Desert Cabin Getaway

[@LDD-yh1bu]

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.

[@justwanderinround4113]

Thank you! I wonder the same things...

[@mikej6544]

Someone’s life on full display. A life well lived. Frozen in time. Glad nobody has vandalized it. Thanks for your efforts

[@justwanderinround4113]

Perfect summary...thanks for watching!

[@stephenmiller5023]

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.

[@justwanderinround4113]

Thank you! And I agree with everything you said. Thanks for watching!

[@charlielaudico3523]

In those days, that is how you lived!

[@Boga217]

There was a lot more water back then.

[@Speakno12]

I would really loved to have seen that place in its heyday while a good rain was coming down. Nice.

[@Mr.Howell]

If you return, please cook a steak or pork chop and potatoes. And leave a new newspaper and a note for future explorers​@@justwanderinround4113

[@HungryH1951]

That tired dwelling was somebody's dream. Lot of labor went into building that. Back to the dust now.

[@Craziecory]

In deserts when it does rain it generally floods. That gully was a brilliant solution for that problem. Someone with some skill lived there for sure.

[@justwanderinround4113]

Skill and a lot of time! Thanks for watching.

[@johnkarlson8692]

Cannot believe the stone/masonry work that was done there. Love to know more about this place and who/when they settled there.

[@justwanderinround4113]

I thought the same thing. Thanks for watching!

[@carlcarlson180]

That’s a lot of bags of cement, A lot

[@howitwillend8]

The stonework is incredible. All out in the middle of nowhere. So cool!

[@justwanderinround4113]

Yes! Thanks for watching!

[@rollyb1890]

The stonework is amazing. So much effort went into that. It must have been a bustling little place.

[@tuvia4082]

Maybe go to the local courthouse and see who last owned the property? Cool video

[@scottcastillo7936]

This was probably a Truck Driver with a dream. Awesome.

[@TheCosmicRealm3]

Nah, probably an alien that had a dream

[@mikearzabal]

thats one mans dream. god bless him.

[@aldocalipsis]

Interesting vídeo. Nice camping in that desert.

[@markduncan6690]

The Stones are well layed Someone knew what they were doing!

[@justwanderinround4113]

I thought the same thing. They had skill and plenty of time. Thanks for watching!

[@tallballer09]

Yes indeed

[@jon545]

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 .

[@justwanderinround4113]

Possibly. I was thinking they just got older...Thanks for watching!

[@Mike-01234]

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.

[@jamesskelton6744]

all good thing must come to a end, even the awesome stone work.

[@justwanderinround4113]

Sadly, yes, but it’s still a pretty cool place. Thanks for watching!

[@paulclark1953]

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

[@justwanderinround4113]

Thank you!

[@texaswild3346]

*Deserts have different vibes. I find it more charming than savannahs and meadows*

[@a420dro]

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

[@justwanderinround4113]

Yes, thanks for watching!

[@niksusnik2243]

Then move to moon 😂😂

[@a420dro]

@@niksusnik2243 rural Philippines works well enough 😉🌞

[@waltermorris5786]

THAT IS THE MOST MYSTERIOUS HOMESTEAD I HAVE EVER SEEN....ALL THOSE STONE MORMATIONS TOOK A THOUSAND HOURS OF WORK.

[@justwanderinround4113]

A lot of work...thanks for watching!

[@Mike-01234]

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.

[@LawnMower-hu9pw]

Very very cool 😎 enjoyed it very much the stonework just goes on and on

[@justwanderinround4113]

Thanks for the kind words, and thanks for watching!

[@vickileonard72]

My dad used platt maps & would find ghost towns & mines. It was so cool. Its probably all gone now

[@justwanderinround4113]

That's pretty cool. Thanks for watching!

[@missy183]

Awesome video thanks for sharing this beautiful place. ✨❤❤❤

[@justwanderinround4113]

Thank you for the nice comment and thanks for watching!

[@philcarmichael6090]

Interesting place, I love far flung desert stuff. Thanks🎉

[@ToddPuglisi-b5x]

Probably not enough water to sustain. It’s super cool!

[@davidsmithson865]

Great video. Someone's unique dream. Interesting to know what happened to the builder!

[@richardorona4674]

Very interesting, I njoy seeing the past, must have been hard in those days but very proud I think.

[@kevincolbert3524]

Dear "Just Wanderin' "round:" This is the first of your videos I've seen. Subscribed immediately. Thanks for what you do. -K

[@justwanderinround4113]

Thank you so much!

[@PMK7734]

Man! I'm glad this showed up in my stream! I needed this today! Well done!

[@justwanderinround4113]

Thank you! I'm glad you liked it!

