send you stuff?
I do put a lot of work into my videos…but not because of sponsors…it’s because I want to make the best videos I can for the folks who watch…it’s also because I’m just wired that way.
That surely was a great area, that "geocache" was pretty amazing. Nice adventure and some great views. Looking forward to the day we cross paths on the trail!
Finding that memorial was wild. It was so randomly placed. I'm sure we'll cross paths at some point!
Another great trip video Will, thanks, love the history, photography, personalized narrative and 4Runner cameo. My @lunarrocktrdpro_idaho will be following in your Jeep tracks this spring!
Thank you so much!!! I have another trip with that 4runner (Nick from Zagrunner) that I'm editing right now...so I think you'll be seeing it more as the two of us hang out. So cool to hear you'll be doing parts of this trip...I think you're going to love it!