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02/22/2024

2-20-2024 ~ South Fork Rail Trail ~ Lincolnton, NC

SCORE - 6.8

The roughly 2 mile South Fork Rail Trail runs along the South Fork of the Catawba River in the 324-acre Rhyne Preserve. The South Fork Rail Trail is a combination of natural surface and crushed gravel trail, providing nice terraced views of the South Fork of the Catawba River Visitors to the trail can experience one of Lincoln County’s finest natural areas, including mature floodplain forests along the South Fork Catawba River, a bald cypress swamp, rock outcrops, and lovely wildflowers. The preserve also provides important habitat for migratory songbirds and other wildlife species.

01/06/2024

10-27-2023 ~ Castle Dome Mine Museum ~ Yuma, AZ

The Castle Dome Mine Museum offers an authentic look back in time with the preservation and restoration of Castle Dome City. Sitting on a patented mine since 1871, Castle Dome is the longest worked mining district in Arizona. Walking through this ghost town that has over 50 weather-beaten buildings, will make you feel as if you are a part of history.

11/04/2023

10-27-2023 ~ Tumco Historic Townsite ~ Winterhaven, CA

Tumco is an abandoned gold mining town and is also one of the earliest gold mining areas in California. It has a history spanning some 300 years, with several periods of boom and bust. Originally named Hedges, the town was completely abandoned in 1905, victim to speculative over-expansion and increasing debt. Renamed Tumco in 1910 -- after The United Mines Company -- another attempt to go after the gold proved just as costly.

By 1911, the diminishing prospects of the mines forced the miners and their families to return to Yuma, signaling the end of Hedges/Tumco as a community.

10/28/2023

10-28-2023. Painted Rock Petroglyph site, Gila Bend Arizona.

We here in the HHWT offices tend to be petroglyph deniers so idk... Believe what you want I guess

10/28/2023

10-26-2023 ~ The United Territories of the Sovereign Nation of The People’s Republic of Slowjamastan

We were afforded the chance to visit our first foreign nation, and the world's newest. Their infrastructure might be lacking a bit but their strong stance against crocs lets us know they intend to be a serious player on the world stage. Unfortunately His Excellency, Randy “R Dub!” Williams, Sultan of Slowjamastan could not be present. We can only assume he was at a United nations meeting with all that's going on in the world.

10/28/2023

10-25-2023 ~ Newberry Springs, CA ~ Memorial Drive, aka, Mrs. Orcutt's Driveway.

Legend has it that when Interstate 40 was being built it was to cut off Mrs Orcutt's home from rt 66. She declined offers from the govt to buy her home. Instead she persuaded the govt to build a 4 mile long driveway from her home to the nearest highway exit.

10/26/2023

10-25-2023. Found our way to Siberia, kinda. Siberia is a ghost town in the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California, United States. It lies along historic Route 66 between Bagdad and Ludlow,

10/25/2023

10-24-2023 ~ Cerro Gordo Mines ~ Keeler CA

As seen on the popular youtube channel, Ghost Town Living. The 8 mile road up and down the mountain is pretty steep at times. often just 1 car width wide so you have to hope nobody else is coming at you around some of the tight corners. Its free to walk around the town and well worth the adventure getting there.

10/17/2023

10-15-2023 - Abandoned town of Two Guns Arizona

10/16/2023

10-15-2023 - Abandoned Twin Arrows Trading Post - Flagstaff Arizona

10/15/2023

10-15-2023 Blue Hole - Santa Rosa, NM.

The Blue Hole of Santa Rosa, or simply the Blue Hole, is a circular, bell-shaped pool or small lake located along Route 66 east of Santa Rosa, New Mexico that is a tourist attraction and swimming venue, and one of the most popular dive destinations in the United States for scuba diving and training. The Blue Hole is an artesian well and cenote that was once used as a fish hatchery.

09/19/2023

9-17-23 ~ Floyd, VA ~ Iron Furnace

On a rainy, cold sunday we decided to jump in Big Show and make the 2.5 hour drive up to Virginia to find an old Iron Furnace not far off the Blue Ridge Parkway. After traversing some sketchy, 1 car width at times, gravel roads, we came upon the furnace down the embankment from the road along the East Prong Furnace Creek.

It is known that sometime around 1790, Captain Daniel Shelor, a veteran of the Revolutionary War, left Frederick County, Maryland, and came to this land and built the first iron furnace in Southwest Virginia.It is a fact that Captain Shelor owned the property where the present “furnace stack” now stands and it is also a fact that he built an iron furnace and mined ore from this land. Whether or not the present furnace stack stands on the exact location of Captain Shelor’s, I do not know, but if it is, the date of construction would be prior to 1800.

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