Hiking Lost Horse Mine Trail in Joshua Tree National Park, California
We hiked to a cool mine in Joshua Tree NP with our toddler. Give the video a thumbs up, leave a comment and share it with your friends ???? See more family travels on YouTube:
Our little man added a new word to his vocabulary - discover which one! He also hiked a bit. So proud of this little guy!
We hiked this trail out to the mine and back, which was 4 miles. It is a great family hike. There is also a loop on this trail that also goes by the mine and is about 6.5 miles.
The Lost Horse Mine Trail leads to a former Gold and Silver Mine, one of the best preserved mines in the park. In what is Joshua Tree National Park today, more than 300 mines opened in the 19th century. Only a few were profitable - Lost Horse Mine was one of them. According to the National Park Service website, the Lost Horse Mine It operated between 1894 and 1931. It extracted more than 10,000 ounces of gold and 16,000 ounces of silver, which would be worth about $5 million today. Keep walking up past the mine to reach the top of Lost Horse. It has an amazing view on the park.
There is no shade at all on the trail. Vault bathroom but no water at the trailhead.
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Hiking Day 6: Lost Horse Mine, Joshua Tree National Park
Although Joshua Tree National Park offers a wealth of hikes—many with breathtaking views—consider this one if the kids are coming along. At the end of the trail, there are several rewards.
You will discover a breathtaking vista from 5,278 feet up, as well as the fascinating remains of a ten-stamp mill known as Lost Horse Mine.
The trail actually retraces the original mining road to the old gold mine that is considered one of the most prosperous of the 300 mines that once existed in the parkland. Lore claims the mine’s origin dates back to 1893 when cowboy Johnny Lang discovered the mine while looking for his lost horse. The mine produced 10,000 ounces of gold and 16,000 ounces of silver between 1894 and 1931. On the trail, you’ll observe mostly yucca trees as well as some juniper and a few of the namesake Joshua trees. If you’re lucky, you’ll spy some quail families foraging in the low lying scrub brush.
Quick tips: 4-mile loop; moderate hike; time approximately 3-4 hours
Insider tips: Great hike for kids. Read up on the mine’s history before you take off—the kids will love it.
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Joshua Tree - Lost Horse Mine Trail
- Love Joshua Tree! This 6.2 mile loop hike is really cool. Make sure you don't do it during the summer. It's an easy hike. Just about 2-miles to the mine, you can continue on the extra 4-miles for the loop, or just return once you check out the mine for a 4.5 mile out and back hike.
Lost Horse Mine Trail | Joshua Tree National Park, CA
In the late 1800s, miners dug around 300 mines in the lands now protected as Joshua Tree National Park. The Lost Horse Mine is one the best-preserved gold mines in the southwest area of the park. You can access by hiking a full 6.7 mile circular trail. This loop can be walked in either directions.
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Lost Horse Mine Loop Trail - Joshua Tree NP, California
The Lost Horse Mine Loop Trail is a 6.2 mile trail that takes hikers past the Lost Horse Mine and offers amazing views of the surrounding mountains.
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Lost Horse Mine Hike, Joshua Tree National Park
The Hike to the abandoned Lost Horse Mine inside Joshua Tree National Park. The old wooden mineworks are fenced off but you can check out the ruins of the buildings that once stood around and helped run the mine. Awesome views out across the Joshua Tree valley and a good hike from the trailhead.
Joshua Tree National Park Lost Horse Mine Hike
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4 mile round trip hike to Lost Horse Mine
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August 3013 Lost Horse Mine. This video is hilarious cause we are so badly out of shape and it shows! Haha
Boondocking Outside Joshua Tree National Park & Hiking Lost Horse Mine - Full Time RV Living
Jenni and I are no strangers to BLM boondocking. We feel at home on these desolate tracts of free federal land. So despite recommendations to stay inside Joshua Tree National Park, we dropped anchor on BLM land just outside. But this didn't stop us from having our first great adventure inside Joshua Tree National Park! Check out the blog post on our website for more details!
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We set up camp just outside Joshua Tree National Park mainly for the cell service - we need this to work! On the BLM land south of the park there is strong 4G signal, however the National Park itself is a giant dead zone. Also, we're unfamiliar with the park and will boondock on BLM land until we gather our bearings. We would love to stay inside Joshua Tree but are afraid it is completely full - we'll see!
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Riverside County - Lost Horse Mine Hike
This loop hike begins among peculiar Joshua Trees. These members of the yucca genus grow in twisted shapes. Trunks may sprout in a row from underground rhizomes. The trail winds around Lost Horse Mountain to vistas above Pleasant Valley. Malapai Hill, remnant of an ancient volcano, stands out within the Valley. There are opportunities to explore historic gold mining sites. Nearby Keys View offers vistas of Mount San Jacinto, San Gorgonia Mountain, the Salton Sea, Palm Springs, & the Coachella Valley.
Visit hikingthegoldenstate.com for additional hike details.
