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These trips have no directions or GPS waypoints. Some are misnamed on purpose. Typically, someone has asked me not to share the location or real name. Be sure to scroll down to load all the posts.

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Rhonda Mine

Rhonda Mine

Back in 2007, a friend told us to check out this semi-modern gold mill tucked away in a seldom-visited canyon of the Mojave Desert. The mill with most of the equipment still there was a great find. Up on a high and steep slope, the Rhonda mill looks

Cambridge Huntington Mill

Cambridge Huntington Mill

These mines of this district were first worked in the 1860s when the discovery of the Comstock brought miners to the area, and they started to explore the surrounding hills for more rich bodies of ore. The interesting thing about this mine is the Huntington mill is still here. The

Panamint City Pictographs

Panamint City Pictographs

Panamint City is mainly known for its mining boom, but it also has some lesser-known native American sites, and what awesome sites they are! It is a bit of a trek to get up there these days, and probably best done as an overnight backpack. The trip is well

Panamint Wickiup #1

Panamint Wickiup #1

There are a few petroglyph sites high in the Panamint mountains, but the main attraction here is the village site with its lone remaining wickiup. I would bet there are more around. We visited the area in 2007. The hike up to this area isn’t that bad, but you

"Avalanche" Stamp Mill

"Avalanche" Stamp Mill

Not it's real name, I came across notes of this stamp mill years ago while doing my normal research. It was a small silver and gold mine with a stamp mill built before 1900. The mill was run by waterpower, and one source mentioned an avalanche destroyed the

Red Lady Pictographs

Red Lady Pictographs

Back in 2010, we visited a couple of pictograph sites in Joshua Tree. Both of these sites have red female figures in small caves. Finding pictograph sites is good enough, but there is more to these sites. On the spring equinox, the sun makes a unique appearance at each of

Gerstley Mine

Gerstley Mine

Prospector Johnny Sheridan lived in a cave with skunks and chuckwallas while he roamed the southern end of the Resting Spring Range in 1922. He discovered borate deposits that year that would launch the Gerstley Mine, which in a short amount of time created a town and required its own