Once a thriving gold rush town, this unique destination is now a relic of California's past, with hikes to storied canyons ...

In the 1800s, gold, silver and copper booms lured miners and immigrants looking for a better life. Though the mines eventually closed, visitors are fortunate to visit these fascinating destinations ...

While ghost town enthusiasts can't visit this crumbling deserted California town that was once a desert oasis, they can learn ...

Prospectors came to Nevada City for gold, but the forested community has become an enduring oasis for artists, musicians, and bohemians.

This land is your land — until a foreign mining company wants it,” writes the owner and caretaker of a historic 19th-century mining town in Inyo.

A native of Hyde Park, Vermont, he ventured to California to participate in its gold rush during the early ... Nature,” “Southeastern Arizona Mining Towns,” “Zenith on the Horizon: An ...

I live in a ghost town — once the most lucrative silver mine in California ... s left behind after a gold rush ends, it’s me. Cerro Gordo is a historic 19th-century mining town in the Inyo ...

Like many other Victorian gold mining towns of the age it boasted ... She said once the Grant gold rush concluded, so did the town's chance of survival. "If you go there now, there is nothing ...

A subsequent gold rush ... in California Bar, Castle Butte Barr, Hite, Good Hope, Gretchen Bar, Klondike Bar, Moquie Bar and Ticaboo Bar — however, not enough to ensure sustainable mining.