Dragon Mine Ride | Abandoned Gold & Vanadium Mine near Wickenburg
Dragon Mine Ride | Abandoned Gold & Vanadium Mine near Wickenburg
We’re back in the desert southeast of Wickenburg for a ride to the old Dragon / Julia Mine. The 7 mile trail departs Castle Hot Springs Road and heads west over a variety of terrain to San Domingo Wash, and eventually on to the mine. The Dragon has numerous ruins left behind today and a rich history of gold and vanadium mining.
The Arizona Geological Survey has a great file on the Dragon referenced often in this video: https://minedata.azgs.arizona.edu/report/dragon
You can view other trails in the area on our website: https://azoffroad.net/west/north-phx-trails
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A well done video! Thanks for sharing!
Don’t you already have this video ?? Seems like I’ve seen it ? Anyways was good to. Watch again .
Interesting video.
Aw shit he campin
Thanks for another great video. I’ll have to try this one soon, but think I’ll take the easier approach.
Yeah nice more videos thanks man keep it up 👍🏾
Thanks for the video.
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Ron
Where’s the Jeep?
Thanks for the tour. A very cool mine. I stumbled on to this place accidently years ago. It was like finding gold.😁 I would have liked to have seen it when more was standing.
Anything poke ya, prick ya or stick ya? wearing shorts.
What kind of navigation are you using? Or a good GPS?
We visited this mine on the 4th and thoroughly enjoyed the visit. Upstream in San Domingo
Wash was the amazingly enjoyable lunch sight at the China Dam. Thanks for your nice video
I explored lot of these places back in the 1990’s using topo maps from Maps plus store over in Indian School & I-17. I had a 4WD 4 runner all I had was an odometer I would reset on each leg after a turn. Thinking back if we had broke down we would have been in real trouble as in those days here in AZ hardly anyone drove on those trails. Most people who had 3 wheelers or dirt bikes just rode lot closer to Phoenix no reason to go way out there. Lucky for us few times we got stuck I used rocks and a shovel to get out. I never crossed really bad spots took any chances if it got really bad the trail we would back down or if it was only a few miles hike from there. I wished we took pictures lot of these buildings were still there back then today most of these places have been vandalized so many UTV’s now in the deserts it’s a shame. We went to the Oro Bella mine on the way to Crown King there were a few buildings still now there is nothing.
Scotty, one of the things we all wish was different is what the camera does to the hard sections of trail. You can have a nasty, challenging section of trail, but when it’s put up on a video screen it looks likes a piece of cake. So, those of you who don’t go off-road, take note: A lot of what is done is harder than it looks. BTW, good vid.
Welcome back!!
Thank you for the history!