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Stanley, Idaho
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Custer was founded in 1879 after gold strikes on the Yankee Fork and had about 600 residents in 1896, then emptied as the last major mine closed around 1911. The Forest Service and Idaho Parks run it today as part of Land of the Yankee Fork, with a museum in the 1900 schoolhouse, a restored saloon, 1880s buildings and a small cemetery, and the town is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Free; open year-round but snow limits road access, with guided walks from Memorial Day to Labor Day.
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