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| Barker Dam and Wall Street Mill, CA | |
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Barker Dam and Wall Street Mill, CA
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| Hiking | 4.64 Miles |
282 AEG |
| | Hiking | 4.64 Miles | 2 Hrs 48 Mns | | 1.93 mph |
| 282 ft AEG | 24 Mns Break | | | |
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| no partners | | Stop #2 on our tour of Joshua Tree NP.
Barker Dam is a man-made dam that was built to enhance a natural catchment area for water draining in the area. Apparently, when it is full, it's quite a site/oasis in the middle of the otherwise arid desert. However, given the very dry winter thus far, the only thing the dam was holding back was warm air.
That said, the hike out was pleasant, and along the return trip, there was a cool rock with some petroglyphs (that had been illegally "enhanced" at some point--perhaps by a Hollywood filmmaker(?)).
Stop #3 was to be the Wall Street Mill, a "mill" for processing ore from the local mines. But rather than drive down the road a bit, we just continued our hike from the Barker Dam TH. Along the way to the mill and at the mill are the remains of a few old cars/trucks that were fun to check out, along with the foundation of an old homestead.
The mill remains are fenced off, but you can see a lot of mining relics, as well as some interpretive signs. The trail is a bit of a choose-your-own adventure, but lots of options get you to and from the right place. |
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