Explore / North America / West
West, Washington
Monte Cristo WA
Cascade mining ghost
Old dump ground Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Gold
Coins and tokensAlso reported: eyes-only: railway turntable, cabin ruins, ore machinery, enamelware and glass scatter.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: BLM Alaska (Public domain), West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0).
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Why this spot
Rockefeller-backed 1890s gold-silver camp deep in the Cascades, reached by a doomed railway, now a 4-mile walk-in ghost town
WTA and Revisiting Washington document the townsite: railway turntable, collapsed buildings, mining machinery in place
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
River ford or log crossing on the access roadArsenic in tailings, black bears, washouts
Keep exploring nearby
More spots in this area.