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Desert / Ghost Town Trek #32a

Mojave River ghost towns, source of the Mojave River quest, April 2013
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Our adventure starts in Lenwood CA. Not a ghost town, but a depressed Route 66 community cut off from I-15 and HWY 58, as evidenced by the collapsed building right after the town limit sign.
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Many boarded up residences near the town center.
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As well as out in the hills.
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Near this abandoned motel, the road that crosses the Mojave River to Hinkley is closed. I guess these towns don't get funding for new bridges.
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Continuing south on Route 66 to look for another river access.
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Curious desert boat graveyard.
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Abandoned Dunes Motel south of Lenwood.
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Abandoned stuff at Hodge ghost town site. Road to Hinkley from here also closed due to washed out brigde.
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Farther south at Brisbane Valley we find a road that crosses the Mojave. Looking upstream, some spring water wells up out of the ground in the vast wash.
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Downstream the water disappears back into the sand before reaching Barstow.
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On our last trip we explored the Afton Canyon downstream of Barstow and learned the river is really a series of wellsprings that come and go along the wash. During storms it must be a spectacular flash flood channel.
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