Cleator Arizona

[Half Cocked]

Peter Santenello visits the quirky Arizona ghost town of Cleator.

[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiRGl6Mtg1o[/media]



Historic Arizona ghost town Cleator sold for just under $1 million

A historic ghost town, Cleator, has been sold for $956,000. The secluded town with a tiny population is an hour and a half north of Phoenix. It is located on a bumpy road off Interstate 17 near Mayer.

James Cleator founded the town in 1915 and it’s been under the family’s ownership until last month. The Cleator family decided to sell it because they were getting up there in age and didn’t live in Arizona anymore.

The town is home to around a dozen people, a bar and a general store. Valley real estate agent Justin Godsey, who works with Housed.com, North&Co, got the listing 18 months ago.

The sale included mining rights and all existing structures, including the Cleator Yacht Club, a popular watering hole on the way to Crown King. Godsey said he received a slew of offers, all with commercial ideas.

https://www.kold.com/2022/02/02/historic-arizona-ghost-town-cleator-sold-just-under-1-million/

 

[Dauph]

Cool video. Haven’t been up there yet.

 

[Suck My Glock]

Spent far too much time at that bar. I heard they had sold it. It would be a great little place IF you invested heavily in some infrastructure. If you had a REAL general store AND a mechanic and off-road rescue shop AND brought the bar up to code so that it could get certified to also have a grill,...THEN the place could be a real popular waypoint for all the weekenders constantly running up and down the Senator Highway from Prescott to Crown King to Cleator and Cordes Junction or the back way into Lake Pleasant. Between the off-roaders and the prospectors and the hikers and the shooters, there's a constant traffic out in front of that place from Friday through Sunday, and even most other days of the week when the weather is good. Crown King gets all the business because they can serve food up there. Cleator is so run down and rodent infested, you'd damned near have to tear down the bar and rebuild it to get the county health department to even consider a kitchen certification.