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Desert / Ghost Town Trek #26a

Historic Route 66 and Mojave Ghost Towns, June 2011
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Broke down heading to the desert once again! Got a rental in Bakersfield to keep the fun moving and made camp at this sweet spot about 12 miles SW of Trona, CA on the high end of the Searles Valley.
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Heading SW back to Bakersfield, came across this curious fake ghost town on Searles Cutoff Road near HWY 395.
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It's like a toy movie set someone built, possibly as a hopefull tourist attraction.
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And yep, it's for sale.
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We spotted what looked like a full blown town up on a ridge and detoured south on HWY 395 to check it out.
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Indeed, it's a full blown living ghost town, Randsburg!
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Old idle downtown with residents living in the back roads. Sheds, shacks, mining stuff aplenty. We could have spent all day here but it was a mere detour.
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Randsburg, what a score, see you later!
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Heading back we chased another mirage off 395. This one turned out not to be a ghost town but a seedy trailer encampment that said keep out residents only, please sign in with host. You pay a host to park your trailer in the desert? I guess it's not BLM land.
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Back on track west on Garlock road from HWY 395, this is the Goler Heights mining camp site.
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