[@PMK7734]

@@justwanderinround4113 The unknown builders certainly did a lot of work. It's given me ideas. 😁

[@scottcastillo7936]

Great video!

[@justwanderinround4113]

Thank you! and thanks for watching!

[@mingrui1862]

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 😂

[@justwanderinround4113]

I had to edit that part out...Thanks for watching!

[@dataender96]

@@justwanderinround4113😂

[@DaveExploresYT]

Looks like a volunteer cabin, perhaps at one time. Great video work btw!

[@justwanderinround4113]

Thanks for the kind words, I'm still a work in progress. Thanks for watching!

[@5695q]

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.

[@ezpe3865]

location?

[@sd-dt8qy]

​@@ezpe3865 🤡

[@sdriza]

Those were the days - harder to do now

[@sanjuswamy3236]

Nice video 😊😊 Watching from India 👍👍

[@justwanderinround4113]

Yeah! Thanks for watching!

[@Rick-xg7zz]

Very interesting coverage of a truly intriguing area. Lots of work out there! Thx!

[@justwanderinround4113]

I appreciate the kind words. Thanks for watching!

[@robertlyman9789]

Would be fun to put the water reclamation back together. Maybe even the well pump

[@justwanderinround4113]

It would be, and it's not that far gone. Thanks for watching!

[@beqabotkoveli6986]

Hills have eyes 👀 location 😅

[@UncleRobsGarage]

I grew up in the dessert and don’t miss the 122 degrees.

[@paulholmaniii9691]

Very cool, id move in tomorrow if i could!

[@justwanderinround4113]

Yes! Thanks for watching!

[@Mike-01234]

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.

[@1remjr]

As you said "amazing stonework", some industrious and talented folks put great effort into this. I wonder who owns the surrounding area or if it's just government land. The actual idea of living on the desert appeals to me, water being the major priority would of course need to be dealt with first off. A fantasy would be to have a livable unit helicoptered in to a location set up with a water and power source. At my elderly age I wouldn't be equipped to build anything on my own even though I do have some knowledge and skill in those areas. But to be able to live in such a desert surrounding would be wonderful. Thank you for the fine video.

[@justwanderinround4113]

Thanks for the kind words!

[@PaulStellwagSr.]

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??

[@justwanderinround4113]

Me too! Neat place. Thanks for watching!

[@bombaybeach208]

No one reveals where any of this stuff is.

[@BussinJohnson]

​@@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.

[@BussinJohnson]

@@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!

[@patsyvasquez2358]

It's because people will go out and destroy it.​@@BussinJohnson

[@pintobeans2973]

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 have not, but that's a good idea. Thanks for watching!

[@noyopacific]

@@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.

[@Udo-z8s]

Greetings from Brandenburg 🇩🇪👍

[@justwanderinround4113]

Thanks for watching!

[@anpassungmanager]

Если рядом нет крупного города, то ночное небо безумно красиво.

[@esmeraldarubi4502]

Nice to learn more about places that are abandoned there history

[@martinwingfield7739]

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?

[@justwanderinround4113]

I'd love to hear the story too....thanks for watching!

[@cherieleeishere]

How very Cool! Thanks for sharing 👍🏻

[@justwanderinround4113]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching!

[@FRANKINSTIEN-zx90]

Nice ,Thanks for sharing..difficult to live out there.So beautiful ,i can see why they settled there,and why they left..so sad.

[@justwanderinround4113]

Definitely an interesting place...thanks for watching!

[@davecampbell5176]

A lot of work went into this place.

[@garytull7730]

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.

[@justwanderinround4113]

I'd love to hear the story. Thanks for watching!

[@Rosa-k9k8k]

Thanks for sharing!

[@justwanderinround4113]

Thanks for watching! Hope you enjoyed it.

[@surinamel5708]

Thanks for showing .

[@justwanderinround4113]

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching!

[@Patrick-jx1yo]

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.

[@wingatebarraclough3553]

Wonder how blazing hot that place must have been in the summer

[@justwanderinround4113]

I assume they closed up one spring, and then never returned...

[@fedorp4713]

Looks like an old mining townsite... It's huge.

[@locohefe]

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.

[@dubla321]

It’s like the out of bounds area of night city. I love it.

[@vernareed2692]

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.

[@justwanderinround4113]

I'm familiar with Monte Ne. Never been there, but I know about it. Thanks for watching!

[@garyhaber333]

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. ❤❤❤

[@justwanderinround4113]

Cool that you recognize it, a neat place for sure. Thanks for watching!

[@davidwright873]

4:03 that's where the opening to THEM (1954) was filmed...lol

[@YasmeenakhterYasmeenakht-rn9tj]

Very nice place beautiful

[@TerryJames-nk7yw]

Great video.

