As I’m a 64-1/2 year old San Diego native who has spent most of the last 50 years of my own life out exploring in & around our local mountains & deserts I have to appreciate the amount of time & effort that someone has spent with the whole area covered in your video here. That was a monumental task to lay all that rock work and haul the cement needed and source the water to mix and put each stone in place . Surely must have been a magnificent place in its heyday . Sorry to see time & the elements have taken its toll , but THANK YOU for both sharing and keeping the location a secret as way too many gems like this are constantly being destroyed by vandals for no Damn good reasons .🤨. Just wanted to let you know I appreciated it all . C-ya.
What I suspect here is someone retired maybe they were mason, or did concrete work trying to live off social security had little money from a 401k possibly they sold a home in the city used the money to build this place. Like so many 65 turns into 75 what seems like overnight get sick with cancer or heart attack probably passed on never returned back to the place. Kids don't want to live out their wasn't their dream to live off grid they like cities raising kids. The main problem with these properties is title is still in the persons name who passed away even if you find the kids it would require probate get the kids to transfer the property to their names then sell it to a buyer. The cost to do all that is lot and usually more then it's worth. The fact the heirs might be hard to find not want to bother with it unless they get money out of it.
I would entertain the idea it was a group of people that once was doing well till financial or even nature problems arose and sort of broke up slowly till the last one didn't want to stay and left . Whoever stayed there witnessed a much better place at one time .
I think it was one person who trying to make a go of it on social security like $2500 a month type of thing. Maybe sold a home in the city to invest in this place. He got sick probably passed away his kids just left it to rot they have their own lives. I have also seen where have couple just got old and ended up in a nursing home maybe they have a distant family member lives out of state has no clue what was left behind. I rather see the county level the place return it to nature like it was before. Maybe leave the well for animals to drink from I live in AZ that is what they do here turn old ranches had wells used windmills into watering holes. All kinds of wild life come by use the water hole bears, mountain lions, deer some videos on YT has trail cams.
the vast of america's wilderness is fascinating, this lot looks like heaven for me, enough far from people, water canals, ponds, the garden was once so pretty I can imagine... Though the handwritten note says sadly ppl keep messing with their space all the time, so not enough far from people
Not as appealing as you might think my FIL had a place like this in Colorado. I rather be with in few miles of others have some neighbors or belong to a off grid community.
There are more than a few places out in the East County of San Diego like that, people would work in the Imperial valley or in SD and live out in the mountains off the beaten track where you had to drive a dirt road from some little paved road wandering through the area. The surroundings look like it's down towards the desert with more of that vegetation rather than up on the mountains where there's trees.
He you ever tried to do a followup and go to the county recorders office from where you found this site to see who owns this place. Be interesting to know what the actual story is on the unique property is.
@@justwanderinround4113 I used to do title searches. It was easier for me to start at the Tax Assessors office and find the property on Assessors Maps. Once I found the Assessors Parcel Number (APN) on the parcel map I can find the owners name and address in the tax roles. If you happen to know a local land surveyor, real estate agent or appraiser they may be willing to help you find the Geographic Information System (GIS) maps & data. GPS mapping apps like GAIA and OnX may also help you find this information. It's been years since I did title searches at county recorders offices but the records of title history were only indexed by recording date and it took a lot of time and practice to find what I was looking for. When I did it the records were all on microfilm, I imagine that they must be stored on computers now so searching should be quicker.
Somebody spent a lot of time, money and effort building that place. Would love to know the real story, maybe someone will see this and be able to enlighten us.
@@bombaybeach208its so stupid! that they don't disclose locatio, it's all out in the desert, free for sharing, caring and doing whatever everI/we like.
@@bombaybeach208 it's dumb, I and we will find it anyways, We are nature and we will take and destroyand build anything that we want! , you are a fool for thinking otherwise! Yeah!
There was a man years ago lived in Arkansas,not sure how long he had the property but in the 1930s, probably 1920s too,but he was going to build an empire and rule the world. Called it Monte Ne,close to rogers, maybe also eureka springs. He had built buildings,pools,walls,not sure what all else. Just heard my parents talk about it and had a few pictures. Then when the big Beaver lake was being built they moved his grave up on the side of a hill.
