Traveled across Route 66 towards Calico, California, a restored mining town. Apparently, Walter Knott of Knott's berry farm fame, owned the town and donated it to the state of California in the early 1960's. It is now a state park with great camping. We ended up staying there for 2 nights. Hiked way up into a canyon and discovered many out of the way mines that miners had dug into the walls of the canyon. Pretty tough life back in the late 1800's and into the early 1900's. They ended up pulling 85 million out of there in silver.
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