Sedona, Day Two - Jerome

On our second day in Sedona, we decided to drive over to what we thought was a ghost town called Jerome.

As it turned out, it wasn't really a "ghost town", but a copper mining town set into the side of a hill. 

 

 

A mansion belonging to the owner of one of the two mines was donated to the state in 1962, leading to the founding of Jerome State Historic Park.  The town, which had fallen on hard times since the closure of the last mine in 1953, reinvented itself as a tourist destination and now has many little gift shops and galleries to sustain it although parts of it still retain that "just-abandoned" atmosphere.

 

 

After we left Jerome, we went in search of vortexes.