There's something eerie about a plot of land that people once inhabited becoming vacant and neglected over time. At one point, people felt confident enough to settle down in these trailer parks, only to get up suddenly and leave due to unforeseen circumstances. In some parks, people may not have ever lived there in the first place. Although the circumstances are different for each property, some abandoned trailer parks around Phoenix, Arizona, may lend insight into a growing problem. According to AZ Central, the increase in housing prices has forced many parks to close. In turn, the trailers themselves aren't always easy to remove, either due to monetary or political constraints. All that remains are these rusty shacks growing decrepit over time. The natural elements take over from there, with a wild growth of plants and foliage staking their claim over the former residences.
Updated April 2022: If you're into eerie and creepy things, you'll be happy to know that we've updated this article with more info surrounding the abandoned and deteriorated trailer parks.
What remains in many of these abandoned parks is something akin to the setting of a horror film. Who's to say animals or even people don't still take up residence in a lot of these old shacks and buildings? While some people have gone to great lengths boarding up what remains of the buildings to keep trespassers out, it's highly unlikely anyone roams these areas anymore. That is, except for the photographers of course. Compiled here is a whole list of creepy and deteriorated trailer parks nobody cares for anymore. One day, people abandoned their homes, as if the apocalypse was just around the corner.
24 A Lineup Of Unkempt Trailers
Here's another abandoned trailer park, only this one comes from Florida. According to TBO, the park racked up some housing violations and is in something of a holding pattern, at least at the time the source reported on the story back in 2014.
Now, all that remains are these rows of trailers with corrugated metal for walls. They're all lined up in a neat little row, boarded up and even have the same color paint. It won't take long for the wilderness to take over.
23 Marshlands In The Making
From the outside, these trailers look to be almost in good shape. The exteriors don't have too much wear and only one of them is off-kilter. It's the landscape that gives it away. According to the blog called The Carpet Bagger, this trailer park is somewhere in the South, though it's not exactly clear where.
The grass looks like it's becoming a marsh and the ominous fog drifting down overhead lends insight into this abandoned park's future. One can only hope it gets back on the mend.
22 Broken Trailers And Broken Cars
In the same way the sun sets in this photo, so does it figuratively set on this trailer park's survival. Long abandoned, it has all the signs of neglect: rusty buildings, overgrown grass and not a person in sight.
Who can say if officials have a plan for this place or even know how to get rid of these old trailers? The tragedy in all this is that many former residents of trailer parks, according to Times-Call, have to leave their homes even though they often can’t afford a new place to live.
21 Playground
This photo looks like something taken straight out of an apocalyptic movie or TV show. With an eerie swing dangling lifelessly in the foreground, it suggests that this desolate place once knew happier times. According to the blog Echoes of the Southwest, the swing is just one part of an entire playground that resided at this trailer park in the desert.
Now, it's one of the few remaining parts of the landscape still standing. Otherwise, the rest of the area looks to be in complete disarray.
20 Mission Bay
There's no shortage of abandoned trailer parks. Although they're common in more states than others, one can stumble upon a deserted park anywhere. A drone snapped this particular photo of an abandoned trailer park in Mission Bay, an area South of San Diego, according to Pond5.
From above, the park almost looks inhabited and thriving. However, a closer look reveals empty spots where mobile homes would park, not a vehicle in sight and buildings starting to show their age under the shadows of palm trees.
19 Forsaken Expanse
Beyond the bicycle standing in the foreground on its kickstand is a trailer park. At a glance, the park appears fine on the surface, even though it's actually abandoned, as the blog Bike Shop Hub details.
With that bit of knowledge, one can accept the reality of this park's situation that much more while taking in the badlands surrounding it. There doesn't appear to be a sign of any life in sight, despite there still remaining plenty of trailers and structures.
18 Lowry Grove
Although this photo only provides a glimpse of one trailer, it's in fact part of a larger park. According to MPR News, this is of one of the trailers still standing in Lowry Grove Mobile Home Park in St. Anthony, Minnesota.
As of 2016, when the source reported this story, there was a legal dispute in progress between the owners of the park and its residents. Until then, the forest and plants have taken up residence and grow rampant.
17 Wasteland Below
This area may look like an idyllic place to build a trailer park, only it looks like something went horribly wrong. The place is utterly deserted. There's even an enormous dumpster sitting at what appears to look like the park's entrance.
According to Pond5, a drone hovered above this area and took the photo hovering at 20 feet in the air. The land, once seen as prime real estate, now looks like a scary dump that's undoubtedly seen better days.
16 The Salton Sea
Here's a whole lineup of broken down trailers and mobile homes sitting on sand. Even the chain link fence looks like it's barely holding on. Not even the golden afternoon sun going down can bring new life into these old shacks.
