I actually live here in Trona. Bought a house here June of 2023. That huge building is the old rec center. The last quake in 2019 pretty much decimatef the majority of businesses left as it was too expensive to renovate. Houses are actually selling around here. Town has a great community and very protective.
Trona is a nice clean little town. Between the two earthquakes that happened back to back and Covid, the town has lost population and businesses. However, it has very inexpensive housing with good city power, water that is good for bathing and cooking natural gas. I know someone who bought a nice, very livable house for $29K
when i was in high school and lived in burbank my friends and i would go camping in death valley and drove through troma, very sad to see what it looks like today. looked much better back in the 60s, small towns dont usually recover ftom disasters.
At one time Trona got all it's water from within the valley. There are springs up each of the major canyons in the Argus Range. There are still remnants of the old water system. You just gotta do a little hiking to get to them!
@@theabandonedproject Not at all. They are flowing the same as always. Why would you even assume that they dried up? You must not spend much time hiking in the desert.
@@blackturtleshow I did some online research about why people moved away and it said one of the main reasons was because of water shortages. Also I know the history with the Owens River valley and how LA country really screwed up the environment when they rerouted all the runoff to the LA aqueduct. I assumed it was a similar situation, but my Internet source could be inaccurate, and I suppose I made a bit of assumption just from looking at how dry the landscape is around there.
@@theabandonedproject I've hiked every single canyon in Searles Valley and Panamint Valley, with the exception of the Slate Range (east side of Searles Valley) there is a spring in each canyon with only a couple exceptions.
Trona has a sad story. Twin earthquakes of 7+ and federal and state government did nothing. San Bernardino county gave ice and water. Many people were instantly homeless. The falling down building you are see are the results of those earthquakes. People are poor, but the earthquakes made them homeless. These old homes were owned free and clear, but people did not have money for insurance. So many just walked away.
I went out with a group & we did a photoshoot at a ran down building & the neighbors across the street just stood there watching us like we were up to no good. 😂
Ridgecrest is only 25 minutes away from Trona. Not 45 minutes. The Shell gasoline station you photographed closed shortly after the earthquake. As for the mineral plant, majority of it is now automated & sadly not much of a need for humans to operate it. It's not a bad town & the locals have a lot of camaraderie amongst each other.
@@MeMe-cd1wy Thank you for the kind compliments. Yes there are a lot of abandoned properties within Trona. However it's not exactly a ghost town & when you get to know the residents within Trona, you won't find a nicer group of residents.
Videos like these only show the armpit and the ugliness of Searles Valley. I get it.. it drawls interest. But.. there ARE nice neighborhoods and beauty here as well. Some of the nicest people you will find and a few great churches!
Hey awe the gas station had its underground fuel tanks collapsed during the last big earthquake out there in like 2020 / 21 and the owner just couldn’t afford to fix it back up. It was like a mom and pops place. The Biden years have really hit the town really hard.
I actually live here in Trona. Bought a house here June of 2023. That huge building is the old rec center. The last quake in 2019 pretty much decimatef the majority of businesses left as it was too expensive to renovate. Houses are actually selling around here. Town has a great community and very protective.
Trona is a nice clean little town. Between the two earthquakes that happened back to back and Covid, the town has lost population and businesses. However, it has very inexpensive housing with good city power, water that is good for bathing and cooking natural gas.
I know someone who bought a nice, very livable house for $29K
It gets super hot!! 118 in the summer
Interesting video! Cool shot of that railroad turnaround setup. Thanks for posting this!
when i was in high school and lived in burbank my friends and i would go camping in death valley and drove through troma, very sad to see what it looks like today. looked much better back in the 60s, small towns dont usually recover ftom disasters.
At one time Trona got all it's water from within the valley. There are springs up each of the major canyons in the Argus Range. There are still remnants of the old water system. You just gotta do a little hiking to get to them!
That's really interesting, I guess they are all dried up now huh?
@@theabandonedproject Not at all. They are flowing the same as always. Why would you even assume that they dried up? You must not spend much time hiking in the desert.
@@blackturtleshow I did some online research about why people moved away and it said one of the main reasons was because of water shortages. Also I know the history with the Owens River valley and how LA country really screwed up the environment when they rerouted all the runoff to the LA aqueduct. I assumed it was a similar situation, but my Internet source could be inaccurate, and I suppose I made a bit of assumption just from looking at how dry the landscape is around there.
@@theabandonedproject I've hiked every single canyon in Searles Valley and Panamint Valley, with the exception of the Slate Range (east side of Searles Valley) there is a spring in each canyon with only a couple exceptions.
I live in Ridgecrest. Trona is way too empty for me. That is where the twin quakes centered at in 2019.
What is that wonderful guitar track in the background, that starts around 1:24? Compliments the guided tour around Trona really well.
I have been longing to visit Trona for some time now. Thanks for sharing man.
No problem 👍
My husband also had pics of his 54 Ford truck taken out there because of the cool looking empty buildings
Trona has a sad story. Twin earthquakes of 7+ and federal and state government did nothing. San Bernardino county gave ice and water. Many people were instantly homeless. The falling down building you are see are the results of those earthquakes. People are poor, but the earthquakes made them homeless.
These old homes were owned free and clear, but people did not have money for insurance. So many just walked away.
I went out with a group & we did a photoshoot at a ran down building & the neighbors across the street just stood there watching us like we were up to no good. 😂
Ridgecrest is only 25 minutes away from Trona. Not 45 minutes. The Shell gasoline station you photographed closed shortly after the earthquake. As for the mineral plant, majority of it is now automated & sadly not much of a need for humans to operate it. It's not a bad town & the locals have a lot of camaraderie amongst each other.
I have visited Trona and a nicer community of people cannot be found anywhere else in California.
@@MeMe-cd1wy Thank you for the kind compliments. Yes there are a lot of abandoned properties within Trona. However it's not exactly a ghost town & when you get to know the residents within Trona, you won't find a nicer group of residents.
I was born in Trona 75 years ago. Im surprised that it is still there.
Union busting and robots is why its the way it is now, My grandma still lives there and has 30 or so houses there.
I think the boarded up building you circled was the old community center.
Videos like these only show the armpit and the ugliness of Searles Valley. I get it.. it drawls interest. But.. there ARE nice neighborhoods and beauty here as well.
Some of the nicest people you will find and a few great churches!
Where? What cross streets
@user-es5jq6yy9l Pioneer Point.
Cool now we can get folks a home not a tent
The town was greatly affected by the twin earthquakes from July 2019.
We had two major quakes back to back in 2019 , honestly if you came to put our town down just stay away
I think most places are abandoned due to the earthquake that happened a few years ago.
Hey awe the gas station had its underground fuel tanks collapsed during the last big earthquake out there in like 2020 / 21 and the owner just couldn’t afford to fix it back up.
It was like a mom and pops place.
The Biden years have really hit the town really hard.
Great place for immigrants
enjoy, i wish i can do that