Hawthorne has about 225 square miles of ammunition storage depots, 2,427 bunkers (some of them can be seen in the pics below), and it is considered the Worlds Largest Ammunition Depot. I think some questions are best left unasked. Why did they pick this particular day to clean the carpets when it was already under a reservation? I guess it turns out that they were cleaning the carpets? So, it ended up being a good thing for us. Thankfully, we were offered 2 separate rooms instead, at no additional cost. Now granted, the guy working the front desk was super nice, but we didn’t really want to share a bed. The lamps and alarm clocks were even unplugged and thrown onto the mix.Īfter a bit of a nervous laugh, we headed back to the office where we were told that there weren’t any more double bed rooms available. The drawers were pulled out of the dresser and piled on the beds as well. It was kind of funny because we had originally booked a room with 2 queen beds, but when we checked into our room, we were greeted with a very strange surprise. On my first trip of the season to Lake Tahoe, my friend Mike and I actually spent the night in Hawthorne. With a population just over 3,000, Hawthorne is actually a pretty decent sized community. Residents of the town are few, with a population of less than 200. Wow, talk about the Wild, Wild West! Mina TodayĪbandoned mines, gas stations, and other various structures are scattered remnants of a different world/time.
Passengers and crew riding the train would shoot wild game such as jack rabbits, ducks and sage hens from the open windows.Īpparently, the train moved slow enough that hunters had time to retrieve their game and hop back on board. The Nevada & California Railway, a division of Southern Pacific Railroad, had a station in the town. In a nutshell, Wikipedia has taught me that Mina was founded as a railroad town in 1905 and was named for Ferminia Sarras, a large landowner and famed prospector known as the ‘Copper Queen’. I have been learning so much about all these little towns, and Mina is no exception! Having already made pit stops along the way at Beatty, Goldfield, and Tonopah, Mina is next on the list, followed by Hawthorne.īut before we get to Hawthorne, let’s first talk about Mina. Mina is another unincorporated town that you pass on the drive from Las Vegas to Reno, if you’re taking 95 North.
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