There are amenities, like a gas station, store, restaurant and couple bars, plus, a pretty sweet little B&B. Dyer has a few residents still hanging on, mostly on ranches that have been in the family for generations. Just below it, on the Nevada side, is the quiet community of Dyer and nearby Fish Lake Valley. This California-Nevada-straddling White Mountains boast Boundary Peak-Nevada’s highest summit at 13,146 feet.
The folks running tours at the actual Techatticup Mine have made this place their empire, bringing in some serious eye candy from countless movie, TV, and magazine shoots, with props like the plane crash above, left over from the filming of 3,000 Miles to Graceland.Īre we talkin’ northern or southern Nevada? SOUTHERNĭistance from Vegas: 45 MILES, OR 50 MINUTESīest time of year to swing through: SPRING OR FALL, SUMMER MAY BE A BIT TOASTYĬlosest LIVING town to snag amenities: BOULDER CITY Most of the town was destroyed, with the exception of a few buildings. In true Nevada fashion, the mine dried up and a flash flood wiped the area out. The town itself, now known as Nelson, was founded by deserters of the Civil War, assuming such an isolated location would be the last place military would come searching for them. Think shootouts at high noon, one of those iconic red light districts, and, all around, a whole lot of lawlessness. Despite pumping out actual millions of dollars in gold, silver and copper production and being the richest and most famous gold mine in southern Nevada, this mining camp was known for its wildly debaucherous behavior.
A long time ago, a horse broke into the building and got stuck for multiple days its happy and healthy condition when it was rescued is attributed to the care it received from a long-gone former employee, who was said to still reside there.Īre we talkin’ northern or southern Nevada? NORTHERNĭistance from Reno: 205 MILES, OR 3.5 HOURSīest time of year to swing through: ANY TIME, THOUGH YOU MAY RUN INTO SNOW IN WINTER MONTHSĬlosest LIVING town to snag amenities: WINNEMUCCAĭuring the mid-1880s, the Techatticup gold mine in Eldorado Canyon was movin’ and shakin’ in the most serious of ways.
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Around 100 people call the area home, but most are running cattle on several hundred acres of land away from “town.” But in the center of Paradise Valley, life slows to a satisfying roll… the type of place that has a few modern day houses, cattle dogs that chase your car as you cruise through main, and in true Nevada fashion, a bar.Īlthough it truly looks and feels like an unstaged movie set, this building pictured above was once The Micca House-a historic house built all the way back in 1885 that went on to be a department store, post office, and government office. You’ll get an idea of why the founders settled on the name they did the second you roll into town-the place is nothing short of heaven on earth, or well… paradise. Paradise Valley is one of those living ghost towns, so to speak.
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