A Great New Place to Boondock

After spending an entire summer on the road exploring new sites, sounds, and smells, we found ourselves getting a little restless. After all, we have stayed in same spot for over a week now.  Late Saturday night we decided it was time to get up in the mountains again to cool off.  We had been told about a wonderful 'green' community about a half an hour from our new home.  We decided then that it was a great time to go check it out. 

View of one of the ponds at Calf Creek, NV taken with my cell phone camera

The area is called Cold Creek and it is about 25 miles to the southeast of Indian Springs, Nevada.  As we drew closer to the mountains, we started seeing signs which warned of the wild horses that are found in the area.  It seems that they are very use to being around humans and often graze on their lawns.  As we drove through the community we noticed that nearly all the houses were powered with solar energy.  There are no electric lines leading to this place.  According to a forest service worker that we met while camping, all the houses are either powered by solar energy or gas generators or a combination of the two.  The real draw for the rest of us that don't live up there, is the fast moving stream called Cold Creek.  It has actually been dammed in 3 spots to create three ponds.  The bottom one is stocked by the forestry department with trout.  I should mention that to get to the bottom pond we had to go 1/4 mile down a very rough road.  Having said that we did see a few RV's that had braved the road to get down there to set up camp.  We were not able to fish at that pond because the forest service was using the lake to scoop up water in large buckets carried by helicopters.  We were told that there was a small fire in a nearby canyon, and the pond was easily the largest water source in the area. 

Rv'ers at Cold Creek, Nevada

Evidently, there are a lot of people who take their ATV's up there as well, as we heard quite a few of them roaming around in the early nighttime hours.  For those of you that are into that kind of thing, there are ample trails to explore in that area. 

There was no fee to stay up there.  There are no amenities at all, so bring all your own supplies as there were no fire pits and no restrooms.  That is to say that there is nothing but cooler temperatures and plenty of scenic mountains.  We had a great time, and can't wait to get back.  Happy Trails!