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Ghost Towns & Mining Camps Ballarat < Death Valley - North Mojave Recreation, supplies and entertainment for miners in Panamint Mountains Bodie California's best preserved ghost town. Calico Ghost Town < Barstow - West Mojave Ghost town attraction. Gun fights, train rides, old silver mines Caliente - Tehachapi Pass Railroad construction camp and shipping center for Walker Basin. Cartago - Owens Valley Landing and loading point for bullion from Cerro Gordo mines Cerro Gordo < Owens Valley - North Mojave Chloride City - Death Valley - North Mojave Cima < Mojave Preserve - East Mojave Deserted town in the Mojave National Preserve Cudahy < El Paso Mountains - North Mojave The Old Dutch Cleanser mine and camp. Daggett < West Mojave Darwin - Death Valley 1870's silver boom town Dolomite - Owens Valley Mining ghost town at north end of Owens Lake Dublin Gulch < Shoshone - North Mojave Garlock < El Paso Mountains - West Mojave California historical site, way, way out in the middle of nowhere. Goldstone < Barstow - West Mojave Ghost town near NASA Deep Space Network. Goler Gulch - El Paso Mountains - North Mojave Harrisburg < Death Valley - North Mojave (Aguereberry Camp) Home of Pete Aguereberry. Johannesburg - Randsburg Small mining community off of highway 395 Keeler < Owens Valley - North Mojave Port and bullion production town for Cerro Gordo mines. Kelso < Mojave Preserve - East Mojave Kelso ghost town - check out downtown Kelso Leadfield < Death Valley - North Mojave Llano < Antelope Valley / Victor Valley West Mojave Community built, adequate water wasn't steady in supply. New Dale Ghost Town < 29 Palms - South Mojave Nipton < Mojave Preserve - East Mojave Rail town and supply depot. Old Dale Ghost Town < 29 Palms - South Mojave Providence < Mojave Preserve East Mojave Boomtown of Providence near Mitchell Caverns in the Mojave Preserve. Ragtown < Ludlow - East Mojave Ragtown, a ragged experience. Randsburg < Ridgecrest - North Mojave Yellow Aster Mine and Rand Mining District. Red Mountain - Ridgecrest - North Mojave Rhyolite < Death Valley - North Mojave Large Nevada ghost town west of Beatty near Death Valley Searchlight - Northeast Mojave Mining Camp and Colorado River port Shoshone - Death Valley - North Mojave Skidoo - Death Valley - North Mojave Stedman < Ludlow - East Mojave The Bagdad-Chase mine was a large operation. Swansea < Owens Valley - North Mojave Baldwin - San Bernardino National Forest Old buildings at Lake Baldwin near Big Bear Route 66 Ghost Towns Ludlow - Barstow - Route 66 Not far from busy Interstate 40 is Ludlow, abandoned and forgotten Goffs - Route 66 Essex - Route 66 Cadiz Summit - Route 66 Military Outposts Fort Pah-Ute - Mojave Preserve Late 1800's Army Camp Camp Rock Spring - Mojave Preserve Late 1800's Army Camp Camp Cady - Mojave Preserve Late 1800's Army Camp Fort Tejon - West Mojave Late 1800's Army Camp Indian Villages Tomo Kahni - West Mojave Winter Home of Kawaiisu Indians & Chloride Murals - Chloride, AZ - East Mojave |
Desert ghost towns are ghost towns simply for one reason; money. If the money isn't there, there is no reason for people to stay. In the areas where resources such as water are available, contemporary communities have developed. In the Mojave, these population centers evolved from springs along trails and later roads, into transportation hubs, waystations and centers, sometimes obscurring or building over historical consequence. Old mining camps that have lost most of their population at some stage of their history, are sometimes included in the category, although they are active towns and cities today to various degrees. Shoshone and Randsburg are a good examples of this. Some ghost towns such as Calico and Bodie are tourist attractions preserving architecture (more so Bodie). These towns exist in a protected state, with Calico, a nearly pure tourist attraction, makes money. An attempt to declare an "Official Ghost Town" in California collapsed when the supporters of the town of Calico, in Southern California, and those of Bodie, in Northern California, could not come to an agreement as to which of their favorites was more deserving. As a compromise, Calico is the official silver ghost town, while Bodie takes the gold ghost town designation.  Randsburg, a living ghost town
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