Editorial Notes

Lost Treasures of the Los Burros:  A detailed map of secret trails, lost cabins, gold and jade mines of the historic Los Burros Mining District of Big Sur, California. 

From the journals, diaries, sketches, oral histories, and mining claim records of Dr Edward Jones, a 1950s prospector, placer gold miner, and explorer of the Willow Creek watershed. 

Revealing for the first time all on one sheet:

• Original Hobbit Mine cabin site

• Exact location of Manchester town

• Trails to McGranahans, Black Fir, Edge of the Wild, Kinder Mine, Blue Heaven

• Buclimo & Last Chance gold mines

• Melville gold mines

• San Martin Top vistas

• Ed Plaskett's gold claims

• McGranahan suspension bridge sites

• Living Bridge site

• Trail to Dogvine Creek

• Middle Ridge

• Lost Cabins of Gerry Doyle

• Dusty and Satellite's shack site

• Gates to private lands

• Sycamore, Willow Creek, and Pacific Valley campsites

• Jade Cove & other beach nugget prospects

• Ranger stations

• Cell-phone access points

• Native wild ginseng locations

• And much, much more not available elsewhere.

Available at ...

Cambria & Morro Bay gift, convenience, and bait stores

Hearst Castle gift shops

Simeon General Store

Select motels San Luis Obispo to Monterey

Ragged Point shops

Big Sur Coast Gallery

Phoenix Gift Shop at Nepenthe

Deetjen's

Henry Miller Library

Gorda store and station

Gift shops of Pfeiffer-Big Sur, San Simeon, and Limekiln State Parks

Los Padres ranger stations

Lucia 

New Camaldoli Hermitage

... and other Pacific coastal purveyors

Map covers Lucia and Cone Peak to Ragged Point and San Carpofor Ck

[focusing upon Willow Creek watershed, and delineating the Los Burros boundaries]

Area of special interest ...

A very superior old topo map with many now-lost trails, and without newer mining tracks; shows vegetation-forest detail of decades past ... when there was much more grassland and meadows.

Almost EVERY detailed feature will be in this area: PV Ranger Station at NW, E to South Coast Ridge Rd, S to include mouth of Alder Ck

Map will be "standard size of a usual AAA road map, and folded similarly," then sticker-sealed for "no peeking."

25x36"

28x40"

36x42"