Eagle Mountain, California, is a modern-day
ghost town, in the
Colorado Desert, in
Riverside County founded in 1948 by noted industrialist
Henry J. Kaiser. The town is located at the entrance of the now-defunct Eagle Mountain iron mine, once owned by the
Southern Pacific Railroad, then
Kaiser Steel, and located on the southeastern corner of
Joshua Tree National Park. The town's fully integrated medical care system, similar to other Kaiser operations in California, was the genesis of the modern-day
Kaiser Permanente health maintenance organization. Eagle Mountain is accessible by
Riverside County Route R2, twelve miles (19 km) north of
Desert Center, midway between Indio and the California/Arizona state line along
Interstate 10. The town's relative youth and brief time of abandonment make Eagle Mountain among the country's best preserved ghost towns.