Ep. 255: Pioche | Nevada RV travel camping history RVlife RVliving

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Located 180 miles north of Las Vegas, Pioche today is home to roughly 1,000 residents at an elevation of just over 6,000 feet. However, it had a notorious past beginning in the 1860s as a silver mining town, when its remoteness led to a reputation as one of the roughest towns in the Old West. Join #GrandAdventure as we explore Pioche, including its mining history, local townsfolk, nearby Cathedral Gorge and Spring Valley State Parks, and more while boondocking in Nevada's beautiful Great Basin.
Filmed: May 9-14, 2022
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
1:03 Pioche history
6:53 Pioche today
10:02 Boondocking for free camping
11:59 Solar performance while camping
14:11 Cathedral Gorge State Park
16:03 Spring Valley State Park
19:05 Wrap-up and what's next
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@2heavyb517 2 жыл бұрын

best full time RV yt channel bar none. Thank you

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

No, thank YOU! We sincerely appreciate that.

@1stcommonsense Жыл бұрын

I grew up in pioche. The hill behind the gem theater is lime hill. The cross has been there ever since I can remember. It use to have power going to it. School projects had us go change light bulbs in it so we could light it up for Christmas.

@GrandAdventure Жыл бұрын

What a special place to grow up! Thanks so much for sharing your personal experience.

@laughingram7287 2 жыл бұрын

Pioche looked like a cool little town. Cathedral Gorge looked great! So close! I mean, really. With all that open area. Good thing you like Ed. Watch your back! 😉 Ram 👍🏼👍🏽

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

Who said I like Ed?

@mccarthy7566 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, the servings at the Silver Cafe looked HUGE! Nice cameo by "Homie" during your wrap up. 😜

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

Huge and very good too, Pete. Homie was determined to photo-bomb. 😄

@moretoliving2236 Жыл бұрын

What an interesting situationship. I always assumed that Nevada stood for "desolate and nothing to see because its all a desert" but to see so much variety with stone formations and general lay of the land is quite interesting. I figure with Colorado plateau terminating along the border of Utah and Nevada this is nature's last hurrah to peculiar sand stuff.

@GrandAdventure Жыл бұрын

Once you get 100+ miles north of Vegas, the rest of Nevada is entirely different. It's the whole Basin & Range system that makes it so. Stretching all the way from Salt Lake City to the Sierra Nevada, the Great Basin is a large terminal area, meaning that water flowing there never leaves the area. It's marked by many north/south oriented mountain ranges (some of which exceed 11,000'), each separated by broad, flat lowland desert valleys. Many of those mountain ranges are high enough to support an alpine ecosystem including aspen trees, tundra, bighorn sheep and mountain goats, ermines, etc., whereas the valleys are sandy, dusty sagebrush. In between each mountain range and valley is a piñon and juniper zone like what you see in this video. Then there are anomalies like the Ruby Lakes area, in the Ruby Valley just east of the Ruby Mountains near Elko that are a huge spring-fed wetland that supports all manner of migratory waterfowl. It's not at all what you'd expect if your sole exposure to Nevada is Las Vegas.

@lorih379 2 жыл бұрын

I want to be you when I grow up. We really want to boondock but not sure how to find good spots. You always find the perfect ones

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Lori! Everything you need to know is right here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p8h5mrJy0MyafqM.html

@marvelousmarv-marvelousper4886 2 жыл бұрын

I have not ever seen Pioche is such a way that you have presented it. I like your report on your power system and it's making me think twice to upgrade to 800 ah of batteries as we haven't had a chance to give our 400 ah system a real test.

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

Marv, I personally can't imagine needing 800 Ah unless you intend to run the a/c. We're using juice like it's going out of style.

@garymann5998 2 жыл бұрын

Pioche is very Interesting, quite a deadly history, that food looked really yummy, great onion rings, some great old towns, really liked the photo bomb at the end. lololol. travel safe

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you as always Gary!

