One time I was hanging out with the mayor of Nipton and he told me that he did a ton of off-roading back here when he was younger and that I should check it out since I was going to drive right by it anyway. It is the problem with looking at stuff from a satellite image, even with the elevations marked, and with a lot of experience driving here and reading the maps, it is hard to tell what is going to be treacherous until you are there.ĭriving northbound on Ivanpah Road from the Lanfair Valley, on my way back to the Mojave from scouting the Crescent Canyon area equivalent. The first time I found the place, coordinates I used took me a super dangerous route when a really safe route existed, so I was pretty annoyed. This place is badass, it is called the Goldome Mine and Mill … BUT … I need to tell you how to get there or you will face the same fate I did. Incredible, artsy and post-apocalyptic, desolate – so cool. I did not try to walk across them – the drop is really far and the catwalks are really sketchy.Īlso, it is one of the coolest places I found in the entire desert.
Especially the big cistern looking vats with the catwalks. Even though in game there is no graffiti, the large industrial constructs look alike. Even offroading, I could not find anything besides massive electrical posts in either direction, but it looks similar to a really cool place close to Cima, in the Mojave Preserve. # 160 – Clark Field – Where the highway bends is where the “field” would be located in our world. There are a lot of cool petroglyphs here and sometimes you can see people climbing and scaling down the rock face. Take a sharp left instead on to “Route C” which will wind around for a few miles, ending in the location on the right. You will take a right off of northbound 95 onto “Route T” and follow it until an intersection with big powerlines on both sides. Some of the roads up in this more northern part of the foothills have names, well letters anyway, which is helpful.
# 159 – Highway 95 Viper encampment – In our world, this location is not so much as an encampment, but conversely, a massive canyon. In our world, Highway 95 makes a distinctive curve westbound, as seen in the game map.
There are so many old mining areas and springs and outbuildings that I get overwhelmed because I want to visit them all. This area, to the south of Nelson and surrounding the 95, is one of the places I like to off-road the most. This mountain range runs parallel to the 95 from Searchlight to Black Canyon, with only Nelson transecting it at about the halfway point. Moving past the Ranger station Echo area, still running along Highway 95, the foothills of Ireteba Peak expand skyward into the bonafide El Dorado Mountain Range.
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