Today, the Capertee Valley is a patchwork of farms, forests and of course campgrounds. But over a century ago, the nearby villages of Glen Davis and Newnes were bustling mining towns, due to the discovery of shale oil in the mid 1800’s. Shale oil is literally, shale infused with oil. In the 1940’s this shaleContinue reading “Mystery Roads and Canyons Part 2”