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TALKING HOUSES OF CARSON CITY
Kit Carson Trail in Nevada’s State Capital
Take a walk through the historicdistrict
of Carson City, capital of the silver state and the houses will speak
to you like ghosts from
the
past. A walking tour of the provides an audio commentary through transistor
radio that provides the stories of Carson City’s colorful past.
Start at the State Capital, end at one of the most elegant hotels of
the Comstock silver rush, the St. Charles-Muller Hotel, stop along the
way at the house used for filming John Wayne’s last movie “The
Shootist” and finish the journey into Nevada’s gun-slinging
and freedom spirit past at the Nevada State Museum.
Carson city was not named for the trail blazer Kit Carson directly, but
for the river than flows along the eastern Sierra Nevada which bears
the explorers name. The sleepy frontier town became Nevada’s capital
in 1861 after the discovery of the riches under the mountains in nearby
Virginia City. Located on the former Pony Express and Stage Coach trail
which in now US Highway 395 from southern Californand and Las Vegas to
Reno, Carson City is only fourteen miles from Lake Tahoe over one of
the most scenic drives.
In Winter, Carson City is centrally close to Heavenly, Kirkwood and Diamond
Peak for sking, with springtime offering the ability to ski in the morning
and play a round of golf at one of the areas nine scenic championship
local golf courses, the “Divine 9”. The rivers and lake of
the Eastern Sierra offer some great fishing. A steam train runs from
Carson City’s V&T rail station to the heart of the Comstock
Lode, Virginia City on the same route of 100 years ago. Throughout the
spring to autumn, Carson City presents a variety of family friendly events,
celebrations and entertainments. And though they don’t like to
advertise, for those adventurers on the lonesome trail like old Kit himself,
the legal “entertainment houses” located about 15 minutes
from town just outside the county limits are a bargain compared to the
similar famed establishments of Las Vegas. © Bargain
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