This video alomst haunts me, I come back to it again and again. There is a real tale here to be told, even a book, maybe a film, staring . . . . ??? Hopefully someone amongst all these new viewers will know something and let us have the story. 2005 isn't that long ago . . . nothing on Google Earth for 2005?
If its the place I'm thinking of... i know where that is.🤔🤔 I used to ride dirt bike and camp around there when I was younger in the 70s.❤❤ Very cool that its still there after all these years. 👍👍👍 I love being lost in the middle of nowhere. I would love to be whomever built a place like this to escape civilization. ❤❤❤
I have visited this site a few times and was told by a ranger on one visit that an old lady lived there until she died and has been abandoned ever since. Also there are a few more structures to the east you did not show.
@justwanderinround4113 Spring will be a great time to go. It's a beautiful place that time of year. You can go all the way to the Gulf of Mexico from the Cahaba.
Did anyone else notice what is scratched into the path at the 11:33 mark? Looks to me like it says "made 11-24-89". Someone had a lot of time on their hands and tons of stone to work with.
It must have been expensive to have a propane truck come out and fill that tank. This at one time must have been a group of survivalists but time made them retreat to civilization. Wow it would have been a peaceful place to live after all the work was done.
my guess is that they abandon it around 2005-08, people that know more about organ cactus could give you an even more exact date, but yeah, also is interesting to see how the gardens prob were full of more tropical cactus like barrels cactus, they stand the heat very well but are killed by frost very easy.
Dam they did alot of work there . That's nice .& yes when theres a flash flood in the desert you could have 2-3 feet in the water canal all coming from steep mtns all around. I want to live there , away from people. I was going to say that wonder hussy hasn't been there butt I think she has .
My childhood friend Mark ended up in a place in Texas like this. Produced his own drugs. We stopped by after our road trip to Florida and visited him. He made his own drugs. He was funny and enjoyable, the son of our Lutheran grade school principal. 3 months later he died of a drug overdose. Sad but that is what happens when you spend your life making and using drugs all the time.
Looking back over time living off grid has become much more mainstream used to be folks like this were strange people wanted to live alone in the desert. The cost to live off grid still is more difficult then most are willing to put up with. The biggest factor is driving 100 miles round trip to a store to buy groceries. I think who build a place like this end up getting too old to take care of it. Someone dumped some money in this place at point digging wells, and buying large propane tanks is not cheap.
As I’m a 64-1/2 year old San Diego native who has spent most of the last 50 years of my own life out exploring in & around our local mountains & deserts I have to appreciate the amount of time & effort that someone has spent with the whole area covered in your video here. That was a monumental task to lay all that rock work and haul the cement needed and source the water to mix and put each stone in place . Surely must have been a magnificent place in its heyday . Sorry to see time & the elements have taken its toll , but THANK YOU for both sharing and keeping the location a secret as way too many gems like this are constantly being destroyed by vandals for no Damn good reasons .🤨. Just wanted to let you know I appreciated it all . C-ya.
Thank you! And I agree with everything you said. Thanks for watching!
In those days, that is how you lived!
There was a lot more water back then.
I would really loved to have seen that place in its heyday while a good rain was coming down. Nice.
If you return, please cook a steak or pork chop and potatoes. And leave a new newspaper and a note for future explorers@@justwanderinround4113
Someone’s life on full display. A life well lived. Frozen in time. Glad nobody has vandalized it. Thanks for your efforts
Perfect summary...thanks for watching!
When I see videos like these I want to know the history, the families, the years there, where did they go, why and when. Just awesome.
Thank you! I wonder the same things...
That tired dwelling was somebody's dream. Lot of labor went into building that. Back to the dust now.
The stonework is incredible. All out in the middle of nowhere. So cool!
Yes! Thanks for watching!
Cannot believe the stone/masonry work that was done there. Love to know more about this place and who/when they settled there.
I thought the same thing. Thanks for watching!
That’s a lot of bags of cement, A lot
Maybe go to the local courthouse and see who last owned the property? Cool video
This was probably a Truck Driver with a dream. Awesome.
Nah, probably an alien that had a dream
Awesome video thanks for sharing this beautiful place. ✨❤❤❤
Thank you for the nice comment and thanks for watching!
thats one mans dream. god bless him.
all good thing must come to a end, even the awesome stone work.
