Highlight • Historical Site
Ruby Mine
Hiking
5.0
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This Highlight is in a protected area
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Organ Mountains Wilderness
Tips
Zachary
June 21, 2024
Hiking
Here the ruins of Ruby (Hayner) Mine lay strewn about the end of the trail — old pieces of machinery, buildings, and abandoned mineshafts. This is one of five mines in the National Monument, though its history seems mostly lost to time.
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