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Death Valley-Southern

Southern Death Valley region of California, including the Greenwater, Funeral, Black, Owlhead, and Panamint mountain ranges

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Panamint City Pictographs

Panamint City Pictographs

Panamint City is mainly known for its mining boom, but it also has some lesser-known native American sites, and what awesome sites they are! It is a bit of a trek to get up there these days, and probably best done as an overnight backpack. The trip is well worth

Panamint Wickiup #1

Panamint Wickiup #1

There are a few petroglyph sites high in the Panamint mountains, but the main attraction here is the village site with its lone remaining wickiup. I would bet there are more around. We visited the area in 2007. The hike up to this area isn’t that bad, but you

Franklin Stamp Mill

Franklin Stamp Mill

This seems like the most improbable location for a stamp mill. It is right on a steep cliff, and there doesn't appear to be any mine workings here. This is, however, the original site of the Chloride Cliff Mine. It was discovered by A. J. Franklin in 1871

Palin Mine

Palin Mine

Palin is not the real name of this mine, and I was asked not to say much about it other than its standby status, awaiting the price of ore to become profitable again. It has some neat equipment inside, mainly a hoist used to haul ore cars up from lower

Echo Canyon Petroglyphs

Echo Canyon Petroglyphs

In 2009, I had a nice hike up this sandy canyon to check out some algae fossils and petroglyphs on limestone bedrock. Not much out here in these lonely hills of eastern Death Valley National Park. GPS

Furnace Mine

Furnace Mine

Not far from the semi-famous Inyo Mine, perched at 4,375 feet on a rocky Death Valley ridge, sits what has become known as the Furnace Mine. If you watch carefully while driving on the road below, you can spot its namesake rusted furnace - a testament to 1940s mining

Old Crump Flat

Old Crump Flat

Dan and I had been wanting to go out here for some time. The site is not difficult to reach; we could just never seem to find the time to get out to this part of Death Valley. The rock shelter at Old Crump Flat turned out to be somewhat