The impressive black granite etching at the entrance to Mine #6 in Vintondale is a 'must see' of the Ghost Town Trail. The life-sized etching is based on a 1940s film taken as miners were leaving and entering the mine.
Wood frogs egg masses line the edge of a ditch along the Ghost Town Trail. The trick is to lay the eggs in a spot that will retain water long enough for the tadpoles to hatch and mature into froglets. Large blooms of egg masses like this are a defense mechanism to help perpetuate the species by providing protection in mass. Wood frogs are widespread and are found even as far north as the Arctic. They have the ability to freeze almost solid and then resurrect themselves as temperatures warm.
There must be something in the ancient human psyche that compels people to stack stones, known as cairns. Throughout the world you will find places where stones have been stacked in various formations and alters. These ones stood for quite awhile along the Ghost Town Trail. "A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
