BEST TIME TO VISIT: Winter, Spring, Fall. COMMENTS: Just off highway 190 near Lone Pine. Many no trespassing signs.
Swansea was built in 1870 to support the nearby camp of Owens Lake. Owens lake held the furnaces for smelting some of the ore from Cerro Gordo. While the furnaces were in Owens Lake, the workers lived at Swansea.Today there are a few crumbling walls left at the site.
hours, each weighing 83 pounds.