Sadly, yes, but it’s still a pretty cool place. Thanks for watching!
I was waiting for Uncle Eddie to step out wearing a beer can holster and throwing raw chicken onto some flat rocks to half-ass cook 😂
I had to edit that part out...Thanks for watching!
@@justwanderinround4113😂
The Stones are well layed Someone knew what they were doing!
I thought the same thing. They had skill and plenty of time. Thanks for watching!
Yes indeed
Very very cool 😎 enjoyed it very much the stonework just goes on and on
Thanks for the kind words, and thanks for watching!
I love the history you have in your deserts id love to find out more on this property it obviously was really impressive at one time.great vid
Thank you!
Great video!
Thank you! and thanks for watching!
Very interesting, I njoy seeing the past, must have been hard in those days but very proud I think.
Man! I'm glad this showed up in my stream! I needed this today! Well done!
Thank you! I'm glad you liked it!
@@justwanderinround4113 The unknown builders certainly did a lot of work. It's given me ideas. 😁
Interesting place, I love far flung desert stuff.
Thanks🎉
THAT IS THE MOST MYSTERIOUS HOMESTEAD I HAVE EVER SEEN....ALL THOSE STONE MORMATIONS TOOK A THOUSAND HOURS OF WORK.
A lot of work...thanks for watching!
What I suspect here is someone retired maybe they were mason, or did concrete work trying to live off social security had little money from a 401k possibly they sold a home in the city used the money to build this place. Like so many 65 turns into 75 what seems like overnight get sick with cancer or heart attack probably passed on never returned back to the place. Kids don't want to live out their wasn't their dream to live off grid they like cities raising kids. The main problem with these properties is title is still in the persons name who passed away even if you find the kids it would require probate get the kids to transfer the property to their names then sell it to a buyer. The cost to do all that is lot and usually more then it's worth. The fact the heirs might be hard to find not want to bother with it unless they get money out of it.
Move in ready 😊
My dad used platt maps & would find ghost towns & mines. It was so cool. Its probably all gone now
That's pretty cool. Thanks for watching!
Nice video 😊😊
Watching from India 👍👍
Yeah! Thanks for watching!
Great video. Someone's unique dream. Interesting to know what happened to the builder!
I would entertain the idea it was a group of people that once was doing well till financial or even nature problems arose and sort of broke up slowly till the last one didn't want to stay and left . Whoever stayed there witnessed a much better place at one time .
Possibly. I was thinking they just got older...Thanks for watching!
I think it was one person who trying to make a go of it on social security like $2500 a month type of thing. Maybe sold a home in the city to invest in this place. He got sick probably passed away his kids just left it to rot they have their own lives. I have also seen where have couple just got old and ended up in a nursing home maybe they have a distant family member lives out of state has no clue what was left behind. I rather see the county level the place return it to nature like it was before. Maybe leave the well for animals to drink from I live in AZ that is what they do here turn old ranches had wells used windmills into watering holes. All kinds of wild life come by use the water hole bears, mountain lions, deer some videos on YT has trail cams.
the vast of america's wilderness is fascinating, this lot looks like heaven for me, enough far from people, water canals, ponds, the garden was once so pretty I can imagine... Though the handwritten note says sadly ppl keep messing with their space all the time, so not enough far from people
Yes, thanks for watching!
Then move to moon 😂😂
@@niksusnik2243 rural Philippines works well enough 😉🌞
Very cool, id move in tomorrow if i could!
Yes! Thanks for watching!
Not as appealing as you might think my FIL had a place like this in Colorado. I rather be with in few miles of others have some neighbors or belong to a off grid community.
Nice to learn more about places that are abandoned there history
Greetings from Brandenburg 🇩🇪👍
Thanks for watching!
How very Cool! Thanks for sharing 👍🏻
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching! Hope you enjoyed it.
Would be fun to put the water reclamation back together. Maybe even the well pump
It would be, and it's not that far gone. Thanks for watching!
There are more than a few places out in the East County of San Diego like that, people would work in the Imperial valley or in SD and live out in the mountains off the beaten track where you had to drive a dirt road from some little paved road wandering through the area. The surroundings look like it's down towards the desert with more of that vegetation rather than up on the mountains where there's trees.
location?