@randystarr7705 2 жыл бұрын

Love all your travel videos, but this one was one of the best. You make us excited to see NV on our next trip west. Thanks!

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, Randy! We sincerely appreciate that.

@scenicdriveways6708 2 жыл бұрын

Those sandwiches looked mighty good Boss. As usual, another great video. Nicely done. JT

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you JT!

@dianestevenson2630 2 жыл бұрын

You find the best places to visit. Thanks for sharing them with us. Another great one!

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks as always Diane!

@joyces3550 2 жыл бұрын

Marc you are a wonderful, professional filmmaker. Great video. Love all the old western towns, I've got to visit more of them. Enjoy your Grand Adventures.

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

You're far too kind Joyce, thank you. 😊

@joyces3550 2 жыл бұрын

@@GrandAdventure It is all true! You do great work. Best Wishes!

@TheSmokin419 2 жыл бұрын

Nevada got that legal Marijuana!

@jq1234567890 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, and very informative - glad to hear the power upgrades are working out. Thanks for posting!

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much, John, and thank you for watching!

@daviscrt 2 жыл бұрын

Great information. Wow what a ruff ass town to be living in back in the day. Thanks as always. Don

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

It sure was, Don. Great to hear from you as always, thank you!

@moore_2_explore 2 жыл бұрын

Nicely done!! You always do such a good job of showing an area's history and details most rv'ers would like to know....gotta say, we have a nice solar set up, but yours is making me a little jealous, lol!😉

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Your comment means a ton to us. As for the solar, we found out last season that we didn't quite have enough to bring us back to 100% each day, so although we added one more battery this season we doubled the solar panels. That did the trick! We're now on week 4 without anything for power other than solar, but tomorrow's forecast into the low 90s may just make us break out the genny for the a/c.

@janmitchell2626 2 жыл бұрын

Another grand adventure! Great content and we love following along!

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Jan! We love having you along.

@michaelpreviti9168 2 жыл бұрын

Very good video. Enjoyed the music more than usually. Keep up the good work

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Michael!

@uncagedtravels6391 2 жыл бұрын

You’re giving me so many good ideas for future adventures. Thanks for sharing.

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks fantastic to hear, thanks for watching!

@NvFlyAngler 2 жыл бұрын

Reno, NV here.

@CozyQueenAdventures 2 жыл бұрын

Hello from Junior and Sharron. We have just recently started our journey. Haven't done any boondocking yet. Your reviews are great. Hope to learn alot from this channel.

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

Well, hello Junior and Sharron! Congrats on joining the lifestyle, hope to cross paths one day. Welcome.

@normgibson6565 2 жыл бұрын

Great as always have been through the area but never explored something else for my over flowing bucket list.

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Norm! One more place to squeeze into that bucket. Mrs. Homie at Large declared Pioche her favorite town of 2022.

@mwgill1 2 жыл бұрын

Enjoyed the tour, Marc. Thanks!

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for coming along!

@WILDEBILL308 2 жыл бұрын

Another great video. Still nice and cool up there at altitude. We just got a couple of cool days after a string of 90 degree + days hear in Texas.

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Bill! Yep it's been mostly pleasant, occasionally tolerable although we may have a day or two into the 90s starting tomorrow where we're at right now at only 4,150'.

@peteacevedo3411 2 жыл бұрын

We enjoyed this video and loved the train ride. Great stuff be safe

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Pete! You do the same.

@janelewis8143 2 жыл бұрын

Great video...as always!!

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Janie...as always!!

@gina50gina 2 жыл бұрын

I like that you started the video with a map, it's really helpful. What a cool area to stay! I always enjoy your overview of the local history, it enhances the experience of seeing the area, as I'm guessing it does for you. Next week I'll be enroute to Ontario, so I'm not sure if I'll make the premier, but I'll try! 🙂

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

Safe travels Suzane! We'll try to include a map more often, especially when it's a location that we don't think many people are familiar with.

