Calico Ghost Town Yermo

We got to the Calico Ghost Town just after opening. It wasn't crowded when we arrived. In their advertising, there were supposed to be gun fights in the main street. We were informed as we walked in that there were not enough employees to do any gun fights today. I thought this would be something that would have interested Alex.

There were …

... campground near Calico and Yermo right next to the 8 lane freeway linking LA and Las Vegas (10m out of Barstow). On the Calico ghost town road wiht nothing but other RVS and miles of desert and the montains in the distance we really felt we had hit the ...

... miles down the road...I would have held it. :) Here are some interesting facts about Yermo, located in the Mojave Desert: 1. Population--4200 people. 2. There is a ghost town there--Calico Ghost Town. 3. Del Taco was founded there. Yep, ...

... the end came to the silver rush in 1896 when the price of silver dropped from $1.31 an ounce to $0.63. By 1904 Calico had become a ghost town. Today the historic silver mining town lives on as one of the few original Old West mining camps. One-third of ...

Once a big town with a population of 1200, after the Silver price dropped more than 50% it became a Ghost Town with about 8 people living there as of today. ...

... a place to sleep (other then the car). Per Pickles' suggestion, we looked up a little place called Calico Ghost Town: a historically preserved mining town in Yermo (outside of Barstow). With a jump, skip, and hop into the car, we were off. And ...

Believe it or not, we actually went back to Yermo. Although, not for the town itself, but for its neighboring ghost town, Calico, which is a California Historical Landmark (#782). It was hotter than hades, but I talked the family into stopping anyway ...

... ’s only consolation for losing his favorite car snack.  The rest of the drive puttered by, dropping us off at Calico Ghost Town in Yermo, CA for the night.  It’s a county park with a replica of a western town from the ...