Arrowhead Cabin

Located at 6,500", Arrowhead Cabin is a short spur trail on the edge of a sandstone cliff with amazing views of the Manti-La Sal Mountain range. It sounds like paradise until you barely enter the smelly, collapsing multi-room cabin. Once part of the uranium mining boom and the nearby Arrowhead Camp, the cabin is a fading remnant of the area's mining boom from 1915 to the 1980s. The short trail leading out and back to the cabin has a couple of deep off-camber washouts with large rocks that require 4x4 and high-ground clearance. The cabin's roof is falling in, and entering can be hazardous. The view behind the cabin explains part of why it's there. The other reason is the numerous mines surrounding the cabin on the mesa. To better understand life on the Uncompahgre Plateau during the mining boom, visit the nearby Calamity Camp. In the sideyard of the cabin is a large stone fire ring and room for a few tents on the sandy grass. There are nails on the ground around the cabin. Do not park too close.