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Off-road to Riley's & Geer Camps, Mojave National Preserve, California
Riley's Camp and Geer Camp are nestled in the foothills of the Ivanpah Mountains in Mojave National Preserve. They have buildings, some being preserved and restored. Riley was a World War I veteran who came to the Mojave desert in the 1920s. He put his explosive skills to work mining the Ivanpah Mountains. By the time he died, he had placed 56 claims. Bembry erected t... -
See Robbers Roost (Kern County), California
Robbers Roost (unincorporated Kern County, California, also known as Robber's Roost and Bandit Rock) is a rock formation in the foothills of the Scodie Mountains portion of the Southern Sierra Nevada Mountain Range in the North Mojave Desert. The formation overlooks the southern portion of the Indian Wells Valley. The nearest municipality is Ridgecrest, California. Th... -
Visit Romola, Transcontinental Railroad, Utah
Romola, Utahis a ghost town located in the western part of Box Elder County, Utah. It was established by the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) on April, 1869. Chinese railroad workers built a small community and facilities to support the track section. The town relied on the railroad through its entire history. In 1904 the site was abandoned when the Lucin Cutoff was fi... -
Visit Ruby, Arizona
Ruby is a ghost town in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, United States. It was founded as a mining town in Bear Valley, originally named Montana Camp, so named because the miners were mining at the foot of Montana Peak. Mining started around 1877. The Montana Mine produced gold, silver, lead, zinc and copper. At its peak in the mid 1930s, Ruby had a population of about 1,2... -
Visit Ruby Hill, Nevada
Ruby Hill is a ghost town in Eureka County, in the central part of the U.S. state of Nevada, approximately 2.6 mi (4.2 km) west of the town of Eureka, Nevada. In 1910, the town was destroyed by a powerful storm that washed away the railroad and buildings and rendered the town uninhabitable. In 1865, an Indian showed a piece of "mineral-bearing" rock to Owen Farell, M.... -
See Ruins of Plymouth, Montserrat
Plymouth is a abandoned town on the island of Montserrat, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom located in the Leeward Island chain of the Lesser Antilles, West Indies. The town was overwhelmed by volcanic eruptions starting in the 1990s and was abandoned. For centuries it had been the only port of entry to the island. Beginning in July 1995, a series of huge er... -
Visit Rush Historic District, Arkansas
The Rush Historic District is a zinc mining region of the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas. Now located within Buffalo National River, the district includes ruins dating from 1880 to 1940. The area was an important part of what became known as the North Arkansas Lead and Zinc District, and played a role in the development of railroads and modern infrastructure in the area.... -
Visit Salduro, Bonneville, Utah
Salduro (also Salduro Siding) is a ghost town located in Tooele County, Utah, United States. The name "Salduro" is a combination of Spanish words sal and duro and means "hard salt". The settlement was located on the geologically significant Salduro Salt Marsh, also known as the Bonneville Salt Flats. Bonneville Speedway is located approximately 1 mi (1.6 km)... -
Visit Saltdale, California
Saltdale is an ghost town in Kern County, California. It is located near Koehn Lake 21 miles (34 km) south-southwest of Ridgecrest near Garlock, California. It is at an elevation of 1,923 feet (586 m). The town was founded in 1914 for salt harvesting from Koehn Dry Lake. A post office operated at Saltdale from 1916 to 1950. -
Visit Sandon's BC Transit Bus Graveyard, Sandon, British Columbia, Canada
Sandon is in the foothills of the Selkirk Mountains in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. The near ghost town lies off BC Highway 31A, and is at the confluence of Sandon Creek into Carpenter Creek. By road, the place is about 14 kilometres (9 mi) east of New Denver and 43 kilometres (27 mi) west of Kaslo. One of the biggest tou... -
Visit Santa Claus, Arizona
Santa Claus (also known as Santa Claus Acres) is a populated place in Mohave County, Arizona, United States. Originating in 1937, Santa Claus lies approximately 14 miles (23 km) northwest of Kingman, Arizona, along U.S. Route 93 between mile markers 57 and 58, immediately north of Hermit Drive and just south of both Grasshopper Junction, Arizona, and the Junk Art of C... -
Visit Santa Rosa de Lima, New Mexico
Santa Rosa de Lima was an early 18th-century Spanish settlement in the Rio Chama valley, near the present-day town of Abiquiu in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico. By the 1730s Spanish settlers were moving into the Chama River valley, and by 1744 at least 20 families were living in the present-day Abiquiú area, where they founded the Plaza de Santa Rosa de Lima. Th... -
Visit Seco, Transcontinental Railroad, Utah
Seco, Utah is a ghost town located in the western part of Box Elder County, Utah. It was established by the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) on April 1869. Chinese railroad workers built a small community and facilities to support the track section. The town relied on the railroad through its entire history. In 1904 the site was abandoned when the Lucin Cutoff was fini... -
Visit Sego Canyon Mining Camp, Utah
Sego is a ghost town in Grand County, Utah, United States. It lies in the narrow, winding Sego Canyon, in the Book Cliffs some 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Thompson Springs. Formerly an important eastern Utah coal mining town, Sego was inhabited about 1910–1955. The town is accessed via the grade of the Ballard & Thompson Railroad, a spur from the Denver and Ri... -
Visit Sewell, Chile (UNESCO site)
Sewell is an uninhabited Chilean mining town located in the commune of Machalí in Cachapoal Province, O'Higgins Region, on the slopes of the Andes, at an altitude between 2,000 and 2,250 metres. The town was founded in 1904 by the Braden Copper Co. to extract the copper in the El Teniente mine, and, in 1915, it was named after the company's first president, Mr....
