Calico Ghost Town Park
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| Calico Ghost Town is a ghost town theme park, built out of the fairly extensive remains of an old silver mining town. Walter Knott, founder of the Knotts Berry Farm theme park, restored the ghost town, after taking much of it to Orange County, where he used it to begin the theme park. The Regional Parks Department of San Bernardino County now manages the site, which is a popular tour bus stop. There are 23 shops along the town's old main street, selling souvenirs and candy. Gunfighter performances are occasionally scheduled, and a brief mini train ride takes you on a loop through the fringe of the townsite. At least one of the old mining tunnels is open to the public, with talking miner figures activated by motion sensors - just a fraction of the 30 miles of tunnels around Calico, on 14 levels underground. |
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NE of Barstow
(POINT(-116.86504304409 34.948397127073))
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| Located five miles north of I-15, east of Barstow, at the Calico Road Exit. Admission is $6.00. Camping is available here too. |
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http://www.calicotown.com/
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Attraction, Cultural, Mining
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