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UER Forum > Archived US: Four Corners > AZ-Parker/Planet Ranch-Abandonments,mines (Viewed 193 times) BLinAZ  Location: Ahwatukee Gender: Male I'm way too old for this shit.  |  AZ-Parker/Planet Ranch-Abandonments,mines < on 2/6/2007 4:49 AM >   Out in the field again and spent a short amount of time poking around something that barely qualifies as UE and is really more of a trip to a museum at this point. Follow the yellow brick road to the entrance gate to Planet Ranch and look right (switch to 'aerial' using the doohickey to the left, but you really can't see shit, sorry. Gmaps' data is even worse). click to view Two bedrooms, a foyer, a dining room, and a kitchen that would all fit inside just one of my living rooms. click to view click to view This must have been a neat little place when it was built, though, with a great patio looking toward the Bill Williams river in the distance and a curved arch leading into the dining room. click to view click to view click to view click to view Nearby are two other structures, one a big adobe ruin that probably housed a lot of people and the other a rock pile that might have been storage or something. I'm thinking these were unrelated to the nearby ranch but rather were for all the mine shafts and addits that have turned this area into swiss cheese. click to view click to view click to view click to view On the way back, about 8 miles from here, I spotted a big mining operation in the distance that could very well be abandoned, so I'll be back. BruceL in AZ - GwogBlog UE edition - GwogBlog BLinAZ  Location: Ahwatukee Gender: Male I'm way too old for this shit.  |  Re: AZ-Parker/Planet Ranch-Abandonments,mines <Reply # 1 on 2/8/2007 12:33 PM >   This spot is called Planet Mine, I just found out, and is only about 10 miles from Swansea, a larger ghost town. BruceL in AZ - GwogBlog UE edition - GwogBlog big dave  Location: SoCal Gender: Male  |  |  Re: AZ-Parker/Planet Ranch-Abandonments,mines <Reply # 2 on 2/9/2007 6:54 AM >   Excellent work again! An armed society, is a polite society. So lets get to it! UER Forum > Archived US: Four Corners > AZ-Parker/Planet Ranch-Abandonments,mines (Viewed 193 times) All content and images copyright © 2002-2024 UER.CA and respective creators. Graphical Design by Crossfire. To contact webmaster, or click to email with problems or other questions about this site: UER CONTACT View Terms of Service | View Privacy Policy | Server colocation provided by Beanfield This page was generated for you in 125 milliseconds. Since June 23, 2002, a total of 741052329 pages have been generated.