Ely NV Oct 14/15/16, 2010

We arrived in Ely on Thursday and signed up at the very nice KOA for three nights. Our first stop was Ely's excellent visitor’s center, where we learned the steam train would be running on Saturday (oboy) and about other sights, like the charcoal ovens and garnet hill. Our mail was supposed to be forwarded to the Ely PO and we hoped it would be here on Friday [got it on Saturday], so we had plenty to keep us busy in the meantime.

They were listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

These huge "beehive" ovens were made by Italian masons during the 1870's silver mining boom in Ward, and are in amazingly good condition 130+ years later. 

The 11-mile drive from Ely on a gravel road was very dusty, but no complaints!  From 7000', we could see miles and miles of the Steptoe Valley - simply wow!