Mentryville

2010 | Best Ghost Town

It’s a place that shouldn’t exist in Los Angeles County but does. Mentryville, the faded oil boom town nestled in the hills about four miles east of the 5 freeway in Newhall, sits at the end of Pico Canyon Road. The road through town has been blocked off since a flood assaulted Mentryville in 2003. There’s a barn, a 13-room mansion, and a dilapidated schoolhouse encrusted with weeds and surrounded by the rusting hulks of heavy machinery. The 800 surrounding acres, now owned... More »