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Company lore notes that the first KOA franchise opened in Cody, Wyoming, in the mid-1960s. That same campground is still in operation today and includes modern upgrades such as a heated pool ...
Located in the Calico Mountains of the Mojave Desert region of Southern California, it was founded in 1881 as a silver mining town, and was later converted into a county park named Calico Ghost Town. Located off Interstate 15 , it lies 3 miles (4.8 km) equidistant from Barstow and Yermo .
The Calico Mountains are geologically colorful range that lie in a northwest-southeast direction, and are located just north of Barstow and Yermo, and of Interstate 15. Historic Pickhandle Pass and Jackhammer Gap lie at the northern end of the mountains on Fort Irwin Road, with the Fort Irwin Military Reservation nearby. The Calico Mountains ...
By the end of the 1969 camping season, KOA had 262 campgrounds in operation across the U.S. By 1972, 10 years after KOA's creation, KOA had 600 franchise campgrounds. The 1970s energy crisis caused the collapse of many travel-oriented businesses, and KOA's stock price sharply declined as fewer Americans drove for vacations.
At the time, Yermo and Barstow were campaigning to establish a state park at Calico, [7] which was an active silver mining town from the early 1880s until the turn of the 20th century. In 1952, former Calico resident and Knotts Berry Farm founder Walter Knott , whose uncle John King was once the town’s sheriff, and who worked at there as a ...
A recreational vehicle park (RV park) or caravan park is a place where people with recreational vehicles can stay overnight, or longer, in allotted spaces known as "sites" or "campsites". They are also referred to as campgrounds , though a true campground also provides facilities for tent camping ; many facilities calling themselves "RV parks ...
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Spotlight on Bureau of Land Management Park Ranger Art Basulto, who's worked for the agency's Barstow office for 23 years.