Shutterbug reports that these sit upon the edge of the Salton Sea; as deceiving as the name sounds, the Salton Sea is actually a lake located in California. While it may have featured a prime view of the beautiful lake and landscape, there's no one here anymore to enjoy it.
15 Empty Homes
What's eerie is that many of the trailers photographed here still have the former residents' personal belongings inside them. According to Climbing the Fence, the trailers of this abandoned park still have furniture, decor items, and even photographs.
It's almost as if these people disappeared overnight and have no plans of returning. The snowy landscape and dead trees only add to this macabre setting. The photographer is one brave individual to explore these decrepit trailers who look like they're barely hanging on.
14 Wilmington
Where once a mobile home sat parked, there now sits scrap, garbage, and branches. One can even see the electrical connection where a mobile home would plug in seen on the left, now rusty, bent over and unusable. Star News Online reports that it's an abandoned park located in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Despite a structure still standing in the distance, the park looks desolate and completely neglected. It's going to take some time and money just to clean up the leftover mess.
13 Desolate Desert
Former trailer parks like these are becoming the new ghost towns of America. Stretching across a desert landscape in Mobile, Arizona, the blog Echoes of the Southwest snapped a photo of this long-abandoned property.
What once was valuable to families has been cast aside either by choice or because of factors outside their control. It's a dismal sight that makes one wonder what the entire story is behind it. Sadly, it's not the only abandoned park in Arizona, being something of an epidemic there.
12 Boarded Up
It almost looks like a modern spaghetti western, with boarded up trailers and an empty street. This abandoned park, which Mapio reports is set in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is close to the ocean.
Although the cold weather and frigid climate is a possible reason why no one lives here anymore, something tells us there's another reason. These abandoned trailer parks not only turn up in the United States, but even in Canada. Now, they're just aging communities without anyone around.
11 Sonny’s Beach
The branches of these wild plants have grown so tall, it's hard to even see the abandoned trailers behind their skinny frames. One of them looks like a traditional trailer, the other—closest to the foreground—is a mobile home.
In the end, nature doesn’t discriminate—it takes over anything and everything that's no longer occupied. Architectural Afterlife reports that this photo is from Sonny's Beach in Ohio, where nature continues to consume this park until someone decides to do something with whatever is left.
10 Columbia Mall
The side of this trailer looks like it's torn asunder. It's part of what was once called the Columbia Mall Mobile Home Park, as Columbia Closings details. Now, the trailers aren't even in good enough condition for anyone to live in.
Although it looks like a tornado came in and blew half the trailer off, the rest of the park doesn't show this much damage. What happens to abandoned trailers is often a mystery considering no one is there to keep watch.
9 Wales
The skies are gray, the weeds are thick and on the horizon looms decrepit trailers in the shadows. That about sums up this abandoned caravan park, which according to Shrewsbury from Where You Are Not, it's a spot snapped in Wales.
While the land would be better off moving on without these structures, they continue to stand. Maybe it's because no one wants to deal with cleaning up the mess, or people are still waiting on officials to come to a decision.
8 Ransacked Park
This abandoned trailer park looks like it's in a state of transition. Jonathon Gruenke Photography reports that this is the Franklin Valley Estates mobile home park. The same source makes note of scavengers who've come to pillage materials they find valuable.
It's a sight for sore eyes and this poor boy is in the middle of it. There's always hope that a property like this could turn around for the better, but it's going to require new trailers and maybe even a new landlord too.
7 Abandoned Cars, Trucks, Trailers
Trailers aren't the only things abandoned here. According to the blog Patrick Tillett, the location of this "graveyard" for trailers, cars, and trucks is somewhere in California's Mojave desert. The desert is the ideal place for a trailer park like this to go long forgotten.
There are some classic looking trucks abandoned here that could run again. The site itself however, doesn't look like it has a chance of revival, at least anytime soon. There's always the opportunity to turn it into a sightseeing pitstop.
6 Rows Of Trailers
Three stripped down trailers all in a row can't be a good sign for this park's future. What once must have been a thriving community now lies in ruins. According to Columbia Closings, it once contained 37 spaces for mobile homes with all the hookups anyone could ever want or need to survive.
Now, it looks like it's losing the fight for its own survival. The photographer who captured these photos was brave enough to trudge through this neglected territory.
5 Lone Chair
The photographer who captured this found a way to make an abandoned trailer park look artistic. According to Climbing The Fence, the photographer captured this using 35mm film.
This lone chair is the only notable thing sitting in an alley between two trailers. It makes one wonder who lived here, where they are now and what the story was behind a place like this. The bleak landscape fits the mood of this trailer park perfectly with its better days now behind it.