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Tip Top Mine

Tip Top Mine

Reaching the Summit Mine is challenging enough, but for the truly determined explorer in the Lundy Canyon area, there's an even more elusive goal: the Tip Top Mine. Perched at 11,000 feet just below the summit of 11,182-foot Mount Scowden, this remote mine site requires

Big Emma Mine

Big Emma Mine

Graham Mine

Graham Mine

Prospectors flooded into the southern Black Mountains during the Greenwater mining boom of the early 1900s, scouring every canyon and wash. The Rhodes Spring area as well as Virgin Spring Canyon saw intermittent activity, with limited productive mining resulting (See Lost Rhodes Mine). The remote location with its subsequent high

Greenwater Canyon Petroglyphs

Greenwater Canyon Petroglyphs

The Greenwater Petroglyphs comprise two distinct sites scattered along Greenwater Canyon in Death Valley. Etched into the Pleistocene-era Funeral formation basalt and volcanics, these ancient markings represent a significant Great Basin Abstract rock art collection in the California desert region. One thing that makes this site particularly remarkable is

Corn Springs Petroglyphs and the Little Chad Cabin

Corn Springs Petroglyphs and the Little Chad Cabin

Corn Springs Petroglyphs Out in the open canyon country of the Chuckwalla Mountains lies Corn Springs, one of Southern California's most significant (and often forgotten about) rock art sites. More than 600 petroglyphs have been carved into desert-varnished granite boulders over thousands of years. This was a

Emmett's Lone Tree Cabin

Emmett's Lone Tree Cabin

Peter B. Kyne's Hideout

Peter B. Kyne's Hideout