Calico Ghost Town, Yermo, & Barstow - A Drive in the Mojave Desert

[@treasuretom13]

Good music and scenery..the captioning helped! I dug an old Harvey House ring, glad to see they're still around..

[@roadnland1801]

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching and for your comments.

[@vectorz1733]

Live in the desert and still never get tired of it. Peaceful with no traffic with open vistas and summer nights are breathtaking. Thank you for sharing. Might go to that ol drive-in.

[@roadnland1801]

I understand how you feel about the desert. For me, there’s nothing better than to be outside breathing in the desert air. Seeing the barren landscape of the Mojave Desert. Thanks you very much for your kind words.

[@fmolds]

I live in the Redwoods now (Mendocino) , but I'm from the Inland Empire , in So Cal The Mojave and Eastern Sierra were our play grounds . From nights in the 80s , when Halley's Comet was around to fishin Robinson Creek outta Bridgeport last September. I try to explain the beautiful and vastness of the desert to folks here and all they come back with is " yeah ! But there ain't no trees"! 🙄

[@roadnland1801]

There are many people who just don't understand the beauty of the desert. We may be lacking tall redwood trees but we have the unique Joshua Tree. Thanks for commenting.

[@James-mo5lh]

I've camped out overnight in the deserts in Arizona,Nevada,Utah,and California. You get away from the city lights on a clear night you see millions of stars. So quiet and peaceful.

[@MegaDknox]

My wife and I stopped a few years back. We were traveling from Iowa to Long Beach and made the stop at Calico. Great place to visit.

[@Hidee.LasVegas]

Thank you for the info. I'll be there next Tuesday.🙏

[@James-mo5lh]

Cool video. Love the music.

[@roadnland1801]

Glad you like it.

[@James-mo5lh]

@@roadnland1801 your welcome. Good luck to you and safe travels.

[@Giovanni_Adventures]

Cool Video, Now we're going to Calico after watching your video. Thanks for sharing.

[@roadnland1801]

Thank you very your comment and for watching the video. I just subscribed to your channel after watching the Lake Havasu ride. I think that Calico would be a good area for your channel. You can do a loop on the same road as I took.

[@Giovanni_Adventures]

@@roadnland1801 Hey, Thank you for the Subscribe. I just Subscribed to your Channel, you have a lot of cool Videos I'm going to have to check them all out. 🙂

[@elainechubb971]

Thank you for the video.I found the footage of the old roads and businesses interesting, but in the beginning of the video there was a little too much driving on a rather featureless stretch of desert for me! I-15 between Las Vegas and the San Bernardinos has to be one of the least appealing rides I've ever been on. And hot! A car AC can't cope. I was hoping to see a bit of Calico Ghost Town, which I visited back in 1967 when some friends and I drove cross-country. When we got up to it, it was quite deserted, no other visitors, no staff that we could see. A lot of very interesting old buildings, but everything closed. It really did seem like a ghost town!

[@roadnland1801]

Thank you for watching the video and for your comment. I understand that long drives in remote part of desert can be uninteresting. Yet for some, like myself, a long drive on a lonely desert road can be relaxing and enjoyable. Sorry to hear about your experience with the ghost town. Sometimes that place is a hit or miss.

[@anitahamlin2411]

I am hoping to call this area home!

[@martinleicht5911]

I ❤ the desert !! 🍺 😎 👍 🔥🔥🔥

[@roadnland1801]

People who don’t like the desert just haven’t looked close enough or in the right places. Looks like you have. Thanks for your comment.

[@clintonfrazer9346]

Was raised in yermo went to Barstow high went to calico all the time I loved it 😊

[@roadnland1801]

Did you know that Yermo now has a high school. It's called Silver Valley High School. It next to Elephant Mountain. Thanks for watching and for your comment.

[@clintonfrazer9346]

@@roadnland1801 hi I did know about the high school in yermo my two nephews graduated from there and one of them played football for them

[@MOTOZILIANS]

awesome video i am subscribing your channel very informarive and great music in this video i starting doing motorcycle travel more and more so thanks to you i will be checking calico ghost town and near area probably will be motocamping in the desert as i love to do...anyway good luck and thanks for sharing

[@roadnland1801]

Thank you very much for your kinda words. Calico Ghost town is one of my favorite place to visit. It was a real mining town from the old west with a lot of history. When you visit there, Calico Ghost Town has a campground. There's an area for RVs and another for tents. If I remember right, admission to the ghost town is free to those who are camping there. Thank you also for subscribing.

[@MOTOZILIANS]

@@roadnland1801 cool thanks for the heads up on the campground. i will search that also.really appreciated 🙏✌️

[@primefocusphotography]

Great vid. Did a quick road trip out this way last year. Got a few vids of the abandoned stuff on my channel. Need to get back out there and explore more. Cheers

[@roadnland1801]

I'll be sure to check out your channel. Always enjoy videos of the Mojave Desert. Thanks for watching and for your comment.

