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Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Fourth Ward School Museum & Virginia City

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   Virginia City boomed with the discovery of the Comstock silver lode in 1859. By 1873 25,000 people lived in the city and the surrounding...
Sunday, June 19, 2016

Lattin Farms-Harvest Hosts

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   Rick and B. Ann Lattin have been farming on this land since 1977. They started with alfafa and grains and now grow a variety of organic ...
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Saturday, June 18, 2016

Thunder Mountain Monument

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  Frank Dean Van Zant started building Thunder Mountain in 1969 as a home for his family. Most of the construction material is scrap that V...
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Thursday, June 16, 2016

Carlin Canyon Boondocking

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  Immigrants following the California Trail traveled along the Humboldt River through Utah and Nevada. At Carlin Canyon the river carved th...

California Trail Interpretive Center

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  From 1845 to 1869 over 250,00 people traveled along the California Trail. Many were attracted by the discovery of gold in the Sacramento ...

Red Lion Casino

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  The Red Lion Casino is right off of I-80 so the parking lot is easy to access but a little noisy. The lot is not very large and there may...

Northeastern Nevada Museum

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   Artifacts pertaining to the local history are nicely displayed in large cases. We got a chuckle from these cow hoof shoes used by J.R. “...
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Angel Lake

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  A subalpine lake is not what you expect to find in Nevada but this is high country, 8,500’ in elevation, almost 3,000’ higher than the li...
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West Wendover, Nevada

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                         West Wendover is a typical Nevada border town established when gambling was legalized in Nevada in the 1930s. Sinc...
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Monday, June 13, 2016

Golden Spike National Historic Site

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   A fast and easy way to transport goods between the east and west coasts of the US, as well as opening the west for settlement, was impor...
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