In the 1800s, gold, silver and copper booms lured miners and immigrants looking for a better life. Though the mines ...

Dirt will fly when the California Four Wheel Drive Association and Mojave Desert Heritage ... Participants can also visit abandoned mines, WWII training sites, unique desert oddities, and enjoy ...

These Five Former Boomtowns Invite You To Step Into the State’s Mining History On the northern edge of the Mojave Desert ... Some were abandoned and left to the desert, all evidence of any ...

Scattered across the Mojave Desert are the crumbling remains of once-bustling highway stops—motels, diners, gas stations, and tourist traps now left to the sand and sun. This journey takes you ...

It’s an oasis rich in water, in the Big Sandy River basin, where the Mojave and Sonoran deserts ... have led to at least 140,000 abandoned mines in the country. Until the 1970s, mining companies ...

Venture into the eerie and nostalgic past of the Mojave Desert as we explore abandoned and forgotten highway stops. Once bustling with travelers, these desolate spots now stand as silent witnesses ...

As solar energy farms continue to pop up across the Mojave Desert, some residents are ... such as old alfalfa fields or abandoned mines. They should also avoid areas with large tortoise ...

New Jersey has nearly 600 abandoned mines, according to state officials. (See an interactive map of abandoned mine locations below.) “They’re everywhere,” said Timothy Rack, safety and ...

Nestled in the Mojave Desert ... isn’t just any old abandoned town – it’s a bona fide silver rush boomtown that’s been preserved like a perfectly pickled pepper. From up here, Calico looks like a ...

It’s a brisk day in Johannesburg, a tiny mining town in California tucked among the Rand Mountains in the Mojave Desert ... Those curious holes are abandoned mines, and they’re driving ...

California, founded on a lust for gold, has a new yellow metal rush in the Mojave desert. In the Mojave town ... Once a bustling mining hub in the late 19th century, the sun-cracked region in ...