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Desert / Ghost Town Trek #22

Desert Honeymoon, South Nevada, November 2009
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After we got hitched in Las Vagas we took a tour of several ghost towns along the I95 corridor in Southern Nevada all the way up to Sparks.
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Coming out of Vegas on the 215 loop, looking west to Red Rock Canyon and the La Madre Mountains.
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Took I95 northwest, with a detour down SR 160 to the active ghost town of Crystal and this surprising site. Ghost town site of Johnnie a little farter south also had residents.
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Finished the first leg at Beatty, NV, where this little place has the best chili I've ever sampled.
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Stayed at the Atomic Inn at Beatty, a restoration that's a work in progress. Many of the rooms are unfinished.
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Happy Burro claims to sell the most volume of PBR in the region.
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Bailey's Hot Springs, just north of Beatty.
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Pioneer Ghost Town area, on a small loop road just north of Bailey's Hot Springs.
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Derelict gas station at Scotty's Junction, intersection of I95 and SR 267 near Bonnie Claire Flat.
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Cuprite Hills along I95.
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Goldfield, Nevada. A major ghost town (with residents) that I've whizzed by in the past. We took some time to really check it out.
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