A great place to break up a long car journey (Calico Ghost Town)

Member Name: markjlomas

Product:	Calico Ghost Town
Date:	07/08/02 (162 review reads)
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Advantages: Cheap, Lil's Saloon (bar)

Disadvantages: recent fire !

Situated just off the I-15, approximately half-way, between Las Vegas and Los Angeles Calico is a great place to break up a long car journey and stop off for an hour or so.

Calico is an authentic, restored "Ghost Town" and is one of the"real" old west mining towns in the USA.

To get to the town you need to exit I-15 at "Ghost Town Rd", which is about 10 miles north of a town called Barstow.

Admission to the town is $6 per adult and $3 for children, parking is free. It's open from 9.00 a.m. until 5.00 p.m.

More than a century ago, the town of Calico started as a small silver mining town. Founded in March 1881, it grew to a population of 1,200 with 22 saloons and more than 500 mines. It was bustling with prospectors. It was one of the most prosperous silver towns ever in the old west, producing $86 million in silver, $45 million in borax and, of course, gold.

After 1907, when silver prices dropped and borax mining moved to Death Valley, Calico became a ghost town. In 1950 the town was restored to it's original condition by Walter Knott (founder of Knott's Berry Farm) and then donated Calico Ghost Town to the County of San Bernardino in 1966, and it is now a 480-acre County Park.

Home page www.calicotown.com

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