Calico Ghost Town

Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It's off to ghost town we go!

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. ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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: ...