Joshua Tree National Park. Lost Horse Mine Trail, 1/9/15
360 degree panoramic from the summit above the Lost horse mine on 1/9/15
Lost Horse Mine, Joshua Tree National Park, October 30, 2009
The surroundings at the Lost Horse Mine, a 4.4 mile roundtrip hike into the Joshua Tree backcountry. Much of the trail is still affected from a fire within the last couple of years, but the views are still spectacular and it makes for a fun little hike.
2012-11-18 Lost Horse Mine hike in Joshua Tree National Park.Joshua Tree
2012-11-18 Lost Horse Mine hike in Joshua Tree National Park.
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Lost Horse Mine and Lost Horse Mountain, Joshua Tree National Park
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Hiked to Lost Horse Mine and Lost Horse Mountain. The view from the summit towards Pinto Basin is amazing. The last time I visited this area was 13 years ago, and I only hiked to the mine. Total hike time today was 2 hours 40 min.
Joshua Tree National Park. Lost Horse Mine Trail. 1/9/15
View from the summit above the lost Horse mine . 1/9/15
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Gold Mine , Lost Horse Mine, Joshua Tree National Park
Lost Horse Mine In Usa California.
Even before the California Gold Rush of 1849, prospectors were finding gold in southern California. As the take from the mines in the Sierras petered out, miners fanned out into the deserts. Here hot summers, scarce water, limited wood sources, and the difficulty and high cost of transporting equipment and provisions created a challenging environment in which to operate a mine. But a few hardy adventurers persevered and about 300 mines were developed in what is now Joshua Tree National Park—although few were good producers.
An exception is the Lost Horse Mine, which produced more than 10,000 ounces of gold and 16,000 ounces of silver (worth approximately $5 million today) between 1894 and 1931. When the story of the Lost Horse Mine is told, it sounds like a western campfire tale: gun slinging cowboys, cattle rustlers, horse thieves, the lure of gold, and a sticky-fingered miner.
Johnny Lang
As long-time resident William F. Keys, told the story, Johnny Lang and his father drove their herd of cattle into the Lost Horse Valley in 1890, when there was “nothing but cattle and Indians.” Johnny told Keys that they had moved west after his brother and six other cowboys were gunned down in New Mexico.
One night, while camped in the Lost Horse Valley, the Langs’s horses disappeared. Next morning Johnny tracked them to the McHaney brothers’ camp near today’s Keys Ranch. According to local legend, the McHaney Gang were cattle rustlers. Keys said they told Johnny his horses weren’t there and to leave the area.
Keys goes on to say that Johnny met up with a man named “Dutch” Frank who told of also being threatened by the McHaneys. Frank said that he had discovered a rich claim but was afraid to develop it. Johnny and his father bought the rights to the mine for $1000 and called it Lost Horse. To reduce the chances of being killed by the McHaney Gang or having his claim jumped, Johnny took on three partners. After filing their claim, they set up a two-stamp mill and began processing gold.
J.D. Ryan
A wealthy rancher from Montana, J.D. Ryan, bought out Johnny’s partners in 1895. The next year he found a steam-powered, ten-stamp mill somewhere near the Colorado River and had it dismantled and hauled to the mine site. To provide steam for the mill, Ryan ran a two-inch pipeline 3.5 miles, from wells at his ranch to an earth and stone reservoir near the mill. Steam engines fueled by trees from nearby mountains were used to push the water up the 750 foot elevation gain where it was boiled to power the stamp mill. Heating the water at both the ranch and the mill required a lot of wood, and the results of the timbering can be seen today in the sparsely vegetated hillsides at both sites.
Getting to the Gold
The booming of the ten 850-pound stamps could be heard echoing across the valley 24 hours a day as the ore was crushed. Water added to the crushed rock made a slurry, which washed over copper plates covered with a thin film of mercury. The gold particles clung to the mercury and the debris washed away.
The amalgam of mercury and gold was smelted to separate the two metals. The mercury could be reused and the gold was formed into bricks. These bricks were carried to Banning every week, concealed in a 16-horse freight wagon. The 130-mile trip to deliver the gold and return with supplies took five days.
As the story goes, the day shift was producing an amalgam the size of a baseball while the night shift, supervised by Lang, recovered a mere golf ball. Ryan hired a detective to investigate and discovered that when Johnny removed the amalgam from the copper plates, he kept half for himself. Ryan gave Lang a choice: sell out or go to jail. Lang sold, then moved into a nearby canyon where he continued to prospect.
The Lost Horse Mine continued producing until 1905, when the miners hit a fault line and forever lost the ore-bearing vein. The mine was leased to others or left dormant until 1931, when rising gold prices prompted the processing of 600 tons of tailings (unprocessed chunks of leftover ore) with cyanide, producing a few hundred ounces of gold.
2012-11-18 Lost Horse Mine hike in Joshua Tree National Park. Joshua Tree Nov 2012 110.MP4
2012-11-18 Lost Horse Mine hike in Joshua Tree National Park
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