Sego Canyon

Okay, this was really cool. As we're driving up to see the petroglyphs and stopped at some traintracks, an old mountain bearded guy comes walking up to our truck. He tells us about a ghost town a little farther up the road. Apparently it was a coal mining town in the 1950's that supported about 500 people. On all the sites I've read on Sego Canyon, it tells of a boarding house built next to the market. The old guy told us it was actually a brothel. He also said the town dried up when they put all the freeways in. I haven't read that anywhere else. It was pretty cool to explore!

The market












The brothel









The other side of the brothel











You could find the foundations to several houses, but these were the only two large foundations still standing. Cool stuff! I went to Europe to find old ruins! It was kind of fun to find historical ruins here in the United States. Too bad it's so far off the beaten path and not being preserved.