Day 2A Calico Ghost Town - Page 6 - elf1's Photos

(#7 on the map.) My chosen goal for our first night's sleep was the campground at Calico Ghost Town, just outside Barstow, so that, in the morning, we could tour the town. It has been considerably restored and touristized, but still an interesting place to browse around.

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elf1 > The back side of the main drag.

elf1 > The street again.

elf1 > Of course there were amusing old-style signs posted throughout the town.

elf1 > Detail of the glass-bottle house.

elf1 > Those bottle walls make a wonderful patttern.

elf1 > An old wood stove in the museum.

elf1 > A typical old claim marker: You nail a tobacco can to a post and put your documents proving your claim into the can so anyone passing by can see them. A good reuse thing.

elf1 > Some of the exciting places you can go in Calico. Actually pretty much the only places you can go. Plus the mine train and Behind Main Street.

elf1 > Another house remnant, high on a hill, which uses a rock outcropping as part of its walls and ceiling.

The back side of the main drag.

> The back side of the main drag.

The back side of the main drag.

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