Gold
Bodie: a Ghost Town in the Back of Beyond
Posted 14 November 2016 by admin IN / 0 responses
…Beyond anything that might be deemed alive and kicking, in both time and space, Bodie is considered to be the best ghost town in the west. Sitting in the eastern Sierras at an elevation of more than eight thousand feet, the long abandoned boom town almost became California’s official state […]
Hikes in Death Valley: Hiking Ashford Canyon
Posted 7 November 2016 by admin IN / 0 responses
As you leave Tecopa and head into the depths of Death Valley, the lowest, hottest, driest, and largest National Park, you’ll be treated to an otherworldly landscape of badlands, sand dunes, and hidden oases just begging to be explored on foot. We’ll continue our Death Valley hiking series with a […]
Top Hiking Spots in Joshua Tree National Park: Wall Street Mill
Posted 3 October 2016 by admin IN / 0 responses
As the great vistas of Joshua Tree National Park gradually open up to you, you might be tempted to simply throw yourself into its vast expanses and soak up the beauty of it all. “But where to begin?” You might ask a little later, not unreasonably. Fret not, for we’ve […]
The Curse of the Spanish Gold Treasure of the Henry Mountains.
Posted 23 May 2016 by Barbara IN / 0 responses
We all love legends about lost treasures and secret stashes of gold waiting to be found- but, as tempting as it can be, some treasures are better to be left untouched. That may be the case for the legendary treasure of the gold mine Josephine de Martinique in the Henry […]
The Ghost Town of Old Frisco
Posted 9 May 2016 by Alicia Alvarez IN / 0 responses
If you walk through the empty, dusty streets of the abandoned ghost town of Frisco, it is hard to believe that it was once the place we all imagine when thinking about a road trip through the Wild West: piles of gold and silver running around, fights in the street […]
The Treasure of the San Juan Mountains
Posted 6 May 2016 by Alicia Alvarez IN / 0 responses
Who didn’t dream at least once of finding a secret treasure that could change your life forever? If there is a place where that could happen, then it is the San Juan Mountains in Colorado. These huge, high series of mountains (that belong to the group of the Rocky Mountains […]