Wild Rose Camp - California Ghost Town

WILD ROSE CAMP

NAME: Wild Rose Camp
COUNTY: Inyo
ROADS: 2WD
GRID #(see map): 3
CLIMATE: Cool winter with possible snow, hot summer.
BEST TIME TO VISIT: Summer, Spring, Fall.

COMMENTS: In the Panamint Valley.
REMAINS: Charcoal Kilns.

Wild Rose City is known for its known for its charcoal prodcution for the Coso mines in the Coso Mountains nearby. It seems there was no timber in the Coso Mountains, and timber is required in the production of charcoal. So, Wild Rose Camp was founded in the Panamint Mountains were there was plenty of timber. Charcoal kilns were erected to make the charcoal and they are still standing at the site today.	Charcoal kilns near Wild Rose. Courtesy Stanley Paher. Kilms - 30 feet in diameter, are giant beehives of stone. Built in the 1870's -- Kilms line the upper Wildrose Canyon -- Swiss engineers did the designing and Indians cut the pine to stoke them. Courtesy Dolores Steele Wild Rose Courtesy Dolores Steele

Wild Rose City is known for its known for its charcoal prodcution for the Coso mines in the Coso Mountains nearby. It seems there was no timber in the Coso Mountains, and timber is required in the production of charcoal. So, Wild Rose Camp was founded in the Panamint Mountains were there was plenty of timber. Charcoal kilns were erected to make the charcoal and they are still standing at the site today.

Charcoal kilns near Wild Rose. Courtesy Stanley Paher.

Kilms - 30 feet in diameter, are giant beehives of stone. Built in the 1870's
-- Kilms line the upper Wildrose Canyon -- Swiss engineers did the designing
and Indians cut the pine to stoke them.
Courtesy Dolores Steele

Wild Rose
Courtesy Dolores Steele

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