Another wonderful day in paradise – :-))). Carolyn, Pete, Andy and I took a trip on the Verde Valley Railroad. We met at the station in the morning, took in the museum, then lunch, then boarded the train.
Here we are:
And off we go. We passed by this slag pile. There is a company that is processing this – they figure they will get an ounce of gold per ton of slag as well as copper and silver. The end product will be used at the cement plant. And within 15 years this pile will be gone out of the valley.
And get ready for lots of pictures. (They really do not show the incredible colors of this canyon.)
More ruins – they were quite a few throughout the canyon:
The two rocks on the left look like the Budweiser frogs and the one on the right looks like the lizard – LOL:
This tunnel was completed in 1912 and is all man-made. It is 680 feet long thru solid limestone and curved so the exit cannot be seen from the entrance.
Notice the face right inside the cave entrance. This cave was used by the native Americans but researchers think it was not used as a home but rather a place to stay as they moved thru the valley (a hotel/motel):
The cave in the distance was excavated by geologists from the Arizona State Museum in the 1960s. They found evidence that it was used by native Americans as living quarters.
The next two pictures are of Perkinsville which was our turnaround point. In the 1960s, a few scenes from the film “How the West was Won” was filmed in this valley.
Check out this house – in the middle of nowhere. There are four homes in this area that predate the establishment of the National Forest. The closest town in Cottonwood and it takes about 1.5 hours on a dirt road to get there.
And even more incredible scenery:
Another wonderful day!
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