From the category archives:

ghost towns

More Bad Park News – Only 4.6% of Parks Self-Funding

July 30, 2009

More bad news for the California State Park system today. In an earlier post, I mentioned Parks Director Ruth Coleman’s comment saying that those parks who can sustain their own operations will most likely be safe when the time comes to start locking up entrance gates.
But a story in today’s LA Times [...]

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Steam Wells Petroglyphs

February 9, 2009

Texas-based writer and publisher Harry Helms has a personal blog detailing his travels and experiences. And luckily for us, he seems to take an intense interest in the ghost towns and lesser-known areas of the California-Nevada high desert.
His most recent post gives some directions and descriptions to an area called Steam Wells — near [...]

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