Saturday, April 27, 2013

04-27-1

Yesterday we took a ride to the old town of Chloride.
I thought it was a ghost town but again I was wrong. Chloride has a population of 326 and is a tourist town.


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We drove north on 93 to the sign and turned east on a paved road and drove 3 miles to the town.
Patti only got a few pictures.

There was an interesting house with bales of straw for a roof

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and some interesting stuff in the yard.
Below is a small outbuilding with this sign on the roof.

She also got some shots of the gnomes in residence.

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Across the street from the Gnome home is a general store. In front of the store are models of old buildings.

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We drove around the town for a bit and then headed east on a maintained road to see the murals some one had painted on the rocks.

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From here the road became more interesting.

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It went on for about 5 miles like this until we got to
a mine with the ore shoot and tailing pile next to the road.

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About a mile further on, the trail becomes a maintained dirt road.

From the road you can see Chloride at the foot of the mountains.

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We drove for another 3 miles and stopped for lunch at the Windy Point Campground.

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Through out the drive we saw new and interesting wild flowers

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This area is part of the Mojave Desert. Unlike the Sonoran Desert around Quartzsite, there are no Saguaro's but there are other interesting Cacti.

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There are many beaver tails everywhere.

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In the high country there are even trees, Pines and junipers.
Below is short needled pine tree.

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There were many nice views from the trail.

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Okay that was our ride for yesterday. We are going on another ride to day so I will be posting it tomorrow.

 

 

 

1 comment:

  1. MD and I were in Chloride a couple of years back. We used it as an afternoon lunch stop on our way from Las Vegas to the Grand Canyon.

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