Brent Underwood moved from Austin to the abandoned mining town of Cerro Gordo, California, in 2020. He spent three years living there alone working to bring a relic of the past back to life. Some ...

I live in a ghost town — once the most lucrative silver mine in California. For the past five years, I’ve spent nearly every day rebuilding Cerro Gordo, a long-abandoned boomtown perched high in the ...

Brent Underwood, who rose to fame as the sole permanent resident of abandoned town Cerro Gordo, is the author of the new book called “Ghost Town Living.” Brent Underwood is the owner of Cerro Gordo in ...