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Rural spots I have found
« on: August 25, 2009, 08:36:19 AM »
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Elko:
      Stockmans Hotel & Casino is a short 2 1/2 block walk to all four houses, rooms are clean and reasonable. Coffee shop food is not bad.
      The Nevada House is a Basque resturant one block walk from Stockmans, Family style dining, great food, but be hungry if you go there.

Winnemucca:
      I stay at the Motel 8, typical chain motel located a short drive from what is left of the "line".
      The motel 8 shares a parking lot with two good places to eat, a nice breakfast diner that opens at 6:00am and a B-B-Q joint called The Flying Pig.


I will add to this as I try and remember where all I have been.

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Re: Rural spots I have found
« Reply #1 on: August 27, 2009, 09:17:38 AM »
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Here's my rural area spots:

Ely

For rooms it's Hotel Nevada (http://hotelnevada.com/)  an older place the
rooms are reasonable and clean. Across the street is The JailHouse some newer
rooms reasonable though slightly higher. Both have coffee shops that serve
decent food. Both are easy walking distance from the ranches.

While there try the steam train rides on the Northern Nevada Railway
(http://nevadanorthernrailway.net/). There are two different routes and on
some dates you can do both. Nice point is on most they tell the history and
indicate the points of interest during the ride. One special trip called the
wine train in the evenings has reserved seating at tables with linen table
cloths, candle light, buffet (last I rode it), soft music (no narration), and
your choice of wine/soft drinks. There are other special trains so check the
site. Also the tour of the rail repair shops is interesting to see how the
trains are services/rebuilt.

Also look into the White Pine museum for area history. There is a public area
for digging/finding garnets.

There is a side trip to Great Basin National Park about an hour to the east,
or a wildlife viewing area south of town that has picnic tables and rest
rooms. At GBNP you'll be able to tour a cave, hike, or camp. It the outdoors
has interest there are other places such as Cave Lake.

Elko

Shooter hit on a some but forgot the museum out by the park, for those
interested to know how they extract the gold there is a display along with
many others.

Wells

Rooms I've stayed in both Motel 6 and Rest Inn, they are located by each other
and within walking distance of the 4-Way Casino/truck stop and Bella's eating
place.

Carson City

Try the state Railroad Museum for a break and there are some train rides (by
what I've been told or indicated). Some of the rolling stock has been in
movies. For some info http://www.nsrm-friends.org/ basic data on schedule.

Possible adventures

For those city folk with courage try the Hwy 50 trip from either Reno or CC to
Ely. Be sure and get your survival package and collect the stamps along the
journey. Once mailed back to the state tourism you'll receive a survivor's
award. Make a loop of it Reno/CC to Ely then venture to Wells returning back
using I-80. Be careful and watch for various wildlife along the trip such as
deer, elk, coyotes, wild horses, and many other plants and animals. I like
this kind of trip unrushed relaxed and adventure around every turn as you
don't know what next will be seen.

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« Reply #2 on: August 27, 2009, 01:03:31 PM »
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Bones--good report--the Hotel Nevada in Ely is definitely a cool historical spot to visit and stay. And you CAN walk to the houses. The charcoal ovens 15 miles away is a neat place to visit and the trout fishing is wonderful at Cave Lake 10 miles away-the state record for brown trout-24 lbs-was caught there. Beautiful country around Ely.

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« Reply #3 on: August 27, 2009, 06:42:59 PM »
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Bones--good report--the Hotel Nevada in Ely is definitely a cool historical spot to visit and stay. And you CAN walk to the houses. The charcoal ovens 15 miles away is a neat place to visit and the trout fishing is wonderful at Cave Lake 10 miles away-the state record for brown trout-24 lbs-was caught there. Beautiful country around Ely.

fisherman100

I want to go fishing! I haven't been out this year.. Is it mostly fly fishing in NV?
Also, are there some cool cave tours close to the LR? I love caves! (take that comment as you will)

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« Reply #4 on: August 27, 2009, 08:21:27 PM »
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Yep, around here they love their fly fishing.  They make fun of bait fisherman.  Fly fishing just always seemed like to much work to me though.  I am unaware of any caves in this area.  Most of the rock around here is granite and caves and caverns are usually found around limestone formations.

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« Reply #5 on: August 28, 2009, 09:57:50 AM »
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Additional thoughts aobut the rural NE area. Both Elko and Ely have commuter air service by what I've seen and read, Ely was recently getting a new carrier.

There is helo skiing in winter out of Elko, along with some other kinds of snow adventures; sorry no links but saw a short outdoor segment on tv mentiong this. Ely also offers some. Best source is tourism for each area.