[@steveortiz364]

My nephew just bought a house couple years in Barstow still haven't went to visit him yet , kind keep going head to Vegas ..been other places to visit

[@roadnland1801]

Congratulations to your nephew. When you get a chance, take a trip to Barstow. There is actually a good amount of places to see. While it's not anything like LA or Vegas, there is a good amount of history in the area. It's part of Route 66. On the video I drove past the Harvey House, there is a train museum there. There is also a Route 66 Museum there but it might be closed. There is also a Route 66 Museum in Victorville. And don't forget Calico Ghost Town. Thanks for watching and for commenting.

[@steveortiz364]

@@roadnland1801 been Calico once, only stop at Barstow to get something at McDonald's that are train I like that about it besides that I've been to Grand Canyon Petrified Forest in other places all over Arizona also New Mexico kind of like the desert anyways thanks for the information take care

[@ROBERT-hz3nb]

I SAW BRAD PITT ON THIS ROAD ! ! ! HE WAVED TO ME. HE PULLED INTO THE DEL TACO AND I PARKED A FEW SPACES AWAY AND YES IT WAS HIM. I SAID HI BRAD I LIKE YOUR MOVIE WITH LEO ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD AND HE SAID THANKS. I BOUGHT A BEEF BURRITO AND TWO TACOS. IT WAS VERY GOOD! ! !

[@roadnland1801]

Sounds like it was a memorable experience. You never know what you'll see in the desert. Thanks for sharing this.

[@doskraut]

I left victor valley in 95 and most of the desert remains the same, most people are unaware you can drive from apple valley to Yermo and never see pavement. Well back then anyway. Also elephant mountain once had a 15 stamp mill for all the mines in the area.

[@roadnland1801]

Good to have you comment with some interesting information. I didn’t know about a unpaved road from Apple Valley to Yermo. I only knew about highway 247 and Route 66 as a way to stay of I-15. Thanks for watching the video and for your comment.

[@doskraut]

@@roadnland1801 Back then apple valley was small and the dirt road went passed the airport going north to passed bell mountain then to Stoddard Wells Rd. At slash x ranch the road gets ruff Daggett, I doubt you can do that today but in the 1800s it was the stage coach road. I enjoyed the video and fond memory's.

[@purpleflower77612]

Nice

[@whitefata104]

Nice vids keep it up, but your vids stutter each 20second might be bad setting in conversion while editing, or might be the camera issue

[@roadnland1801]

Thank you for watching the video and for your comment. I'm still working out a few bugs. I'm a newbie at this. It's a learning experience.

[@whitefata104]

@@roadnland1801 only few channel doing kind this thing, there is room to grow, try optimized your video quality compression. The content is quite good

[@Delphisteve]

[@yelapa999]

I enjoy driving videos like these. I usually have driven those very roads. The ones with voiceover are always more interesting to me. Music is great for bumpers and such, but those CC loops are boring. Put a black velvet cloth on your dashboard, too.

[@roadnland1801]

Thank you very much for your comment and tips. I have been working on added voice but it hasn't worked out so well, so far. I was trying out taking while doing the video but the sound was bad. I'm going to try voice over on the editing side. It's a work in progress kinda thing.

[@merlie1254]

I can’t believe you didn’t say anything about the elephant mountain while driving Yermo Road.

[@merlie1254]

Thanks for sharing. I lived in Yermo for 10 years at my in-laws’ Christmas tree ranch. I saw it while you were driving on Yermo Road. It was the one on the right, a fenced property with tall Pine trees. I helped plant those in 1979.

[@roadnland1801]

The reason that I didn't say anything about elephant mountain is because I don't know anything about it. I'm going to have to learn about it. Thanks for your comment.

[@roadnland1801]

Well I just looked at the map and found Elephant Mountain. I seen it many times before but never knew the name.

[@jmaraf7741]

When in Barstow, look at Elephant Mt. from there and you can see the profile of a reclining elephant... his rear end towards I-15 to the left, his long body to his bumpy head and long stretched out trunk to the right. What looks like his trunk is actually, the side of a wide plateau that got "truncated" at the far right by the Mojave River.

[@stevedewalt3735]

Just a big tourist trap being a tour bus driver I’m there about once every two weeks for lunch not much going on

[@roadnland1801]

I agreed with you. It’s a place that I do like to visit every now and then. On that day I didn’t want to visit but just pass by cause I love driving in the desert. Thanks for watching and for your comment.

[@larryschenk696]

BORING.

[@roadnland1801]

Bingo! That’s what I was going for.

[@fxsteen]

Could have left out the boring 4 minute roadview to this place. Love calico and everyone should check it out.

[@roadnland1801]

Nice thing about KZbin videos is that one can jump over the boring parts. Or just don’t watch.

[@purpleflower77612]

I enjoyed it. Relaxing.