Goldfield Apache Junction

... part why we are travelling : enjoying the scenerary. After settleling in, Perry and Rebecca took us for a short drive to Goldfield, a rather fake ghost city ( we discovered that it wa rebuild completely in the 80' after it burned down).  After ...

... gone.  The site decayed until in 1984 a businessman bought the current space (not technically the original site of Goldfield, but close) and reconstructed a mining town.  It's been here since 1988 and surprisingly has the look of a prospecting ...

... of January. She said we could stay 1-2 days in one of the other sites at no charge but we decided we'd go out to Goldfield Campground at the Salt River Recreation Area since we wouldn't have to move twice within a few days.    Dances are held ...

... the prime landmarks in the area. The third one we did was with Mike & Cissie to the peak above the Salt River in the Goldfield Mountains. We had bushwacked up there twice before they found an actual trail that goes up the back side of it. It was a ...

... trained so it's not too difficult. The ride was just a big loop out into the desert so nothing very scenic but the Superstition and Goldfield Mountains were in the distance and it was a nice day. We went to the Mesa Swap Meet (big flea market) one day ...

... Carly Christian from Hazen. I enjoyed hiking with them and they were quite impressed with the hike we did up to a saddle in the Goldfield Mountains and then back on the Pass Mountain Trail. Wayne and I had done parts of those trails but not the way we ...