@gina50gina 2 жыл бұрын

@@GrandAdventure Thank you Marc! Homie at Large had me laughing lol. You guys must have a blast together.

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

@@gina50gina I am, anyway. Ed's a little boring. 😄

@LandElevated 2 жыл бұрын

Great content! We'll start sending your channel to our clients who recently bought land from us near the camping areas. This will surely give them awesome ideas. Thanks for sharing! 😊

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Glad that you enjoyed it.

@markbeaver5010 2 жыл бұрын

Great trip, love the area and now that I know there are great camping spots I need to stop and enjoy so thank you so much!!

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

Our pleasure Mark, thanks so much for watching.

@Nomadiccamping 2 жыл бұрын

Meanest town in Nevada.... another good video !!!

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you as always!

@gorrdd 2 жыл бұрын

Nevada is like a real time machine, Marc. So many historic remnants still exist wherever you go out in the Nevada wilderness. Great sharing on all these areas. I enjoyed watching immensely. Really glad your new solar system is working out beyond expectations. Thanks for the great job you do. What temps are you dealing with now? Were you expecting to visit Carson City? The original Nevada State Prison has recently turned into a historic tour guided facility. Unfortunately, it became an instant success and they are booked through June. They are still taking tour reservations for July and August. Their guided tour is apparently that good. Lots of research was done and incorporated into the tour narration by the many professional and volunteer workers. I didn't know anything about it and all of a sudden It came to my mind that I should look up the historic Nevada State Prison. And viola... it is a tremendously successful recent (end of 2021) tour guided facility. They haven't even completed their first year. Gord

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Gord! Appreciate the tip on Nevada State Prison, but with that backlog of reservations it sounds like our visit to that facility will have to wait. We'll be not far from there next week. This week we're in Goldfield, where temps are well above normal into the upper 80s during the day, until tonight when a sharp cold front comes through to drop highs by about 25 degrees. However, it's been cooling off beautifully at night.

@gorrdd 2 жыл бұрын

@@GrandAdventure Thanks Marc. I figured you would be long gone by July. But wanted to share that with you anyway. A tip for another season or maybe later this season, as you head back west. Nevada is not yet hot like Texas is right now. We are in the nineties every day. May just passed right into June, this year. Next week we get the same cool down as you do with highs in the upper seventies and low eighties here in DFW. Gord

@timothyjohnson8036 2 жыл бұрын

Nice job.. Enjoyed every minute of it..

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so very much Tim!

@larrymiller8210 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Nice area.

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Larry!

@3Timothy_4-7 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for another quality video, Marc. It was a pleasure meeting you in Pioche, thanks to that bright yellow boat on your roof!

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

The honor and pleasure was all mine, Tim. Thanks so much, and hope to see you down the road.

@mikemoxley9477 2 жыл бұрын

Great tour !

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Mike!

@teresastoops2648 2 жыл бұрын

We Love your detailed history talks and the drone filming.

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

Thank youTeresa!

@gorrdd 2 жыл бұрын

Nice image... somebody's always taking a dump somewhere... all the time. Consequently, the world's full of it. That why I like RV'ing... just passing through. Oops. 🙊💩

@michaeltablet8577 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent as always! I love the history lessons on your channel! Safe travels!

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks as always Michael, and same to you!

@williamfox1146 2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate your travel videos. The content is great and so is the photography and the information you provide. But I wish you would turn down the volume for the music.

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

Feedback noted William, thanks for that.

@OdysseyCamper 2 жыл бұрын

I had not heard of this small but economical little town; I just put it on my list. I’m almost as excited as you to see how well the solar/battery upgrade is working! Fully charged by 1pm, with the amount of coffee you drink? ;-) That’s impressive! Also, that train station reminds me of Kelso, in the Mojave… Thanks for another cool video!

