Texas Ghost Town Now Makes Perfect ‘Last Of Us’ Setting

Ranger, Texas sounds like it would be where you would find a ton of baseball and Chuck Norris memorabilia, but it turns out the only thing you are going to find in this abandoned Texas ghost town is a whole lot of overgrown brush and downed power lines, or is it?

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Season two of The Last of Us concluded just before Memorial Day on HBO, and over the last year it was the number one video game played by gaming enthusiasts in the Lone Star State. If you are not familiar with the game or the show when it debuted in January of 2023, the story begins in Austin and takes you on an adventure from coast to coast during the 16 episode run of the first two seasons.

Why is Ranger, Texas now a ghost town?

The more you explore the abandoned down town, residential areas, and overgrown streets you immediately feel deja vu like The Last of US feelings, or you are watching the Will Smith film I Am Legend, or right in the middle of scenes from The Walking Dead.

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Ranger by no means is the only ghost town in Texas (And technically it isn't totally abandoned), but considering its once a booming oil town of more than 16,000 residents it is much larger than other Texas towns that faced a similar fate, and the majority of the town has dried up simultaneously when the black gold did leaving far more squalor behind.