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Day Trip from Las Vegas to Chloride Mining Town

Want to visit a real mining town? Then set your sights on Chloride, located about a 1-1/2 hour drive from downtown Las Vegas. This community, located on the Nevada-Arizona border, is the oldest silver mining camp in Arizona. Once a boomtown, today it is home to only a few hundred residents who live in the foothills.

Those foothills are home to murals created three decades ago by artist Roy Purcell. Older man-made artifacts remain here as well, ones recalling the town’s heydays a century earlier in the 1860s. You can see the original jailhouse from those Wild West days; for a more complete picture of the town’s early years you can visit a reconstructed Wild West town downtown. And watch out for those gunfighters; they test their skills on the first and third Saturday of every month.

On a more romantic note, the town also celebrate Valentine's Day in a big way; come down to join in a town dance, dinner, and pie baking contest, always held the Saturday before Valentine's.

Directions to Chloride:

To reach Chloride, head east on Tropicana to I-515/US 93. Turn east on US 93 and continue to the Arizona border.

For more information:

• Chloride Chamber of Commerce, Post Office Box 268, Chloride, Arizona 86431
• call (928) 565-2204
• visit http://www.chloridearizona.com/index.php