NEVADA GHOST TOWNS & BEYOND

Recent Ghost Towns & Travel Updates

Odd Fellows Rocks at Devil’s Ladder & Grave of the Unknown Pioneer

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A safer route The Carson River Route traverses the Sierra Nevada Mountains connecting Carson Valley, Nevada, to goldfields in California. Pioneers searching for a safer route across the treacherous and snowy range developed the trail after the disaster of the Donner-Reed Party. Over one hundred seventy years later, you can follow much of the original Carson River Route. An astute explorer ... VIEW POST

Fairview, Nevada: 1861 Overland Mail Station

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Fairview is one of those forgotten places that has almost been erased from history. Very little evidence of the site can be located online or in books. I found only a few notations: A site in Stan Paher's Nevada Ghost Towns and Desert Atlas, a post on Forgotten Nevada, a GPS location on a few maps and a notation by the National Park Service. Even knowing the location, you have to search hard ... VIEW POST

Valentine’s Weekend

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Travel Update: Full Post to Follow I celebrated Valentine's Day Saturday and the opposite Sunday. Saturday, Hubby and I had a big outing in Reno: WWII Ka-Bar knives, REI chairs for the Jeep and Hobby Lobby Jeep signs and frames for my ghost town maps. Our treat was Chick-Fil-A and Taiwanese take out for Chinese New Year dinner. Sunday my friend Shonna and I had what I deemed the opposite ... VIEW POST

Pony Express Route: 2-7-2021

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Travel Update: Full Post to Follow Edel and I followed the western Nevada portion of the Pony Express route: Woodfords (CA), Van Sickle, Walley's Hot Springs, Genoa, Carson City, Dayton ending at Miller's/Reed's. I would have continued to Ft. Churchill and Buckland but I took the car instead of the Jeep, silly me, and the road is known to destroy alignment. I found two locations associated ... VIEW POST

Alpine Mine, Nevada

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I spent a day outside Nixon exploring the Nightingale Mountains with an off-road group. Dave, our lead for the day, took us across a narrow shelf road to a mine perched on the side of the mountain. Shelf roads are not my favorite, especially when there is no room to pass. Fortunately, this road was fairly wide, and you could see oncoming traffic. Nightengale Mountains and Mining ... VIEW POST