The former American Hotel in Cerro Gordo, a ghost town nestled in the Inyo Mountains of California. This hotel burned down in 2020, though Underwood is working to rebuild it with volunteers.

Cerro Gordo is a historic 19th-century mining town in the Inyo Mountains. I live in a ghost town — once the most lucrative silver mine in California.

Brent Underwood When he first moved to Cerro Gordo there was no running water. The solution was restoring an old water pump 700 feet below ground down a mine shaft.