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Tonopah Historic Mining Park
Category: Arts & Entertainment Museums Museums [Edit]
520 McCulloch AvenueTonopah, NV 89049
(775) 482-9274
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
3 reviews for Tonopah Historic Mining Park
3 reviews in English
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Review from Ian W.
4/2/2007 2 photos
A lot of walking here! You'll see "Tonopah Mining Park" etched into the rock hill. The main building hosts a museum (pictures, signs, tools, glass bottle collection) and gift shop (books, maps, mugs, pens, bumper stickers, postcards, and other souvenirs). You pay for admission at the front desk (Adults $5, Kids $3, Kids 6 & Under and Veterans Free) and given a guide map and watch a short video. After the watching the video, take a walk outside to various mining exhibits, buildings, and displays overlooking Tonopah. Because of the high elevation (over 6,000 feet), it can be easy to get tired from walking around the rolling terrain. I took a needed lunch break at the nearby McDonald's and resumed my walking tour later. Overall, my visit here was very interesting.
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Review from Chris E.
Phoenix, AZ
9/8/2011
Tonopah is the eighth track on the rippable "Come Alive on U.S. 95" CD. Tonopah is also another Census Designated Place (CDP), with no formal city government, etc. If I'm wrong, please set me right. So Tonopah Historic Mining Park, I, solitary, voluntary traveler with no personal reward, am using your Yelp* space to spark some interest in the CD and your town.
I don't know if Tonopah Springs still exists. This "Water Plants" place may have gotten its underground plug pulled when $1,200,000,000 worth (today's $) was mined from local geology. The next time I'm here, instead of eating breakfast, I might look around for the springs. I might also visit this Historic Mining Park.
Behind a front door pillar of a Tempe house are a lot of fist-sized rock from my travel. My home today, at least the patio, is tastefully decorated with rock from all over. Rocks, mining parks and museums interest me. If you do things like that or collect rock for a future wall or walk Tonopah may light your lamp.
A place I have been is to a structure of mortared ores just north of town on the west side of U.S. 95. This is a memorial to John G. Kirchen, inventor, mining engineer, and Tonopah booster. I'm pretty sure his technique for extraction of metals from difficult rock affects the mining industry to this day. I'll bore you with no more facts. It is an extraordinary remembarnce for an individual serving his industry and community. He is noted some places on the Web, as is Tonopah and its excellent web page.
So don't be like me. In a hurry to go somewhere else fast. If you have your "Come Alive on U.S. 95" CD, done your web homework, like rocks and mining, and have the bonus interest in places shaping our nation's financial history, Tonopah is well worth a days stop. -
Review from Steve F.
Shingle Springs, CA
2/6/2009
Who would want to go to Tonopah Nevada for a vacation? Well I would actually. The Mining Park was well worth the visit, we spent some time chatting with the gentleman working there who was from San Francisco of all places. There is another museum in Tonopah that is mostly about the Army Air Corps training base there during WWII. You can drive out to the airport and see several of the huge wooden hangars left over from the war that are still standing, and spend some time wandering through them. North of Tonopah are the semi-ghost towns of Manhattan and Belmont, which were interesting. The grand old Mizpah hotel still stands empty downtown, once the finest hotel between Denver and San Francisco.
