Mojave Desert

Salt built this California ghost town. Now salt is destroying it.

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Saltdale is not California’s most picturesque ghost town. It’s certainly not the largest, nor is it the most historical. But it may be the next to disappear. Saltdale sinks into Koehn Lake, a dry lakebed with salt deposits on its surface in the Mojave Desert, about 20 miles north of California City. Up close, the old … Read more

Calif. city Lancaster chose people over cars in its downtown. Did it work?

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Not many California downtowns feature an idle F-4 Phantom supersonic jet tilted on a cement perch, but that’s exactly how the east end of main street in Lancaster begins.  The jet is in Boeing Plaza, at the mouth of a central boulevard in the Southern California city. From there, the road diverts into two slow … Read more