@@ezpe3865 🤡
Looks like a volunteer cabin, perhaps at one time. Great video work btw!
Thanks for the kind words, I'm still a work in progress. Thanks for watching!
Thanks for showing .
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching!
He you ever tried to do a followup and go to the county recorders office from where you found this site to see who owns this place. Be interesting to know what the actual story is on the unique property is.
I have not, but that's a good idea. Thanks for watching!
@@justwanderinround4113 I used to do title searches. It was easier for me to start at the Tax Assessors office and find the property on Assessors Maps. Once I found the Assessors Parcel Number (APN) on the parcel map I can find the owners name and address in the tax roles. If you happen to know a local land surveyor, real estate agent or appraiser they may be willing to help you find the Geographic Information System (GIS) maps & data. GPS mapping apps like GAIA and OnX may also help you find this information. It's been years since I did title searches at county recorders offices but the records of title history were only indexed by recording date and it took a lot of time and practice to find what I was looking for. When I did it the records were all on microfilm, I imagine that they must be stored on computers now so searching should be quicker.
Great video.
Если рядом нет крупного города, то ночное небо безумно красиво.
Very nice place beautiful
It looks like the cabin is fixable.All that rock work is incredible.
Love it, love going around exploring. This place might make a decent zombie plan ;)
This is great.
Thank you! and thanks for watching
Somebody spent a lot of time, money and effort building that place. Would love to know the real story, maybe someone will see this and be able to enlighten us.
I'd love to hear the story. Thanks for watching!
That first area was a pool that’s been filled in. There were a lot of those out there in the 50’s & 60’s.
It’s like the out of bounds area of night city. I love it.
Very cool to see.
Yes, Thanks for watching!
I would absolutely LOVE to live there!!! A slice of heaven!! I'd bring life back to this lonely little place. Where is this place??
Me too! Neat place. Thanks for watching!
No one reveals where any of this stuff is.
@@bombaybeach208its so stupid! that they don't disclose locatio, it's all out in the desert, free for sharing, caring and doing whatever everI/we like.
@@bombaybeach208 it's dumb, I and we will find it anyways, We are nature and we will take and destroyand build anything that we want! , you are a fool for thinking otherwise! Yeah!
It's because people will go out and destroy it.@@BussinJohnson
very very few people i know could last there very long, endless silent isolation day after day after day
It took a LOT of water to make all that cement!
GREAT 👍 VIDEO
Thank you!
كم اعشق هذه الأماكن أتمنا العيش فيها .❤😊
There was a man years ago lived in Arkansas,not sure how long he had the property but in the 1930s, probably 1920s too,but he was going to build an empire and rule the world. Called it Monte Ne,close to rogers, maybe also eureka springs. He had built buildings,pools,walls,not sure what all else. Just heard my parents talk about it and had a few pictures. Then when the big Beaver lake was being built they moved his grave up on the side of a hill.
I'm familiar with Monte Ne. Never been there, but I know about it. Thanks for watching!
Excellent stone work
I know, right? It's amazing. Thanks for watching!
Wow nice video
Explore nevada..🤔
This video alomst haunts me, I come back to it again and again. There is a real tale here to be told, even a book, maybe a film, staring . . . . ??? Hopefully someone amongst all these new viewers will know something and let us have the story. 2005 isn't that long ago . . . nothing on Google Earth for 2005?
I'd love to hear the story too....thanks for watching!
If its the place I'm thinking of...
i know where that is.🤔🤔
I used to ride dirt bike and camp around there when I was younger in the 70s.❤❤
Very cool that its still there after all these years. 👍👍👍
I love being lost in the middle of nowhere.
I would love to be whomever built a place like this to escape civilization.
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Cool that you recognize it, a neat place for sure. Thanks for watching!
I have visited this site a few times and was told by a ranger on one visit that an old lady lived there until she died and has been abandoned ever since. Also there are a few more structures to the east you did not show.
Thanks for the back story and thanks for watching!
What a completely waterless forbidding landscape.
real nice place!
Yes it is. Thanks for watching!
Come over to Alabama! Many places to explore!
