Recently, I had the privilege of visting Calico Ghost Town with my family. Calico Ghost Town is a very old mining town that definietly gives you the feeling of being in the oldwest. Its located in the San Berardino County region, and is run by an amazing team of workers. Every single one of them was very welcoming and had many facts to share. Calico is a great tourist attraction, is very affordable, and I definitely reccomend it for people of all ages. Below is there website and a description of there facility from there website.
http://cms.sbcounty.gov/parks/Parks/CalicoGhostTown.aspx
Calico is an old West mining town that has been around since 1881 during the largest silver strike in California. With its 500 mines, Calico produced over $20 million in silver ore over a 12-year span. When silver lost its value in the mid-1890's, Calico lost its population. The miner's packed up, loaded their mules and moved away abandoning the town that once gave them a good living. It became a "ghost town."
Walter Knott purchased Calico in the 1950's architecturally restoring all but the five original buildings to look as they did in the 1880's. Calico received State Historical Landmark 782 and in 2005 was proclaimed by then Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to be California's Silver Rush Ghost Town.
Today Calico is part of the San Bernardino County Regional Parks system visited by people from around the country and all over the world.
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