Visiting Historic Kentucky Camp, Arizona
The group set up camp at Kentucky Camp, "tucked away in a small gulch with oak and mesquite trees dotting the hillsides. As we made the final descent into the camp, the five adobe buildings seemingly appeared out of nowhere. There's a feeling of going back 100 years in time. The site was built in 1904 by the Santa Rita Water and Mining Company. As the name suggests, it was a hydraulic gold mining operation ? an odd endeavor for this high-desert location."
When all was said and done, it seems the group had only one regret: One night was not long enough. "We agreed that our next trip to Kentucky Camp would be for two nights," writes Mark, "so we can spend more time taking in the quiet scenery, and making the short hike to Boston Gulch to see the remains of the hydraulic water pipes and mining pits." Read the rest of Mark's story at BikeOvernights.org. There you'll also see our current Photo of the Week, which comes from the November 8, 2011, post Santa Cruz to Monterey, California, by Daniel Mascarenhas.
BikeOvernights.org Photo of the Week, 08.24.12.Top 3 photos by Mark Doumas. --BIKE OVERNIGHTS is posted every Monday by Michael McCoy, Adventure Cycling?s media specialist, and highlights content from BikeOvernights.org. Previously, from March 2009 through January 2012, Mac posted weekly at Biking Without Borders. He also compiles the organization's twice-monthly e-newsletter Bike Bits, which goes free-of-charge to nearly 46,000 readers worldwide.
Source: http://blog.adventurecycling.org/2012/08/visiting-historic-kentucky-camp-arizona.html



