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Belmont Courthouse On the eastern side of the state of Nevada, the Basin and Range region is home to more ghost towns and abandoned mines. Belmont, Nevada was a thriving silver mining town in the 1860’s. After becoming the county seat, a two story courthouse was completed by 1874. The jail portion was located at … Continue reading Nevada – Belmont Ghost Town
Pah’rump is a Paiute expression meaning water rock. Refreshing and stable, this growing desert town is located an hour outside of Las Vegas and provides most amenities that traveling nomads need. With access to desert, mountains, springs and the wild west, there’s always a new day trip to explore. Goodsprings, NV Nevada has over 700 … Continue reading Home Base – Pahrump, NV
Abandoned Kiln at Aurora It was time to start heading south as our journey entered the return phase, however there were still many ghost towns and old mines to search out. Hawthorne, Nevada, home of the U.S. Army’s ammunitions storage depot, became our next base camp. We had stayed here in the early days of … Continue reading Old Mines and Ghost Towns – Part 7 – Base Camp Hawthorne
Wildfires were burning along the Nevada and California border when it was time for us to leave Dayton, NV and head west into the Sierra Mountains. We were consulting the “Watch Duty” app on our phones almost hourly to monitor the huge Park Fire that was about 50 miles north of our next destination and … Continue reading Old Mines and Ghost Towns – Part 6 – Reno, Verdi and Emigrant Pass
Gold!!! We arrived at the place where gold was first discovered in Nevada. The state capital is located nearby in Carson City (named after Kit Carson). Fort Churchill guarded the area from bandits, desperadoes, tribal unrest and offered protection for the thousands of emigrant trains heading west to the gold fields. From mid-1800’s to early … Continue reading Ghost Towns and Old Mines – Part 4 Dayton, Carson City, and Molossia
Bodie, CA Our next destination took us into the counties of Mineral, Esmeralda, and Washoe where mining camps, stage coach stations, railroads, and the California Trail brought together thousands of people looking to “strike it rich.” Thousands of tons of gold and silver ore were moved out of this area during the rushes of the … Continue reading Old Mines and Ghost Towns – Part 3: Luning to Washoe Lake
Heading south out of the Wind River Mountains, we followed the South Pass and Mormon Trails through Wyoming, past Salt Lake City, Utah and into Nevada. Pioneer history, ghost towns, and more beautiful hikes in the Basin and Range territory met us along the way. Lyman, Wyoming Lyman became our base camp for the next … Continue reading Wyoming to Nevada
The Wind River Range in the Rocky Mountains is located in west-central Wyoming. The Continental Divide runs along the crest at elevations reaching 12,000 to 13,000 feet. Our base camp in Boulder, WY has an elevation of about 9500 ft. Four huge wilderness areas with a combined total of over 1 million acres, surround the … Continue reading Wind River Mountains
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