{"id":4885,"date":"2017-12-17T19:12:18","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T19:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backroadswest.com\/blog\/hoover-dams-historic-railroad-tunnel-hiking-trail-copy\/"},"modified":"2024-07-27T23:53:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T23:53:43","slug":"aiken-mine-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.backroadswest.com\/blog\/aiken-mine-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Aiken Mine Road in the Mojave National Preserve"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Aiken Mine Road snakes through the Mojave National Preserve’s famous cinder cone field as well as providing access to some of the most unique and wonderful sights this area has to offer.<\/strong>\u00a0 On the way to see those sites, the road passes through other-worldly landscapes of basalt (dried lava) flows which are topped with Joshua trees and other abundant desert flora.\u00a0 Sites to visit along the way include a lava cave that you can walk into, a hike to a Native American petroglyph site and two abandoned cinder mines where you can \u201cdrive in\u201d to a volcano.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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