As mentioned in my last posting we are making a stop in Yermo, California for the weekend. This is just outside Barstow and is where an old mining town, Calico, is located. Calico became a ghost town in the early 1900’s when the mine shut down and in the 1950’s Walter Knott, of Knott’s Berry Farm fame, bought the town to restore it, which he did over a period of years and then donated it to the County of San Bernardino in the 1960’s as a regional park. It is a nice little diversion to spend a day with some nice little shops and a few attractions. Everything is reasonably priced so a family does not have to spend a fortune to have some fun. You can find out more about the town at http://cms.sbcounty.gov/parks/Parks/CalicoGhostTown.aspx
I came here when I was young and it was still owned by Knott’s Berry Farm and returned when I was in college on my way to Las Vegas. It still is the same. Fran had never been and found it a nice way to spend a day. We went today and could not have asked for better weather, mid 70’s and sunny. Going during the week means we were about the only ones in town at times, however three tour buses with foreign tourists stopped, but they only had a hour to view the town.
Here are some pictures from the town
In the town one of the attractions is a gravity defying house. This is where the house is built on a hill at an angle so that you walk slanted to stay upright and water appears to travel uphill. We were the only ones on the tour and here is Fran trying to stay upright.
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