Goldfield Ghost Town
March 26, 2010
Finally made our trip to Goldfield! Cold weather and wind has kept us from visiting sooner. With all the dust, it wouldn't be fun on a windy day. We wandered around town briefly and didn't really spend a lot of time at Goldfield. We wanted to go farther up the Apache Trail road toward Tortilla Flats. Here a few pictures we took with some comments where appropriate.
Bruce decided he's going to supplement our income by panning for gold. Ha, ha, ha! Actually, gold panning is something that has been of interest to him for a few years. Not that we'll ever make our fortune doing so, but it could be a fun endeavor in our travels. What we learned at Pro Mack's is that there are stringent laws regarding where it is legal to do. Sounds like he'll be joining a prospecting club in our area to find out all the ins and outs of panning for gold before he breaks the law and gets shot by another prospector something. Wish him luck!
Our day trip continued up toward Tortilla Flats thinking we would go as far as the asphalt road would take us. Remember? Our truck does rollbacks when it sees dirt roads! As it turned out, there was a hug arroyo filled with water right at the town's east edge that stopped everyone from going any farther. It was spring break, and the town was packed jam full of people. Lines were ridiculously long to get ice cream or anything else, so we called it a trip and turned around.
The drive up the Trail was gorgeous, though, with several kinds of wildflowers blooming and green, green hills. Amazing how green the dessert was this year. A few days before our trip to Goldfield, I took a drive to try to capture some pictures to remind us. These top two pictures are along I-8 at the south end of Casa Grande. The grasses were getting so long, they almost looked like they need to be mowed!
In the middle of a large intersection in Casa Grande is about a block of green. There were Jack rabbits everywhere! Literally, everywhere running back and forth. Whodathunkit, but how fun to watch!
