Lake Pleasant is hardly that in my memories as it was a party place for people disaffected by the demands of modernity and so they retreated to the corners of the Phoenix area where they could meet up with other malcontents. This is likely the root of my underlying hostility towards beer and pickup trucks.

Stanton, Arizona, is effectively a ghost town. While RV’s still set up out here, the town if it could have ever been called that, is a dilapidated shell of an old mining camp.

You’ll travel a dusty old dirt road from out near Congress, Arizona, to get here. Pleasant enough and quiet; not much changes out in Stanton.

While it kind of looks like a prop in a staged ghost town, this old bathhouse seems legit with its hot water boiler there on the left. Wish I’d run into someone else out here who could have told me if there were some trails or other historic areas in the vicinity that would have made a return visit worth my while.