Gold Panning in a Ghost Town and More....

While out in AZ Hubby and I took Maddie and visited a nearby town called GoldField.  Goldfield was an old mining town turned Ghost Town that now has several shops and stuff that you can go visit.   There is quite a bit you can do there but we got there about an hour before they were closing so we didn't do much but walk around and look at stuff.
If you want to find out more about it you can also visit this website:  http://www.goldfieldghosttown.com/ 

They have a place that you can go in and pay $6 and they give you a pan filled with rocks and dirt, and you pan it out and then keep what you have left in your pan.
We took home a few tiny peices of gold and a few small garnets, as well as some iron pyrite, also known as fools gold.

This is David Panning for his gold:

Maddie helping Daddy pick out all the good stuff after David was done panning:

Some more pics from around the Ghost Town.

Old water tower, this is the best angle I could get without the sun being too bright:

Sharing some ice cream:

outside the saloon:

old wagons:

Mine:

View of mountains from town:

Jail:

a few other random pics:

Thanks for taking a trip with me through the old Goldfield Ghost Town!!!