A Little Drive through Ghost Towns

Today (Wednesday the 28th) we decided to take a short drive north to some old mining areas of Idaho.  Idaho has a lot of ghost towns.  Some still have buildings – others just markers of what had been there.

We stopped at Stanley first so I could connect up to the internet and collect my e mail and send off a post about Stanley and the campground.  We knew there was a 40% chance of rain today and the sky looked gray. We took a picnic lunch with us anyhow as we knew there would be little along the way to find in the way of food and we were right – nada – except snack food and very little of it.  We did get our lunch while the weather was dry but it did rain for a short while as we were walking through Custer City Ghost Town (which is really a well kept walking tour museum).

On the drive up out of Stanley we were driving along side the Salmon River.  Here is a pretty little waterfall that seems to appear from underneath a tree:

The mountains and sky on this dark morning:

Some of the photos are from Mike and some like this following one are from my phone – I forgot my camera behind at the camper this morning.  This cemetery is from Bonanza City. There is not much left there besides the gravesites.

I thought the wire fence around this site was interesting:

This long flight of steps went to the Salmon river from the above rest area – Mike caught me from the back on the long trudge back up!  Got my exercise in early today no wonder I am so sleepy tonight!

Pretty “Sego Lilies” that grown around here – I will check out the spelling of this later as I have no photos in the flower book for it.  I’m pretty sure that is their name:

One of the few remaining buildings in Bonanza City:

The following photos of this old town are from Custer City – up the road from Bonanza City a short way.  This is very much a walking tour through on old town.  Lot’s of antiques.

This is the sign in front of the above building:

Old bottles lining the window:

Me – wandering into one of the little museum buildings – notice the roof?

Talk about recycling early in history – the roof shingles are made out of flatten tin cans! That is a lot of cans flattened – I wonder who had that job?

I got done with one more star block for the Star Crazy BOM – 4 down 3 more to go.  I think I just might get done with the July assignment on the road – that will leave August and September to get done with after we get home so I can be caught up.  I will press all the star blocks next chance I get and I will square them all up after we get home.

We are heading to Southwest Montana in the morning – destination to be decided in the morning.  We are driving though Salmon but decided not to camp there.  We will be stopping to get groceries though so I will most likely post this post from there.

(written on the evening of the 28th – Wednesday)