{"id":648,"date":"2009-06-27T20:29:03","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T02:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/?p=648"},"modified":"2012-01-29T22:37:28","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T05:37:28","slug":"chicken-a-gold-miners-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/post-id\/648","title":{"rendered":"Chicken – Gold Miner’s Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Downtown<\/a> The settlers named it Chicken because they couldn’t spelled ptarmigan, a bird that was one of their mainstays for survival. Pretty much everything here has that same “tongue in cheek” feel. The community is actually three separate properties about 1\/4 mile from each other owned by three families.<\/p>\n

Two are RV parks, one with the original Chicken buildings its site, and the other with the Pedro dredge. The third has 4 newer buildings constructed to look old called, Beautiful, Downtown Chicken – including a gift shop, bar, cafe and an outhouse called the Chicken Poop. We spent a night at the Gold Creek Camp and Outpost. As we pulled in, the first thing we saw were 2 long, waist-high wooden boxes near a big pile of dirt that people were using to pan for gold. For $10, you can even go to the claim owned by the RV camp where “you can actually find nuggets the size of your finger!”<\/p>\n

\"Is<\/a> We met a few folks from the Gold Prospectors Association — a large caravan of their fellow members would be arriving in the next few days — who showed us the correct way to pan for gold. Sure enough, we saw them pull gold flakes out of that big pile of dirt!<\/p>\n

\"Wayne<\/a> I looked across camp and noticed a man standing in an unusal looking boat on a trailer. As he sat down and started the big airboat-like blade spinning, I was thinking, “They certainly do things differently here in Chicken!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The settlers named it Chicken because they couldn’t spelled ptarmigan, a bird that was one of their mainstays for survival. Pretty much everything here has that same “tongue in cheek” feel. The community is actually three separate properties about 1\/4 mile from each other owned by three families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}