Ghost Town / Old mines and Desert info

Ripley's Ghost Town Adventures - A great site with allot of info on Ghost Towns. Site is unavailable allot due to it exceeding it's allocated bandwidth amount.

Desert Drifter / Desert Geographic - Site with great info on the desert areas, is in the process of being redone

Ghosttowns.com - Great starting place for info on Ghost Towns everywhere

Misc Stuff..

Recent Earthquakes - Was that yet another earthquake at my place? Realtime map showing current quakes in my area

Maptech - Here you can buy Terrain Navigator - digital versions of all the USGS maps, which includes both 1:24 and 1:100 maps, as well as link directly to most GPS's with a laptop for real-time Topo tracking. The most detailed maps you can get, great for finding stuff. The entire state of California is only $99. All the maps on the off-road section were created using this software.