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Nothing to do on Saturday Night? Road trip to Calico Ghost Town!
A Travel Blog by bananapickles
Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It's off to ghost town we go!
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Restored old silver mine town
A Travel Blog entry by eszti.tobi from Calico Ghost Town, California, United States
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. ...
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Ghost Town!
A Travel Blog entry by bananapickles from Calico, California, United States
... up camp while Pickles (not the early riser) slept for a bit longer. By ten, we were up and ready to venture into Calico Ghost Town. Camera at the ready, we ventured up the hill. Keep in mind, since we hijacked an empty campsite and were already past ...
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Calico Ghost Town
A Travel Blog entry by youngsinusa2009 from Barstow, California, United States
... than the state roads but you certainly don't see as much as we did on the small roads. We had plenty of time to see Calico ghost town and were taken up to Calico by the KOA staff. Calico was a silver mining town in the 1860's. At the height of the mining ...
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Calico Ghost Town
A Travel Blog entry by socks from Yermo, California, United States
... 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 ...
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Calico Ghost Town
A Travel Blog entry by kitkatgo from Yermo, California, United States
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 (and ...
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Day Six – Ghost Town
A Travel Blog entry by meckley from Visalia, California, United States
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 ...
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Snow flurries and the Ghost of Walter Knott
A Travel Blog entry by winegalcj from Barstow, California, United States
... for years until the county of San Bernardino picked it up in the 1970's. Now it is a regional park and a cutie! After touring the Ghost Town and taking in a cold beer at the saloon, I settled in for the night. Tomorrow I'm going ...
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Calico Ghosts
A Travel Blog entry by goodwins from Barstow, California, United States
... Mexican restaurant, the breakfast menu is decidedly American. We drove a few miles north on I-15 and turned off to check out a ghost town. We had a great time wandering through the village and checking out the little shops. We even took the train ride: ...
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Calico Ghost Town
P.O. Box 638, , Yermo, California, United States
82 reviews
Restored silver mining ghost town, featuring stagecoach rides, gunfights, and actors in period costumes providing historical facts about Calico.


