One of the hottest trends in Southern Arizona for paintballing is to play in a ghost town. Arizona has a good number of ghost towns that were wild west boomtowns that went bust and now are just crumbling ghost towns with tumbleweeds blowing through.

If you want to have a wild time playing paintball in one of these ghost towns, you and your buddies can have a blast but just follow a few precautions. First of all, get permission, some of them are owned by private parties. Most land owners are amazingly nice when asked if you may play paintball on their land. Most are not so nice if they have to find out you were there without permission. Explain that your paintballs are made of a gelatinous substance and will wash away with the rains and agree you will leave not other traces of your visit. Offer to sign a hold harmless agreement stating whatever happens to you and your crew during your playtime is your own responsibility and you hold the landowner harmless.

Stay out of buildings. It's okay to run around and past the old dilapidated buildings in these ghost towns but stay out of them. You have no way of knowing which construction is still holding up and which isn't and a floor or wall could cave in leaving you with a nasty fall or a lot of wall suddenly on top of you.

Other than that you can duck, dodge and dive behind barriers, walls and even have an old west shoot out if you want - if you get the chance - go for a game of paintball in a ghost town!