Not sure what the fishing regulations are but it appears bait fishing is allowed; as the small lake south of Ely some were doing it that way (very easy to find as the highway crosses a bridge at it). Also there should be some aroung Elko area.

For caving I'd check the local college or chamber for splunking clubs (that's caving clubs) they might know of some in any given location.


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« Reply #6 on: August 28, 2009, 01:38:00 PM »
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Bones--good report--the Hotel Nevada in Ely is definitely a cool historical spot to visit and stay. And you CAN walk to the houses. The charcoal ovens 15 miles away is a neat place to visit and the trout fishing is wonderful at Cave Lake 10 miles away-the state record for brown trout-24 lbs-was caught there. Beautiful country around Ely.

fisherman100

I want to go fishing! I haven't been out this year.. Is it mostly fly fishing in NV?
Also, are there some cool cave tours close to the LR? I love caves! (take that comment as you will)


May I suggest Lehman Caves:

http://www.great.basin.national-park.com/hike.htm#cave

Lehman Caves is definitely worth the drive, should you be willing to take a 60 mile journey from Ely to Baker, NV.  Lots and lots of cave formations to see!

They used to have a spelunking tour of another section of the cave formation for those who like to crawl through tight spaces (needed to call to make a reservation for this), but I haven't been there recently and don't see any current info on that.  The really neat stuff is on the public tour though, so no biggie.

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Re: Rural spots I have found
« Reply #7 on: August 28, 2009, 07:24:44 PM »
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Additional thoughts aobut the rural NE area. Both Elko and Ely have commuter air service by what I've seen and read, Ely was recently getting a new carrier.

Bones, could you provide the names of the commuter services into Elko and Ely?

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« Reply #8 on: August 28, 2009, 08:25:51 PM »
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Delta/SkyWest serves Elko from Salt Lake City.

United/Great Lakes Airlines serves Ely from Denver through Moab Ut.
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« Reply #9 on: August 29, 2009, 08:57:32 AM »
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OldFatMan thanks for the info on the commuter air cariers.

It was info I didn't have as I can make a short easy drive there. Hope this will help some others plan and try new venues.


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Re: Rural spots I have found
« Reply #10 on: August 29, 2009, 09:26:19 AM »
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In my opinion unless time is a factor it's better to fly into SLC, rent a car and then drive to either Elko or Ely. You can see what talent is in Wells that way too.

On my last trip to Elko I looked into flying but found the price nearly doubled adding the SLC-EKO leg.

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« Reply #11 on: August 29, 2009, 08:17:42 PM »
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I made the drive from the SLC area to Elko in April.  I wondered how it would be in the dead of winter, like January around winterfest?

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« Reply #12 on: August 29, 2009, 08:35:48 PM »
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over-da-hill,

I have made the trip several times during the winter. It can get bad during a storm, but most sever storms last for less than 24 hours and both Utah and Nevada do a good job of keeping the freeway open. My guess is that there might be about a 20% chance that you may have to wait as much as 24 hours to make the drive.

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« Reply #13 on: August 29, 2009, 08:38:21 PM »
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Yeah, winter weather might be a reason to pay for the flight. I've been in Elko needing to head back to SLC and heard that Pequop Summit was closed. Lucky for me by the time I got to the pass it was open.

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« Reply #14 on: August 29, 2009, 09:19:50 PM »
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There are two interesting day trips from Elko that I have made. The first is a trip up Lamoille canyon. The end of the canyon is about 30 miles southeast of Elko. The canyon is a stark contrast to the brown mountains and sage brush around Elko. At the end of the canyon is a parking area with trail heads in two directions leading to several mountain lakes.

The second area is the Ruby Lake Wildlife Refuge. It is on the east side of the Ruby Mountains on the south end of Ruby Valley. Ruby Lake is more marsh than lake and is part of both the Pacific and Central migratory flyways. There are levees through the marsh getting a close view of the wildlife. There is 17 t0 35 miles of gravel road but most of it is well maintained. You can go over Harrison Pass which has several miles of rough gravel road, but have gone over it in my minivan. That is about 65 miles from Elko to the refuge. You can also go east on I-80 to Exit 321 then south to the refuge which is about 90 miles from Elko. Most of that road is paved leaving only the last 17 or so mile of gravel. You can also go south from wells on highway 93 and turn off to Ruby Vally. The refuge is about 80 miles from Wells. Fall and Spring, when birds are migrating, are the best time to visit though there are birds there year round.