Desert/ruins type areas?

[jadmt]

yesterday one of my buddies who I have wheeled with in moab more times than i can remember said he kind of wanted to do some desert type exploring where there might be some neat ruins to check out. I know Death Valley but any other less traveled places that are worth driving from Western Montana to check out?

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[LazyJL]

There is much more to Utah than Moab; It has all the desert you could want, plus mountains.

 

[Ratbert]

Lots and lots of fossils and petroglyphs spread across Utah. For sand dunes consider the coast of Oregon.

Maybe clarify what you mean by ruins?

 

[flick2614]

AZ!

 

[jadmt]

Lots and lots of fossils and petroglyphs spread across Utah. For sand dunes consider the coast of Oregon.

Maybe clarify what you mean by ruins?

old buildings, mining remnants etc. not actually interested in sand dunes..

 

[rdfact]

Bodie, CA (close to Nevada)
https://www.monocounty.org/places-to-go/bodie/

Nevada has lots of desert and open BLM land and offroad trails. Plus lots of old mining towns.
https://travelnevada.com/ghost-town/

 

[Powelligator]

There's a lot of cool old mining ghost towns in Nevada but one thing I've seen over the past few years is that vandalism has really taken off and things that were intact in the early to mid 2000's is largely destroyed now. It's sad.

 

[Shanwowsd]

old buildings, mining remnants etc. not actually interested in sand dunes..

There are lots of old mines and remnants in Joshua Tree NP.

 

[rdfact]

Venture2Roam did a 5 day, 900 mile off-road trip across Nevada. The video is 90+ minutes.

 

[roaniecowpony]

yesterday one of my buddies who I have wheeled with in moab more times than i can remember said he kind of wanted to do some desert type exploring where there might be some neat ruins to check out. I know Death Valley but any other less traveled places that are worth driving from Western Montana to check out?

Western MT must have a lot of mining ruins...unless BLM has been on their cleanup campaign there. They were bulldozing ruins into the shafts around here.

 

[3TV]

Southern part of Canyonlands National Park, which is well south of Moab, comes to mind. Especially the trip over Elephant Hill when you get to the part where you climb out of Bobby's Hole. There is even a place called Ruin Park.

 

[roaniecowpony]

If the Egyptians had a BLM, they would have bulldozed the pyrimids.

 

[jadmt]

Western MT must have a lot of mining ruins...unless BLM has been on their cleanup campaign there. They were bulldozing ruins into the shafts around here.

very few deserts tho . but yes much good wheeling as a result of mining.

 

[LazyJL]

It's hard to find more mining ruins than in Colorado's high country.

 

[Ratbert]

It's hard to find more mining ruins than in Colorado's high country.

I was gonna say the same thing, but he wants deserts.

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