Maybe I will some day...
@@justwanderinround4113 Bring a canoe or kayak.
I'll show you the Cahaba River.
@@BlairsBucketlist2025 That's funny. I actually know Cahaba. It is certainly an area I'd like to check out someday.
@justwanderinround4113 Spring will be a great time to go. It's a beautiful place that time of year.
You can go all the way to the Gulf of Mexico from the Cahaba.
Did anyone else notice what is scratched into the path at the 11:33 mark? Looks to me like it says "made 11-24-89". Someone had a lot of time on their hands and tons of stone to work with.
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Curiosity asks, who owns this property? How large is the property? What is the history of this amazing human endeavor.
With the amount of stonework, they could’ve build a stone house completely
There has to be a story behind these remnants.
What area is this on very cool.
Just needs a bit of cleaning and a fix up. Perhaps you could buy the place?
It must have been expensive to have a propane truck come out and fill that tank. This at one time must have been a group of survivalists but time made them retreat to civilization. Wow it would have been a peaceful place to live after all the work was done.
Nope, i used to build sets. Nothing quite as nice as that for any production i did.
It was a good theory.
I like it❤
Thank you
Whenever you see windmills, they have no fan or the fans are missing blades?
4:03 that's where the opening to THEM (1954) was filmed...lol
Remember..You should always wear shin guards on legs, for Rattlers...
Amazing
Thanks for watching!
One of the best of these types of videos, pity there is no history or photos from its heyday . . .
Thank you! I couldn't find any info online about the place. Thanks for watching!
Good wood in that pinkTravel Trailer .
Nice place to live if you like dirt, with a few dry twigs.
my guess is that they abandon it around 2005-08, people that know more about organ cactus could give you an even more exact date, but yeah, also is interesting to see how the gardens prob were full of more tropical cactus like barrels cactus, they stand the heat very well but are killed by frost very easy.
It would have been great to see when it was tended to...Thanks for watching!
Could be an RV pull in...has all the outdoor amenities. 🔥 🍖
Who owns the land now
I don't know, but I may check out the county records, as suggested by another commenter. Thanks for watching!
Dam they did alot of work there . That's nice .& yes when theres a flash flood in the desert you could have 2-3 feet in the water canal all coming from steep mtns all around. I want to live there , away from people. I was going to say that wonder hussy hasn't been there butt I think she has .
She sure seems to have been everywhere. If she made a video here, I did not see it, but I'll scroll through her videos to see. Thanks for watching.
Well done! These folk worked for community. Who were they?
Waiting to see Trevor Phillips from gta5
I feel like I just watched an episode of "Fallout: New Vegas"
That's funny. Thanks for watching!
I’d move in there if you told me where it is
Looks like the well went dry. Which caused a catastrophe.
Very nice video. Who owned this?
It looks like Uncle Eddies place, the same Uncle Eddie with that awesome Christmas greeting. ( Merry Christmas, shitters full).
San Diego County? Imperial County? Very very cool...
It was an RV slab
Is that where the hills have eyes live
Lol I hope not! Thanks for watching!
More like old mining company as an old cabin would be a third that size if that
Looks like a 1960s hippy community.
Could be...thanks for watching!
My childhood friend Mark ended up in a place in Texas like this. Produced his own drugs. We stopped by after our road trip to Florida and visited him. He made his own drugs. He was funny and enjoyable, the son of our Lutheran grade school principal. 3 months later he died of a drug overdose. Sad but that is what happens when you spend your life making and using drugs all the time.
It’s been abandoned for as long I have been alive.
Lot of work to lay those stones
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Looking back over time living off grid has become much more mainstream used to be folks like this were strange people wanted to live alone in the desert. The cost to live off grid still is more difficult then most are willing to put up with. The biggest factor is driving 100 miles round trip to a store to buy groceries. I think who build a place like this end up getting too old to take care of it. Someone dumped some money in this place at point digging wells, and buying large propane tanks is not cheap.
There was definitely a lot of work to create this place, and to maintain it. Thanks for watching!
Sheathed in metal. WOW! On a hot dat that musta been one hot box. The
owners musta cooked to death inside.
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Do I have to put signs and/or booby traps to keep you away?
Whatever you gotta do...:)