NEVADA GHOST TOWNS & BEYOND

Recent Ghost Towns & Travel Updates

Cox Canyon, Nevada

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Cox Canyon is an engrossing ghost town to explore, but frustrating to document its history. I sit at the computer with the entire internet in front of me and a quickly expanding ghost town and mining library at my back, yet I find almost nothing other than the mining that occurred at Cox Canyon. I have exhausted every source I can imagine. I cleaned my desk, completed dreaded paperwork and ... VIEW POST

Happy Easter Peeps

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Such a beautiful weekend in northern Nevada, Sunny and 75! Now I'm looking out my window wondering it if will snow. A Mimosa in the hot tubšŸ¹ took away motivation to do much of anything Sunday. The real Egg hunt was a flop, something is taking our chicken eggs. The Easter Egg hunt was better until the wind kicked up. Can someone in Yerington please return the plastic eggs and my chair cushions? ... VIEW POST

Go Momma

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Someone is mad I havenā€™t taken her on a ghost town trip lately and she refuses to get out of the Jeep. At 100 pounds, Iā€™m not going to disagree, she gets to stay where she wants. I see a drive in my near future. ... VIEW POST

Tragedy on Genoa Peak: Paradise Flight 901A

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Carson Valley, Nevada, is one of the most beautiful places in the world. Ranches with green pastures end abruptly on the valley's west side, where the Sierra Range soars toward heaven. Genoa, Nevada's oldest settlement, is nestled at the juncture of pastures and mountains below the 9,000' Genoa Peak. Sadly, while beautiful, Genoa Peak is also a place of tragedy. Paradise Flight 901A, crashed into ... VIEW POST

A Fork in the Road

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Travel Update: Full Post to Follow Sometimes days don't turn out as planned but the fun is in the journey. I took friends to visit Thompson with a plan of finding an abandoned cabin. We must have taken a wrong turn at the fork in the road. I swear we took every road in the area, consulted the guide book, several atlases, GPS and the almighty iPhone. Hubby called the area the "spaghetti ... VIEW POST