Spooner Lake State Park / Lake Tahoe

Hello everyone, we arrived on the 15^th of April and we have finally made it to our hosting spot at Spooner Lake State Park here in Nevada, just outside of Carson City, and just a few miles from Lake Tahoe. We are totally disconnected out here because it’s in the mountains. Elevation here at our site is just over 7,000 feet. The only WiFi is at the office and that is about a 5 min walk from our site, so we can go once a day to check on our messages and social media. So if we don’t respond right away we have a day delay.. LOL 

When We Arrived

Because of the elevation, when we arrived at the park it still had 4 to 5 ft. of snow. And to top it off, it was snowing our first day and night. We had 85 degree weather in the last two weeks of our travels up north, and now 32 degrees and snow. We wanted to avoid snow! This is surely a new experience for us. The snow drifts made it very difficult for Jodi and me to get our RV into our site. It took many tries to get it in but we did it. It was a tight squeeze into our site with snow drifts. The park said they have never had an RV this size come here, so we are the first ever big rig. To let you know, this is a DAY use park only, so there is no camping at this park. We are the only ones here in the park overnight and with an RV. People come to snow shoe, hike, fish, kayak, canoe and picnic then leave at dusk. So at night we are all to ourselves with nature. Peace and quiet. 

Here are some pictures of our site and some of the park with all of the snow. The snow is melting about 1 foot per week, and we have about 4 to 5 feet up here in the mountains.

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We took a ride towards a small town called Glenbrook heading south along lake Tahoe where we will be getting our mail, and then headed to Incline Village at the northern end of Lake Tahoe and OMG, it just took our breath away; the view and the beauty of this place. Judge for yourself, I took some of these pictures. 

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We plan on doing some fun stuff while here; i.e train museum and train tours, and other site seeing stuff, and of course hike the Spooner Lake trails.. Stay tuned…

Wanted to post some pictures of Valley of Fire just outside Las Vegas, this was a place we have been told is a must to see, and we are glad we did. It was a magical kind of place. Such beautiful colors and rock formations everywhere.  Most people say this is on their Bucket List..See for yourself…

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There were two more places Goldfield and Hawthorne, Nevada, that we stopped at just before arriving at Spooner Lake. We stayed at each place for two days. Goldfield is a mining town and has a few interesting places. It is an old mining town. Also interesting here is they have an International Car forest. Nice art work… We added our own art to the van, a heart…

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One of the oldest Saloons in Nevada is here in Goldfield, went in had a few drinks… Neat place..

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More pictures of Goldfield, NV

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One of the main interests here is the haunted Goldfield Hotel that they have been trying to get back into service since 1945. The Ghosts will not allow that to happen. The construction keeps getting halted for some reason. Wonder what that could be…This hotel has been featured on many ghost shows. Ghost Adventures and Ghost Hunters. You can YouTube it and find out..

When we arrived at Hawthorne it was nice and warm, shorts weather, and could see snow capped mountains in the distance; beautiful site to see. What’s interesting about Hawthorne, NV is it’s a small town that has an Army Depot, and a Navy base. This place has over 3,000 ammunition bunkers for storage. Part of the reason it has ammunition bunkers is due to an accidental ordinance explosion in New Jersey in 1962 that almost took out the whole city, so they wanted to move it out in the middle of the desert, here in Hawthorne, NV.. Go figure.. The town has two museums and unfortunately they both were closed when we arrived, so we could not see them, but one had a lot of info and exhibits outside, so I took some pictures.

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So since we have been here for nearly a week, Wanted to say we are going to enjoy what we can while here, hosting and site seeing.  It is starting to warm up a little.  Being up in the mountains 7,000 feet, we are getting used to the elevation with working, moving around getting winded a lot and our ear popping when we go to Carson City.  We can were shorts in Carson City, but dress warmer at our site up the mountains…  Carson City is around 5, 000 feet and the temperature is about 10 to 15 degrees warmer then where we are. So if its 65 in Carson City, its 50 to 55 where we are..  Much cooler.  We have lots of things to do and see here, so check out our blog again soon for more of our adventures while here in Nevada. Hope all are doing well, and we both do hope your weather is getting warmer and not to warm.

Stay tuned and see where we Bobble to next!! 

 

Bobble Head Travelers,  Mark and Jodi