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

I had not previously thought of the comparison to the depot in Kelso, but you're right! Multiple pots of coffee, regular use of the microwave, Patricia running a room fan all night, me running a heated mattress pad all night, three computers, Starlink, etc. No power issues whatsoever.

@e-square9976 2 жыл бұрын

Nice job Marc. As always! Your channel is superb in content, documentation and extremely interesting information. We really enjoy watching. Someday hope to see y’all on the road. Safe travels.

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

We hope so too, E-Square. Thanks so much as always.

@Khatoon170 2 жыл бұрын

How are you doing mr Marc I didn’t send comments from long times actually iam subscriber to several British and American KZfaq channels last two month ifound out book tubes channels and I miss your trips to different places because we are as foreigners subscribers as overseas students enjoy to explore places unknown to us to increase our cultural level improve our English language as well as always iam gathering main information about places you visited briefly here it’s pioche is unincorporated town in Lincoln county nevada north east Las Vegas us route 93 first settlement of the area in year 1864 opening sliver mine settlers abandoned area when local Indians tribes launched series of raids and massacres there are several attractions such as pioche is known for million dollar court house in 1872 old Mountain View hotel when president Herbert Hoover stayed there in 1930 this hotel built in 1895 its served lodging needs of court business now no longer another hotel overland operating

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

Great to hear from you again Khatoon! In fact, after remaining stationary for 5 months we're just now back out on the road for our travel season. And yes, you nailed it as usual.

@robertnasser9937 2 жыл бұрын

Nice,i love my state(Pahrump). How the KZ holding up, my 2021 382 mechanically OK, wood, and inside, not so much.

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

It's doing wonderfully, actually. A few cosmetic items to address before the two-year mark, but nothing to lose sleep over.

@PeeWeeHenson 2 жыл бұрын

PIOCHE IS A REALLY NICE PLACE. IS BEAVER DAM STATE PARK ON THE ITINERARY?

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

Not this time, but perhaps in the future.

@gregprince2523 2 жыл бұрын

Marc, will the savings on Boondocking help offset the higher fuel cost and initial costs off lithium solar? Many questions on the lithium solar setup.

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

Yes Greg, it most certainly will. We're into the lithium and solar for around $7,000 spread over two years. At $40/night for an average campsite, we'll recoup that investment over 175 nights of camping. The ability to camp anywhere and not even think about electricity usage, however, is priceless to us.

@gregprince2523 2 жыл бұрын

@@GrandAdventure That's what I'm talkin bout!!!! Numbers is what it's all about

@trapezekid 2 жыл бұрын

Hi did you drive through Las Vegas and then stop say hi lol

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Richie! Great to hear from you, hope all is well down there in Vegas. Nope, too hot for us this time of year. We came in from the north, then headed west when we left Pioche. Next we'll be northbound again trying to avoid this unseasonable warmth.

@trapezekid 2 жыл бұрын

@@GrandAdventure Yes very hot I’m heading up to Boise Idaho on Wednesday to do a trapeze workshop up there and then camp on the way up and maybe camp on the way back. Safe travels

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

@@trapezekid same to you, friend. If your route will take you anywhere near Fallon/Silver Springs let me know, that's where we'll be next week.

@Khatoon170 2 жыл бұрын

Last part of my research aerial tramway carried buckets ore from mines to god be Mill during 1920s 1930s used for transportation sliver and nickel ore during Labor Day in September population there swell for event including fireworks history based theatre mining car filling called mucking events in December Christmas tree lighting there are too town of pioche nevada history maker nevada slot canyon historic down town pioche historic walking tour murder row at legendary Boot Hill cemetery history delights at spring valley state park pioneer graffiti canyon state park best bar hopping for 70 Milles and pioche neone scene historic overland hotel saloon all about locals at Carson city happy mother day to yours and ours and all mothers we celebrated mother day in Arabic countries as well as England last March it’s different date around world you in USA and Canada on May stay safe blessed good luck to you your dearest ones

@GrandAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

Same to you and yours, Khatoon!