[@WApnj]

Just needs a bit of cleaning and a fix up. Perhaps you could buy the place?

[@hatemchanneljo6137]

كم اعشق هذه الأماكن أتمنا العيش فيها .❤😊

[@LesterMoore]

Curiosity asks, who owns this property? How large is the property? What is the history of this amazing human endeavor.

[@Malcontender]

Those burly cacti sure do remember whoever planted them.

[@JosephGoins-m1y]

Move in ready 😊

[@scottcastillo7936]

This is great.

[@justwanderinround4113]

Thank you! and thanks for watching

[@juliogonzales5441]

GREAT 👍 VIDEO

[@justwanderinround4113]

Thank you!

[@jamesditsworth3845]

Did you do any research about this location ? I'm sure there is some record - somewhere. Nearby town?

[@Jbillimore]

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]

Thanks for the back story and thanks for watching!

[@jimbosvidbits6166]

Whenever you see windmills, they have no fan or the fans are missing blades?

[@BlairsBucketlist2025]

Come over to Alabama! Many places to explore!

[@justwanderinround4113]

Maybe I will some day...

[@BlairsBucketlist2025]

@@justwanderinround4113 Bring a canoe or kayak. I'll show you the Cahaba River.

[@justwanderinround4113]

@@BlairsBucketlist2025 That's funny. I actually know Cahaba. It is certainly an area I'd like to check out someday.

[@BlairsBucketlist2025]

@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.

[@nancypelosi480]

looks like a retired stone mason who never had a family. probably had a Portland lime deposit on his property to mix all the mortar on location with the sand and water

[@MrGigi-dz9cv]

What an amazing place ... I wonder, what made the wood beams to give in.

[@MrGigi-dz9cv]

I would love, to own that piece of land, with the house.

[@rusty-oc2tj]

very very few people i know could last there very long, endless silent isolation day after day after day

[@guyindesert]

What area is this on very cool.

[@Rick27X]

Very cool to see.

[@justwanderinround4113]

Yes, Thanks for watching!

[@Rodoadrenalina]

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.

[@justwanderinround4113]

It would have been great to see when it was tended to...Thanks for watching!

[@irfanpasha5466]

nice,place,,

[@jorgearmandosaavedracastro2853]

me encanta paisajes desiertos asi

[@Slurpified]

Damn I hope that thing is sealed up nice and tight. I can only imagine the amount of gnarly insects that would get into that place if not lol.

[@justwanderinround4113]

Too hot and dry for insects...Thanks for watching!

[@zooologist]

These rooms seem as lifted cap cream over the house beam. If you would have sunken a lay tune onto there you would have skipped a rock soft for them right?

[@justwanderinround4113]

Uuummmm...what???

[@ragingpatriot772]

Excellent stone work

[@justwanderinround4113]

I know, right? It's amazing. Thanks for watching!

[@BillySBC]

What a completely waterless forbidding landscape.

[@anthonytalevich7601]

real nice place!

[@justwanderinround4113]

Yes it is. Thanks for watching!

[@ragingpatriot772]

I’d move in there if you told me where it is

[@barnabyaprobert5159]

It took a LOT of water to make all that cement!

[@davidjones6110]

Some truth to the phrase "If you build it they will come" That fridge bathroom vanity and kitchen sink 100% someone would repurpose it.

[@silvermaple-n6n]

So interesting

[@earlmoorman250]

Who owns the land now

[@justwanderinround4113]

I don't know, but I may check out the county records, as suggested by another commenter. Thanks for watching!

[@paulholmaniii9691]

Nope, i used to build sets. Nothing quite as nice as that for any production i did.

[@justwanderinround4113]

It was a good theory.

[@martinwingfield7739]

One of the best of these types of videos, pity there is no history or photos from its heyday . . .

[@justwanderinround4113]

Thank you! I couldn't find any info online about the place. Thanks for watching!

[@scottcastillo7936]

Well done! These folk worked for community. Who were they?

[@javierortega4782]

Wow nice video Explore nevada..🤔

[@DUIDave-s1k]

At 11:33 it looks like their is writing in the cement on the walk way. Almost looks like a date too.

[@justwanderinround4113]

I didn't notice that before. Maybe I'll go back some day and see what it is. Thanks for watching!

[@rustyramblings5807]

It looks like the cabin is fixable.All that rock work is incredible.

[@westlywest1140]

Is that where the hills have eyes live

[@justwanderinround4113]

Lol I hope not! Thanks for watching!

[@terrycarroll656]

It was an RV slab

[@scottcastillo7936]

Very nice video. Who owned this?

[@kpmariner1998]

Pink RV is giving Kill Bill vibes