The Confidence Wash area of southern Death Valley has always interested me. I’m not sure why. There isn’t much out there. It is a wildly desolate and forsaken stretch of desert and can only be visited in the coldest of winter months as the rest of the time it is blazing hot. The area only sees a few visitors each year. It’s splendid isolation.
History
There are a few mines out there, of course. Information on them is hard to come by. Prospectors were working in this area from the late 1890s to the 1930s. This is one of the oldest districts in Death Valley. The Confidence Mine was discovered in the early 1890s (I didn’t visit it on this trip, though).
