Castle Dome City Ghost Town
Castle Dome Landing, Arizona (also Castle Dome City) is a ghost town in the Castle Dome Mountains of Yuma County in the U.S. state of Arizona. It was first settled as a transport depot and mining camp around 1863 in what was then the Arizona Territory. Castle Dome City was once bigger than Yuma. Some of the mines had everything left in them and were just like they quit working yesterday and provided the source most of the artifacts in town.
The remains of Castle Dome Landing, once on the banks of the Colorado River, are now submerged beneath the Imperial Dam reservoir in Martinez Lake. The property that was previously Castle Dome town and mining camp was purchased in 1994 by Allen and Stephanie Armstrong, and turned into the Castle Dome Museum. The museum site houses over 50 restored and recreated buildings — seven original to the town, and the rest are period representations built mostly from locally scavenged materials. Each building, among them a saloon, a hotel, a mill, and a blacksmith, is staged to look like it might have looked in the town’s heyday, some 100 years ago.
Where it is:
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GPS:
33°2’44.904″ N 114°10’41.652″ W
Cost:
Entrance Fees:
Prices: Adults $15.00 ages 12 , Children $7.00 ages 7 – 11, Children 6 and under are free.
Hours:
April 30 through September you will need to call for hours.
October 14th through April 30th we are open 7 days a week.
There are restrooms on location, there is no food or lodging available.
Location Contact Information:
Castle Dome Museum
Castle Dome Mine Rd., Yuma, AZ 85365
Phone 928 920-3062
Email castledomemuseum01@gmail.com
Mailing Address: 27550 East County 15Th Street North Sr 4, Yuma, AZ 85365 (this is not located at the Museum)
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