Mingus Mountain

Here is Mingus Mountain and the views that it offers:

This was one of the views, and you can see

the road below.

The pictures are of Mingus and the town of Prescott

It was such blue skies we took lots of pictures, but there is already a haze in the air.

Some of the pictures are on this post and some are on the next post.

Prescott National Forest

Prescott National Forest

Before you see nature, I wanted you to see what the mining industry does with the waste, which you can see the tailings from the mine.

I took a sign of Prescott National Forest so that we know where we are:

Here we are and the world below!

And yes, we take pictures of elevation because we live at sea level!

OK I seem to be averaging 4 pictures per post, please bear with me. and go to the post above for pictures of Mingus Mountain.

Jerome Pictures Part II

Jerome Pictures II

We then went outside and took some pictures, they had signs showing what the building were and where they were located. Here are some of them.

The top building is the hospital, then there was a hotel, and then at the bottom is the jail.

This other picture ====>>>

shows the jail and the earth around it. Notice how the earth is cut. It seems that there was either some rain or an explosion and the jail (which had two prisoners in it at the time) slid down the hill. The two inside were not harmed, but the sheriff decided that they had had enough punishment and let them go. The jail is now a private residence.

We had lunch at the Jerome Grand Hotel, probably the only real hotel establishment in the town, with an old-fashioned elevator, and great restaurant. It was the United Verde Hospital when it opened in 1927, then it closed in the 1950's then it was converted into a hotel in 1996. Here is a view from the Asylum Restaurant.

After eating, we decided to check out some more of nature, and so went to Prescott National Forest and to Mingus Mountain.

Please check out the next post for Prescott and Mingus.

Jerome Pictures

Jerome Arizona, May 30 Traveling with the Parents

I was talking about the abandoned buildings in the last post, I think they are more unusual here because they have some historical attachment and so they leave them up. I guess people want to see them. And several of these buildings have been turned into private homes.

Before we got to the Jerome State Historical Park, we came upon one of the mining pieces of equipment-the little daisy mine, two views to see how big it is and the sign on it.







Once we got to the state park, we took a picture of the view on the one side of the park and checked out some of the displays that they had outside:

We went in and checked out the history of the mine. It was very interesting to see how people lived during that time as well as the geology of the area and how they made the mines work.

Please go to the post above for more pictures.

May 30 Tugizoot Pictures and Jerome Arizona

Hi All, Trying again to get the pictures up, of Tugizoot and Jerome




This is a picture of the ruins below us.


This is a view of the rooms and the copper cleanup. ========>>>>


Where you see the letter J, that is for the town of Jerome. It seems that towns out west have the first letter of their town painted into the hillside of that town. Back east, we don't have hills and we don't have the room to paint letters, but I think it is nice to see it out here.

Once we started out to Jerome, we kept seeing the letter J: closer and closer we came.

Here are some of the houses on the hill of Jerome. Some of them have historical significance. After a major windy road, we finally came to Jerome. The elevation is a bit higher than the valley below.
When the town was founded is important, as it had a boom period for quite a while, then came the bust. When it was at the boom, there were over 15,000 people living on that hill. Now there are about 100 people living in Jerome, and it is mostly for tourists. It states it is a living ghost town.
As we were going to the Jerome State Historic Park we kept seeing abandoned buildings. Now of course, we see abandoned buildings back east, but these seemed more important, maybe because there were so many of them, and none of them had any graffiti. Ok it looks like I can't post another picture. Looks like I have to have Jerome on a new post.