The Abandoned Ghost Town of Neidpath, Saskatchewan

Neidpath, Saskatchewan, traces its origins back to 1909 when the first post office was established on the postmaster, John Mitchell’s farm, later relocating to the village in 1924. I stopped at Neidpath as the first stop on my 3rd day in Saskatchewan, after spending the night in my car at the Wal-Mart parking lot in Swift Current. After a short 40 minute drive, I spotted the two grain elevators from a distance away. I knew I was there when I spotted one grain elevator missing its head! Named after Scotland’s Neidpath Castle, the hamlet saw Canadian National Railway lay tracks in 1924, though these were eventually abandoned by 1958.